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AMD hopes its Carrizo chip will save its shrinking PC business

Last year wasn't exactly a good one for AMD, but the company hopes that things will be different in 2015. Even the fact that its hardware is powering the PlayStation...

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Current legislation doesn’t do enough to protect people’s privacy

In the post-Snowden world, people are more concerned about their privacy than ever before. Technology not only provides us with an unprecedented amount of convenience, but also with an equal...

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Amazon is ramping up its original content war with Netflix

As a subscriber to both Amazon Prime and Netflix, I'm finding the original content war between the two to be most enjoyable. No doubt inspired by its recent Golden Globe...

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Xiaomi’s new Android media streamer is the size of a phone charger

Xiaomi's new $30 Mi Box Mini looks a lot like the standard charger that comes with the iPhone, but rather than having a USB port on the back, it has and...

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IBM’s new mainframe can comb through billions of transactions a day

Even after a few decades, IBM continues to release new mainframe computers, the newest of which is the Z13, which the company unveiled on Tuesday. IBM claims that the Z13,...

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Three of AMD’s top executives have left the company

AMD's executive lineup underwent a massive shakeup yesterday after General Manager of Computing and Graphics Business Group, John Byrne; Chief Marketing Officer, Colette LaForce; and Chief Strategy Officer, Raj Naik all left...

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Obama wants to give companies 30 days to report being hacked

One of the biggest problems we have with data breaches and cyberattacks on corporations nowadays is the fact that, more often than not, the companies in question choose to withhold...

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President Obama to unveil initiatives to improve US cybersecurity

Later this week, President Obama will be unveiling a series of initiatives that are meant to improve cybersecurity in the United States in a time when cyberattacks from foreign governments...

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The FBI stands firmly behind its accusations against North Korea

Although numerous analysts have expressed their doubt of the validity of the FBI's claims that North Korea was responsible for the recent cyberattack on Sony Pictures, the FBI has stood...

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WhatsApp has surpassed 700 million monthly active users

Almost one year after Facebook acquired the company for a whopping $16 billion, WhatsApp has surpassed more than 700 million monthly active users, a number which it hopes to expand...

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Lenovo is making its ThinkPads thinner and more powerful

Lenovo announced at CES that the entire ThinkPad laptop line is being improved and refreshed. Using new chips from Intel, Lenovo's popular ThinkPads will now have improved processing performance, graphical...

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The theft of Mt. Gox’s 850,000 Bitcoins may have been an inside job

It's been about 10 months since Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was shut down after the company "lost" more than 850,000 of its customers bitcoin. The company initially blamed hackers...

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