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Latest News - August 2015
- YouTube Gaming Launches Today As Google Takes Direct Aim At Twitch
- Rockstar’s Addictive Grand Theft Auto V Editor Hits Xbox One And PS4 In September
- Pepe Le Hue: Pricing For Philips' Latest Wireless LED Light Dimming Kit No Longer Stink
- MIT Researchers Create Resilient File System That Is Impossible To Crash
- Razer Adds Green Glowing Bling To NZXT S340 Mid-Tower Computer Case
- Samsung Tells Users To RTFM To Avoid Damaging Galaxy Note 5 Stylus Silo
- MIT’s Badass 3D Printer Can Handle 10 Different Materials Simultaneously
- Lenovo H50-50 Intel Core i7-4790 Quad-Core Desktop For $649, 65% off Samsung 64GB Micro SDXC Card And More
- Lytro 16GB Camera 59% Off In The HotHardware Shop
- Sony’s Wicked Aerosense Camera Drone Takes Off And Lands Vertically, Tops 106 MPH
- Crucial MX200 1TB and 500GB SSD Reviews: Affordable And Fast
- Appeals Court Rules FTC Can Regulate Corporate Cyber Security Following High-Profile Security Breaches
- Microsoft Preps September 22nd PC Launch For Office 2016
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano Performance Per Watt Nearly Doubles R9 290 X According To Leaked Slides
- Microsoft’s Prototype Surface Keyboard Cover Boasts Clever E-Ink Touchscreen Display
- Global Motorola Moto X Play Arriving Stateside As Verizon DROID Maxx 2
- Samsung Under Fire Over S Pen Design Flaw That Could Break Your Galaxy Note 5
- Unboxing The Retro Intel Box Master System, Not So Retro Inside
- Comcast DOCSIS 3.1 Upgrade Will Blanket Its US Footprint With Gigabit Internet By 2018
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Hype Train Continues With Hexagon 680 DSP Reveal
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All News for August 2015
Few would disagree that YouTube dominates the online streaming video scene, and with that kind of foundation in place, Google sees an opportunity to expand into gaming. No, not as a game developer, but as an alternative to Twitch, the live streaming video game company that it tried to acquire last year before Amazon...
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While the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V was fashionably late to the release party, PC gamers have been blasted with the powerful and quite fun full video recording and editing capabilities. Console gamers have sat on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets (Rockstar Games initially said that this the editor...
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Philips has a great product with its Hue LED lighting system, but up to this point, it's suffered one glaring flaw: it's a little pricey. It seems the company isn't ignorant of this fact, nor the one that most people are not going to buy into the Hue ecosystem until it becomes more affordable.
Fortunately, a...
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You might imagine that in 2015, we'd have a plethora of file systems that could guarantee the integrity of our data in the event of a crash - but that isn't exactly the case. While there are a handful of quality file systems that are much better than others from a data integrity standpoint (ZFS being a good example)...
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Gaming peripheral maker Razer is once again teaming up with NZXT to pimp out one of its computer cases. This time the recipient of Razer's "predatory design" makeover is the S340, a compact mid-tower chassis with 90 percent steel construction for durability and a budget-friendly price tag.
This is the second...
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Earlier this morning, we brought you news that Samsung’s brand new Galaxy Note 5 can be easily damaged by the simple action of inserting the S Pen (stylus) in backwards. In previous iterations of Galaxy Note series (including the Galaxy Note Edge), it was not possible to insert the stylus into the device backwards...
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There's no doubt that 3D printing is one of the coolest technologies released over the past decade, and given all we've seen from it up to this point, there's also no doubt that it's going to be a big part of our future. While today's 3D printers are still limited in what they can do, they've already been capable of...
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Welcome back for the latest edition of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On the menu for you all today, we have deals on a Lenovo H50-50 Intel Core i7-4790-based desktop system, a Samsung 64GB EVO Class 10 Micro SDXC card, a set of Bose AE2w Bluetooth Headphones, and more. Full details for all of...
