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Latest News - January 2018
- Amazon Alexa Is Heading To Smartwatches And Headphones Later This Year
- Mad Catz Rises From The Ashes With New Range Of PC Gaming Peripherals
- Apple Confirms iOS Devices, Macs Susceptible To Meltdown And Spectre CPU Security Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft's Free Windows 10 Assistive Technologies Upgrade Offer Is Still Alive
- HP Recalls 50,000 Laptop Batteries Due To Overheating Concerns
- AMD Ryzen Pinnacle Ridge Processors Tipped For March Debut With 400-Series Chipsets
- Tips On How To Protect Your Devices From Meltdown And Spectre Processor Security Flaws
- LG HU80K Projector Makes It Easy To Display A 150-inch 4K UHD Image On Any Wall
- Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick To Become A Billionaire With Stock Selloff
- Johnson Controls Crams Cortana Into GLAS OLED Smart Thermostat
- Intel's Meltdown And Spectre Security Updates Will Hit 90% Of Its Processors By Next Week
- Sneaky Android Malware Impersonates Uber Android App To Steal Your Login Credentials
- AT&T To Launch True 5G Wireless Connectivity In 12 US Cities By 2H 2018
- Samsung Exynos 9810 SoC Brings Heavy Firepower For Galaxy S9 Showdown with iPhone X
- ASRock To Debut X399M Taichi Ryzen Threadripper M-ATX Motherboard At CES 2018
- Nintendo Switch Becomes Fastest-Selling Game Console In US History
- Apple's New Battery Replacement Policy Could Hurt iPhone Sales Says Barclays
- Amazon Blended-Reality Mirror Patent Highlights Next Gen Clothes Shopping Experience
- Dangerous Meltdown And Spectre Security Flaws Exposed Affecting All Intel, AMD And ARM Processors
- Lenovo Launches Mainstream ThinkPad T, X And L Series With 8th Gen Intel Core Muscle And Webcam Shutters
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All News for January 2018
When it comes to AI voice assistants, it seems as though Alexa integration is everywhere. Besides integration in first-party hardware like Amazon's Echo family, Fire tablets, and Fire TV streamers, there are hundreds, if not thousands of devices that are compatible with the Alexa ecosystem.
Now, Amazon is looking to...
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A once popular gaming hardware brand is rising from the ashes after closing up shop last year. We are talking about Mad Catz, which before its surprise departure from the market had been focusing on gaming peripherals for nearly three decades. Now it is back, under new management with "new ideas," a "new attitude,"...
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Unless you perform high level calculations on an abacus, chances are high that yes, you are affected by the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Between the two, practically every modern processor is vulnerable, including Intel CPUs dating back more than a decade, along with AMD and ARM chips. And...
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We could have seen thing one coming from a mile away. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would no longer offer free upgrades to Windows 10 for customers that use assistive technologies. Microsoft gave a deadline of December 31st for the program to end, meaning that all customers at that point would be...
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Hewlett-Packard has issued a voluntary recall on batteries used in more than a dozen laptop models that were sold between December 2015 and December 2017. According to the recall notice, affected batteries are at risk of overheating and catching fire. So far, HP has received eight reports of battery packs getting too...
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If you've been waiting to see what AMD will have to offer in the mainstream desktop processor space for 2018, you won't be waiting much longer. According to a new report out of Japan, AMD's next crop of Ryzen processors -- codenamed Pinnacle Ridge -- will be launching in March. We had previously heard back in...
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Security researchers this week dropped a bombshell on pretty much everyone who owns a computer, saying there are inherent flaws in modern processors that could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, including passwords and other contents stored in what's supposed to be protected memory. At first it was...
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If you have never used a projector, you might not know the challenge it can be to get things set up properly. Often to get a big 150-inch image on the wall, you need a giant room with plenty of distance from the wall to throw that image. LG has announced that it will be showing off a new compact and very easy to set...
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Travis Kalanick is the embattled former CEO of ride-hailing service Uber. He stepped down from his post as CEO of the company last summer after investors sent him a letter demanding his immediate resignation (although he remained on the board of the company). Kalanick said at the time, "I love Uber more than anything...
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There are plenty of smart thermostats on the market today with the devices from Nest being the most popular. Microsoft has announced that JCI (Johnson Controls) has launched a new smart thermostat called GLAS that uses Windows 10 IoT Core as the operating system and integrates Cortana. Smart thermostats in general are...
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The tech industry is still trying to recover from the fallout surrounding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that were disclosed this week. Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, ARM, and other key players in the hardware and software arena have been working for months in secret to patch the exploits, but keen...
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Malware writes are a shifty bunch. If anyone needs further proof of that, Symantec has it, in the form of a warning over a new Android "Fakeapp" malware variant that spoofs Uber, the popular ridesharing service, to cover its tracks. While it may look innocent, the Fakeapp malware pulls its usual dirty tricks...
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AT&T has positioned itself to be the first U.S. company to roll out real, honest-to-goodness mobile 5G service in a dozen markets by late 2018, the company announced today. And unlike AT&T's 5G Evolution service, which in many areas is just a rebranding of 4G LTE, what AT&T is pitching here is true 5G wireless...
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Samsung is not too far away from its big debut of the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ flagship smartphones, which are tipped to make their big debut at MWC 2018. We already know about one of the processors that will go into the U.S. version of the Galaxy S9 family: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.
Today, however, Samsung is...
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When we think of Threadripper, we envision big and burly builds stuffed chock full of high performance hardware. The kind of system that dominates a room, and would elicit a Tim Allen grunt. Well, ASRock has something different in mind, at least in regards to size. Going in the complete opposite direction, ASRock is...
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For a long while, it was incredibly difficult to find a Nintendo Switch in stock. The game console was flying off store shelves quicker than retailers could stock them, and there are cries of an artificial shortage on Nintendo's part as a ploy to drum up demand. I've been skeptical of that theory from the outset...
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Apple has been in some very rough waters over the last several weeks after the realization that the company was throttling devices with older batteries. Apple naturally says that the throttling of the devices was in the name of what's best for consumers, but some aren't buying that response. To appease the angry mob...
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A new patent app has turned up that shows what Amazon is working on in the clothing space, and it's quite interesting. One big challenge for Amazon when it comes to selling clothing online is allowing people to see what the clothing looks like on their own body. This isn't something that Amazon can do right now and is...
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If you've been following the tech or security news for the past few days, then you no doubt know of a security vulnerability that reportedly affects all Intel processors. OS vendors have been working to mitigate the issue with kernel patches, but those software Band-Aids can come with some performance handicaps as a...
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Lenovo is prepping for a pretty serious overhaul of its product lineup for 2018, and the first wave of new product introductions starts with its mainstream ThinkPad lineup. These include updates to the existing ThinkPad T and X Series along with the announcement of the all-new L Series.
Before we get into specifics...
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Dell has been updating its XPS line of laptops at a brisk clip as of late. Though we just showed you a recent update of the highly decorated Dell XPS 13 here, with Intel 8th Gen Kaby Lake R technology on board, we're back again today with yet another update to the XPS 13 family, and this time its beauty is not just...
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When it comes to standalone media streaming hardware, Roku is the market leader with it family of affordable devices. Roku has even managed to integrate its streaming goodness into smart TVs, including popular budget brand TCL. First initiated in 2014, the Roku TV initiative has grown to include eight television...
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