September, 2017

• 25 September

  Microsoft Ignite 2017: Everything that was just announced

  

  Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, kicked off earlier today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers. Mixed reality — what most others call augmented reality — …

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• 25 September

  Barack Obama warned Mark Zuckerberg about impact of fake news

  

  Then-President Barack Obama warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the impact of fake news on the 2016 US presidential election nine days after the chief executive dismissed the idea as “crazy,” the Washington Post reported Sunday. The two met in private on November 19 at a world leaders forum in Lima, Peru, according to people briefed on the exchange. Obama told Zuckerberg …

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• 25 September

  Intel says Core i7

  

  Gamers rejoice, Intel‘s latest desktop processors are around the corner — and they’re designed for you. The company’s eighth-generation desktop processors are for gamers, creators and overclockers, Intel said in a Sunday press release. The Intel Core i7-8700K is the pack’s top dog, with the chipmaker calling the CPU its best gaming processor ever. Now you’re playing with power.  The …

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• 25 September

  Bill Gates goes Android, still won’t use an iPhone

  

  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An iPhone? Don’t be silly. Yana Paskova / Getty Images They were rivals. They were friends.  Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did much to define what the tech industry is today.  Does that mean, though, that the Microsoft co-founder has softened a touch and started …

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• 25 September

  Enter to win* a CyberLink software bundle

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! You could win some great software from CyberLink! CyberLink When it comes to editing photos and video, you …

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• 25 September

  Chinese government blocks WhatsApp chat service

  

  Chinese authorities have apparently squelched another service — Facebook‘s WhatsApp text-messaging service. The popular app — more than a billion people use WhatsApp, at least until the China ban — opens up an encrypted communication channel between two people. That encryption protects your privacy but also makes life hard for law enforcement, spies, and other forms of government snooping. China started …

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• 25 September

  Apple’s Siri ditches Bing search for Google

  

  When Siri can’t give you an answer, it’ll now be Google filling in the gaps in Apple’s knowledge instead of Microsoft’s Bing search service. The Siri voice assistant built into iPhones, Macs and soon Apple’s HomePod smart speaker can handle plenty of requests, like reporting a stock price or defining a word you don’t know. When it can’t, it searches …

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• 25 September

  How my phone made me an instant New Yorker

  

  We’d only been living in Manhattan for a few weeks when my in-laws came to stay. On our way home from visiting the spectacular One World Trade Center, we had to take a couple different subways, through which my wife and I steered the out-of-towners with little difficulty. “I’m just amazed,” my mother-in-law Theresa said, “at how quickly you’ve adapted …

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• 25 September

  Get ready to shop for pricey crystal home decor in VR

  

  Big, expensive crystal home-decor pieces aren’t for everyone, or even most people. But for the few who are on the market for items such as crystal vases and bowls, shopping may have gotten a bit easier. Mastercard and Swarovski said Monday they’ve teamed up to create a new virtual-reality shopping app for browsing through a virtual home filled with crystal …

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• 25 September

  Twitter explains leaving up Trump’s North Korea threat

  

  President Donald Trump’s escalating war of words with North Korea’s leadership on Twitter has many wondering why some of his tweets aren’t being deleted by the social media platform, despite their apparent violation of its rules. Twitter’s rules forbid using the service to make violent threats, either direct or indirect. Accounts violating that rule may be subject to a temporary …

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