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• HoloLens will run up to 5.5 hours on a single charge, Microsoft says

  17-01-2016 22:05
  
  There’s a lot we know about the HoloLens, Microsoft’s upcoming augmented reality headset. There’s also a lot we don’t know about it, but a new report fills in some of the remaining blanks regarding battery life, connectivity, and app compatibility.
  While speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Bruce Harris stated that the HoloLens’s battery will run between 2.5 and 5.5 hours between charges, depending on the task, according to Pet
  
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• LastPass phishing attack could have scooped up passwords

  17-01-2016 06:09
  A relatively simple phishing attack could be used to compromise the widely used password manager LastPass, according to new research.
  Notifications displayed by LastPass version 4.0 in a browser window can be spoofed, tricking people into divulging their login credentials and even snatching a one-time passcode, according to Sean Cassidy, who gave a presentation at the Shmoocon conference on Saturday.
  Cassidy, who is CTO of Praesido Inc., notified LastPass of the issues. In a blog post, Las
  
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• jQuery turns 10 -- and hits 3.0 beta

  17-01-2016 02:24
  
  Just in time for the technology's 10th anniversary, popular JavaScript library jQuery has gone into a beta release stage with its 3.0 version.
  Among key features in version 3.0 is an updating of .data() implementation to more closely match the HTML5 dataset specification. "All keys are now converted from kebab-case to camelCase, regardless of access method, and digits no longer participate in the conversion," said jQuery Core team member Timmy Willison in a blog post. JQuery.Deferred objects, m
  
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• Apple runs two betas simultaneously of iOS and OS X

  17-01-2016 02:24
  
  Apple this week took the unusual step of simultaneously providing developers and the general public with previews of two different editions of both iOS and OS X.
  On Monday, Apple seeded developers with the first betas of iOS 9.3 and OS X 10.11.4, then followed up on Thursday by releasing the same builds to the testers who had previously registered with the company's public preview program.
  Handing out previews to developers and the public is nothing new for Apple: It's offered betas of upcoming
  
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• Enterprise WLAN market is hot, but it's all relative

  17-01-2016 02:23
  
  Wireless LAN purchases aren't exactly going gangbusters these days, but relative to other enterprise infrastructure product sales, WLANs are where it's at.
  Synergy Research Group's latest figures show that WLAN sales grew 5% over the last 4 quarters vs. 2.3% for 7 segments measured overall (the others being data center servers, Ethernet switches, unified communications apps, routers and the slowest-growers -- voice systems and telepresence).Synergy Res Synergy Research GroupWhile you might thin
  
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