Some people sure do work quick. Team Pangu has just made available a jailbreak for iOS 8.1—and it works on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the iPad Air 2, along with older devices. Read more…
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There’s Already an iOS 8.1 Jailbreak For the iPhone 6
An anonymous reader writes: The Hungarian government has announced a new tax on internet traffic: 150 HUF ($0.62 USD) per gigabyte. In Hungary, a monthly internet subscription costs around 4, 000-10, 000 HUF ($17-$41), so it could really put a constraint on different service providers, especially for streaming media. This kind of tax could set back the country’s technological development by some 20 years — to the pre-internet age. As a side note, the Hungarian government’s budget is running at a serious deficit. The internet tax is officially expected to bring in about 20 billion HUF in income, though a quick look at the BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange) and a bit of math suggests a better estimate of the income would probably be an order of magnitude higher. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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There’s a good reason why so many of us still prefer mechanical keyboards and real control boards despite the availability of touchscreen interfaces: In many cases, they give us more control over our digital worlds. Fans of tactile interfaces will love this project by Florian Born —who created a system that meshes your iPad with arrangeable physical controls. Read more…
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These Knobs and Sliders Turn an iPad Into a Custom Tactile Interface
Earlier this month, approximate 76 million households—or roughly half of the households in America —were unhappy to hear their JPMorgan Chase accounts had been compromised . Those 76 million households will be equally unhappy to learn that the hackers who broke in were wandering around the bank’s servers for two months . Two whole months! Read more…
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Hackers Roamed Around JPMorgan Chase’s Financial Records for 2 Months
Starting today, Dish customers will no longer have access to a number of networks from Turner Broadcasting, after both parties couldn’t come to terms on a contract extension for these. Among the channels now removed from Dish’s programming are: Boomerang, Cartoon Network, CNN, CNN en Español, HLN, truTV and Turner Classic Movies. As you’ll notice, others like TBS and TNT aren’t included here, and that’s because they’re part of a different agreement. Dish is unsure of when, or if, the missing Turner channels will be brought back, but the company says it is “committed to reaching an agreement that promptly returns this content to Dish’s programming lineup.” If they do, we’ll let you know as soon as that happens. Filed under: Home Entertainment , HD Comments Source: Dish
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Dish loses Cartoon Network, CNN and other Turner channels
We’ve written before about Windows 10’s new updating policy, and today we’re seeing the real-world result for the first time. The Windows 10 Technical Preview, build 9849, is being updated to build 9860. That update will roll out automatically to members of the Windows Insider program, and it will be delivered through Windows Update. The operating system upgrade is a little more heavyweight than a regular hotfix; systems will need to reboot to finish installation, and Microsoft says that the reboot will take longer than normal. The major feature of the new build is that it contains the first iteration of Windows 10’s notification center. At the moment, it’s a simple collection of historic notifications. Microsoft says that future builds will add more capabilities to the notification center, such as the ability to take actions in response to notifications. Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Broadcom today unveiled DSL chips that use the new G.fast standard to deliver up to 1Gbps broadband over copper phone lines. That doesn’t mean everyone who has DSL will suddenly get a huge speed upgrade. G.fast, a standard from the International Telecommunication Union , is intended for fiber-and-copper networks in which fiber delivers data close to homes and copper takes it the rest of the way. These networks are cheaper to build than fiber-to-the-home because they reuse existing copper, but thus far they haven’t been able to match the gigabit speeds of fiber-only service. Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs and the British telecom company BT are both testing G.fast, with the latter using Huawei technology . Broadcom is now joining the party with technology it plans to sell to Internet service providers, who would then roll it out to their customers. The chips will power both the back-end technology needed to deliver high speeds as well as home gateway systems for Internet users. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Need a little help getting through your next big math exam? MicroBlink has an app that could help you study more effectively — perhaps too effectively. Its newly unveiled PhotoMath for iOS and Windows Phone (Android is due in early 2015) uses your smartphone’s camera to scan math equations and not only solve them, but show the steps involved. Officially, it’s meant to save you time flipping through a textbook to check answers when you’re doing homework or cramming for a test. However, there’s a concern that this could trivialize learning — just because it shows you how to solve a problem doesn’t mean that the knowledge will actually sink in. And if teachers don’t confiscate smartphones at the door, unscrupulous students could cheat when no one is looking. The chances of that happening aren’t very high at this stage, but apps like this suggest that schools might have to be vigilant in the future. Filed under: Cellphones , Mobile Comments Via: Quartz , TechCrunch Source: PhotoMath
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PhotoMath uses your phone’s camera to solve equations
jfruh writes: Japan has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the world, and the authorities there aim to make sure new technologies don’t open any loopholes. 28-year-old engineer Yoshitomo Imura has been sentenced to two years in jail after making guns with a 3D printer in his home in Kawasaki. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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So, you’ve taken a look at the new iPhones and iPads and thought to yourself: “Nah, it’s time to see if the grass really is greener on the other side.” Well, good timing, because Google has published a guide to help you switch from iOS to its newest platform, Android Lollipop . The tech giant has laid it all out for you: its instructions include how to upload photos stored on iPhones and iPads to Google+, transfer music from iTunes to Google Play Music, keep all your contacts and even set up mail and messaging, among others. In short, it’s what you need to read if the only thing keeping you from moving platforms is the process itself. If you’re ready to switch allegiance, keep an eye out for the Nexus 6 smartphone, the Nexus 9 tablet or the Nexus player , as those will be the first devices to come loaded with Lollipop (though some older devices are also getting it through software upgrades). But in case you’re actually having issues switching to iOS instead of from , don’t worry: Apple has also published a guide to help you become a bona fide iOS user. Filed under: Cellphones , Tablets , Mobile , Google Comments Via: Droid Life Source: Android Switch
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Google wants to help you leave iOS for Android Lollipop