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- $800 Dell Latitude 14 UltraBook Laptop, $200 RX 480, 55" Samsung 4K For $600 And More
- Android 7.0 Nougat Sweetness And Daydream Support Arrive For Motorola Moto Z And Moto Z Force
- Hot Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Tablets, Smartphones, Laptops, and Systems
- Latest Battlefield 1 Patch Downgrades Visuals And Performance For PC Gamers
- Here Are Microsoft’s Minimum PC Requirements For Windows 10 VR Headsets
- Apple Reportedly Guts Router Division, AirPort Extreme And AirPort Time Capsule Face Death Row
- Apple Offers Free iPhone 6s Battery Replacements To Tackle Unintended Shutdowns
- Microsoft Temporarily Drops Entry-Level Surface Book To $1,250
- Watch Tesla Autopilot Paint The World In Color As It Autonomously Drives Through A City
- Intel Coffee Lake Architecture Details Leak, Highlights 6-core SKUs And Last Hurrah For 14nm
- Nearly 3 Million Android Phones Vulnerable To OTA Update Hijacking
- Ubuntu Based Zorin OS 12 Linux Could Be An Open Source Windows 10 Alternative Many Are Looking For
- Apple Reportedly Throttling iPhone 7 Models With Qualcomm Modems To Match Versions With Intel Modems
- Fallout 4 Mod Support Arrives For Sony PS4, But Fewer Than 300 Mods Available
- NVIDIA Offers Free Gears Of War 4 Goodness To Gamers Who Use GeForce Experience 3.0 And Game Ready Drivers
- Amazon’s Alexa Learns How To Send Text Messages From Echo To AT&T Customers
- Mobile Device Health Report Details Bleak Data On Apple iDevices Failing And Crashing Far More Often Than Android Devices
- Forensics Firm Claims iPhones Send Call History Logs Back To Apple iCloud Servers Risking User Privacy
- Zuck Explains How Facebook Will Combat Fake News With Better Detection, Flagging And Warning Of Misinformation
- Windows 10 Creators Update Brings Paint 3D Preview And Native EPUB Support For Edge
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Latitude 14 7000 Intel Core i5-based notebook, a 55" Samsung 4K UltraHD LED Smart HDTV, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. See Black Friday...
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If you have one of Lenovo/Motorola’s Moto Z or Moto Z Force flagships in your possession, you’ll be happy to know that the Android 7.0 Nougat update will soon be on its way to your smartphone. Motorola announced that the over-the-air update will commence this week for customers.
Besides bringing all of the OS...
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Season's greetings; it's that time of year again, when we here at Hot Hardware assemble our holiday gift guides for your browsing and shopping pleasure. There was an embarrassment of riches this year, as the industry continued to innovate and come up with interesting new designs based on the latest, greatest...
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Typically when installing a patch for a game the expectation is that it will improve performance, stomp out bugs, and maybe even make the title look better, depending on what it brings to the tablet. That isn't the case for some gamers with the Fall update for Battlefield 1. PC gamers who applied the latest BF1 patch...
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Microsoft recently announced a collaboration with several third-party hardware makers to bring affordable virtual reality (VR) headsets to Windows 10 starting at $299. These new VR headsets will be compatible with Windows Holographic, a VR shell for Windows 10 that will be included in the Creator's Update (Redstone...
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If you’re an Apple enthusiast that fills your home in gear from the company, including its wireless routers, we have some bad news to bring you. According to a credible report from notorious insider Mark Gurman, Apple has demolished its wireless router division.
The deconstruction process has taken place of the...
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Apple has begun providing free battery replacements to iPhone 6s owners who have been bitten by a battery bug that causes affected handsets to shut down prematurely. According to Apple, only a "very small number" of devices are affected by the issue, all of which fall within a limited serial number range and were...
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Last month, Microsoft unveiled updated Surface Books with Intel Core i7 processors and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M with twice the graphics performance of its predecessor. However, the Surface Book i7 definitely isn’t for everyone, as it starts at a hefty $2,399.
For those of you that don’t want to drop over two...
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We like things that are awesome. You probably like things that are awesome, too (we're not going out on much of a limb with that assumption). So, do you want to know something that's awesome that we stumbled upon? Sure you do, which is why we're sharing a video of Tesla's Autopilot technology in action, though not as...
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Since Intel disrupted its traditional tick-tock processor release cadence with Kaby Lake, the second consecutive tock behind Skylake and the third generation CPU family based on a 14-nanometer manufacturing process, it's had free rein to mix things up. That makes things interesting when it comes to leaked roadmaps—you...
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It’s another day, and another backdoor Android exploit has been discovered. Last week, we brought you news of a secret backdoor installed on a number of budget Android devices that was beaming personal information (test messages, phone numbers, contacts) to servers in China. Today, we’re learning of another exploit...
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It should be safe to call Windows 10 a "great" OS, but we can't ignore some maddening aspects of it including its data mining features and frustrating Windows Update mechanism. More than ever, the latest batch of Windows releases has clued the world into the fact that alternatives exist, and we're not just talking...
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Apple Reportedly Throttling iPhone 7 Models With Qualcomm Modems To Match Versions With Intel Modems
This week, a report ousted Apple's decision to throttle the Qualcomm modem found in most of its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models to match the performance of the Intel modem found in other versions. Now, according to sources close to the matter, it's absolutely the case but is there a real issue? The issue involves...
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It has been a long and agonizing wait getting to this point, but the first batch of mods for Fallout 4, Bethesda's hit title that was voted Game of the Year for 2015 at the 19th annual DICE Awards, has arrived for the PlayStation 4 console. Not to be taken for granted, this day almost never arrived, as Sony initially...
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NVIDIA has been pushing its GeForce Experience application hard over the past couple of months, and for good reason. The software's name is apt -- it improves the GeForce gaming experience, which for some users could mean having the best in-game detail settings automatically determined, while for others, it could mean...
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Before too long it might be easier and quicker to list the things Amazon's digital assistant can't do rather than all the things it can. Case in point, Alexa just learned yet another trick, one of many of as of late. This newest trick, or "skill" as Amazon likes to call them, is the ability to transmit text messages...
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One of the common arguments in favor of the iPhone and iOS devices in general is that "it just works." It's an oversimplified retort often thrown around by people who favor iOS gadgets over Android equivalents, but is it also an inaccurate one? A new report by Blanco Technology Group suggests that in reality Android...
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It seems that Apple may have a complicated relationship with device user privacy. Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has recently discovered that iPhone users’ call histories are being sent to Apple’s servers.
A user’s call history can be sent to Apple’s servers if iCloud is enabled. The data will include...
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Facebook has been under fire the last few months for spreading misinformation and "fake news." Some have even accused fake Facebook News Feed Stories of affecting the outcome of the 2016 American presidential election. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently laid out how the company plans on combating the dissemination...
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If you’re a Windows Insider on the Fast ring, now is your chance to more easily get your hands on probably the most talked about feature in the Windows 10 Creators Update: Paint 3D. This complete overhaul of Microsoft’s venerable Paint app is now available in preview form (and only for English language...
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2016 is going to be remembered for a number of fortunate and unfortunate things, with one topic that falls into the latter category being the debacle of U.S. law enforcement vs. Apple. The FBI and other US federal agencies have made it no secret that they would like to be able to gain access to any smartphone if the...
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Did you know that not having the right headphones could mean the difference between enjoying well-earned glory and being on the wrong side of an good ol' tea-bagging? Tired of having to get your butt-shake on to pay for a worthy set of cans? If you answer "yes" to either of those, then you're missing out on a wealth...
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