Intel Compute Stick review (2016): Second time’s the charm

Hardware The first Compute Stick felt like a prototype that left Intel’s labs before designers ever laid their eyes on it. This new model, on the other hand, looks and feels like a solid piece of consumer kit. Instead of a boring rectangular design, it has smooth curves and perforated openings for its tiny fans (previously they looked like cheap fan grilles molded into plastic). Even though it’s a device that’ll...

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Intel Compute Stick review (2016): Second time’s the charm

Hardware The first Compute Stick felt like a prototype that left Intel’s labs before designers ever laid their eyes on it. This new model, on the other hand, looks and feels like a solid piece of consumer kit. Instead of a boring rectangular design, it has smooth curves and perforated openings for its tiny fans (previously they looked like cheap fan grilles molded into plastic). Even though it’s a device that’ll...

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Apple and Hermès Unveil the Apple Watch Hermès Collection

Uncompromising craftsmanship. Pioneering innovation. Groundbreaking functionality. Apple Watch Hermès is the culmination of a partnership based on parallel thinking, singular vision, and mutual regard. It is a unique timepiece designed with both utility and beauty in mind. With leather straps handmade by Hermès artisans in France and an Hermès watch face reinterpreted by Apple designers in California, Apple Watch Hermès is a product...

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NSA director: ‘Encryption is foundational to the future’

“Concerns about privacy have never been higher. Trying to get all those things right, to realize that it isn’t about one or the other,” Rogers explained. He went on to say that security shouldn’t be the focus “to drive everything,” like many government officials argue. FBI director James Comey has been pushing for backdoor access for law enforcement for quite some time, citing the dangers of the...

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NSA director: ‘Encryption is foundational to the future’

“Concerns about privacy have never been higher. Trying to get all those things right, to realize that it isn’t about one or the other,” Rogers explained. He went on to say that security shouldn’t be the focus “to drive everything,” like many government officials argue. FBI director James Comey has been pushing for backdoor access for law enforcement for quite some time, citing the dangers of the...

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