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Seagate's Video 3.5 HDD Built To Handle Stream After Stream

Seagate's Video 3.5 HDD Built To Handle Stream After Stream

Sure, you love video. You love streaming it, and you love storing it. But have you ever stopped to wonder where all of that digital goodness is stored? Seagate is thinking about that, hence the introduction of the industry's first purpose-built 4TB Video HDD. The Seagate Video 3.5 HDD has been built specifically for use in video applications...

SanDisk Announces Sampling of 1Ynm Process Technology

SanDisk Announces Sampling of 1Ynm Process Technology

When it comes to raw horsepower within the devices that make our lives tick, it can get pretty nerdy... real fast. Take process technology, for example. Everyone loves speed, but it's companies like SanDisk who care about the nuts and bolts that make our gizmos tick. The company has just announced the commencement of customer sampling of flash...

NVIDIA's Impressive "Digital Ira" FaceWorks Demo App Now Available For Download

NVIDIA's Impressive "Digital Ira" FaceWorks Demo App Now Available For Download

NVIDIA’s new FaceWorks technology is a leap forward in making computer-generated images look more lifelike. In an onstage presentation, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang prefaced the amazing demo with a brief discussion about the evolution of realistic face imaging and the “uncanny valley”--or those occasions where an artificial...

Discounted Dell UltraSharp U2413 Monitor & Inspiron 13z Core i3 Laptop

Discounted Dell UltraSharp U2413 Monitor & Inspiron 13z Core i3 Laptop

HotHardware's best deals today powered by LogicBuy. Dell's brand new 2013 model UltraSharp U2413 LCD monitor is on sale today with $100 instant savings, dropping it to $499.99 with free shipping. This is one of the lowest price for this flagship monitor. It's equipped with PremierColor, which makes colors calibrated to support 99% AdobeRGB...

Apple's Retail Revenue Hits Record High of $58 Per Visitor, Credit the iPad?

Apple's Retail Revenue Hits Record High of $58 Per Visitor, Credit the iPad?

Apple's financial figures have a way of defying logic time and again. The company's iconic co-founder, Steve Jobs, passed away at a relatively early age due to pancreatic cancer, leaving the company in the hands of Tim Cook, a smart man in his own right but with gigantic shoes to fill. Then there was the iPhone 5 release and the all the criticisms...

Former Electronic Arts CEO Cautions Sony and MS To Remember Their Core Audience

Former Electronic Arts CEO Cautions Sony and MS To Remember Their Core Audience

John Riccitiello is the former CEO of EA, and after all the recent chaos that led to him leaving his post, you’d think he’d keep a low profile for a while. However, he’s resurfaced again with an op-ed at Kotaku concerning the upcoming Xbox and PlayStation consoles wherein he cautions Microsoft and Sony about maintaining a...

Costco UK Selling Full-Size Formula 1 Race Car Simulator

Costco UK Selling Full-Size Formula 1 Race Car Simulator

For racing fans desiring a more realistic gaming experience, two things are a must: a steering wheel and a trio of larger monitors. Past that, some have even opted for a legit racing seat - some with built in vibrations. Of course, this is all expensive, but it's the price that some pay to get an experience that's just not realistic in real-life...

Sony's 13.3-inch e-Ink Digital Paper Notepad Tablet Hands-On Demo

Sony's 13.3-inch e-Ink Digital Paper Notepad Tablet Hands-On Demo

Sony and E Ink have collaborated on a brilliant digital paper 13.3-inch notepad tablet that’s designed as an A4 size equivalent. The flexible-display device uses E Ink Mobius technology, and Sony’s part appears to be primarily on the mass production side. DigInfo.Tv shot a demo video of the tablet in action, and the device is impressive....

Pintrest Introduces More Useful, Detailed Pins

Pintrest Introduces More Useful, Detailed Pins

Of all the social networks that one might have expected to flop, Pinterest is probably in that list. But, what is lacks in convention it makes up for in uniqueness, and obviously the user base is just exploding. Now, those who use the service will find it to be even more useful. The company has today launched "more useful pins," and it's also...

Sony Launches Sleek But Rugged Xperia UL Android Smartphone

Sony Launches Sleek But Rugged Xperia UL Android Smartphone

In some aspects, Sony's Xperia line is beginning to feel like BlackBerry's line of products a few years ago: we're seeing a new model number, but honestly, everything looks largely the same. Sony's design chops are certainly laudable, but the Xperia UL sure looks just like every other Xperia smartphone to ship in the past year or so. That...

