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HP Helion takes advantage of the momentum and openness of OpenStack | #HPDiscover
Cloud is changing the game in enterprise storage, and businesses interested in flexibility are looking at alternative options like OpenStack for their storage solutions. Rob Strechay, Director of Product Management at HP Storage, explained the benefits of using OpenStack in his live interview with theCUBE at HP Discover Barcelona. “The great thing about OpenStack is it’s got ...
Sick of auto-play video ads on Facebook? They’re not going away
If you thought popup ads were bad in the early days of the internet, loud videos that automatically play on visiting a site are even worse. Never one to let a marketing opportunity go to waste, Facebook Inc. began integrating auto-play videos into people’s Facebook newsfeeds over the last year, and they are becoming more ...
Valve breaks into video game streaming with Steam Broadcasting
Look out, Twitch.tv: Valve Corporation has just announced that it will be releasing Steam Broadcasting, a video game streaming service that will be baked into Valve’s incredibly popular Steam client. Steam already offered to ability to see what games friends are playing and to easily hop in to multiplayer games on the same servers. Now, Steam ...
Denuvo, the “uncrackable” DRM on Dragon Age: Inquisition, has been cracked
3dm, a Chinese group known for releasing cracked versions of pirated games, has stated that it has successfully broken Denuvo’s anti-tamper program, which is used on games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and FIFA 2015. Although it is generally referred to as “Denuvo DRM” in gaming media, Denuvo states that its software does not actually work as ...
FBI advises military to “scrub” social media of sensitive information
On Sunday, the FBI issued a warning to members of the U.S. military about the potential for attacks at home by the terrorist group ISIS. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a joint bulletin urging men and women in the armed forces to review their social media profiles on sites like Facebook and ...
Facebook users fall for copyright hoax – again
A hoax has been circulating on Facebook Inc. recently claiming that posting a legal disclaimer to your Facebook wall will protect your information from “commercial use” unless written consent is given. The disclaimer uses complicated legalese to sound official. One example states: “The content of my profile contains private information. The violation of my privacy is punishable by law ...
Forget violence – Sweden considers “sexist” video game rating
For years parents have been worried that video games would teach their children to be violent or at the very least lazy, but a government-funded study in Sweden is looking to tackle an issue in gaming that until recently was little talked about: sexism. Dataspelsbranchen, a trade organization that represents the Swedish gaming industry, is conducting a ...
Why Nintendo’s Game Boy mobile patent is bad news for emulators
Nintendo Co., LTD. filed an application on Thursday with the United States Patent & Trademark Office for “Hand-Held Video Game Platform Emulation.” The patent would cover the use of video game software from the Nintendo Game Boy “on a low-capability target platform,” meaning smartphones, PDAs, and other devices not made by Nintendo. Emulators allow software such ...
Facebook privacy policy still might not be good enough for UK
Reading the Facebook privacy policy is “like engaging with ‘Shakespeare’ ” according to a British committee, who says that social media sites should do more to ensure that users understand exactly what is being done with their data. The British parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has issued a report titled “Responsible Use of Data,” which criticizes ...
Entitled or justified? Gamers criticize DayZ for raising price and pushing back release
PC gaming has one of the most volatile fan bases in video games, with gamers shifting from adoring fans to blood thirsty mob at the speed of tweet. The developers behind zombie survival game DayZ found out first hand yesterday how fast the pendulum can swing when they announced that the final release of the game ...