Sunday, January 8, 2017

Lenovo is putting Windows Precision trackpads in its ThinkPad laptops and other top stories.

  • Lenovo is putting Windows Precision trackpads in its ThinkPad laptops

    Lenovo is putting Windows Precision trackpads in its ThinkPad laptops
    Lenovo said today that it was updating its line of ThinkPad laptops in 2017 to include newer processors, more authentication features, and improved trackpads — something that has been a point of weakness with previous iterations of ThinkPad laptops.
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  • Meet 2017's hot new smartphone brands: Nokia and BlackBerry

    Meet 2017's hot new smartphone brands: Nokia and BlackBerry
    The Nokia N1 tablet marked the reemergence of the Nokia brand in an Android device.Before the rise of iOS and Android, Nokia and Blackberry (nee RIM) were the top smartphone companies in the world. But they were also among the last companies to adopt a new operating system strategy in the wake of operating systems optimized for capacitive touchscreens. Nokia ultimately adopted Windows Phone and Blackberry released Blackberry 10. But neither operating system attracted a critical mass of popular ..
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  • How Frog Fractions 2 Stayed A Secret For Two Years

    How Frog Fractions 2 Stayed A Secret For Two Years
    Jim Crawford, the man who just released the most well-hidden video game of the last two years by smuggling it inside another one, misses a time when video games had more secrets. “One thing that’s been lost about games since the ‘80s is that they’re no longer particularly mysterious, because of marketing, because they’re cheap or free, because there are always let’s-plays or FAQs or super-fans with decompilers doing nitty gritty breakdowns if you wonder about something,” he said. “In the ‘80s..
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  • T-Mobile rolls out update that kills Samsung Galaxy Note 7

    T-Mobile rolls out update that kills Samsung Galaxy Note 7
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  • New iPhone 7S Leak Will Anger Everyone

    New iPhone 7S Leak Will Anger Everyone
    For and the iPhone, 2017 is the big one. It marks the 10th anniversary of the iconic smartphone and leak after credible leak has told us about radical design changes and revolutionary new technology. But are they wrong? According to new information from Mac Otakara, the 2017 iPhones could be very disappointing indeed. Citing a “Taiwan supplier”, the site says that instead of the so-called ‘iPhone 8’ Apple will instead follow tradition and simply release an iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus which wil..
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  • An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case

    An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case
    Internet-connected devices may start helping in criminal cases. As first reported in The Information, police in Bentonville, Arkansas have issued a warrant to Amazon, asking the company to hand over data from an Echo device to help prosecute a suspected murderer. James Andrew Bates, the suspect in the case, was charged with first-degree murder in November of 2015 after authorities found victim Victor Collins strangled and drowned in Mr. Bates’ hot tub. Mr. Bates told police he’d invited Collin..
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  • Apple Has Finally Published Its First AI Research Paper

    Apple Has Finally Published Its First AI Research Paper
    Apple has made good on its promise to publish a research paper about artificial intelligence.Apple researcher Ashish Shrivastava, along with colleagues, last week published a paper through the Cornell University Library describing a technique for improving artificial intelligence. The paper, which was submitted for review on Nov. 15, is called "Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training."The paper focuses on improving a computer's ability to recognize images, a ..
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  • Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok misled users with news from 2015

    Facebook's Safety Check in Bangkok misled users with news from 2015
    Facebook got fooled by its own algorithm. Today, the social network activated its Safety Check feature but falsely suggested that there was an explosion in Bangkok, Thailand. Users in the country saw an alert to mark themselves safe, but saw little ...
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