Tag: Third
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New Macbook Works With Third Party Cables
Apple’s super thin new Macbook caused quite the stir when it was first released. Critics pointed out the over simplification of the device, although it is much thinner and lighter than any Macbook so far. Whilst the on board specifications are lower, the device is much more sleek and skinny. However, one of the biggest…
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Detailed
Facebook’s cool delta wing drone is on the way, it’s designed to bring internet to various parts of the world via lasers. The drone is part of internet.org, an initiative from Facebook to bring the flying internet and other related technologies to the third world and beyond. The Aquila drones themselves are of a delta…
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Samsung Updates Worrying Smart TV Policy
Yesterday we reported on Samsung’s questionable privacy policy for their smart TV’s, which had some users up in arms as the company revealed that voice input data collected by the television sets would be passed on to a mysterious third party once gathered. “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other…
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Samsung Smart TVs Raise Spying Concerns
There’s a current climate of suspicion in the tech world right now around the way companies use our data. Whilst the governments of the world are notorious for their spying, snooping and general shiftiness online, other concerns have been raised around the way devices handle our personal information and other private data. Whilst mobile phone…
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Researchers Find iOS App Virus ‘Wirelurker’
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Researchers checking the new Mac OS X version, OS X Yosemite, have unfortunately discovered an interesting virus which is alarmingly able to make the jump between computers using OS X onto iOS mobile devices. The team at Palo Alto Networks responsible for the research have managed to find the virus, a piece of Malware which…
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Android On 84% Of Phones Shipped in Q3
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Industry statistics are showing yet more market dominance for Google’s Android OS – a staggering amount of phones shipped to retailers online and in store are using Android operating systems on board. Around 84% of smartphones have gone out with an Android OS on board, according to Strategy Analytics, a firm specializing in correlating and…
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Is An Advanced Siri Coming to Mac?
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Apple has a new patent out, this time detailing an augmented version of Siri, the digital assistant, for the Mac. Apple fans have long expected Siri to make her appearance on the Mac, but sadly thus far only the voice recognition software, which is used for dictating your words to a word processor, has made…
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Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan brings voice to Saints Row: The Third
Pro-wrestling icon Hulk Hogan is set to smack down a voice-over on the highly-anticipated next Saints Row game, delivering his bass-filled tones to a new masked lucha character known as Angel. The new installment in the popular third person, action-adventure Saints Row franchise is being developed by Volition Inc. and published by THQ. Following…
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Facebook app store: ‘Project Spartan’ HMTL5 web store set to land on iPhone
Social behemoth set to take Apple on at its own game
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Apple and Google stand firm before US Senate over “Location Tracking” claims
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Apple approached US senate for the second time this week to testify on the “location tracking” row which has erupted over recent months. It was discovered that Apple iOS on iPhone and iPad (3G models) was recording information regarding owner’s location and storing the information in a database file for regular reports back to Apple…
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Virgin unlock third tuner on TiVo set-top boxes
Virgin have released an upgrade to their new Virgin Media with TiVo set-top box, unlocking a third tuner for recording purposes. A third tuner means users can record two programs at once, while still watching another live show. Alternatively, you could record three live programs at once while watching a pre-recorded item or something from…