Month: August 2016

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Facebook Plans to be the Next Steam for PC Gaming

Remember when everyone and their dog got hooked on playing Farmville for about five minutes then sauntered off to play some proper games? Facebook certainly does, as it’s announced sizable plans to move into PC game distribution, with a deal with game engine Unity that will see it competing closely with gaming giant Steam. *…

Facebook Plans to be the Next Steam for PC Gaming was originally published on iSeeTech

Facebook Plans to be the Next Steam for PC Gaming was originally published on iSeeTech

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LG’s Tiny Battery-Powered Projector Beams an 80-Inch Picture

Once in a while, specs don’t tell the whole story. Take the LG PH450U projector. It’s a 720p DLP projector that costs $650, which sounds archaic and overpriced in this age of itty-bitty laser projectors. But the PH450U is actually pretty cool. For one thing, it’s travel-friendly: The little box weighs just 2.4 pounds. You…

LG’s Tiny Battery-Powered Projector Beams an 80-Inch Picture was originally published on iSeeTech

LG’s Tiny Battery-Powered Projector Beams an 80-Inch Picture was originally published on iSeeTech

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LG’s Tiny Battery-Powered Projector Beams an 80-Inch Picture

Once in a while, specs don’t tell the whole story. Take the LG PH450U projector. It’s a 720p DLP projector that costs $650, which sounds archaic and overpriced in this age of itty-bitty laser projectors. But the PH450U is actually pretty cool. For one thing, it’s travel-friendly: The little box weighs just 2.4 pounds. You…

LG’s Tiny Battery-Powered Projector Beams an 80-Inch Picture was originally published on iSeeTech

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Keep using password managers — bugs and all

Bugs in several password managers, including the vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass in late July, have scared away some users. But such fears go too far. Millions of users rely on password managers to keep track of passwords for applications and online services, and by all indications, they work better than trying to do it on your…

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

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Keep using password managers — bugs and all

Bugs in several password managers, including the vulnerabilities discovered in LastPass in late July, have scared away some users. But such fears go too far. Millions of users rely on password managers to keep track of passwords for applications and online services, and by all indications, they work better than trying to do it on your…

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

Keep using password managers — bugs and all was originally published on iSeeTech

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Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

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Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech

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Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)

Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognise you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises! twins!), so it’s no surprise that even as computer vision evolves, new attacks will trick facial recognition systems, too. Now researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new…

Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) was originally published on iSeeTech