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Latest News - December 2016
- Chinese KFC Smart Restaurants Use Baidu Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions
- FBI Points Finger At Chinese Military For 2010 FDIC Hack And Ongoing Breaches
- Phil Schiller Says Apple Working With Consumer Reports To Address MacBook Pro Battery Concerns
- Microsoft Admits Overly Aggressive Windows 10 Upgrade Campaign Was ‘Pretty Painful’ And Obnoxious
- Atari Rolls Out More Retro Goodness With Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic For Android And iOS
- Amazon And Google Now Offering $0.99 Movie Rentals So You Can Binge Over The Holidays
- 55% Off A Buisness Class Dell Latitude Intel Core i5 Base 14" Laptop, Now $499, And More
- Quadro P6000 And P5000 Review: NVIDIA's Most Powerful Pascal Graphics Cards
- Uber Tries To Explain Why It Still Tracks Users Long After Completed Rides
- DARPA Gives Combat Heroes Who Have Lost A Limb Access To Star Wars Inspired LUKE Bionic ARM
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus Rumored To Feature 6-inch Display And Mysterious ‘Beast Mode’
- Troll Causes Panic On Virgin America Flight By Naming Wi-Fi Hotspot ‘Galaxy Note 7’
- Honda Enters Formal Talks For Self-Driving Car Partnership With Google’s Waymo
- Google's First Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatches Arriving Q1 2017 Without Pixel Branding
- Apple’s MacBook Pro No Longer Recommended By Consumer Reports Due To Wild Battery Life Fluctuations
- Pokemon Go Arrives For Apple Watch Bringing Snorlax Hunting To Your Wrist
- Trace The Legend of Zelda’s Humble Beginnings On Nintendo Designer's Graphing Paper
- Uber Pulls Plug On Self-Driving Cars In California After DMV Voids Its Fleet Registration
- Last Chance! 42% Off The Popular Dell XPS Intel Core i7-Based Skylake Desktop, Now $599.99 And Much
- Steam Unwraps Fantastic Winter Game Sale With Deep Discounts And Awards
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All News for December 2016
If you loathe having to talk out loud when ordering a meal at a fast-food restaurant, and you happen to love KFC, then you might want to start considering packing it up and moving to China where Baidu has just teamed up with the major chicken brand to create a more automated restaurant.
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The FBI is currently investigating a series of cyberattacks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), that they believe the Chinese military to be responsible for. The attacks on high-level employees' computers started in 2010 and resurfaced again in 2011 and 2013. Victims included former FDIC Chairwoman...
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Apple is a company that rarely likes to admit to faults with its products. The company is often dragged kicking and screaming to public disclosures, and even when it does fess up, it often states that the issues affect a “small number” of users. However, even Apple couldn’t ignore the clout of Consumer Reports, which...
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Microsoft does not always do things the right way, few people would argue otherwise. However, Microsoft has traditionally been good at admitting when it drops the ball or otherwise could have done a better job. Such is the case with Windows 10 and the super aggressive approach Microsoft took to getting users to...
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When Chris Sawyer's RollerCoaster Tycoon hit the PC back in 1999, the world couldn't have expected what kind of masterpiece it would be. It's not perfect, but the fact that it gave anyone and everyone reigns over complex theme parks and wild rides drew people in by the millions. And now, that same gameplay that hooked...
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It’s not free, but it’s pretty darn close to it. Both Amazon and Google announced today that they are offering customers a single movie rental for the low, low price of $0.99 starting today. For those that simply want to veg out on the couch during the lead-up to Christmas Day, these promotions offer a quick and cheap...
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Welcome back for the final pre-Christmas edition of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Latitude 14 5000 Intel Core i5-5300U based notebook, a Blue Yeti Blackout USB Microphone and Watch Dogs 2 bundle, and much more. Full details for all of today’s...
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NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture has been wildly successful in the consumer space. The various GPUs that power the GeForce GTX 10 series are all highly competitive at their respective price points, and the higher-end variants are currently unmatched by any single competing GPU. That may change when AMD launches GPUs based...
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Some users have noticed that Uber's mobile app continues to track a user's location after a ride is completed. In some cases, the location tracking stays active for days or even weeks after the last completed ride. Is Uber spying on users who hail rides from the popular ridesharing service? Uber says no and instead...
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It does not matter what your political affiliation is, if any, we should all be able to agree that more can be done to take care of our military veterans. That is why DARPA (Defense Advanced Researched Projects Agency) deserves major kudos this holiday season. DARPA has developed a sophisticated bionic arm and is...
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As we get closer to the start of the new year, rumors about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 are starting to heat up. The latest report coming out of South Korea is that a Galaxy S8 Plus model will launch alongside the standard Galaxy S8, and will feature a 6-inch display. This is a noticeable upgrade from the 5.1-inch...
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It is all fun and games until somebody gets hurt, right? Luckily no one was injured during a Virgin America flight on Tuesday when the crew suspected one of the passengers of bringing a recalled Galaxy Note 7 on board the plane. There was no Galaxy Note 7 (our full review, pre-explosion events) handset to be found...
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Earlier this week, Waymo gave us all an early look at its Chrysler Pacific Hybrid minivan that is outfitted with all the hardware necessary for fully autonomous driving. We first learned of the partnership between Alphabet (the parent company of Waymo) and Chrysler back in early May, and now all 100 vehicles have been...
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Are smartwatches going out of style? Google does not think so, and to help prove it to consumers, the Mountain View outfit plans to launch a pair of flagship smartwatch models running its upcoming Android Wear 2.0 platform sometime in the first quarter of next year. The smartwatches will be the first ones to feature...
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It seems as though Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pro refresh just can’t catch a break these days. When the notebooks were first unveiled in October, Apple fans complained about the lack of Kaby Lake, the 16GB RAM limit, lack of legacy ports like HDMI and USB 3.0, high price tag and the reduction in battery capacity in order to...
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Are you tired of wrenching your phone from the deep recesses of your purse or pocket and waiting 20 seconds to a minute for Pokémon GO to load? Do you hate having your phone app open just to hatch a silly Pidgey? Apple has your back, because Pokémon GO is now available on Apple Watch.
According to Niantic, “Apple...
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If you're a fan of the original Legend of Zelda and love the feeling of a nostalgic high, we've got you covered. On its UK website, Nintendo has just posted a number of scans showing us what the classic game featuring Link looked like before those ideas turned digital.
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You will not be seeing Uber’s self-driving vehicles on the roads of San Francisco any longer. The driver-less vehicles are banned since the state of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revoked Uber’s registration.
Uber had started testing its self-driving cars before receiving an autonomous vehicles...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, courtesy of our friends from TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell XPS 8900 desktop system, an Amazon Fire Quad-Core 7" tablet, and much more. Check out Holiday deals and gift ideas as they go live at TechBargains Site.
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"Anything you can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you!” You hear that console lovers? The PC Master Race sees your Xbox Store discounts and laughs out of pity. That’s because the wildly popular online game service Steam has discounts of its own to appease gamers that know that a mouse and keyboard is...
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You might want to think twice before adding Barnes & Noble’s latest tablet to your virtual or physical cart. It has been reported that the Nook Tablet 7 has been found to include ADUPS, which is known for specializing in collecting data from Android users and installing hostile apps.
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Nokia, once the top seller of cellular phones in what feels like a lifetime ago, is suing Apple over claims that its popular iPhone handsets infringe on several mobile patents owned by the Finnish company. The lawsuit is a result of Nokia failing to convince Apple to renew licensing agreements inked in 2011 that are...
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