Sometimes, all you need is the right app to get something done—whether it’s an essential everyday tool, or something a bit more specialized. Today, as part of Lifehacker’s 10th anniversary celebration , we’re looking at 10 of our favorite apps in the latter category. Read more…
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Top 10 Incredibly Useful Windows Programs to Have On Hand
An anonymous reader writes: The next browser battle is upon us. Edge has been out for more than a month, and its two biggest competitors have received significant updates: Chrome 45 and Firefox 40. This article puts all three through their paces, and each manages to win a few tests. Edge convincingly won the JetSteam and SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks, while also eking out a victory in Google’s Octane test. Chrome was victorious in Mozilla’s Kraken benchmark for JavaScript performance, while also edging out Firefox in HTML5Test and the Oort Online WebGL test. Firefox won the WebXPRT test that combines HTML5 and JavaScript performance, and also the Peacekeeper test for general browser performance. There’s no clear dominant browser for performance, and none of the three are obvious laggards, either. Browser competition seems to be in a good place right now. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge
An anonymous reader writes: Back in 2010, long before the Jeep Cherokee thing, some university researchers demonstrated remote car takeover via cellular (old story here). A new Wired article reveals that this was actually a complete exploit of the OnStar system (and was the same one used in that 60 Minutes car hacking episode last year). Moreover, these cars stayed vulnerable for years — until 2014, when GM created a remote update capability and secretly started pushing updates to all the affected cars. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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GM Performs Stealth Update To Fix Security Bug In OnStar
rjmarvin writes: Vietnam is in the midst of a tech boom. The country’s education system is graduating thousands of well-educated software engineers and IT professionals each year, recruited by international tech companies like Cisco, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, LG, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and others setting up shop in the southern tech hub of Ho Chi Minh City and the central coastal city of Da Nang. Young Vietnamese coders and entrepreneurs are also launching more and more startups, encouraged by government economic policies encouraging small businesses and a growing culture around innovation in the country. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Vietnam’s Tech Boom: a Look Inside Southeast Asia’s Silicon Valley
We were expecting new iPhones today, and we were even expecting Apple TV announcements, but whether Apple would update its iPad line was more difficult to say. It seems Apple is bucking its own announce-new-iPads-in-October trend, however, because the company just added a 12.9″ iPad to its lineup. The so-called iPad Pro is 6.9mm thick and weighs 1.57 lbs—slightly heavier than the 1.54 lbs first-generation iPad. According to Apple, it will have a 10-hour battery life. The new tablet will be called the iPad Pro, and the entry-level version comes with a healthy 32GB of storage, rather than the 16GB of the other iPad base models. The iPad Pro also comes in a 128GB version. Pricing on those Wi-Fi-only tiers is $799 and $949. An LTE version (which comes with a 150mbps LTW modem) will only be available in the 128GB version, and will cost $1079. Apple confirmed that the iPad Pro’s screen has a 2732×2048 resolution, as had been rumored in the weeks leading up to this event, with 5.6 million pixels.Taking the stage at Apple’s launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller explained the design choice. “Let’s start with the display: Why make a bigger one?,” he said. “You can touch your documents, touch your books, interact with everything. It does things an iPhone can’t do since it doesn’t have to be pocketable, does things a notebook can’t do because it’s holdable.” Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Apple’s new iPad Pro is an expansive 12.9 inches, available in November
SAN FRANCISCO—The Apple TV just got its first big update since March of 2012, and it’s a substantial upgrade for both hardware and software. The fourth-generation box should be much faster, and it will use that extra speed to run apps and games from its all-new app store. It also comes with a redesigned remote control to improve navigation, which has long been one of the Apple TV’s weak points. 13 more images in gallery The new remote control has a glass touch surface, and a button that allows access to Siri. While the touch surface lets users scroll through movies and shows, Siri lets customers find content from iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Showtime, using their voice. “The TV experience itself hasn’t changed much in decades,” CEO Tim Cook said. “We believe the future of television is apps.” Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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When McDonald’s decides to make a change in its suppliers, it moves markets. The American fast food giant just announced that it would shift to cage-free eggs. That’s a big deal since McDonald’s purchases accounted for “more than 4 percent of the 43.56 billion eggs produced in the United States last year.” Read more…
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McDonald’s Bought Over 4-Percent of the Eggs in the US Last Year
Users of the “Adult Player” Android app are in for a shock: it’s emerged that the Android app has been secretly taking photos of users – and wants their cash in exchange for deletion. Read more…
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An Android Porn App Takes Your Photo and Holds It to Ransom
NASA and Boeing have released a little teaser on their newest spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, which will be built and tested at Kennedy Space Center and hopefully, eventually taxi people to space. Read more…
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This is how Boeing is building the first commercial Starliner spacecraft ever
An anonymous reader writes: HTTP has served us well for a long time, but will we continue to use HTTP forever? Since Brewster Kahle called for a distributed web, more people have been experimenting with what is being called the Permanent Web: Web sites that can be federated instantly, and served from trustless peers. Popular web hosting site Neocities has announced that they are the first major site to implement IPFS, which is the leading distributed web protocol, and they published the announcement using IPFS itself. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Neocities Becomes the First Major Site To Implement the Distributed Web