Samsung Showcases Dizzying Array Of High-Res Panels At SID 2013

Samsung Showcases Dizzying Array Of High-Res Panels At SID 2013

Remember than 1366x768 was "good enough," even for flagship notebooks? No longer, and we couldn't be more pleased about the raised expectations. Consumers far and wide are growing used to seeing high-res panels, with "Retina-level" quality becoming more of the norm and less of the exception. Toshiba's Kirabook is one of the first Windows-based...

Sony's PS4 Teaser Trailer is a Whole Lot of Nothing, But We'll Watch Anyway

Sony's PS4 Teaser Trailer is a Whole Lot of Nothing, But We'll Watch Anyway

We knew that Sony had a PlayStation 4 brewing, and we knew a little something about the upcoming gaming console’s specifications, but now we know when we’ll know all the juicy details. In a teaser trailer for the PS4, Sony indicated that the big reveal will take place on June 10th at 6pm PDT at E3. The trailer itself leaves something...

HOT Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Build

HOT Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Build

We recently set out to design mini desktop computer with the wildly popular Raspberry Pi single board computer. The Raspberry Pi is a Linux-driven, ARM processor-based micro computer that is known for its low cost and small size. People use the device for a variety of projects, from micro-servers to low cost media players. Basically our goal...

IT Departments Resist Deploying Windows 8, Advantages Not Worth Investment Currently

IT Departments Resist Deploying Windows 8, Advantages Not Worth Investment Currently

For some critics of Microsoft's latest OS, this should come as no surprise: IT departments are wary of adopting Windows 8. This information comes from a new Forrester report which sourced its results from interviewing nearly 10,000 IT employees. Interestingly, while IT managers themselves have little interest in rolling-out Windows 8 for various...

Police Investigating Three More Apparent Suicides at Foxconn Factories

Police Investigating Three More Apparent Suicides at Foxconn Factories

It's been awhile since we've heard about worker suicides taking place at Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision) and we hoped it would stay that way. Unfortunately, it appears that three more individuals may have decided to end their lives, something that has been an ongoing problem at Foxconn amid reports of poor working conditions. These are three separate...

LG to Unveil 5-inch Bendable OLED Smartphone Display at SID

LG to Unveil 5-inch Bendable OLED Smartphone Display at SID

LG Display, a division of LG Electronics, is getting ready to offer up a glimpse of its future TV, mobile, and other products at the Society for Information Display's (SID) Display Week 2013 convention. Among the products LG plans to demo is a 5-inch plastic OLED panel that's flexible and nearly "unbreakable" (nothing is truly indestructible,...

Acer's Finland Website Reveals 8-inch Iconia W3 Tablet Running Windows 8

Acer's Finland Website Reveals 8-inch Iconia W3 Tablet Running Windows 8

Acer President Jim Wong earlier this month stated he doesn't see the value proposition in Windows RT tablets, but that doesn't mean Acer wants nothing to do with Windows 8. Need definitive proof of that? Just head over to Acer's Finnish website and spy a new entry for its upcoming Iconia W3, an 8-inch Windows 8 tablet that optionally snaps...

Sailfish OS Enters Mobile Waters Aboard Jolla Smartphone, Now Available to Pre-Order

Sailfish OS Enters Mobile Waters Aboard Jolla Smartphone, Now Available to Pre-Order

Did you find yourself tossing and turning all night long wishing the mobile market had another operating system to choose from? Neither did we, but we have one anyway, along with a new handset from a Finnish phone maker. No, not Nokia -- though the startup is comprised of ex-Nokia employees -- but Jolla, which announced the Jolla handset running...

Yahoo! Board Approves $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr

Yahoo! Board Approves $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr

When Marissa Mayer left Google last year to head-up Yahoo! is its CEO, it seemed likely that one of her main orders of business would be acquisitions. After all, acquisitions are the heart and soul of companies that yearn for noticeable growth, and it's why a day doesn't seem to go by where we don't learn of Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google or other...

Logitech Adds 'Linux Compatible' Option to Product Site; Sign of Good Things to Come?

Logitech Adds 'Linux Compatible' Option to Product Site; Sign of Good Things to Come?

