Monday, October 3, 2016

Xiaomi Mi 5s debuts with metal rear and ultrasonic fingerprint sensor and other top stories.

  • Xiaomi Mi 5s debuts with metal rear and ultrasonic fingerprint sensor

    The new Mi 5s drops the glass rear for brushed metal. Xiaomi It's been less than a year since the Xiaomi Mi 5 was announced at MWC, but Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is already updating its flagship. The Mi 5s drops the glass rear for a brushed metal back and switches the capacitive button fingerprint sensor to an ultrasonic one.The change means Xiaomi can cut costs since it won't have to cut a hole in the scre..
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  • Apple Employee Mentions Work on 'iPhone 8' is Ongoing in Israel Offices

    Apple Employee Mentions Work on 'iPhone 8' is Ongoing in Israel Offices
    Apple is building hardware for next year's iPhone model at its offices in Herzliya, Israel, and referring to it internally as the "iPhone 8," according to an employee there who spoke anonymously to Business Insider. The employee works on soldering components for Apple and gave vague references to how "different" the 2017 iPhone will be from the iPhone 7, which falls in line with rumors about the iPhone 8's radical redesign, without providing detailed information to add to the previous reports. ..
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  • Windows 10 installed base grows, as businesses become less cautious

    Windows 10 installed base grows, as businesses become less cautious
    Earlier this week, at the Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft announced that the number of monthly active users of Windows 10 had passed the 400 million mark.That's up from the last milestone of 350 million, announced one month before the end of the year-long free Windows 10 upgrade offer.And while that's a slight slowing of the upgrade pace, it's still a healthy increase that most tech companies would celebrate.Some of those new users squeaked in under the wire in the last month of free up..
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  • Europol: Ransomware now top cybercrime threat

    Europol: Ransomware now top cybercrime threat
    Danny Pyka, an Austinite who worked for Mercedes-Benz for about 10 years, had been suffering from depression for so long and so severely that he was certain his suicidal thoughts would eventually lead to the end of his life. "It was just miserable," said Pyka, who found work as a handyman, but found it difficult to have a normal life or relationships with his wife and 18-year-old daughter not affected by his condition. "I was secluding myself... I'd close the house off and just sleep pretty muc..
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  • Amazon Fire TV Stick adds speed, Alexa voice remote, keeps $40 price

    Amazon Fire TV Stick adds speed, Alexa voice remote, keeps $40 price
    Amazon Roku makes our favorite streamers and leads the pack in sales, but Amazon is trying to find its own voice with an update to a familiar, inexpensive stick.Available for preorder starting today is a new streaming media device officially called Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote. It costs the same $40 as its predecessor, the original Fire TV Stick, and still streams the same TV apps including Netflix, Hul..
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  • Google: AMP will override app deep links for the foreseeable future

    Google: AMP will override app deep links for the foreseeable future
    At SMX East yesterday, Adam Greenberg, head of Global Product Partnerships at Google, gave a talk about AMP. He said during the question and answer time that AMP pages will override app deep links for the “foreseeable future.” Last week, we covered how when Google began rolling out AMP to the core mobile results, Google quietly added to their changelog that AMP pages will trump app deep links. In short, that means when a user installs an app of a publisher, does a search on the mobile phone wh..
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  • Moscow to Microsoft: We're ditching Outlook, Exchange on 600000 machines

    Moscow to Microsoft: We're ditching Outlook, Exchange on 600000 machines
    It seems the sun may be setting on Microsoft's relationship with the authorities in Moscow, with Exchange Server, Outlook, Windows, and Office all facing the exit. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Moscow is ditching Microsoft's email platforms for a homegrown alternative, in line with Russian president Vladimir Putin's call for local authorities to stop buying foreign tech. The Russian capital is set to..
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