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Latest News - March 2015
- Walk In And Buy An Apple Watch? That Ain't Happenin' Anytime Soon
- GitHub Crippled By 'Largest DDoS Attack' In Its History, All Fingers Point To China
- Halo 5 Suits Up For October 27 Launch On Xbox One, Blockbuster Sales Likely To Follow
- AMD R&D Expenditures Fall To Lowest Level Since 2004, Intel Unsurprisingly Dominates Sector
- Purchase 'Xbox One Halo: The Master Chief' Bundle At Best Buy And Receive Free Lumia 635
- Come Get Some! FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Net Neutrality Rules Will Smack Down Any Court Challenge
- Old Opportunity Knocks Around On Mars, Suffers Brief Spell Of Amnesia
- Valve Makes HTC Vive Developer Edition VR Headset A Freebie For Qualified Devs
- Chrome OS Receives Extreme Makeover With Material Design And Google Now Support
- Stupid iPhone Thief Takes Selfies, Gets Identified By Owner’s Facebook Friends And Authorities
- Guys Go Nuts For Lululemon's ABC 'Anti-Ball Crushing' Pants, Sales Surge
- Chat-Room Startup Slack Implements 2-Factor Authentication Following February Hack
- HTC One E9+ Phablet Delivers Impressive 5.5-Inch QHD Display And MediaTek SoC
- After Ruthless Backlash, Amazon Rescinds Non-Compete Clause For Warehouse Workers
- Intel Enters Talks For $10 Billion Acquisition Of FPGA Configurable Chip Manufacturer Altera
- Pebble Time Kickstarter Campaign Ends With Record $20 Million Raised
- Microsoft Opens Floodgates On Smartphones Supported By Windows 10 Technical Preview
- Paging Doctor Google: Johnson & Johnson Partners With GOOG To Co-Develop Surgical Robotics Technologies
- Facebook's Internet-Beaming Aquila Drone Has Wingspan Of A Boeing 737, Will Take Flight This Summer
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Has No Time For Haters, Will Donate His Entire Fortune To Charity
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All News for March 2015
The countdown to the Apple Watch is growing ever louder with the lead up to April 10, the date on which online pre-sales for the device begin. With that heightening of the drone...er, buzz comes greater clarity on precisely how Apple is planning to sell their latest must-have device. This window into the process is in...
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A mere two weeks after Google decided to pull the plug on Google Code, competitor GitHub is experiencing the "largest DDoS attack" in the site's history. While the company itself isn't coming out with it, Baidu acknowledges that a great deal of traffic is coming from China.
On GitHub's site, we're told that the...
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One of the most popular gaming franchises of all time is getting an eighth title (sixth main installment) this fall. We're talking about Halo 5: Guardians, which will release on October 27, 2015, and take its place in history as Master Chief's first native Xbox One appearance, Microsoft announced in a Twitter post...
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There's an old adage that says you have to spend money to make money, and if that's truly the case, AMD better think long and hard about its investments, or lack thereof. According to a Chinese-language report, the Sunnyvale chip designer's quarterly R&D spending has declined since 2012 and is at the lowest level...
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Microsoft is really trying to amp up Windows Phone sales, especially at the low end. Microsoft’s global smartphone market share is in the low single digits, and it has countered by offering phones like the Lumia 520 and Lumia 635 for as low as $20 and $30 off-contract respectively to trigger demand.
Microsoft is...
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Not everyone is happy with the Federal Communications Commission's decision to reclassify broadband Internet service as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934; an 81-year-old law intended to regulate the telecommunications sector. In particular, wireless carriers, Internet service providers, and...
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Mars rover Opportunity is in the news again, this time for suffering a spell of "brief amnesia" related to its 256MB flash memory just five (5) days after a full reformatting of its memory banks. No scientific data was lost as a result of the blip in the device's nonvolatile memory, though, and the rover continued its...
