Day: July 5, 2018

Samsung, Arm Team Up: Expect New Mobile Chipset Faster Than 3GHz

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Arm is teaming up with Samsung’s foundry to manufacture the recently announced Cortex-A76 CPU, which the pair say will run at speeds above 3GHz. At that speed the Cortex-A76 will be more powerful than Qualcomm’s best Cortex-A75 SoC, the Snapdragon 845, which tops out at 2.8GHz. At…


Elon Musk offers pumps, battery packs in bid to rescue Thai soccer team from cave – CNET

Thailand hasn’t yet accepted the offer, according to a report. …read more Source:: CNet


Don’t fear 1337 exploits. Sloppy mobile, phishing defenses a much bigger corp IT security threat

DARPA-funded white hat emits timeless advice AppSec EU IT admins should focus on the fundamentals of network security, rather than worry about sophisticated state-sponsored zero-day attacks, mobile security expert Georgia Weidman told London’s AppSec EU conference on Thursday.… …read more Source:: Register


World Cup: Petition demands England-Colombia match be replayed – CNET

Did the Three Lions advance with a little help from the referees? Fans who signed an online petition say yes. …read more Source:: CNet


Netflix is removing online reviews on July 30 – CNET

You have until August to post your reviews elsewhere. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple’s App Store Celebrates 10th Anniversary

BrianFagioli writes: People sometimes forget that when the first-ever iPhone launched in 2007, there was no App Store. Believe it or not, Apple’s smartphone was limited to the apps with which it came. In fact, Steve Jobs famously didn’t want third-party apps on the iPhone at all. Ultimately, the App Store was added in 2008…


Microsoft is reportedly making a Movies & TV app for iOS and Android – CNET

Soon, it may not require Windows 10 Mobile to watch content from Microsoft’s store. …read more Source:: CNet


Aussie cops are getting Kia Stinger cop cars, American cops should be jealous – Roadshow

With Holden and Ford gone, Aussie police forces have to look elsewhere for new breeds of police cruiser, including South Korea. …read more Source:: CNet


California lawmakers: We swear on our avocados we’ll pass ‘strongest net neutrality protections’ in America

Big Cable lobbyists abandoned after grassroots campaign California lawmakers promised to introduce the “strongest net neutrality protections in the nation” on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted at the committee stage, sparking online fury.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Junk Bin Self Balancing Bot With ESP8266

As we all know, sometimes the projects we plan simply never materialize. You have an idea, maybe even buy some of the parts you need, and then…nothing. Maybe you changed your mind, or maybe the idea was never that good to begin with. In any event, time marches on, the parts pile up, and the…