October, 2016

• 2 October

  Get to know the security features in the Edge browser

  

  Windows 10 comes with two built-in browsers: Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11. But Microsoft really wants you to use Edge, not IE11, because Edge is faster, sexier, simpler and more secure. Microsoft knows that Internet Explorer ended up with a bad rap for being slow and lacking in security, so the company even disabled …

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• 2 October

  Meet the jets and props of the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford

  

  About 30 minutes outside of Birmingham, England, sits the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. Spread across four main hangers and several buildings, it houses a fascinating collection of aircraft from both World Wars, the Cold War, and the modern era. Some are even too big to house inside, like the massive Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport, and a Hawker Siddeley …

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• 1 October

  Trump rant hits at Alicia Machado supposed ‘sex tape’

  

  Donald Trump is back at it on Twitter, this time taking aim at a former Miss Universe and urging his 12 million followers to check out her alleged “sex tape and past.” The only thing is, there’s no evidence a sex tape even exists. Enlarge Image Trump shows a police officer his photo on the cover of Playboy magazine during …

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• 1 October

  Do speakers that measure well in the lab actually sound better?

  

  While measurements provide valuable information about how a speaker performs for designers and engineers, measurements can’t predict whether a consumer will prefer one speaker over another. I’d go so far as to claim that choosing a speaker based on how well it performs in a lab would be a mistake, simply because there’s a good chance there are better-sounding speakers …

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• 1 October

  Twitch adds ad

  

  Twitch is letting viewers power up accounts using the Amazon Prime subscription service. Live-streaming outfit Twitch said Friday that it will be letting viewers who have an active Amazon Prime membership eliminate ads and subscribe to one channel per month for free, among other video-game-related discounts and bonuses. Twitch is most known for letting people broadcast their video-gaming sessions, their …

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• 1 October

  Hunted in Hungary, refugees are greeted with open arms in Germany

  

  Editor’s note: Hungarians voted October 2 on whether to allow the European Union to set the number of refugees the country must accept. The EU wanted Hungary to take in 1,294 people, and said it would fine the country about $280,000 for each refugee it refuses. More than 98 percent of Hungarians who voted Sunday sided with the Hungarian government …

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• 1 October

  For your ears only: Ultimate Ears Reference Remastered headphones

  

  “Remastered” strikes me as a funny name for a headphone, but that’s exactly what the Ultimate Ears Reference Remastered is, a refinement of the original Ultimate Ears Reference Monitor I reviewed in 2010. Each Reference Remastered earpiece is custom-made from “impressions” of your ear canals made by your local audiologist. So each set of Reference Remastered headphones is unique, and …

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• 1 October

  ‘Twin Peaks’ composer plays haunting theme in new teaser trailer

  

  When you hear the song “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from “Twin Peaks,” does the image of Laura wrapped in plastic come to mind? Or do you think of Laura’s smiling face in her homecoming queen portrait? Or maybe this whole “Twin Peaks” thing is new to you and you’re thinking, “What is this crazy TV show?” Soon diehard “Twin Peaks” fans …

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• 1 October

  Google October 4 event: Rumored Pixel phones, 4K Chromecast, Google Home and more

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Pixel phone, Chromecast Ultra, Andromeda: What’s next… 2:04 Expectations for Google’s October 4 event in San Francisco were already big. And then Hiroshi Lockheimer, the company’s Senior Vice President in charge of Android, Chrome OS and Google Play tweeted this: So what will be so big that it will be reverberating almost a decade from now? …

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• 1 October

  US hands internet control to ICANN

  

  Capping a highly politicized debate, the US government on Saturday let go of its remaining grip on the internet, handing control of the net’s address book to a nonprofit. Saying free speech in the virtual realm was at stake, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and others had tried to block the transfer. But a federal judge denied on Friday their request …

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