Shopping for a MacBook used to be really simple. Want the thin one? Get an Air. Doing a lot of work? Get the Pro.But Apple has made things tricky since the good ol’ days. To buy a MacBook at the tail end of 2016 is to accept some significant compromise. While the computers may...
Nidia last week began test-driving autonomous cars on California roads, after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles gave it the green light, according to The Verge. The company is testing its Drive PX2 autonomous driving platform, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Nvidia recently has made several well publicized moves in...
If you haven’t upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 by July 29, expect to pay more than $100 to do so later. Microsoft says that 300 million devices now run Windows 10. And if yours isn’t among them, time is running out. On Thursday, Microsoft began showing potential customers of Windows 10 the...
RememberGoogle’s smart contact lenses? Well, now the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is turning them into a commercial reality. The two companieshave announcedthat Novartis is licensing Google’s technology to create special contact lenses for diabetic patients. The new lenses will analyze tear fluid in the eye and provide real-time, constant measurement of an individual’s...
Google is the default search engine in Chrome’s “Omnibox,” the text field at the top of your browser where the URL appears and where you type search terms. But you can add a limitless number of other, site-specific search engines to it as well. This comes in handy if you’re looking for particular...
Whitehat hackers have struck back at the operators of thepernicious CryptoLocker ransom trojanthat has held hundreds of thousands of hard drives hostage. Through a partnership that included researchers from FOX-IT and FireEye, researchers managed to recover the private encryption keys that CryptoLocker uses to lock victims’ personal computer files until they pay a...