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Latest News - January 2018
- Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users
- ASUS AiMesh Enables Some Existing Wi-Fi Routers To Create A Mesh Network For Better Coverage
- Netgear's Orbi Outdoor Satellite Extends Your Mesh Network For Poolside Netflix Binge-Watching
- Apple Eases Code Development For App Store Devs With Buddybuild Acquisition
- Samsung On Track To Sell 320 Million Smartphones in 2018
- AMD Shares Surge Following Disclosure Of Potentially Devastating Intel Chip Flaw
- SpaceX Proudly Displays Falcon Heavy Rocket On LC-39A Launchpad For Static Fire Tests
- Nissan Employs Brain-To-Vehicle Computer Tech To Make Driving Safer And More Enjoyable
- Samsung CJ791 QLED Thunderbolt 3 Curved Monitor Heads To CES 2018
- Huge Intel CPU Bug Allegedly Causes Kernel Memory Vulnerability With Up To 30% Performance Hit In Windows And Linux
- Nightmare Inducing Super Mario 64 Mod Drops You Into First-Person View
- Apple Will Replace iPhone Batteries Under Any Circumstances To Appease Disgruntled Customers
- Pixel 2 Portrait Mode Arrives For Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Pixel With Camera NX Mod
- Otto Smart Lock Startup Crashes And Burns Before Launching Its First Product
- PUBG Devs Looks To Launch Wildly Popular Shooter On Every Major Platform
- Microsoft Rails Against Google Chrome Promoting Edge Efficiency In Windows 10 Creators Update
- Steam's List Of 100 Best Selling Games In 2017 Is A Goldmine Of Gaming Goodness
- Intel Core i7-8809G Confirmed With 3.1GHz Base Clock, Radeon RX Vega M GPU
- Samsung Reportedly Working On Nautilus Chromebook With High-End Camera
- Analysts Lay Odds At 40% That Apple Buys Netflix In 2018
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All News for January 2018
Tech media publications lit up yesterday afternoon, after reports showed that a critical bug in modern Intel processors has the potential to seriously impact systems running Windows, Linux and macOS. The alleged bug is so severe that it cannot be corrected with a microcode update, and instead, OS manufacturers are...
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Upgrading to a mesh network can improve wireless coverage in your home, allowing for faster speeds on devices that sit further away from your router and eliminate dead spots in remote corners. This is especially true if there are several obstructions (walls, doors, and so forth) in your home that sit between your...
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Wireless routers often have pretty good overall coverage inside your home -- especially if you use a mesh router system -- but coverage outside your home can often be spotty at best. If you like lounging poolside while catching up on Breaking Bad reruns, or simple need internet access in your backyard shed/man cave...
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In what will be a boost to iOS developers (and a blow to some Android devs), Apple has gone out and acquired Buddybuild, a Canadian startup that makes tools for app developers. In a couple of months, Apple will discontinue to tools for Android, making Buddybuild exclusive to iOS developers, Buddybuild said in a blog...
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Samsung's resolution for 2018 is pretty simple—just sell as many smartphones as it did in 2017. That amounts to around 320 million handsets, and remarkably, that is considered playing it safe (to an extent). Normally companies like to increase sales on an annual basis, but for Samsung, it can afford to maintain its current sales threshold
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Intel has egg on its face at the moment, while AMD is making omelettes out of the situation. In case you missed the late breaking news last night, the situation we are talking about is a chip flaw found in all modern Intel processors dating back at least a decade. The vulnerability requires a software patch that could...
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It's happening! Some pessimists thought that Falcon Heavy would never see the light of day, but here we are in early January 2018 and the launch vehicle is looking in tip-top shape for its planned launch later this month. SpaceX today delivered pictures and video of Falcon Heavy standing upright on its LC-39A...
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Nissan has pulled the wraps of some new research that it claims will allow vehicles to interpret signals from the brain of the driver and redefine how people interact with their cars. Nissan calls it Brain-to-Vehicle, or B2V technology. The Japanese auto giant claims that it will speed up reaction times for driver and...
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Samsung has a new computer monitor that is aiming at both business users and gamers that will make an official appearance at CES 2018. The CJ791 QLED monitor has Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, and can be connected to supported notebooks with a single cable.
The monitor is also able to pass up to 85W of charging power...
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If the reports are accurate, it appears that Intel might have a pretty severe chip-level security bug on its hands that cannot be simply swatted away with a microcode update. The bug affects all modern Intel processors dating back at least a decade.
We should note that squashing the bug requires a patch at the OS...
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Ask a bunch of gamers to make a list of the most enduring video games on all time, and most lists would have Super Mario 64 on it. Many have been playing this game for years and there is a certain familiarity with the 3rd person viewpoint. An enterprising geek with time on his hands named Kaze Emanuar has taken that...
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Apple today has clarified its policy regarding battery replacements on iPhone 6 and newer smartphones that are affected by performance throttling in iOS. Apple acknowledged last month that once battery performance deteriorated below a set threshold, performance would be throttled in certain situations to avoid...
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One of the distinguishing features of Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL flagship Android Oreo smartphones compared to their predecessors is the inclusion of Portrait Mode. Portrait Mode allows the main cameras on the Pixel 2 family to produce a synthetic shallow depth effect in photos with a single camera lens, whereas...
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You win some and you lose some, and unfortunately for Otto, a smart lock startup that was ever-so-close to shipping its first product, the door is now slammed shut on the company. Otto founder and CEO Sam Jadallah stated in long-winded Medium post that an acquisition deal crumbled at the least minute, leaving the...
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Bluehole struck gold with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the massively popular survival shooter that recently made gaming history by notching more than 3 million concurrent players on Steam. The game has been such a raging success that the developers were spun off into their own company, PUBG Corp, led by CEO...
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When it comes to recommending the Edge browser to its massive customer base, it often seems as though Microsoft is talking to a brick wall. For the past two years, the company has continually assaulted Google Chrome, highlighting the browser's well-known shortcomings with respect to consuming resources and draining...
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It is customary to reflect on the past, even if just for a brief moment, when a new year rolls around. So it goes with Valve, which has compiled a series of lists highlighting the best selling games of 2017 on Steam. They include the top selling games in terms of revenue, top selling new releases, best selling VR...
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It's quite a big deal that Intel and AMD have partnered to build a new processor package incorporating an 8th Generation Core H-series CPU with a Radeon Vega GPU, plans of which Intel announced two months ago. We expect quite a bit of fanfare and ballyhooing when the first multi-chip module (MCM) package arrives...
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Some factoids have surfaced over the last few days that signal Samsung is expensing its presences in the Chromebook market with a very cool new device. This device is reportedly by the codename "Nautilus" and some details about the tablet have been confirmed recently thanks to a comment in the Chromium Repositories...
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Many Netflix fans aren’t sure if a purchase of the streaming giant by Apple would be a good thing or not. Regardless of these mixed emotions, there is a high likelihood that Apple will buy Netflix in 2018 according to Citi analysts. These analysts put the probability of a Netflix purchase by Apple at 40 percent, with the the purchase being
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Android Auto has been around for a while now and allows users to connect their Android smartphone to compatible infotainment systems in cars, along with some aftermarket audio systems. The catch is that connecting the smartphone to these infotainment systems requires a cable and a USB port. Having to connect your...
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Sony is said to be working on a new "big screen" Android smartphone that will serve as a follow-up to its Xperia XA1 Ultra. There are no surprises when it comes to the namning of the smartphone, which is expected to be called -- surprise, surprise -- the Xperia XA2 Ultra.
Unfortunately for those that were hoping to...
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