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- Samsung Unveils Galaxy Book 12 And Book 10 Windows 2-In-1 Convertibles, Galaxy Tab S3 10-Inch Android Slate
- Google Assistant Makes Jump From Pixel Devices To Most Nougat And Marshmallow Smartphones This Week
- Huawei Unveils P10 And P10 Plus With Dual Rear Leica Cameras And Kirin 960 Processor
- LG G6 Hands-On Preview: Compact And Gorgeous 5.7-inch QHD+ Display, Dual Rear Cameras And Snapdragon 821
- Uber Self-Driving Car Was At Fault For Running Red Light In December
- Toshiba Ships Samples Of 3D Flash NAND Capable Of Storing 1TB
- Machine Learning AI Demolishes World’s Top Super Smash Bros. Players
- Google Hits Uber With Lawsuit Over Stolen Waymo Self-Driving Car Technology
- Gigabyte Announces AORUS X370 And B350 AMD AM4 Ryzen Motherboards For Enthusiasts
- Apple Investigates Case Of Smoking iPhone 7 Plus Captured In Viral Video
- Apple Claims iOS 10.2.1 Has Significantly Reduced Unexpected iPhone 6s Shutdowns
- Amazon Echo Now Has Over 10,000 Alexa Skills Just A Voice Command Away
- Google Apologizes For Accidentally Wiping Google Wifi And OnHub Wireless Routers
- AMD’s Radeon RX 580 On Display Via Leaked Ashes Of The Singularity Benchmarks
- AMD Ryzen Pre-Orders Are Live, Here's How To Find Your Moment Of Zen
- Microsoft Compiles First Windows 10 Redstone 3 Build For 2H 2017 Release
- Google Thwarts Toxic Online Trolls With ‘Perspective’ AI Tool
- Leaked Samsung Galaxy S8+ Specs Confirm 6.2-inch Quad HD+ Display
- Microsoft DeepCoder AI Produces Its Own Code By Ripping Off Existing Software
- Amazon Asserts Alexa First Amendment Speech Protection For Echo Speaker In Murder Case
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All News for February 2017
It seems as though everyone is out to paint a target on Microsoft’s back when it comes to challenging the likes of the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. Samsung is the latest to rise to the occasion with the unwrapping of the Galaxy Book 12 and Galaxy Book 10. Both tablets run Windows 10 and are backed by 12-inch and...
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Most Android users will be happy to know that Google is actually working to make Google Assistant as universal as possible across a myriad of devices. The AI assistant will be rolling out to all smartphones running Android 7.0 Nougat and Android 6.0 Marshmallow eventually but will also be available on some newly...
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Huawei today trotted out a couple of new flagship smartphones for photography buffs at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. They include the P10 and P10+ (or P10 Plus), both of which the company says it co-engineered with Leica to bring studio-like effects to enhance portrait photography. It's not that...
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After months of leaks, the LG G6 has finally been officially unveiled. LG has gone completely back to the drawing board versus its predecessor, the questionably modular LG G5. In its place is a sleek, amazingly compact and efficient aluminum unibody design with a large 5.7-inch display. It's a truly premium flagship...
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In the words of Britney Spears, Uber is “not that innocent”. It was recently disclosed that Uber’s self-driving car was at fault for running a red light in December.
Last year one of Uber’s self-driving Volvo’s ran a red light near San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. The company claimed that the incident was due...
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Toshiba has just announced that they will begin shipping samples of its 512 Gigabit, three-bits-per-cell, 64-layer 3D NAND (BiCS 3D). Mass production is expected to take place during the second half of 2017.
Western Digital and Toshiba engineers have used digital stacking for their sixty-four layers in order to...
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Watch out world, machines are beating flesh and blood opponents in a variety of different contests. There was Watson, a smarty pants question answering system developed by IBM that took on and defeated the world's best Jeopardy opponents. Then Google's DeepMind division built an artificial intelligence program called...
