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Latest News - October 2013
- BlueStacks and Big Fish Games Team Up For Android Gaming Fun
- Apple’s MacBook Pro Lineup Gets Retina Displays And Haswell Chips
- Apple Talks Up Mac Pro, Cylindrical Workstation Beast Coming In December
- Apple Reboots Tablet Line, Unveils iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display
- Dell's Precision M3800 Is The World's Slimmest 15-inch Workstation
- Google Beta Testing 'Project Shield' DDoS Service For Use With Page Speed
- NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 780 Ti Specs Leaked? Could be a Touch Faster Than Titan
- HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks 10/22/2013: ASUS Transformer Book, NVIDIA G-SYNC, Falcon Tiki, Battlefield 4 and More
- Microsoft Follows Wearable Computing Trend Testing Google Glass Competitive Product
- Microsoft Surface 2 And Surface Pro 2 Available Today; New Accessories, Too
- Nokia Launches Lumia 2520 Tablet and Lumia 1520, 1320, and Asha Smartphones
- Corsair Notes Battlefield 4 Thrives on High Speed Memory
- Verizon Called in to Bail Out HealthCare.gov Disaster
- How AMD's HSA Queuing Technology Simplifies GPU Acceleration
- Microsoft Releases Windows RT Recovery Image For Download To Save Bricked Surface Tabs
- New York City To Test HEVO Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Man Hole Covers
- Hands-On: ASUS Transformer Book T100TA Windows 8.1 Bay Trail Tablet
- Futuremark Punts PCMark 8 Benchmark to Steam, 25 Percent Discount for a Limited Time
- PC Shipments Will Drop More In 2013 While Cheaper Tablets Skyrocket
- HOT Head Turner: Lamborghini Veneno Roadster Rips Up Road with 750 Horses
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All News for October 2013
It looks like mobile-on-PC gaming is about to get a major boost, thanks to a new partnership between Big Fish Games and BlueStacks. Didn't realize mobile-on-PC gaming was even a thing? Well, thanks to BlueStacks, which offers what's in effect an Android emulator, it has been a possibility, but one not too many people...
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Although it’s a essentially a footnote to Apple’s big day announcing the iPad Air and the new Mac Pro, Apple has also given its MacBook Pro a goose in the specs department. For starters, the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros feature Retina displays, bringing the smaller model up to a resolution of 2560x1600...
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In addition to Apple’s announcement of the iPad Air (holy cow, that thing is slim), the company talked up the innovative, cylinder-shaped Mac Pro that we heard about during Apple’s WWDC back in June. The Mac Pro’s premier feature is its “unified thermal core”, which is a shorthand way of...
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It was widely expected that Apple would refresh its iPad tablet family today, and the Cupertino company didn't disappoint. What you might be surprised to find out, however, is that Apple didn't unveil an iPad 5. Not technically, anyway. Because the new 9.7-inch tablet is so much thinner, lighter, and faster than...
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Dell's workstation line has been a popular choice for enterprise customers, and we've some pretty fond memories of older models that we've reviewed in the past. Today, the Precision line is taking a major leap, looking a lot less like a stereotypical "business machine" and a lot more like a sturdy, albeit sleek...
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Google is not interested in suffering a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack--although it’s hard to imagine such an attack being successful considering Google’s vast capabilities--and the company is bringing the same DDoS-thwarting technology it uses to protect itself to the masses with Project...
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NVIDIA recently made a flurry of announcements, among them the introduction of a new graphics card, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. The GPU maker said the card would show up in retail sometime in November, though the company opted to keep its lips sealed in regards to the card's specifications, leaving us to speculate as to...
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In our latest episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Marco, Dave and Iyaz discuss the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA Bay Trail-based 2-in-1 device with Windows 8.1, NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology and various PhysX and game dev-related announcements from NVIDIA’s recent event, Battlefield 4 game play and...
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The future successes of wearable computing are uncertain at this point, but as we discussed back in August, some research firms do believe that shipping values could skyrocket over the next couple of years. In particular, IHS predicts that 10 million "smart glasses" alone will ship between 2012 - 2016 - intriguing...
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When we covered Microsoft’s unveiling of the second generation of its Surface devices, the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, we were impressed with the hardware and the in-person experience, and now those devices are available from the Microsoft Store and at several third-party retailers in 21 initial markets. The...
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That rumored Nokia tablet is now a Real Thing, as the company announced its Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet along with a slew of other products, including two new Lumia phones and three Asha handsets. The Lumia 2520 tablet looks quite a bit like Microsoft’s Surface tablets, right down to the kickstand and Type-style...
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Every once in a while, a game comes out and pushes the envelope, requiring high-end hardware to run with maxed out visual quality settings at high resolutions. Battlefield 4 is one of those games, and if you're looking for an excuse to upgrade your system, you now have one. When you're shopping upgrades, Corsair wants you to consider one of...
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No matter where you stand on President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, one thing most people can agree on is that the rollout of the government sponsored website, HealthCare.gov, has been absolutely horrific. Weeks after launching, the website is still spitting out a range of errors when people try to...
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One of the greatest problems standing between companies like AMD and widespread adoption of the GPU as a mainstream accelerator is that it's extremely difficult to effectively leverage the GPU. Even after years of development poured into CUDA, OpenCL, and yes, HSA, the barriers between CPU and GPU have remained...
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It was really in Microsoft's best interest to make sure that its Windows 8.1 launch last week went off without a hitch, but that didn't quite become the case. Over the weekend, reports started to trickle out of device brickings involving Surface RT tablets. Select issues reportedly also plagued a few random Windows 8...
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Despite having risen to popularity only a few years ago, it's become increasingly clear that electric vehicles are the future. Versus gas-powered vehicles, electric ones are safer on the environment (this is oft-debated, however), are generally cleaner, and are also less-expensive to refuel. Who wouldn't...
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A few weeks back we gave you a first-hand look at the performance of Intel's new low power Bay Trail Atom System-On-A-Chip for tablets and hybrid devices. Bay Trail, the follow-on to Intel's Clover Trail Atom design, comes in both dual and quad-core variants and offers better overall performance-per-watt than the...
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The folks at Futuremark dropped us a note this morning to let us know that Steam will be serving up its popular PCMark 8 benchmark starting sometime today. PCMark 8 is a handy tool that combines benchmarking, battery life tests, a dedicated benchmark for solid state drives and hard disk drives, and real-world tests...
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Research firm Gartner is out with some new numbers, and as you might have expected, there’s a clear trend that PC sales continue to decline. Sales of traditional (desktop and notebook) PCs will hit 303 million units in 2013, which is an 8.4% drop from 2012. The firm predicts that sales will continue to plummet...
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Italians make the best food (I won't debate this) and without a doubt some of the sexist cars too, most notably Automobili's Lamborghini line. Sexy often borders on obscene, such as the brand spanking new Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, an open racing prototype boasting an "extreme design" and "breathtaking performance"...
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Did you ever think snapping a photo and sharing it could be easier than it is already? Google has been awarded a patent for technology that would allow a wearer of an HMD (head-mounted display) to use hand gestures as a means of input. In other words, if you’re wearing Google Glass, you can use your hands and fingers to frame something...
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Early this morning, Facebook experienced an outage, leaving many users unable to post status updates, leave comments, upload pictures, and more. According to Downrightnow, the site hit a service disruption, and as of the last update at roughly 8:15am EST, there were still widespread problems. There have been a couple...
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