News Fiat-Chrysler Recalls Challenger for Cruise Control Issues According to Jalopnik, Fiat-Chrysler recently announced their new 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon can get stuck in cruise-control. There are nearly 2,000 vehicles up for recall. Source
News Forester XT Removed from Subaru's Lineup Initially captured by Torque News from Top Gear Philippines, Subaru says it has three reasons why they removed the 2.0 litre turbocharged Sportiness is not about more powerResponsiveness of engine and handling from the driver inputsNew Subaru Global Platform (SGP)Use new, existing
News Ford recalls 550,000 vehicles for roll-away risk According to Fox Business, Ford is recalling vehicles that may have a shifter cable detach while in park. This will cause the vehicle to roll-away. There are no warning indicators in the vehicle suggesting the car is not in park. Ford is not aware
News Chevrolet Announces 2019 Blazer Chevrolet recently announced they will be bringing back the Chevy Blazer. Per CNET, here are the details: Based on the GMC Acadia platform, a unibody platformThere will be three (3) trim levels:Blazer (base)RS (sportier)Premium (luxury)Two (2) engine-levels:2.5-liter four-cylinder
News Fiat-Chrysler To Recall 4.8 Million Vehicles Fiat-Chrysler Automobile (FCA) recently announced they are recalling nearly five million vehicles in the U.S. This recall has no confirmed cases, but there is a possibility of not being able to turn off the cruise control. FCA suggests this can be fixed with
News Crypto Currency Purchases Not Allowed On Credit Cards - Feb 6, 2018 These companies will not allow one to purchase crypto currency on their credit cards. These companies are preventing purchases on credit to protect their customers from fraud. Bank of AmericaJP Morgan ChaseCitigroupCapital OneDiscoverThe Verge | The Merkle | Bloomberg
News Google Compute Engine to Offer 96 vCPU and 624GB Google recently announced that they will be offering 96 vCPUs and 624GB instances! They will be using Xeon Scalable processors. Per Google's Blog: 96 vCPU VMs are available in three predefined machine types: Standard: 96 vCPUs and 360 GB of memoryHigh-CPU: 96 vCPUs and
News Amazon Announces EC2 Per Second Billing Amazon recently announced that on 2 October 2017, On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Linux instances will have one-second billing increments with a one-minute minimum. Keep in mind that this does not apply to Windows and paid-Linux EC2 machines. Amazon Blog | Source
News Disney To Launch Its Own Streaming Service According to a recent quarterly report, Disney will be creating its own video-streaming service in 2019. This may coincide with the expiration of Netflix-Disney deal that was recently expanded last year. ESPN, a subsidiary of Disney, will be launching a sports-streaming service in 2018
News Let's Encrypt To Offer Wildcard SSLs Let's Encrypt recently announced that they will be offering free wildcard SSLs as soon as January 2018. This will be made available by their new ACME v2 API endpoint. Source | Let's Encrypt Blog
News Updates to Tesla Autopilot - June 2017 Tesla will be rolling out its next autopilot system dubbed "Enhance Autopilot." Since October 2016, Tesla has been upgrading their vehicles with newer hardware. Some of this newer hardware and their features are: Eight camerasProvide 360-degree visibility and 820 feet of rangeFind optimal routes
News Amazon Cloud Drive and rclone The recent influx of users that store a lot of data in the Amazon Cloud Drive (ACD), a similar storage service as Amazon's S3 and Google Drive, has caused Amazon to re-think their product's capability. I do not think Amazon expected so many users
News Microsoft Security Update for NSA Vulnerability Here is Microsoft's article on the individual updates for Windows Updates.
News Amazon Cloud Drive CLI Bug - View Other's Files - May 14, 2017 I just wanted to make you aware of a small bug that allows one to view other Amazon Cloud Drive (ACD) even though it is not authenticated. First your DB somehow gets corrupted. Delete it, acdcli sync, then tada.Please be wary of using
News Microsoft Team General Availability March 14 Microsoft will make its Slack competitor, Microsoft Teams, generally and globally available on March 14. Customers whom are in the Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium, and Enterprise E1, E3, and E5 plans will have free access to the entry-level version of Microsoft Teams.
News HP Enterprise Purchases Nimble Storage Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) will acquire Nibmle Storage for $1 billion in cash. Nimble was a new storage provider with a full flash storage solution. HPE would like to improve its 3PAR product line with Nimble Storage. HPE would also like to use Nimble's InfoSight
News Nintendo Switch Shipping Announcement The Nintendo Switch will begin shipping Friday, March 3, 2017 in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. The initial cost will be $299.99 which includes 32GB of internal storage, a 720p 6.2 inch LCD touchscreen, dock, controller with grips & straps, an
News Gmail Increases Attachment Size Receiving Google announced in a recent blog post that Gmail users can now receive up to 50 megabyte attachments. The sending of 25 megabyte attachment limit is still in effect, because Google is pushing users to use Google Drive to send bigger attachments. One can
News Verizon To Buy Yahoo for 4.5 Billion A few months ago, Verizon announced its plan to acquire Yahoo for $4.83 billion. Now, Verizon is shedding $350 million off of this new deal. Part of this new deal, Verizon and Yahoo will share "share the legal and regulatory burdens that will
News Nintendo Switch Has A Small Internal Storage With only 32GB of internal storage, the Nintendo Switch will quickly run out of space for games, DLC and other content. Even with the cartridge based game system, some may require a small install to the hard drive. Kotaku reports that Dragon Quest Heroes
News Apple Acquires RealFace Apple has recently acquired RealFace, an Israeli facial recognizion program. There is no price of the purchase, but "RealFace had raised around $1 million prior to the acquisition." RealFace developed Pickeez, an iPhone app, that assists the user to choose his/her best photo
News LG G6 New User Experience The new LG G6 will feature a 18:9 display. LG suggests this ratio will improve "search and multimedia viewing." In addition to the new ratio, LG wil be adding a "square GUI and multitasking feature" for its camera user experience. The user's movies,
News PlayStation Now Only for PS4 or PC Sony will be discontinuing support for PlayStation Now service for everything but PS4 and PC on August 15, 2017. Reference | Sony Blog
News Viacom Reserves New Shows for Cable TV Viacom CEO, Robert Bakish, wants to remove new programming from streaming services like Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix, so only TV cable providers receive the new programming. However, Viacom will still release older content to the streaming services. By sticking with the cable companies, Viacom's
News SnapChat and Amazon Web Services A recent update to the Snapchat IPO filing states that Snapchat will spend $1bn on Amazon Web Services as backup infrastructure. This takes a little light off the partnership between Snapchat and Google. Reference