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Uber has been landing itself in a lot of hot water lately, and with a new lawsuit filed yesterday, it's looking as though that water is going to keep on boiling. In a San Francisco federal court, Google alleges that Uber outright stole intellectual property from its spin-off business Waymo, which focuses entirely on...
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Yesterday, we gave you a full overview of four new AM4 motherboards from the folks at ASUS. Today, Gigabyte is returning the favor with five new enthusiast boards based on AMD’s X370 and B350 AM4 chipsets that back the new Ryzen processors.
The two boards aimed at the ultimate gaming enthusiasts are the X370-based...
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Samsung may have been the poster child for electronics battery fires in 2016 with its Galaxy Note 7, but Apple is taking quick action to ensure that one incident involving an iPhone 7 Plus is just a fluke. An Arizona teen recently posted a video to Twitter which showed her iPhone 7 Plus in a bathroom with white smoke...
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There has been a weird bug attached the past few iPhone models in which owners of affected devices have complained that their handsets sometimes suddenly turn off for no obvious reason. Apple even opened up a battery replacement program for certain iPhone 6 models that were manufactured between September and October...
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Amazon's foray into the digital assistant arena is an interesting one. Apple didn't invent the concept, but it popularized the idea when it bought the technology behind Siri and integrated into iOS with the release of the iPhone 4S. The concept caught on in the mobile world, but Amazon figured (correctly) that it...
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If you own a Google Wifi or OnHub wireless router, chances are that you might have witnessed a bit of internet connectivity problems yesterday. The routers automatically and inexplicably lost internet connectivity and would no longer allow devices to connect.
Not surprisingly, Google Wifi and OnHub owners began...
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This is a big year for AMD. The company is releasing a brand new CPU architecture (Ryzen) on March 2 and is currently enjoying tremendous pre-release hype, then later this year it will introduce a new GPU architecture called Vega. AMD fans and the tech community at large are sitting on pins and needles to see how...
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If you are planning a new build around one of AMD's newfangled Ryzen processors and want to get a head start, you can start buying parts now. AMD's top three Ryzen processors—Ryzen 7 1800X, Ryzen 7 1700X, and Ryzen 7 1700—are all available to pre-order now and will release on March 2. A bevy of compatible AM4 platform...
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We might not even have Redstone 2, aka "Creators Update", in our hands at this point in time, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from getting started on producing its first internal builds for Redstone 3 which is due out later this year.
As we've talked about before, the upcoming Creators Update isn't going to be...
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The Internet is not always the friendliest and kindest place to traverse. However, Google is hoping to clean up the Internet’s act with its new AI tool, Perspective. Perspective uses machine learning models to scan online content and determine a comment's “toxicity” level.
Perspective was developed by Jigsaw and...
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Our favorite gadget leaker has just handed over specs for Samsung’s much ballyhooed Galaxy S8+ Android smartphone. The Galaxy S8+ will be Samsung’s next flagship, a distinction that it will share with its smaller Galaxy S8 sibling.
According to Evan Blass, the Galaxy S8+ will have a massive 6.2-inch Super AMOLED...
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Have you ever wanted to design your own software application but then remembered that you're not a seasoned developer? If so, prepare to get excited about the future of software development: a future where half of the application is developed for you.
Now, we might be jumping to conclusions on that one, but that is...
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Is Amazon’s Alexa protected under the First Amendment of the United States? As part of an ongoing homicide investigation, Amazon argues that any information contained or recorded by the device is protected under “freedom of speech”. The corporation claims that it is not trying to obstruct the investigation, but...
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As you’ve seen by our flurry over coverage over the past few weeks, enthusiasts are rightfully excited about AMD’s Ryzen processors. Just today, we’ve seen a Ryzen 7 1800X overclocked to over 5GHz, breaking a Cinebench R15 multi-core benchmark record in the process. But those fancy new Ryzen processors can’t strut...
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Come springtime, Sony will release what it claims are the fastest SD cards on the market. It's new SF-G series will come in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB flavors, with blazing fast write speeds of up to 299 megabytes per second along with slightly faster read speeds of up to 300 megabytes per second. What's more, Sony says...
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