As rich as the Linux OS is, one of its sticking-points is that a lot of companies don't properly support their products for it. Your Logitech mouse might work just fine under the OS, of course, but it wouldn't be the company to thank; rather, the support comes from the efforts of developers who share the same passion for the OS as you do....

German Researchers Set 40Gb Per Second WiFi Network Speed Record

German Researchers Set 40Gb Per Second WiFi Network Speed Record

At a time when some of us are finding our home Gigabit lines a bit constrictive comes some Germans from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to help make our setups feel even more inadequate. The folks there have created a Wi-Fi solution that uses "better hardware" along with a high radio frequency of 240GHz to produce a constant...

California Teen's Supercapacitor Invention Could Charge Cell Phones In 20 Seconds

California Teen's Supercapacitor Invention Could Charge Cell Phones In 20 Seconds

Batteries--specifically, their lack of longevity and long recharge cycles--have been one of the most annoying bottlenecks to mobile innovation, but a California teenager has developed a technology that could significantly relieve some of that burden. 18-year-old Eesha Kare developed a supercapacitor that could fit inside a battery and charge...

Dell Android PC On USB Stick, Project Ophelia Ready For Release This Summer

Dell Android PC On USB Stick, Project Ophelia Ready For Release This Summer

Dell’s Project Ophelia has quietly been under development, and now word has emerged that the USB stick-sized PC that you can connect to essentially any display or screen will ship to developers in July and cost about $100. Thereafter, it will head off to cable and telecom companies who may want to bundle it, and then it will hit the...

Adobe Photoshop Express Now Available on Windows Store for Windows 8 and RT

Adobe Photoshop Express Now Available on Windows Store for Windows 8 and RT

There's no reason for Windows 8 and Windows RT to be treated like second class citizens, so why isn't Adobe's free Photoshop Express program available for either platform when you can grab it on iOS or Android? That would have been a good question a week ago, but is no longer valid, as you can now find the freebie photo editing app in Microsoft's...

Dwindling MacBook Air Inventory Hints at Retina-Class Refresh

Dwindling MacBook Air Inventory Hints at Retina-Class Refresh

A telltale sign that Apple is about to refresh a product category is when inventory of the current crop of products starts disappearing. So it is with Apple's 13-inch MacBook Air model, the popular lightweight notebook that's out of stock at several major retailers, including Amazon, B&H, MacMall, and J&R's online site. Some of the...

Valve Team Fortress 2 Community Launch “Robotic Boogaloo”

Valve Team Fortress 2 Community Launch “Robotic Boogaloo”

Is there a gaming company hotter than Valve right now? That's a debate that could last for hours, but here's something that's pretty universally understood: Steam has completely transformed the idea of game delivery, and now that it's spreading to other platforms, it's giving gamers even easier access to even more titles. One of those famed...

Sprint Acquires U.S. Cellular Spectrum In Chicago, St. Louis And More

Sprint Acquires U.S. Cellular Spectrum In Chicago, St. Louis And More

These days, it's a spectrum turf war for carriers. The more spectrum they have, the more power and coverage they have... so they'll do anything to acquire it. It's a highly limited asset, and Sprint is a carrier that needs more spectrum in the worst way. So, they're acquiring certain bits of U.S. Cellular spectrum to bolster their coverage....

Google H840 Media Streaming Device Arrives at FCC

Google H840 Media Streaming Device Arrives at FCC

Google I/O has come and gone, and while the company certainly made waves, those waves were a lot calmer than in past years. Many were wondering in particular about the ill-fated Nexus Q. The glowing, spinning, streaming orb was a major part of last year's keynote, but it shortly went out of stock and hasn't been heard from since. Google didn't...

Microsoft’s New Xbox Will Cater To Much More Than Gamers

Microsoft’s New Xbox Will Cater To Much More Than Gamers

When Microsoft launched its Xbox 360 in late 2005, it had one target audience in mind: gamers. Back then, it would have been appropriate to call the Xbox a "game console", but at the present, it's less so. Today, you can stream or purchase TV shows, movies, music and in some cases, watch a TV feed. Over the course of the 8 years that it's...

Google Glass Creeping Out Friends and Family, Gadget Etiquette A Must

Google Glass Creeping Out Friends and Family, Gadget Etiquette A Must

The verdict remains out on whether or not Google Glass is going to change our lives forever, but one thing's for certain: it's done a splendid job of drumming up lots of conversation. With its growing featureset, Glass has the capabilities of offering an unparalleled level of convenience to its wearers, but there's one side-effect feature...

