Friday, November 11, 2016

How to speed up Windows 7 Update scans—forever and other top stories.

  • How to speed up Windows 7 Update scans—forever

    Microsoft has changed the way it deploys patches, adding a new twist to an old problem. For many folks, Windows 7 Update scans still take hours—even days. How do you knock your Win7 machine upside the head, so it will find new patches in less than glacial time? We have a new Microsoft-sanctioned approach that only needs to be tempered a little.Note that, in the new patching paradigm, even those who manually download monthly security patches (“Group B”) still need to use Windows Update, if o..
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  • Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Review Roundup

    Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Review Roundup
    Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare arrives today, November 4, alongside reviews for Infinity Ward's latest entry in the juggernaut shooter series. To help you decide if the game is worth your time and money, we've rounded up a group of review scores and editor opinions.Developed by Call of Duty 4 studio Infinity Ward, Infinite Warfare is set in the future. Some of its action takes place in outer space with zero-G combat and spaceship dogfighting. The game also continues the tradition of featuring a..
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  • What Google Assistant needs is clarity -- and consistency

    What Google Assistant needs is clarity -- and consistency
    Google Assistant is suddenly on its way to being everywhere. It's the heart of the new Google Home tabletop gadget, it's the secret sauce inside the new A.I.-enhanced Google Allo chat app, and it's a core feature of the new Pixel flagship phone. And all of that's just the start: Assistant will almost certainly be expanding onto even more Android devices (and non-Android devices) in the foreseeable future. Make no mistake about it: This feeling of omnipresence is very much part of the plan..
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  • NASA is trying to keep part of its giant golden telescope a secret

    NASA is trying to keep part of its giant golden telescope a secret
    NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA on Wednesday announced a huge milestone in its $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope mission: the completion of the observatory's gigantic golden mirror. To commemorate the moment, the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center released a dramatic video about the telescope on YouTube. "The efforts of thousands of people across the United States, Canada, and Europe, for almost two decades achieved this milestone," the na..
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  • What happened to GoPro?

    What happened to GoPro?
    A Gentoo pinguin bites a GoPro camera in Orne Harbour, Antarctic, on March 05, 2016. - EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty ImagesI've been following GoPro for a long time, and over the years I've found myself rooting for them.But the last time I reviewed their cameras, I lamented that GoPro had gone "too pro" for most consumers, and that simpler options made its pricey, complicated, editing-intensive cameras and software options undesirable for people looking for simple and fun point-and-shoot adventure...
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  • live.ly App Lets You Broadcast Live Video To Your Friends

    live.ly App Lets You Broadcast Live Video To Your Friends
    Some of you have probably heard of an app called 'musical.ly', and extremely popular Android app which has over 50 million downloads at the moment. This is essentially a video community in which you create, share and discover new short videos (up to 15 ...
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  • Samsung recalls 2.8M washing machines due to injury risk

    Samsung recalls 2.8M washing machines due to injury risk
    Tyler Lizenby/CNET Samsung US has issued a voluntary recall on 2.8 million top-loading washing machines due to concerns over injury risks."The voluntary action was driven by reports highlighting the risk that the drums in these washers may lose balance, triggering excessive vibrations, resulting in the top separating from the washer," Samsung explained in a statement on its corporate blog.Nine related injuries ha..
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  • Climate change is turning into a race between politics and physics

    Climate change is turning into a race between politics and physics
    The Cardinal Power Station, a coal-fired energy plant in Brilliant, Ohio, on the Ohio River. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) On Friday, a major milestone will arrive for global climate change diplomacy. The so-called Paris climate agreement, an international accord forged last December by countries across the world, will become a legal reality far sooner than almost anyone anticipated. The rapid pace with which countries have ratified the agreement underscores the urgency many na..
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