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When Valve unveiled its VR solution at GDC earlier this month, no one was surprised - outside of the fact that it'd be partnering with HTC. Given the somewhat odd pairing, it was hard to speculate whether or not the two companies had a hit on their hands. After all, while there was no real competition out there when...
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Late last week, and to little fanfare, Google began inviting people to opt into the beta channel for ChromeOS to help the company "shape the future" of the OS. Some betas can be riskier than others, but Google says that opting into this one is just a "little risk", one that will pay off handsomely for those who crave...
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No one likes a thief, but it's somehow better to hear about one that's as dumb as a doorknob. I'm talking the sort of thief that doesn't know when to call it quits, and ends up doing something foolish that eventually leads to their arrest.
While that conclusion hasn't been reached quite yet for an iPhone thief in...
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It's said the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but Lululemon Athletica is quickly finding out that the way to his wallet is by focusing on his family jewels. Get your mind out of the gutter, we're not talking about anything illegal here, just a pair of pants that offer a bit more breathing room with a very...
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Slack, the fast-growing startup previously known as Tiny Speck, has rolled out an optional two-factor authentication feature in response to a recent hacker attack. The company confirmed there was unauthorized access to its database containing user profile information, and though it was quick to respond and made...
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HTC just released its flagship One M9 smartphone in the U.S., priced at $649 unlocked. But that isn’t the only new smartphone coming from the HTC camp these days; the company just officially announced the One E9+ phablet for the Chinese market.
Whereas the 5-inch One M9 makes do with a 1080p display, the One E9+...
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Amazon created quite a ruckus this week when it was revealed that it was requiring low-wage, low-skill warehouse workers to sign non-compete clauses when taking a job with the company. This requirement even extended to seasonal workers and prohibited them from “[Engaging] in or [supporting] the development...
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Intel is reportedly attempting to negotiate a deal to acquire Altera, an American company that designs and manufacturers FPGAs, or field-programmable gate arrays. The figure that's out there is $10 billion, and if it happens, it would be Intel's largest acquisition ever. It would also help Intel expand its presence in...
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The most successfully funded campaign in the history of Kickstarter (in terms of amount raised) belongs to a smartwatch. That was true a few weeks ago when the Pebble Time smartwatch raised over $17 million from more than 67,000 backers with 18 days remaining, and now that the crowdfunding period is over, the new...
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Microsoft released its first public build of Windows 10 for smartphone on February 12. While Windows Phone users were excited at the prospects of testing out Microsoft’s next generation mobile operating system on their existing hardware, many were disappointed by the fact that so few devices were actually supported —...
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If Google isn’t getting under your skin yet, it might be in the future. Medical devices juggernaut Johnson & Johnson announced this week that one its companies is partnering with Google to create technologies that improve robot-enhanced surgeries. Ethicon makes surgical shears, staplers, and related...
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Facebook’s efforts to spread Internet connectivity to nearly every person on the globe will get off the ground this summer. A new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook’s prototype drone, dubbed Aquila, will be much larger than the one-tenth-scale drone that the company tested in early...
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Apple is riding high these days. The company is coming off a blockbuster [calendar] Q4 in which it sold a record 74.5 million iPhones. Apple’s stellar performance was enough to put it ahead of Samsung in global smartphone sales for the quarter. Likewise, Apple made a record $18 billion in profit for fiscal Q1 on sales...
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We are adding a new feature here at HotHardware--the brand new HotHardware Shop--to make it easier for you all to find some great deals on the latest tech gear and related products. The HotHardware Shop will be constantly expanding, but it is already loaded up with deals on everything from gadgets and gear, to software, accessories, and much
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We're starting to think that if a nuclear war breaks out or an asteroid the size of Texas rams into our planet, all that will be left in the aftermath are cockroaches and BlackBerry. Maybe just BlackBerry. Like Rocky Balboa, BlackBerry has taken beating after beating, yet it's still standing, and believe it or not...
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