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Microsoft on Wednesday announced a sweet deal for any student on the fence on purchasing the Surface Pro 4. The company has said that it will be taking $300 off when students purchase a Surface Pro 4 and Xbox One. In a statement to The Verge, Terry Mye… Continue reading Microsoft Is Giving Students a Free Xbox One With Surface Pro 4 Purchases
Europe has finally agreed on a set of net neutrality rules. According to a report on TorrentFreak, these rules offer improvements for some individual members states, various activist groups and experts. But the current language would also allow ISPs to… Continue reading Europe’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling
In an op-ed for Slate, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has shared his views on AI, and how humans could work together with this nascent technology to do great things. Nadella feels that humans and machines can work together to address society’s greatest ch… Continue reading Satya Nadella Explores How Humans and AI Can Work Together To Solve Society’s Greatest Challenges
An anonymous reader shares a FirstPost article:Even as I write this the echo of gunfire continues at Ataturk International Airport. For reasons that defy logic, Istanbul’s main airport has always been seen as a vulnerable target which only underscores … Continue reading Istanbul Attack: A Grim Reminder Of Why Airports Are Easy Targets
Windows 10’s first major update — dubbed Anniversary Update — will be released to users on August 2, according to a blog post published by Microsoft (Archive link). The company presumably posted the blog post ahead of the original publication plans, … Continue reading Windows 10 Anniversary Update To Roll Out On August 2
Google’s Project Zero team has discovered a heap of critical vulnerabilities in Symantec and Norton security products. The flaws, the team says, allow hackers to completely compromise people’s machines by simply sending them malicious self-replicating … Continue reading Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are ‘As Bad As It Gets’
Khari Johnson, writing for VentureBeat:A bot made to challenge traffic tickets has been used more than 9,000 times by New Yorkers, according to DoNotPay maker Joshua Browder. The bot was made available to New Yorkers in March. In recent years and decad… Continue reading DoNotPay Bot Has Beaten 160,000 Traffic Tickets — and Counting
Former Google CEO, and current Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Google X founder Sebastian Thrun in an op-ed on Fortune Magazine have shared their views on artificial intelligence, and what the future holds for this nascent technology. “Whe… Continue reading Let’s Stop Freaking Out About Artificial Intelligence
Pinterest is figuring out new ways to bolster its revenue. On Tuesday, the social media company announced a range of new e-commerce features that will encourage its users (the service attracts more than 100 million users every month) to purchase items … Continue reading Here’s How Pinterest Plans to Get You To Shop More
An anonymous reader writes:Three U.S. healthcare organisations are reportedly being held to ransom by a hacker who stole data on hundreds of thousands of patients. The hacker has also put the 650,000 records up for sale on dark web markets where stolen… Continue reading US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online