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Latest News - March 2015
- EVGA’s Water Cooled GeForce GTX 980 HYBRID Is The Coolest Cat In Town
- Microsoft Reportedly Developing Intel Core M-Based Windows 10 Tablet To Replace Surface 2
- Gigabyte Brix S BXi7H-5500 Broadwell Mini PC Review
- Every Teen Driver With A Cellphone Should Read This Study On Distracted Driving (Adults Too)
- Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ Feature Is A Time Capsule Into Your Illustrious Past
- Leap Motion Hand-Tracking Tech To Fuse With Razer’s OSVR Virtual Reality Headset
- Microsoft Posts ISOs For Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10041
- Twitch.tv Co-Founder Claims Current Gen Consoles Are Dying Breed, Set-Top Boxes Are The Future
- With Spartan Taking Center Stage In Windows 10, IE11 Goes Into Stasis
- Google’s ‘Pony Express’ To Make Bill Payments A Breeze Via Gmail
- HTC Schedules April 8 'More Than One' Event As 5.2-Inch One M9+ Photos Leak
- PlayStation 4 2.50 Update To Bring Suspend/Resume For Games And Backup/Restore To USB
- All Aboard! Emtec’s One-Inch DUO USB-C Flash Drive Connects To All USB Ports
- Salt Lake City Rolls Out Welcome Mat For Google Fiber
- OCZ Vector 180 Solid State Drive Review: Barefoot 3 Optimized
- Intel Senior Vice President Mooly Eden And His Trademark Beret Leave Company After 33 Years
- Verizon And AT&T Lead Legal Challenge To FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling
- Logitech’s Awesome MX Master Mouse Puts Versatility And Precision In Palm Of Your Hand
- HP Taps Bang & Olufsen To Bring ‘Iconic Sound’ To PCs and Tablets
- Get Your Inner Buzz Lightyear On! Pixar Releases Free, Non-Commercial Renderman
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All News for March 2015
EVGA today announced its new GeForce GTX 980 HYBRID graphics card that is equipped with an all-in-one, self-contained water cooling unit. According to EVGA, this is the ultimate plug and play solution as no maintenance is required from the user.
The water cooling solution features an intelligent wiring system so...
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Microsoft’s Surface 2 Windows RT tablet was unceremoniously put to death earlier this year. The demise of the Surface 2 wasn’t a shock to industry watchers; various OEMs provided more compelling tablet solutions running x86 processors that were able to access the vast Windows software library (the Windows RT-based...
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Gigabyte's Brix line-up of small form factor systems is the company’s answer to the teeny, tiny NUC from Intel. These ridiculously small PCs pack all the power of a laptop, or a budget desktop, into a box small enough to fit in your palm. These wee PCs are marketed to non-gamers and people who need a basic, no-nonsense PC with a tiny footprint....
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By now it's been beaten into all of our heads that text messaging or otherwise farting around on a mobile phone while driving is a bad idea. Study after study shows that bad things are prone to happen when we take our eyes off the road and fixate them on our phones or other objects, but according to research by the...
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As Facebook ages, it’s becoming a journal of its users’ lives. Scroll through the Timeline and you’ll see the high and low points of a person’s life: people met, people lost, graduations, jobs, marriages and the other milestones and memories are documented on Facebook. Now, Facebook is rolling out a new feature that...
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Just a few years ago, 3D TVs were all the rage in the consumer technology space, and now it appears that the new focus is on virtual reality. VR headsets are coming out of the works like the Oculus Rift and the Samsung Gear VR, and now Leap Motion is looking to make the VR experience more immersive with its...
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It might have taken an entire week, but Microsoft has just posted the ISO files for build 10041 of Windows 10. As covered last week, this build does not include the much-touted Spartan browser (that'll have to come next), but it does add another level of polish to an already pretty solid OS.
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Seven years elapsed between the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 consoles, and it took eight years for Microsoft to upgrade from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One. Assuming the same or similar time frames, we expect a new round of consoles from Sony and Microsoft around the year 2020, right? Not so fast...
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It seemed inevitable, but last week, we received confirmation that Microsoft would in fact be killing off Internet Explorer at some point. The death won't happen with Windows 10, however, as the browser is still relied-upon in the enterprise market. Given that, we might not even see it be retired in Windows 11 -- the...
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Email may not have lived up to early expectations that it would kill off the U.S. Post Office, but it (and online Bill Pay, Dropbox, and the like) certainly put a crimp in the mail carrier’s style. Now, Google is giving email a chance to strike another blow: an upcoming feature will make it easier for you to receive...
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HTC has scheduled a press event in Beijing, China for April 8, 2015, at which time it will unveil a new smartphone. The invitation carries the slogan, "More than One," which suggests it's getting ready to unveil the oft-leaked One M9 Plus (One M9+). It seems that most of the details are already floating around the...
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Sony today said it's readying an update for the PlayStation 4 that it plans to start rolling out tomorrow (Thursday). Codenamed "Yukimura," the system software update to version 2.50 will "bring an onslaught" of features to the PS4 console, several of which are the result of user requests and others that "might...
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With Apple bringing the USB-C port so definitively into the light back on March 9, there could be no doubt that it would only be a matter of time — and not a lot of time at that — before the inevitable onslaught of USB-C compatible peripherals and accessories. In fact, the very next day in these very pages HotHardware...
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Salt Lake City, Utah residents rejoice! Google Fiber is coming to town. Salt Lake City joins a host of metropolitan areas that were selected to receive Google Fiber just this year alone. Those cities include Atlanta, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
“Salt Lake has more than breathtaking
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OCZ Technology is at the ready with yet another new Solid State Drive, built around the company’s tried-and-true Barefoot 3 controller. The Vector 180 series drive we’ll be showing you here today is packing some of Toshiba’s latest A19nm MLC NAND flash memory and has some welcomed features and additions normally...
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Following 33 fruitful years with one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, Shmuel (Mooly) Eden has decided to call it quits at Intel. As so many of these high-ranking departures go, Eden says that he wants to seek out fresh challenges -- whether or not that means he'll wind up somewhere else in a management...
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Leading up to the FCC's approval of net neutrality rules last month, it had been clear that companies opposing the move wouldn't be resting on their laurels for too long afterwards. In particular, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson said that there 'will be litigation', and as it happens, he meant it.
AT&T's Randall...
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Logitech's no stranger to crafting some of the world's best computer mice, and in particular, its MX series has long been considered to be one of the best (just not for gaming). With its MX Master Wireless Mouse, Logitech continues the series' lineage, and it will take just one quick glance to see that the company is...
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HP wants you to like what you hear, so it’s partnering with Bang & Olufsen to improve the sound in many of its upcoming tablets, notebooks, and desktop PCs.
“In all HP devices that carry the Bang & Olufsen or B&O Play brand, a dedicated audio island isolates the sensitive audio circuits from other signals on the...
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At long last, Pixar has finally made good on a promise they made last year to release Free Non-Commercial RenderMan. The software is a full-feature version of the company's RenderMan software that anyone can install and use for purposes of research, education, evaluation, plug-in development, and personal projects...
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Not content with being your source for news about friends and family, Facebook is pushing to become your source for all news. The company is reportedly wooing major news outlets to place their content directly on Facebook, rather than clicking through to their respective sites. However, Facebook may be getting some...
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All aboard! Ladies and gentlemen, you may now hop on Vessel, a streaming video website that was previously an invitation-only affair during its beta phase. To kick off the launch of the service, you can enjoy access to the site free for an entire year at no cost, after which the $2.99 per month subscription will kick...
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