Google is pushing to encrypt more of its services

Photo: David J. RogerThe latest Google Transparency Report shows that since January 23, 77 percent of all requests to its servers have used encrypted connections. The numbers on the new report are current as of February 27, and the company says it’s “working hard” to achieve full encryption across all of its services. Interestingly, the 77 percent figure

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Google has given Android N a silly but sweet internal codename

New York Cheesecake anyone? Photo: Sabotrax/Flickr (CC-licensed)We don’t know what Android N’s official nickname will be yet, but we do know it won’t be as silly as the codename it has been given internally. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has previously hinted that the company may allow Android fans to vote on the final name of Android N. Recent Google Opinion Rewards questions have

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Sony Drops A Bomb On Oculus: Playstation VR Will Be $399

Playstation VR just established itself as the pre-eminent mass market VR headset. The headset will hit the market in in October 2016 for $399, $200 lower than competitor Oculus Rift and less than half of the $900 HTC Vive. That means anyone looking to get into VR can do so for just $750, a far cry from the $1500+ required for Oculus Rift. On top of that, there are already 36 million VR-ready PS4s in living rooms across the world.

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Jive Positions WorkHub Software Beyond ‘Flawed’ Email

The creator of email Ray Tomlinson died earlier this March 2016. Today we know that email is flawed, but have never been bettered. This is because email has become an all-consuming unstructured perpetual flow of information often filled with junk, spam and nefarious requests for money from fake Nigerian princes. So is there another way?

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