September 2017 – Page 88 – news.buyenne.com

HP launches EliteBook 1040 G4 business notebook for $1380 and up

HP is refreshing its EliteBook 1040 with a new model that’s a touch thinner and lighter than last year’s model, but which packs more power thanks to support for up to an Intel Core i7-7820HQ quad-core Kaby Lake processor. The HP EliteBook 1040 G4 will be available starting this month for $1380 and up. HP’s […]

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Windows 10 ARM packages spotted on Microsoft servers, suggesting ARM support is on track

Windows 10 will soon run on devices with ARM-based processors. How soon? Very. Microsoft has already said that Windows 10 will gain ARM support by the end of the 2017, and now folks have started to find some ARM64 packages on Microsoft’s servers. These packages are for the latest Insider Preview version of the Windows […]

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Comcast raises sports and TV fees again, says it’s about “transparency”

Charges fees even in areas where Comcast owns local sports networks.

Comcast TV customers in Oregon will soon have to pay $14.50 each month for the controversial "Broadcast TV" and "Regional Sports Network" fees. Currently, the two fees combined cost customers $11 a month but will rise by $3.50 starting October 1, The Oregonian reported yesterday.

Comcast is also raising its modem rental fee from $10 to $11 a month, the article said.

These fees are in addition to Comcast's advertised rates and are the subject of a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in October 2016. Comcast uses these fees "to secretly and repeatedly increase the monthly price it charges for its channel packages despite its promise to charge a flat rate for one or two years," the lawsuit said. The lawsuit also claimed that "Comcast staff and agents explicitly lie by stating that the Broadcast TV Fee and the Regional Sports Fee are government-related fees or taxes over which Comcast has no control."

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Etengo: Große Firmen finden IT-Freiberufler zu teuer

Der Personaldienstleister Etengo hat große Firmen befragt: Sie brauchen IT-Freelancer, haben aber zu wenig Budget, um sie ordentlich zu bezahlen. 25 Prozent der Unternehmen bezweifeln, dass es überhaupt IT-Freiberufler mit den benötigten Qualifikationen gibt. (4scotty, Studie)

Arne Schönbohm: BSI-Chef will digitalisierte Wahlen

Ausgerechnet der Chef des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik möchte in der kommenden Legislaturperiode eine digitale Stimmabgabe bei Wahlen – weil er die “Digitalisierung ernst nehmen” will. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht und Angela Merkel sind anderer Meinung. (BSI, Wahlcomputer)

Ausgerechnet der Chef des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik möchte in der kommenden Legislaturperiode eine digitale Stimmabgabe bei Wahlen - weil er die "Digitalisierung ernst nehmen" will. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht und Angela Merkel sind anderer Meinung. (BSI, Wahlcomputer)

Gratis-WLAN: EU-Parlament billigt Millionenprogramm für 8.000 Hotspots

Dem WLAN-Programm der EU steht nichts mehr im Wege. Gemeinden und öffentliche Einrichtungen können sich nun den Aufbau schneller Hotspots fördern lassen. (WLAN, Politik/Recht)

To curb outbreak, San Diego will power wash “fecally contaminated” city

The hepatitis A virus outbreak has sickened nearly 400 and led to 15 deaths.

San Diego California has turned to pressure washing its “fecally contaminated” downtown with bleach-spiked water every other week and installing dozens of hand washing stations to try to curb an aggressive outbreak of hepatitis A infections, the Associated Press reports.

So far, 398 cases have been reported and confirmed in the outbreak, which began in November. Of those infected, 279 were hospitalized and 15 people died. The city’s homeless community has been particularly hard hit by the outbreak.

Earlier this month, the San Diego Board of Supervisors declared a state of emergency.

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Samsung’s foldable smartphone coming in 2018 (maybe)

Samsung has been working on a smartphone with a flexible display that you can fold in half for years. Now Samsung’s smartphone chief DJ Koh says the company hopes to ship a phone with a foldable display in 2018. That’s a bit earlier than we’d heard from Samsung earlier this year, but Samsung’s not the […]

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Russian-made Facebook page invited Americans to protest “upsurge of violence”

Effort to unmask the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign takes a dark turn.

In addition to creating fake Americans on Facebook as a way to generate anti-Clinton buzz online during the 2016 presidential campaign, it now appears that those accounts also organized and promoted real-world political protests using Facebook pages.

The accounts, which were first reported Monday by the Daily Beast, created event pages with awkward English rhetoric. While the event pages have been removed, some remain accessible through Google Cache.

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Elektroauto: Daimler elektrifiziert bis 2022 alle Modelle

Nach Volvo und Maserati kündigt auch Daimler die komplette Elektrifizierung aller Neufahrzeuge an. Nebenbei verrät der Autokonzern, warum eine Vollelektrisierung problematisch ist. (Mercedes Benz, Technologie)