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Intel is now selling its 540s budget SSDs, here's what they'll cost

Offering read speeds of 560 megabytes per second and capacities up to 1TB, Intel's 540s line of budget solid state drives might be a touch expensive.
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Adobe's Creative Cloud lets you edit the virtual reality revolution

Premier Pro, Adobe's video editing software, is adding support for editing virtual reality footage. Uploading to YouTube and Facebook is supported.
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Want the world's first Ubuntu tablet? You'll need to wait another week

If you pre-ordered the BQ Aquirius M10 Ubuntu edition, don't wait by the mailbox. The tablet won't ship next week, as previously thought, but in late April.
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Group of kids earn $15,000 scholarship by playing Minecraft

A five-person team aged 10 to 14 can now split $15,000 toward their college funds after winning a Minecraft competition. 450 teams participated.
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Did a California congressman really drop $1,300 on Steam purchases?

Representative Duncan D. Hunter, a California Republican, had $1,302 of Steam spending on his campaign disclosure, prompting an FEC investigation.
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Fifty bucks for a 120GB SSD? OCZ revamps its budget drives

OCZ updated its Trion line of solid state drives, offering a 120GB SSD for just $50, with read speeds of 550 megabytes per second.
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Seagate’s drives are improving while Western Digital’s aren’t says cloud backup firm

Seagate's drives are becoming more reliable, as Western Digital drives seem to be getting worse, according to data from cloud storage company Blackblaze.
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Microsoft ‘holoportation’ lets you share a room with a faraway friend

Imagine talking to a friend halfway across the world and feeling like you're in the same room. A Microsoft Hololens demo promises just that.
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Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and Avira are the best AV suites out there, according to AV-Test

Av Test compared 20 antivirus programs for Windows; Kasperksy, Avira, and BitDefender top the list. At the bottom: ThreatTrack and Comodo.
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Windows 10 leaps ahead of 7 among Steam gamers

Windows 10 is behind Windows 7 in overall marketshare, but is winning in among Steam gamers. Cutting-edge users are embracing Microsoft's latest OS.
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The FCC votes to subsidize broadband for Americans living near the poverty line

Broadband access isn't a luxury, according to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: it's necessary for modern life. Should that tool be subsidized?
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‘No Wi-Fi beyond this point’: new tech could block access based on location

A team at MIT can track the location of Wi-Fi users to a couple of decimeters, even on networks with only one access point. This could help block hackers.
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Developers cheer as Microsoft takes Xamarin cross-platform development free, open-source

Xamarin, which Microsoft bought last month, is now a free part of Visual Studio. Now .NET and C# developers can make iOS, Android, and Windows apps all at once, using the free Community version of Visual Studio.
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Collaborating with holograms: Could ‘mixed reality’ be the future of telecommuting?

A HoloLens app could allow workers to collaborate in 'mixed reality,' attending meetings using Microsoft's augmented reality headset.
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Windows 10 Anniversary Edition is coming this summer, adds a bunch of new features

Windows 10 Anniversary edition includes new features for Windows Ink and Windows Hello. Win32 applications are coming to Windows Store as well.
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Baltimore hospital group shut down entire network to fight malware threat

MedStar Health, a chain of hospitals based in Baltimore, shut down their entire IT infrastructure to fight off a malware attack. No data was compromised.
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Tired of Evernote? Here’s how to quickly migrate everything over to OneNote

Curious about OneNote, but use Evernote? Well, Microsoft has a tool for migrating content between the two. Here's how it works, and why you should try it.
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Zero-day exploit can bypass rootless on Mac to modify the system without detection

System Integrity Protection, or rootless, was supposed to protect users from unauthorized changes to the system. Turns out it's not exactly bulletproof.
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Macro viruses are back, but Office 2016 has a new feature that can help

If your'e a network administrator worried about macro viruses, a new feature in Office 2016 can help. It lets you disable macros in downloaded documents.
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Use touch gestures on the spacebar with the Poseidon Z Touch gaming keyboard 

