Recently published research that questions the safety of LED lighting is misleading, according to Soraa, and the company is again asking the EPA to reconsider Energy Star efficacy requirements for SSL lamps. Despite many recent stories to ...
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Feedly, the free RSS service that has been the safe harbor for millions of Internet refugees fleeing the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader, announced Monday that several popular RSS apps will access its API free of charge. The move will ...
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Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Running servers on top of a hosted environment to power mobile apps can be a bit of a headache, according to ...
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Microsoft will ship Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) with Windows 8.1 later this year, but on Monday the company passed on saying whether the same browser would also be available to Windows 7 users. "We aren't sharing anything around which ...
Early Monday, a developer announced the release of the first porn app for Google Glass only to learn that Google had banned porn apps for its computerized eyeglasses. MiKandi, an adult app store, created a piece of Glassware that enables ...
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of domain name management and DNS hosting services. DNSimple, easyDNS and TPP Wholesale all ...
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An ongoing cyberespionage campaign compromised over 350 high-profile victims from more than 40 countries over the past eight years, including political activists, research centers, governmental institutions, embassies, military contractors ...
Gmail users, your inboxes are about to be rearranged. Google announced a new kind of inbox for Gmail that automatically sorts messages into categories, or "tabs." For example, updates from Google+ and other networks go into a "Social" ...
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Google is kicking off its latest effort to help Gmail users manage their messages -- a redesigned inbox. The new inbox, which will roll out to all Gmail users over the coming weeks, sorts incoming messages into labeled buckets. The ...
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Google will not add facial recognition software to its futuristic-looking computerized eyeglasses at this point due to privacy concerns. The company announced late Friday that Glass won't include facial recognition technologies. Google ...
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A little more than four months after Twitter unveiled its video service, Vine, the company has launched Vine for Android. "Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos," wrote Sara Haider, an Android ...
Twitter was back in working order on Monday afternoon after experiencing multiple technical issues earlier in the day that caused some users' tweet streams to not update, among other problems. Due to "an error in a routine change," the ...
Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned applets from being executed by default and adding centralized management options with ...
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The long-running war between Google and Microsoft may never have a winner, an analyst said on Wednesday, but it definitely has a loser: customers. “These are business decisions, but unfortunately, consumers and very small businesses ...
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Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication. Users of the professional social-networking site now have the option to add two-step verification to their ...