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Sony Trains Spotlight on a Few Good Games

Sony gave PlayStation fans a hefty sampling of what's coming to its gaming consoles this year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles It gave them a long look at a relatively few offerings in its Monday presentation -- a marked contrast from Microsoft's deluge of game announcements a day earlier....

Microsoft Goes All-In With Gaming

Microsoft made a big splash at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles with its announcement of more than 50 games for its Xbox One gaming console Among the games unveiled by the company were 18 designed to run exclusively on Xbox, including Forza Horizon 4, Halo Infinite, Gears 5, Session, Below and Ashen....

Dark Screen Mode Among New macOS Mojave Highlights

Apple on Monday gave the world a peek at macOS Mojave, the next version of its operating system for Macintosh laptop and desktop computers. The preview took place at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California Mojave has a mix of new features that add to its good looks and utility as a...

Apple Unveils New Siri Customization Tools at WWDC

The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 12, will include a new feature that allows you to customize the way Siri works with applications on phones and tablets. The announcement was one of the highlights at the kickoff of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Monday Call...

HomePod Gets Multi-Room Audio Chops With iOS 11.4

Apple on Tuesday released iOS 11.4, the latest version of its mobile operating system, with some beefed-up features for its HomePod wireless smart speaker The update allows users to create a stereo pair with two HomePods. It also supports multiroom streaming through AirPlay 2 connections. Music can be played in every room with a HomePod. It can be ...

FBI Declaws Russian Fancy Bear Botnet

The FBI has disrupted a network of half a million routers compromised by the group of Russian hackers believed to have penetrated the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 elections, according to reports The hacker group, known as "Fancy Bear," has been using a malware program called "VPN Filter" to compromi...

Next-Generation 7nm Chips Headed for Fall iPhones: Report

Apple has ramped up production of its new 7-nanometer processor for its upcoming crop of iPhones The new processor will be smaller, faster and more efficient than the 10nm processor in Apple's current iPhone line, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with matter....

SCOTUS Opens Stalls for Online Sports Bettors

Hundreds of millions of dollars soon could start flowing into online betting emporiums due to Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states the power to regulate sports wagering "Right now there's a tremendous black market for illegal, offshore sports book being offered to U.S. citizens," said Matthew Kalish, chief revenue officer of DraftKing...

Highly Sensitive Encrypted Email at Risk of Exposure

A newfound flaw in email clients that use PGP and S/MIME to encrypt messages can be exploited to expose the plain text of the missives, according to a paper published Monday By injecting malicious snippets of text into encrypted messages, attackers can use the flaw to make the email client exfiltrate decrypted copies of the emails, explained the au...

Android P Tackles Phone Addiction, Distraction

Google on Tuesday revealed some major new features in the next version of its Android operating system for mobile devices Now in public beta, the OS known as "Android P" includes features designed to address growing concerns about phone addiction and distraction....

Microsoft Invites Everyone Onto Its Azure Cloud

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday sounded a call for computing to empower everyone "The world is becoming a computer," Nadella said in the opening keynote address at Build 2018, the company's premiere event for developers in Seattle....

Facebook’s Clear History Privacy Option: Boon or Sop?

Facebook plans to offer members a tool that to prevent tracking of their online activity outside the network The Clear History feature will allow users to see which websites and applications send Facebook information when they use them, delete the data and prevent Facebook from collecting and storing it in the future....

Publishers Protest Google’s ‘Troubling’ GDPR Policy

Four trade groups representing 4,000 publishers on Monday blasted Google's approach to compliance with Europe's General Data Protection Rules. The new rules are set to take effect at the end of the month Under its new GDPR-compliant policy, Google, as a provider of digital advertising services to publishers, will have sole control over data sent to...

A Home Robot Could Be Amazon’s Next Gamble

Amazon plans to bring a home robot to market as early as 2019 Codenamed "Vesta," after the Roman goddess of home and family, the project is several years old, but hiring for it recently has ramped up with an eye toward placing prototypes in employees' homes by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the plans....

Planned Apple News Subscription Service Could Address Fake News, Pay Walls

Apple plans to launch a news subscription service within the next year The new service will combine features from its recent Texture acquisition and Apple's existing news app, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter....

Facebook Peddles Future Behavior Data to Advertisers

Facebook has developed a new advertising service designed to predict the future behavior of consumers, The Intercept reported Friday, after viewing a confidential document describing the offering The service uses FBLearner Flow, an artificial intelligence prediction engine the company introduced in 2016....

Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords

A Web standards milestone announced Tuesday could point to the end of the road for pesky passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium, which establishes Web standards....

Researchers to Put Facebook’s Role in Elections Under Magnifying Glass

A group of nonprofits on Monday announced they would fund an initiative to study Facebook's role in elections and democracy The organizations will pay the expenses of researchers whose projects are accepted for the initiative, and Facebook will give the scholars access to proprietary data that has met the company's new standards for heightened use...

Curves, Gestures May Be in iPhone’s Future

Gesture control and a curved body may be in the iPhone's future Apple has been experimenting with those features for the iPhone, and they could be ready for prime time in two to three years, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing "people with knowledge in the matter."

Mozilla Trumpets Altered Reality Browser

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday unveiled its plans for Firefox Reality, a browser designed specifically for mixed reality headsets The browser combines the beneftis of Mozilla's existing Firefox browser -- most notably the robust performance of its Firefox Quantum technology -- with Servo, its experimental Web engine....

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