No longer broken by design
Samsung promises to stop disabling Windows Update
Company will issue an update in the next few days.
Gadgets / Ars Disciplines
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Selfie of the South
Disney to ban selfie sticks at all of its theme parks worldwide
Full ban comes after selfie-stick user broke existing rule, shut down coaster.
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Drone flying over forest fire diverts planes, costs US Forest Service $10K
A DC-10 and two smaller planes failed to drop flame retardant over threatened area.
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First look at the Pwn Pad 3, the latest in mobile security mayhem
Faster hardware, better network device support, and OTA updates give this Pwn Pad more polish.
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Samsung skins; users unskin
Gallery: The Galaxy S6 Theme Store gets a sweet stock Android theme
Goodbye TouchWiz! The Galaxy S6 Theme Store finally lives up to its potential.
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nuc down drag out
Intel product pages detail cheap Braswell NUCs, coming in June and July
Less power than the Broadwell NUCs, but a nice upgrade over last year's low-end.
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Keeping it old-school
My dream machine: Lenovo may build a new “classic” ThinkPad
Seven row keyboard, rainbow logo, and even the ThinkLight could make a return.
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caught on tape
Phone recording of anesthesiologist mocking patient leads to $500k verdict [Updated]
“It’s probably tuberculosis in the penis."
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Brute force
Samsung silently disabling Windows Update on some computers
Samsung's bundled SW Update tool actively disables Windows Update on reboot.
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book worm
Amazon will pay e-book authors per page when users rent books
Are you ready for some page-turners?
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Looking good, sony
Sony supports the Android M Developer Preview for select devices
You have to built it from AOSP, but Sony posts all the necessary files.
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Staff Blog
You win, Microsoft: How I accidentally went back to Microsoft Word
The new cross-platform app strategy has worked on at least one person.
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How Minecraft and Halo make the most—and the least—of HoloLens
Augmented reality has great fidelity, but suffers from limited field of view.
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Game-over HTTPS defects in dozens of Android apps expose user passwords
Apps downloaded more than 200 million times fail to properly encrypt login data.
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Feature Story
The Arlo and Flir FX security cameras: plug-and-play, mobile ready omnipresence
In which the author explores being the voyeur in her own house.
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Back to school: HP adds USB Type-C, Toshiba goes for a Cortana button
Hardware OEMs are showing their Windows 10 wares.
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❤️❤️❤️
“Burrito,” “Sign Of The Horns,” and 35 other emoji approved in Unicode 8.0
The finalized version of the spec also improves diversity, language support.
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Feature Story
Review: iRig UA finally brings amp modelling to Android but lacks killer tone
Solid hardware and latency-free performance is let down by dated software, in-app purchases.
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Raspberry ripple
The Raspberry Pi finally has an official case, priced at just $9 (£6)
Three years later, but this Raspberry Pi 2 and Model B+ case is rather nice.
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Nest launches 2nd-gen smoke detector for $99, kills off Dropcam brand
"Nest Safety Awards" also incentivize homeowners to own Nest Protect via insurance.
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bon voyage
Amazon undercuts its high-end e-reader with new 300 PPI Kindle Paperwhite
A sharper screen for the same $119 (with ads) or $139 (without).
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New exploit turns Samsung Galaxy phones into remote bugging devices
As many as 600 million phones vulnerable to remote code execution attack.
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find bugs, get money
Google extends vulnerability bounties to Android; offers up to $30,000
Find a security bug in a current Nexus device and Google will pay you.
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The creation of the modern laptop
An in-depth look at lithium-ion batteries, industrial design, Moore's law, and more.
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Do you see what I see? Smart glasses, VR, and telepresence robots
Heightened reality will hit industry and gaming before it changes anyone’s day-to-day.
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Between Kickstarter’s frauds and phenoms live long-delayed projects
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