Simply Windows – Could Microsoft Be Taking Simple Branding to a New Level with Upcoming OS? Simply Windows – Could Microsoft Be Taking Simple Branding to a New Level with Upcoming OS?Rumors are now suggesting that Microsoft’s next Windows iteration, which is known tentatively and unofficially as Windows 9, may be getting renamed and rebranded, with Microsoft possibly… Read More »
5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Check Yours Now According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords to Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here’s what you should know. The list has since been taken down, and most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old—though others are claiming… Read More »
Credit card details at risk as The Home Depot confirms it was hacked The Home Depot today confirmed that its payment systems were breached by hackers earlier this year. The company is yet to outline the details of the attack, but used vague language to suggest that customers who used credit or debit cards at its retail stores… Read More »
Awesomeness: Millions Of Public Domain Images Being Put Online Here’s some nice news. Kalev Leetaru has been liberating a ton of public domain images from books and putting them all on Flickr. He’s been going through Internet Archive scans of old, public domain books, isolating the images, and turning them into individual images. Because, while the books and images are all… Read More »
What is ‘click bait’ and why Facebook wants to display less of it (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Ever seen those headlines that start with “You will NEVER believe…” that are shared by your friends or promoted by advertisers on your Facebook news feed? Now the social network says it’s trying to crack down on exactly those kinds of headlines, which it describe… Read More »
Dirt cheap Windows PCs already hitting the streets, with help from Microsoft Microsoft is helping hardware makers build low-priced Windows PCs to combat Chromebooks and the early results of that effort are hitting the market. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo are selling laptops priced less than $250 that run on Windows 8.1 with Bing, a royalty-free version of the OS. The… Read More »