Microsoft has put up a post about secure boot in response to concerns about its effects on Linux and other operating systems. Microsoft has provided a very detailed explanation of what UEFI secure boot is, and what its benefits are. What Microsoft hasn’t done is to actually respond to concerns raised by Matthew Garrett...
I’m not often the fan of startups that are “the this, for that,” but I think I could get into something like Deal Décor: it’s the Groupon for furniture. This San Francisco-based startup is using the group-buying model made popular by Groupon to connect customers with factory-direct deals from overseas furniture manufacturers. The company...
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Communication has come quite a long way. From being completely unable to keep in touch while apart, to now being able to live-stream video while chatting via several different mediums, the evolution of peer-to-peer interaction over long distances has reached a number of milestones. In a recent info graphic from Get.Rounds, a social platform...
Image: BlatantNews via Flickr See Also: “Houston, We Have A Ringtone” — NASA Releases Historic Sounds For Use On Your Phone Forget E-Books — Now You Can Check Out iPads From The Library The iTunes Terms Of Service Has Been Translated Into Bro-Speak *An update appears at the bottom of this post. We’re unsure...
The Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality rules have been officially filed with the Federal Register and will go into effect Nov. 20. But don’t expect the rules to go unchallenged. The FCC’s “Rules on Preserving the Open Internet” are expected to prompt lawsuits, including some from Verizon and MetroPCS, both of which were...
So remember that one time I said that Samsung was planning on stepping up its game against Apple? That was no joke. In the same court that granted an EU-wide injunction against three of its Galaxy smartphones, the Hague Court in the Netherlands, Samsung has asked that the iPhone and iPad get pulled from...
If you think your memory has fallen off a cliff over the past ten years or so, it might not be memory loss due to aging. It might be due to the way Google restructures how our brains archive knowledge. Why bother storing a voluminous amount of knowledge in our gray matter when we...
Dish Network unveiled its new streaming and DVD service, Blockbuster Movie Pass, at a press conference in San Francisco Friday morning. But those who thought the new offering would be positioned as a Netflix killer will be sorely disappointed. Despite speculation that Dish would release it as a standalone service, at launch Movie Pass...
Amazon is holding a press conference in NYC on September 28, Peter Kafka tweets. You know what that means? We’re likely going to see the secret Kindle tablet everyone has been talking about. We’re waiting for the official invite to drop in. UPDATE: Finally! The invite arrived in our mailbox. We’ll cover the event...
According to a report by Gizmodo, Facebook has now exposed something that has been deep and dark for some time. What friends of yours on Facebook have unfriended you. Some people take this very seriously, and this could cause a lot of grief for longtime pals and colleagues. Basically, in your new Facebook Timeline,...