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Consumers would welcome an alternative to passwords It’s a safe bet that part of the reason why so many people use easy-to-guess passwords like “123456” and “password” is because proper password security is a bother. This notion is underscored by a new survey suggesting that Internet users at large are very much open to password…
Get ready for a global celebration When Microsoft launched Windows 7, it tapped customers to host parties designed to showcase the operating system. Those who agreed received a special Signature Edition of Windows Ultimate. No such incentive is needed for Windows 10, as Microsoft is handing out upgrades like Halloween candy to anyone rocking a…
Once again tops the Top500 list According to the latest edition of Top500, a biannual list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, China’s Tianhe-2 (“Milky Way-2” in English) continues to be the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. This is the fifth time in a row that the 3,120,000-core beast developed by the Chinese National University…
All of them have already served prison time in another case The quartet, which was at the helm of The Pirate Bay’s affairs from the site’s founding in 2003 to its sale to a Seychelles-based company in 2006, can finally breathe easy. We are talking about the infamous torrent site’s co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik…
Windows 10’s unified Store experience includes apps, games, music, movies and TV shows A couple of months back, Microsoft unveiled a new Store app for Windows 10. This new Windows Store is supposed to be a one-stop shop for all your software and entertainment needs, delivering apps, games, music, movies and TV shows all under…
Start Menu features prominently on the cover With the official release of Windows 10 just around the corner, you should fully expect any previously unknown details about the launch or the product itself to trickle out into the public domain over the course of the next fortnight or so. That’s probably what happened on Saturday…
Top Deal: Quick, what’s the most important part of a PC? If you answered anything but “power supply,” then you’ve yet to have one fail. The first time a generic PSU gives up the ghost in dramatic fashion — sparks, loud noises, smoke coming from your PC — is the last time you’ll trust a…
Ready, fight! Let’s suppose a website got its hands on Intel’s forthcoming Core i7-6700K processor, the flagship CPU in Skylake-S that’s rumored to launch on August 5, 2015, at Gamescom. Then let’s suppose that said site benchmarked the chip and offered up comparisons to Intel’s existing Core i7-4790K (Devil’s Canyon). That would be pretty interesting,…
Better tools for stopping spam Google claims that less than 0.1 percent of email in the average Gmail inbox is spam, with the amount of junk mail landing in the spam folder being even lower at 0.05 percent. Assuming the claims are true, those are good numbers for Google to hang its hat on, though…
It’s only temporary There are three things you can count on in life — death, taxes, and overreactions to the PC market. Nearly every time an analyst or market research firm posts less than stellar shipment figures for the PC sector, sensationalist headlines follow. Gartner’s report that worldwide PC shipments declined 9.5 percent in the…