Microsoft Surface: From Niche to Full Market-Changing PC Player
Microsoft’s Surface event this week contained a number of exciting product launches. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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How to Preserve Your Carved Pumpkin for Halloween
sandsun/Shutterstock If you take your pumpkin carving seriously, there’s a good chance you want to make sure your masterpiece-in-gourd lasts as long as possible. Here’s how to do that. When you work with a pumpkin as your canvas, you don’t have the benefit of inert...
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Microsoft says Iranian hackers targeted a 2020 presidential candidate
Microsoft said it has found evidence that hackers associated with Iran have targeted a 2020 presidential candidate. The tech giant’s security and trust chief confirmed the attack in a blog post, but the company would not say which candidate was the target. The threat group,...
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Hori’s Mario Kart Racing Wheels Are Ready to Drop Banana Peels
Hori Device maker Hori has launched a pair of Nintendo-licensed, Mario-themed racing wheels: a Standard model with bright red and blue colors, and a Deluxe model with dark red and black colors along with some extra features. Both wheels will bring your game to the...
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How Wi-Fi 6 and 5G Will Massively Change Personal Computing
The changes will move us closer to a wireless world. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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Europe’s top court says active consent is needed for tracking cookies
Europe’s top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid. Consent must be obtained prior to storing or accessing non-essential cookies, such as tracking cookies for targeted advertising. Consent cannot be implied or assumed. It’s a decision that —...
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Tencent to take 29% stake in multiplayer games maker Funcom
Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent is taking a 29% stake to become the largest shareholder in Oslo-based Funcom. The indie games developer is responsible for multiple adaptations involving the Conan the Barbarian franchise, such as Age of Conan and Conan Exiles, as well...
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A New Wireless Standard: What Is Amazon Sidewalk?
Wilm Ihlenfeld/Shutterstock At Amazon’s annual hardware event, the company revealed a new wireless standard for the Internet of Things and smarthome devices called Sidewalk. Sidewalk promises longer range than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with lower power usage and complexity than 5G. What Is Amazon Sidewalk? Sidewalk...
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Self-grandparenting is the new self-parenting, and they’re both self-care
It’s tough to practice real self-care when the internet’s obsessed with #selfcare. Let Mashable help with our new series Me, My Self-Care & I. As the concept of self-care has spiralled out from the original definition, one of its new mutant meanings stands out: Self-care...
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Five Mobile Racing Games to Play (Instead of Mario Kart Tour)
JDM4iK Games Mario Kart Tour, released earlier this week for Android and iOS, is…bad. Not only is it a pretty poor representation of the console game, it’s packed full of the worst kind of mobile microtransactions—including a monthly subscription. To be honest, it’s hard to...
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