Nintendo Demanding Copyright Royalties For All YouTube Videos Using Its Game Content

Nintendo Demanding Copyright Royalties For All YouTube Videos Using Its Game Content

Oh, Nintendo. At a time when the company should be doing everything in its power to capture a greater audience - heck, the audience it once had - it pulls a stunt that leaves its most devout fans upset. This week, some folks who produce "Let's Play" videos on YouTube began suffering a "Content ID" match on their content, courtesy of Nintendo,...

Satellite Provider DirecTV Shows Interest in Streaming, Mulls Making a Bid for Hulu

Satellite Provider DirecTV Shows Interest in Streaming, Mulls Making a Bid for Hulu

DirecTV is reportedly giving some serious thought to making an offer for Hulu, the six-year-old video streaming site. Should DirecTV make a formal bid, it's not a foregone conclusion that Hulu would accept it, as the site's owners -- Walt Disney Co., News Corp., and Comcast -- are looking at various options, including bids from other interested...

Watch YouTube Videos and Shop Haircare Products in One Fell Swoop

Watch YouTube Videos and Shop Haircare Products in One Fell Swoop

Get ready for what could be a barrage of infomercials and home shopping-type channels on YouTube. That's because the Google-owned video sharing site is introducing a new channel gadget that will enable companies to set up shop and connect viewers with their wares, allowing them to look up prices and compare various retailers all from within...

Lenovo Ships Intel-Based K900 Smartphone In Home Market Of China

Lenovo Ships Intel-Based K900 Smartphone In Home Market Of China

Intel may have missed its chance to power Apple's iPhone range, but Lenovo's not going to let the chipmaker skip over yet another flagship device. The company's K900 smartphone, which was initially shown at CES 2013, is finally on sale this week. It's actually one of the most powerful smartphones on the planet, equipped with a dual-core 2GHz...

Fitbit Adds Sync Support With Galaxy S 4, More Phones Coming Soon

Fitbit Adds Sync Support With Galaxy S 4, More Phones Coming Soon

Some would argue that the modern day cellular phone killed the watch. After all, who needs a wristwatch when you can just glance at the time on a display that never leaves your side? But on the other side of the equation, the phone revolution has seemingly jump-started fitness. While a certain segment of the population has been (and will always...

Apple's iOS Devices Now Cleared For Use By U.S. Defense Department

Apple's iOS Devices Now Cleared For Use By U.S. Defense Department

Cha-ching! That's the sound of approval, and also the sound of impending purchases of even more Apple products. The Pentagon this week cleared Apple devices for use on its highly secured networks -- a move that follows similar approvals given to BlackBerry 10 and the latest Android-based Samsung products. The Defense Department has now given...

Intel Rolls Out ‘Beacon Mountain’ Android Developer Environment For Atom-Based Devices

Intel Rolls Out ‘Beacon Mountain’ Android Developer Environment For Atom-Based Devices

In an effort to coax developers to begin taking Atom seriously as an Android platform, Intel has just released a complete suite of tools that should help ease them into things - especially since it can be used for ARM development as well. It's called Beacon Mountain, named after the highest peak outside of Beacon, New York, and it currently...

New Dell Latitude 3330 Laptop & Lowest price on Wireless Windows 8 Touchpad

New Dell Latitude 3330 Laptop & Lowest price on Wireless Windows 8 Touchpad

Welcome to the weekend edition of the best deals from across the web. Leading today's deals is a new, ultra-durable business laptop from Dell. Not only is it ultraportable and loaded with features, we found it with an impressive 34% discount. Gamers take note of the Thermaltake mechanical keyboard, designed just for your fragging sessions,...

Google Launches All Access Unlimited Music Streaming Service

Google Launches All Access Unlimited Music Streaming Service

Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, is live. You can head over to the Google Play store and sign up today for one of two plans--the unlimited “All Access” service or the free “Standard” option. Both versions offer you an online “locker” where you can store up to 20,000...

Mozilla Holds Off Third-Party Cookie Blocking For Firefox

Mozilla Holds Off Third-Party Cookie Blocking For Firefox

As we reported back in February, Mozilla had plans to introduce cookie-blocking by default in version 22 of its Firefox Web browser. Well, it seems that the company has realized that it might have been a bit hasty in wanting to implement the change so quickly, so now, it's decided to hold off as it needs more time to analyze the outcome of...

