Friday 1 April 2016

March's mighty new PC hardware: Radical PCs and revolutionary components

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Apr 01, 2016

From cult to comedy classics, streaming this week

Must-see (or re-see) movies from Kubrik, Kaufman, Allen, and others will have you glued to your screen. Read More ▶

Your Must-Read Stories

•	March's mighty new PC hardware: Radical PCs and revolutionary components

•	Reddit's removal of 'warrant canary' could hint at US demand for its user data

•	CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users

•	Best second-screen apps for watching Major League Baseball

•	Meet Robocar, the driverless racing car for the AI-powered Roborace

•	PCWorld Show Episode 10: HoloLens, PC gaming (fixed!), smart bots and evil Tay

•	IBM's brain-mimicking computers are getting bigger brains

•	Augmented reality gets practical: Here's how Hololens could transform car buying

•	FCC votes for strict new broadband privacy rules

•	Hands-on: How HoloLens handles creating shared experiences

•	Intel's fastest 22-core Broadwell chip comes to new servers

March's mighty new PC hardware: Radical PCs and revolutionary components

March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion, with a smorgasbord of gaming PCs, gorgeous laptops, and the most powerful graphics card in the world. Read More ▶

Reddit's removal of 'warrant canary' could hint at US demand for its user data

Reddit has removed a notice, known as a warrant canary, from its transparency report for 2015, suggesting that it may have received a secret national security order for user data. Read More ▶

CloudFlare aims to block fewer legitimate Tor users

CloudFlare is tweaking its systems to make it easier for legitimate Tor users to access websites that use its content delivery system. Read More ▶

Best second-screen apps for watching Major League Baseball

Geek up the grand old game with data feeds, social media, and other interactive enhancements. Read More ▶

Meet Robocar, the driverless racing car for the AI-powered Roborace

Late last year Formula E announced Roborace, its first racing series for driverless cars, and this week it unveiled the AI-powered vehicle competitors will use in what it calls a "battle of algorithms." Read More ▶

PCWorld Show Episode 10: HoloLens, PC gaming (fixed!), smart bots and evil Tay

Jon, Mark and Gordon discuss HoloLens hotness, whether Microsoft has fixed PC gaming, and bots (both good and evil). Read More ▶

IBM's brain-mimicking computers are getting bigger brains

IBM says it wants to make intelligent computers that can make decisions like humans. This week, it shipped the NS16e, its largest brain-inspired computer yet, and has big goals ahead. Read More ▶

Augmented reality gets practical: Here's how Hololens could transform car buying

Microsoft's Hololens promises to merge the real and virtual worlds in ways that haven't been possible before, and on Thursday morning, it demonstrated one way the gadget could transform the way we buy cars and just about any other major product. Read More ▶

FCC votes for strict new broadband privacy rules

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward new regulations requiring Internet service providers to get customer permission before using or sharing their Web-surfing history and most other personal information. Read More ▶

Hands-on: How HoloLens handles creating shared experiences

As Microsoft began shipping its HoloLens augmented reality headgear, the company gave journalists a sneak peek into how developers can create networked experiences. Read More ▶