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    All about Edge: extensions, high performance asm.js, and no more ActiveX

    Yes I meant "Integrated Windows Authentication". I am wondering if the applications which rely on Windows Auth would continue to work on the new MS browser. If not what would be solution if the company migrates to Windows 10?
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    All about Edge: extensions, high performance asm.js, and no more ActiveX

    Is Active Directory authentication in the pipeline?
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    Islamic State takes to social media, has about 46K Twitter accounts

    Would it be simpler just to cut the Internet completely to Islamic State?
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    Gartner: Xiaomi’s 300% growth rockets it to a Top 5 smartphone vendor

    I have a friend who will travel to China next year. He can buy me a Xiaomi Mi4. Is there a model which is compatible with AWS band to run on T-Mobile for example?
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    A quick look at Snapdragon 810, 2015’s first flagship mobile chip

    Just to have a baseline comparison of the progress made mobile CPUs. What is the approximate equivalence of the Snapdragon 810 in desktop CPU? Pentium3 1GHz, P4 2GHz, Core2 dual core, etc? BTW, is a comprison between mobile CPU vs desktop CPU relevant? Thanks in advance for any insight.
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    Hands-on with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, Google’s shot at “premium” flagships

    Two bigger Nexus devices which cost much more. New Google Inference rule in 2014: people having bigger hands tend to be richer?
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    Google announces the Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Android 5.0, Lollipop

    6 inches are too big, but I told myself I would be Ok with "Nexus" price around $400. Now that it's $650, there is no way I will get it.
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    Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone—how bad could it be?

    Hi Ron, If the CloudFX multitasks badly, how could you manage to take screenshots and transfer the images outside of the device? Maybe they were photos of the CloudFX screen?
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    Largest “patent troll” hit with $1.4M sanction for suing NetApp

    Q1. What happens to companies who had paid for these patents. Do they get re-imbursed? Q2. What if the patent-troll declare bankruptcy to avoid the payment of the $1.4 million fee sanction?
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    Continuum: Microsoft finally makes touch and mouse make sense together

    Is it possible to put Windows 10 ISO in a USB Key and boot & install from the USB Key?
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    Chelsea Manning sues federal government for gender dysphoria treatment

    Is dysphoria a condition that exists recently? Is there any such condition in the past, let's say, before 20th century?
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    We’ve got a $35 Firefox OS phone, what do you want to know?

    Can you please test this scenario: add 16GB or 32 GB SDCard. Use the Firefox OS phone for 3 functions: Phone, SMS text, MP3 Player. Nothing else (no internet browsing, no data, no game).
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    Samsung licenses HERE maps, still trying to escape the Google ecosystem

    If this is Samsung's strategy to get me buy their $700+ phone full of gimmicks & sensors I don't need, they are day dreaming. However, Samsung must spend a lot of investment in software R&D and develop Tizen. They need to lose money to eventually go out of business to leave room in the market...
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    Critical code execution bug in Samba gives attackers superuser powers

    $ smbstatus Samba version 4.1.6-Ubuntu Is it affected? Also can you please suggest howto configure Xubuntu 14.04 to prevent nmbd from starting? Thanks in advance for any help.
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    Photos of the Moto X+1 leak, show wooden back

    To put every marketing chances possible on its side. I suggest Motorola to name this device "iOne HD".
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    Nadella’s “one operating system” ain’t new and won’t be one OS

    "single converged operating system" ? I'll believe it the day I buy the cheapest WInphone and get a full license to Windows Server.
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    What’s behind your blood type?

    Another weirdness, in my family we may have all 4 kinds of blood types. I am O+ my brother AB+ my mother A+. Not sure for other family members. How can this happen?
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    OnePlus One review: Big, fast, cheap, open, efficient, and unlocked

    That what HTC thought I suppose. Until another ONE came out. It is so "One" that it needs two ONEs to compose the model name. May be I should trade mark "One+One+One" right now to monetize it later with a future manufacturer.
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    OnePlus One review: Big, fast, cheap, open, efficient, and unlocked

    Unfortunately I had the opposite exerience. The flat USB cord is the one that broke the fastest. May be is was just bad luck from my part. I suppose that you have had a reliable and durable flat USB cord?
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    OnePlus One review: Big, fast, cheap, open, efficient, and unlocked

    What's up with that "One" word? Everything is named One now. HTC One, OneDrive, One+One, etc. It is totally frustrating for people like me who is able to count up to TWO.