Bill Gates Once Again World's Wealthiest Man

Bill Gates Once Again World's Wealthiest Man

How the time flies. I remember a time when Bill Gates' fortunate was valued at a mere $40 billion. It seemed like no one could touch him, until a certain business magnate Carlos Slim came along and surpassed him in 2007. Since then, the fortunes of both men have continued to increase, and this week, Bloomberg's Billionaires Index has put Mr....

Whoops! Intel Passed On The Original iPhone Design

Whoops! Intel Passed On The Original iPhone Design

Today is outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s last day at the company, and although he’s left the company better off than when he found it, in an interview with The Atlantic he let slip one regret he had from his tenure--Intel could have made the chips for the iPhone. Apparently, Apple approached Intel about making chips for the...

Amtrak Upgrading W-iFi Service on Its Trains, Acela Trains Already Enjoying Speed Boost

Amtrak Upgrading W-iFi Service on Its Trains, Acela Trains Already Enjoying Speed Boost

It only makes sense that a high-speed train would provide wireless service that's also high-speed right? In that case, all aboard! Amtrak this week announced an upgrade to its AmtrakConnect cellular-based Wi-Fi service to take advantage of 4G technologies. Amtrak says the 4G upgrade is already in place on Acela Express and California-supported...

Dell Profits Slip 79%, Factions Fight For Control of Company's Future

Dell Profits Slip 79%, Factions Fight For Control of Company's Future

Dell has been in the news quite a bit of late as major investors like Michael Dell and Carl Icahn battle over the plan to take the company private. The contested plan company CEO Michael Dell proposed several months ago was a reaction to weakness in the PC market, and that weakness has manifested as a nasty drop in Dell's product sales. Dell...

Otellini Steps Down, Intel’s New CEO Takes Over

Otellini Steps Down, Intel’s New CEO Takes Over

All good things come to an end, and as of yesterday, Paul Otellini's fast and furious ride in the driver's seat as Intel's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) officially came to a halt. The 45-year-old face of Intel retired as chief, just as he announced he would back in November of last year, and handed the reins over to Brian M. Krzanich, the...

Internal Components of the Next iPhone Revealed

Internal Components of the Next iPhone Revealed

Apple's in a bit of pickle. The Cupertino company has to figure out how to regain its mojo in the mobile space by releasing a smartphone with fancy new features, but not go so far overboard that it ends up alienating its rabid fan base. If you recall, the initial reaction to the iPhone 5 was somewhat subdued, not because it wasn't a great...

EA Isn't Currently Developing Titles for Nintendo's Wii U Console

EA Isn't Currently Developing Titles for Nintendo's Wii U Console

During the Wii U's big unveil, Electronic Arts (EA) talked a big game about the console's graphics and how it can't wait to pump out titles for the platform. There was an air of excitement from the publisher, who at the time seemed to be dreaming big. Well, not quite two years later, what a pipe dream that turned out to be. Sure, EA tossed...

Antsy Pants NVIDIA Starts Accepting SHIELD Pre-orders Ahead of Schedule

Antsy Pants NVIDIA Starts Accepting SHIELD Pre-orders Ahead of Schedule

NVIDIA's like a little kid at grade school who just received a new toy and can't wait to bring it to class for show-and-tell. The only difference is that what NVIDIA's peddling is much cooler than a yo-yo or a Tonka truck, it's a portable game system stocked with Android Jelly Bean and outfitted with a Tegra 4 SoC (System-on-Chip). If you're...

Archos Hits The $200 Spot With 8-Inch 80 Xenon Android Tablet

Archos Hits The $200 Spot With 8-Inch 80 Xenon Android Tablet

Archos has made a bit of a living out of producing low-end, super affordable gadgets. Namely, audio players and tablets. While they hardly ever impress anyone from a benchmarking standpoint, it's tough to overlook the latest. It's the Archos 80 Xenon, the company's latest and greatest 3G tablet in the Elements range.  It's a 8-inch unit,...

Amazon Prime Gains Major Exclusive With NBCUniversal Show Access

Amazon Prime Gains Major Exclusive With NBCUniversal Show Access

Ah, the war on conventional television networks rages on. With Netflix scooping up exclusive, Internet-first programs on a regular basis now, Amazon is doing its best to keep pace. After all, it has to give users even more reason to spend $79 on an annual Prime membership, right? This week, Amazon's streaming video service (Prime Instant Video)...