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CHEAP: $150 off a Samsung Galaxy S4 tablet (and a free S Pen)? Yes please

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 12:20 pm
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 is showing its age, but it’s still a worthy iPad alternative for those wedded to Google’s Android ecosystem. As Samsung gradually rolls out its successor, vendors are dropping the price of the S4 to clear stock. Amazon, for example, is selling a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 for just shy of $500, with a free S Pen included. This model comes with 64GB of storage, which should be enough for most people. If you enjoy hoarding apps and movies and…

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Huawei won’t launch a phone with its home-brewed OS in 2019

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 11:39 am
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On August 9, Huawei launched it’s much talked about operating system, HarmonyOS. However, the company is not releasing any phones powered by that in 2019. Huawei‘s Senior Vice President, Vincent Yang, told media in New York there’s no phone running HarmonyOS in the launch pipeline.  Yang said the Chinese tech giant wants to maintain one ecosystem at the moment, and its upcoming flagship will run Android. He also added HarmonyOS is just a Plan B in case the US authorities upholds the ban on the company. The company released a smart TV running HarmonyOS under its sub-brand Honor, and according to Yang,…

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US government knows you’re buying opioids with Bitcoin — and it doesn’t like it

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 11:20 am
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The US government has released a series of advisory notes, one of which specifically looks at the role played by cryptocurrencies in the buying and selling of illegal substances such as fentanyl. Published on Wednesday, the advisories are focused on four facets of illegal drug trafficking: manufacturing, marketing, movement, and money. The money advisory states that “convertible virtual currencies,” such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Monero can be used to buy and sell drugs online. Directed at financial institutions and the private sector in a bid to tackle the trade of illicit substances, the note said: “The United States is in the midst…

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Google, Intel, and Microsoft partner to improve cloud security

Aug22
by on August 22, 2019 at 10:50 am
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Some of the biggest names in tech have banded together in an effort to promote industry-wide security standards for securing data in use. The initiative — dubbed Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) — has Alibaba Cloud, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom, and Tencent as its founding members. It was formally launched yesterday at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in San Diego, California. What is confidential computing? “Confidential computing will enable encrypted data to be processed in memory without exposing it to the rest of the system and reduce exposure for sensitive data and provide greater…

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