Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Movie pirate? Don't trust Plex Cloud and other top stories.

  • Movie pirate? Don't trust Plex Cloud

    Movie pirate? Don't trust Plex Cloud
    Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big claim to fame is hosting and serving downloaded movies. And now the company behind the software announced a service where users can stream movies, photos and music stored on Amazon’s cloud as if the content was streamed locally. But don’t tell Amazon about the pirated stuff. The Plex Cloud, as the n..
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  • Xiaomi Unveils Mi 5s & Mi 5s Plus SD821-Powered Flagships

    Xiaomi Unveils Mi 5s & Mi 5s Plus SD821-Powered Flagships
    The Xiaomi Mi 5 is a high-end smartphone this company had introduced back in February. This smartphone is a direct successor to the Xiaomi Mi 4 which was introduced way back in 2014. The Xiaomi Mi 5 is fueled by the Snapdragon 820, made out of either ...
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  • Samsung says only 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7 phones have been replaced in US and Korea

    Samsung says only 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7 phones have been replaced in US and Korea
    More than 60 percent of defective Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in the United States and South Korea have now been returned and exchanged for new models, Samsung has claimed. In other words, 40 percent of the dangerous devices are still in consumer hands, almost four weeks after Samsung issued a global recall on the Note 7. The new figures appear to show a slowdown in the number of successful exchanges in the United States. Samsung said last Thursday that half of the potentially explosive phon..
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  • Google Pixel bares all in leaked press render

    Google Pixel bares all in leaked press render
    Leaked Google Pixel render shows snazzy new interface It's coming Oct. 4, but now we know what's it going to look like.Image: Google By Stan Schroeder2016-09-27 08:24:32 UTC Google's upcoming Pixel phone won't look extraordinary on the outside, but it will have plenty of new software tricks. Some of these can be seen in a leaked press render of the device, courtesy of leaker of all things tech, Evan Blass and VentureBeat, which first shared the photo online.  We've already seen alleged li..
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  • Snapchat Spectacles have what Google Glass was sorely missing: Fun

    Snapchat Spectacles have what Google Glass was sorely missing: Fun
    Let's get this out of the way: Over the weekend, Snapchat unveiled a pair of video camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles, and the whole effort could crash and burn miserably. But if Snapchat has earned anything, it's the benefit of the doubt. The $129 shades, which are coming "soon," will let the 150 million (mostly young) people who use the social network every day shoot 10-second videos to upload to Snapchat. Lights on the front of the device will flash to indicate it's recording. T..
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  • Facebook millionaire Luckey aligns himself with alt-right, but only if you squint

    Facebook millionaire Luckey aligns himself with alt-right, but only if you squint
    Palmer Luckey, founder and creator of Oculus Rift, shown here in 2014 shortly before he sold the company to Facebook for $2 billion.(Photo: Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY)SAN FRANCISCO – Little about Palmer Freeman Luckey’s outward demeanor screams dangerous political provocateur.The 24-year-old creator of virtual reality headset company Oculus Rift, which Facebook bought for $2 billion in 2014, could at best be charged with murdering a dress code. Luckey favors flip-flops and T-shirts at work, and..
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  • YouTube Go is a new app for offline viewing and sharing

    YouTube Go is a new app for offline viewing and sharing
    Google has announced YouTube Go, a new app designed to broaden the accessibility of the behemoth video-sharing service. Designed and developed with Indian users in mind, who will be able to test the app first before a broader rollout, YouTube Go is intended to work more effectively in areas where connectivity is more limited. YouTube Go allows users to save videos for offline viewing, giving options over quality and file size so it's clear how much data a download will use. The app also allows ..
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  • People Are Drilling Headphone Jacks Into the iPhone 7

    People Are Drilling Headphone Jacks Into the iPhone 7
    This might seem obvious, but it’s a really, really bad idea to drill a headphone jack into the new iPhone 7. But that hasn’t stopped some people from trying it. A new video published to YouTube goog depicts YouTube user “TechRax” placing the iPhone 7 into a vice and getting out his 3.5mm drill bit. He then takes the bit to the iPhone 7 and drills a hole into the device. Best of all, the headphones fit into the hole he drilled. Since being published last week, the video has gone viral wit..
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  • Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe

    Windows 10 will soon run Edge in a virtual machine to keep you safe
    Enlarge / Untrusted sites get a minimal set of Windows Platform Services and no access to the rest of the system.Microsoft reader comments 59 ATLANTA—Microsoft has announced that the next major update to Windows 10 will run its Edge browser in a lightweight virtual machine. Running the update in a virtual machine will make exploiting the browser and attacking the operating system or compromising user data more challenging. Called Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge, the n..
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