The good news: If you liked Windows 8, its first major update is going fix a ton of the little things that bothered you. The bad news: You might not like Windows 8. And there’s nothing here that will change that. At least there’s a Start button! Read more…
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Windows 8.1: Little Fixes, Same Big Ideas (Oh, and a Start Button)
A new study shows that one in ten people from the ages 16 to 34 have been turned down from potential employment because of something they posted on social media. [Read more]
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Facebookers beware: Profile posts can get you job rejections
Remember those rumors about the Start Button making its triumphant return in Windows 8.1 ? Well, seeing is believing, and thanks to Paul Thurrott , we’ve got a sneak peak at that little guy in all its glory. We missed you. Read more…
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Leaked Windows 8.1 Screenshot: Oh, Hello, Start Button
More than two dozen advanced weapons systems were accessed, although documents obtained by The Washington Post do not indicate whether the breaches occurred on government or contractor networks. [Read more]
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Chinese hackers reportedly accessed U.S. weapons designs
Quantenna announces the first 4×4 (quad-stream) 802.11ac chipset. The new chipset, which offers a cap speed of 1.7Gbps, is slated be used in products later this year. [Read more]
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Quantenna’s new chip turns 802.11ac Wi-Fi up a notch
We’ve already seen what the Leap Motion can do in apps that support it, but it stands to make your everyday OS-level boredom into a futuristic gesture-controlled wonderland too. This new video shows exactly what kind of applications you can look forward to on your Windows 8 machine, at it seems at least as cool as touch. Read more…
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Watch Leap Motion Turn a Windows 8 Rig Into a Futuristic Dream Machine
jones_supa writes “Google’s YouTube is celebrating its 8-year birthday, and at the same time they reveal some interesting numbers. ‘Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That’s more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That’s almost one out of every two people on the Internet. Millions of partners are creating content for YouTube and more than 1,000 companies worldwide have mandated a one-hour mid-day break to watch nothing but funny YouTube videos. Well, we made that last stat up, but that would be cool (the other stats are true).'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute
The show will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special and then as a regular series. It’s set chronologically between the third prequel film and the original “Star Wars” movie. [Read more]
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Disney making ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ a new animated show
Windows 8 comes with a couple of new or tweaked commands that may actually be pretty handy if you use the Command Prompt to do things faster on your computer or a bunch of PCs. Read more…
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Learn All the New (and Removed) Windows 8 Command Prompt Tools
The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. [Read more]