Your thumbs are sitting on the spacebar already, so why not use them to perform multitouch gestures? That's the idea behind the new Poseidon Z Touch.
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Cooler Master's new MasterKeys Pro series lights up with full RGB LEDs

Cooler Masters is releasing a new line of mechanical gaming keyboards, the MasterPro Series, offering Cherry MX switches and full RGB lighting.
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Warcraft III also getting patched as Blizzard continues work on its classic titles

Blizzard announced an official patch for Warcraft III, a strategy game released in 2002. This comes just days after a patch for Diablo II was released.
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Blizzard just patched Diablo II, a game that came out 16 years ago

Diablo II should be easier to run on Windows 10 and Intel Macs, thanks to a patch from Blizzard. The game was first released in 2000, an eternity ago.
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Obama urges techies to compromise on encryption

Speaking at SXSW is Austin, Texas, President Barack Obama urged techies to not be "absolutists" when it comes to encryption on smartphones and beyond.
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MacBooks will be getting Intel’s super-fast Optane drive tech, too

Intel's Optane drives feature 3D Xpoint, a new storage technology that's 1000 times faster than current solid state drives. And MacBooks could get it first.
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Oculus adds virtual reality trivia, Facebook integration to the Samsung Gear

Oculus is adding social games to the Samsung Gear VR, meaning you can play trivia with friends in VR right now. There's also brand new Facebook integration.
Computing News
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Opera is testing a built-in ad blocker that encourages people to use it

Opera, a browser with a two-percent share of desktop users, is testing an ad blocker in its developer build. It encourages users to turn blocking on.
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Leaks suggest Lenovo will soon release an Android 2-in-1 laptop

A recent leak suggests Lenovo has an Android laptop on the way with a 10-inch, full HD display, 2GB of memory, and an Intel Cherry Trail processor.
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Have a 2010 MacBook Pro? Sorry, it's now obsolete, according to Apple

Apple added the 2010 Macbook Pro to their list of vintage devices, meaning it's going to be hard to find parts for the laptop outside California and Turkey.
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The latest ransomware threat announces itself out loud with a creepy computer voice

Cerber is the latest ransomware to spread around the Web, and announces itself in a unique way: speaking out loud using a creepy computer voice.
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No Rift support for Mac until ‘Apple releases a good computer,’ says Oculus founder

Wondering if the Oculus Rift will work with your Mac? Oculus founder Lucky Palmer says no, because no Mac currently on the market is powerful enough.
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You can buy an 8TB WD helium drive right now for $300, if you want

Helium drives have been available in the enterprise market for years. Now Western Digital is bringing the technology, which reduces wear, to consumers.
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After only 6 months, Windows 10 tops 8, XP in market share

Windows 10 is now gaining one percent of the PC user base each month, allowing it to edge out Windows 8 for market share just six months after release.
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Ethernet broke on your Mac? You’re not alone, here’s the fix

Somehow Apple managed to add the Ethernet driver to a list of banned kernel extensions, meaning many Mac users can't use wired connections. Here's the fix.
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AT&T is suing the Louisville Metro Council over Google Fiber

AT&T says the Louisville Metro Council has no right to regulate telephone poles, so it's suing over an ordinance that gave Google Fiber easy access.
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Transcends builds tiny 1TB M.2 solid state drive for super-thin laptops

Transcend now offers a 1TB version of their ultrathin MTS800 solid state drive, meaning you can put a lot of really fast storage into your laptop.
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Ads pop up on Windows 10 lock screen, and it's not malware: Microsoft put them there

Windows 10 users are starting to see ads pop up on the lock screen, in some cases taking up the full screen. Here's how to turn those ads off entirely.
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Asus settles FTC lawsuit over flawed router file security

Asus is settling and FTC lawsuit regarding their routers out of court, agreeing to establish a security program subject to audits.
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