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    MacOS the New Name for OS X? Apple Website Hints Yes

    Apple on Friday put up an updated page on its website mentioning its efforts for the Earth Day 2016. The webpage is meant to answer queries about the company’s efforts to improve the environment. The page briefly mentioned the rumoured new name for Apple’s desktop and laptop operating system – MacOS – instead of the […]

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    Intel Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs: Report

    Intel Corp is planning to cut thousands of jobs this spring, including reducing headcount in some business units by double-digit percentages, news website Oregonlive said, citing sources inside the company familiar with the plan. The job cuts at the world’s largest chipmaker this year will be considerably larger than the more than 1,100 US jobs […]

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    Samsung Notebook 9 Ultra-Light, Ultra-Thin Laptop Series Launched at CES

    At its pre-CES 2016 press conference, Samsung announced Notebook 9 laptop lineup, with two new models. The new Notebook 9 models come in two sizes: 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch, and run Windows 10out-of-the-box. Both the laptops will be available to purchase in select regions from March 2016. No pricing information has yet been provided. Samsung has […]

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    Asus EeeBook E402, EeeBook E205SA With Windows 10 Launched in India

    Asus has expanded its EeeBook-series of notebooks with the launch of the EeeBook E402 and EeeBook E205SA. Priced at Rs. 16,990 and Rs. 23,990 respectively, the new notebooks are powered by Windows 10. Both the Asus EeeBook E402 (seen above) and EeeBook E205SA will be available via the company’s exclusive retail stores as well as […]

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    Meet the Laptop With 64GB RAM, 5TB SSD, and 6 USB Ports

    If the current lineup of high-end laptops in the market isn’t cutting it for you, Eurocom’s new offering may interest you. The Canadian computer manufacturer has launched its Sky X9W laptop, a ‘mobile workstation’ upgrade to its already impressive Sky X9 that it released in October last year. Much like many other good things in […]

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    Apple Buys Security Firm LegbaCore That Exposed Vulnerabilities in OS X

    Apple has acquired LegbaCore, a security firm that has in the past pointed out vulnerabilities in its firmware. The Cupertino-based company quietly made the acquisition last year. As part of the buyout, which was revealed by security researcher Trammell Hudson in a presentation back last month (via MacRumors), Xeno Kovah and Corey Kallenberg, two researchers […]

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    Microsoft Now Labels Windows 10 as a Recommended Update

    Nearly six months after releasing Windows 10, Microsoft has begun pushing the new operating system as a ‘Recommended Update’ to users. While the change in the labelling (prior to the announcement it was an ‘optional’ update), will help many users upgrade their computer, it would also mean that things will become more annoying for those […]

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    This Wrong Command Could Brick Your Linux Laptop

    If you have a Linux-powered computer, you would want to be extra careful when erasing your existing build from the device. Turns out, one command can end up bricking your device. The issue was first reported by a user last month on Linux Arch forum. The user noted that he executed the “rm -rf –no-preserve-root […]