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2.5 Geeks 2/8/19: Radeon VII, Lenovo Snapdragon Yoga, Intel 28-Core Beast CPU, EVGA RTX 2060 & More!
On this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco and Dave dig into AMD's hot new Radeon VII card, Intel's beastly new 28-core Xeon W-3175X, Lenovo's Yoga C630 Snapdragon 850 powered 2-in-1, EVGA's GeForce RTX 2060 XC card and...
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Google Fiber started off with a bang back in 2010, and has slowly expanded into some key metropolitan areas across the United States. But while Google Fiber promises symmetrical 1Gbps speeds that are the envy of many techies, parent...
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Google has been making moves in recent weeks to beef up its Wear OS and the hardware that runs the operating system for wearable devices. In mid-January, the company spent $40 million to acquire key Fossil smartwatch intellectual...
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LibreOffice is perhaps the most popular open source alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite, and most importantly, it's completely free. The latest version, LibreOffice 6.2, brings even more parity between it and Microsoft's...
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All eyes are on Samsung and its upcoming Unpacked event as February 20 rolls into view, as the company is expected to announced its Galaxy S10 lineup and a new folding smartphone. Be that as it may, Samsung is not the only company with...
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Samsung may be gearing up to include a set of wireless earphones with its upcoming Galaxy S10 smartphone lineup. If that is indeed the case, it would add a value proposition to Samsung's premium phone family, and perhaps nudge potential...
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For many years and through many iterations, Microsoft championed Internet Explorer as the best browser around, and at one time IE dominated the landscape. What about now? Microsoft's message is very different in the era of Windows 10 and...
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The big news of late in the Apple realm was the severe flaw in Group FaceTime that allowed users to eavesdrop on people added to the group conversation before they accepted the call (without their knowledge). The flaw could also share...
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Encryption certainly isn't the sexiest of topics for most people; we want our data to be secure from nefarious sorts and then move on. The challenge with encryption is that depending on the algorithm and type of encryption used, it can...
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Although it's arriving later than originally promised, Apple has just issued iOS 12.1.4, which fixes the widely publicized Group FaceTime bug that was revealed early last week. In short, the bug allowed anyone to eavesdrop on your iPhone's...
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At long last, the Radeon VII is here, it has been reviewed and benchmarked (be sure to check out our own hands-on analysis), and it is now up to consumers to pull the trigger or take a pass. One of the selling points is that the Radeon VII...
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Microsoft published a set of three videos that it has dubbed "The Twins Challenge" to help promote its Office 365 software. In the videos, Microsoft is taking shots at more traditional office programs such as its recently released Office...
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Apple is a company that likes to keep as much of its hardware development in-house as it possibly can. This allows the company to extract the most performance possible from its hardware designs through increasing integration. The most...
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Qualcomm on Thursday unveiled a new mobile processor for mid-range devices that is built on a 10-nanometer manufacturing process. It's the Snapdragon 712, and according to Qualcomm, it offers a 12 percent performance uptick compared to the...
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While most smartphone makes are struggling over the decision to go with a notch or bezel (or a punch-hole design), Motorola threw its hands up in the air and said 'Screw it, we're rolling with both!' Meet the Moto G7, the newest iteration...
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Privacy is a big deal for many people around the world and many of the devices that we use do a poor jobs of protecting our data. Amazon, for instance, has been in hot water for sharing Alexa data and voice recordings with other users by...
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There's not much left to the imagination when it comes to Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 family. Today, the veil is being lifted even higher as we get our first glimpse at the UI confirming the existence of the in-display fingerprint...
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AOC has launched a big and fast gaming monitor that looks to be a good candidate for esports, driving simulations, and twitch-style gameplay in general. That's because it has a 144Hz refresh rate to go along with a 1-millesecond moving...
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AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled the Radeon VII during a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show last month. Although the Radeon VII was billed as the first 7nm GPU, fundamentally it is similar to the Radeon Instinct MI50, which was announced late last year. Of course the Radeon Instinct...
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LG is gearing up for a big MWC 2019 showing and is already teasing its flagship device that will be unveiled at the show. LG has in the past teased a device using a Snapdragon 855 SoC and packing a 5G modem for the show, but it's unclear...
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Linuz Henze, a well-known security researcher, has found a particularly troublesome bug in Apple's macOS. The exploit involves the operating system's Keychain, which stores passwords, private keys, and other user credentials.
Henze has...
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Take-Two has been basking in the glowing press and tremendous sales performance of Red Dead Redemption 2. The game was so well received right out of the gates that it made $725 million in its first three days of availability. Take-Two is...
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