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If you’ve ever wanted to play with one of the more innovative cameras to hit the market, the first-gen Lytro light field camera is heavily discounted in the HotHardware Shop. For the next day, a 16GB Lytro is 59% off (with free shipping) and available for only $79.99...
Description
Most cameras capture the position of light rays, producing
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Here at Hot Hardware, we come across a lot of interesting aerial drones. We recently reviewed the Parrot Bebop Drone and brought you news on DJI’s Phantom Standard 3 drone, which features a gimbal-mounted camera that can shoot 2.7K HD video.
The drone market is flooded with entries from numerous, highly capable...
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Prices for solid state drives have fallen precipitously over the past year. This is especially true when shopping 2.5-inch form factor SATA SSDs, which is where some of the best values in solid state storage are currently found. That's certainly true of Micron's Crucial brand MX200 line, two of which we have in for...
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There have been several high profile security breaches over the last couple of years, and in many instances, cyber thieves were able to extract personal information of their target's customers. Usually this resulted in the company offering a free year of identity theft protection to those affected, though in the...
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A new version of Microsoft's popular productivity suite is nearing release for Windows users. Yes, we're talking about Office 2016, which incidentally was released to the Mac OS X platform early last month, ending a nearly five-year drought (prior to Office 2016, the last Office release for Mac was in 2011).
Citing a source "close to Microsoft,"
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You may have noticed that the bigger the graphics card, the better the performance. It's not a hard and fast rule, though it often applies, or at least it used to. AMD is taking a big step towards reversing this trend of increasingly large graphics cards with the forthcoming release of its Radeon R9 Nano.
The...
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Microsoft is building a slick new keyboard cover for its Surface Pro tablet. The new keyboard prototype has an e-ink strip above the function keys, giving users a second touchscreen for launching apps, writing notes, or even drawing images. The DisplayCover is still a prototype, but as you can see in the video below...
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Late last month, Motorola announced new models to its mid-range and flagship smartphone lines with the introduction of the third generation Moto G and third generation Moto X. However, the company also announced a third model, the Moto X Play, which sported a honkin’ 3630 mAh battery.
The only problem is that the...
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Samsung may have goofed up when designing its Galaxy Note 5, depending on your perspective. How so? If you accidentally insert the S Pen backwards into the Galaxy Note 5, you could permanently damage your handset. And unlike previous Galaxy Note devices, there's no mechanism in place to prevent you from pushing a...
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Although working at a publication like HotHardware often involves tight deadlines and countless hours of benchmarking, product photography, and writing, plenty of fun activities get thrown into the mix as well.
Case in point--I came home from the Intel Developers Forum this past week to a pair of boxes that were...
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Over the past few months, Comcast has been ramping up its deployments of Gigabit Pro in select markets around the United States. Gigabit Pro, which was first announced in Atlanta earlier this year, offers customers symmetrical 2Gbps speeds, making it twice as fast as Google Fiber.
However, Gigabit Pro isn’t for...
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When Qualcomm revealed its next top-end Snapdragon chip a few weeks ago, called the 820, we heard lots of promises about its Adreno 530 GPU and Spectra ISP. Now, we're being fed some information regarding the next-gen Hexagon 680 DSP, which will be included in the SoC.
DSP stands for digital signal processor, and...
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Electronic Arts is getting ready to release it's newest Madden game, Madden NFL 2016, to various game consoles tomorrow (August 25, 2016), though if you're anxious to hit the gridiron, you can score a copy for free for the Xbox One today, a day early. All you have to do is enter a promo code in Uber and cross your...
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You may not take digital assistants seriously just yet, but Microsoft does and it wants you start relying on its version right now. The company loaded Cortana onto Windows 10, which became available late last month, and has long been planning to put Cortana on competitors’ platforms. Cortana for Android leaked last month, but now Cortana Beta
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