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Latest News - October 2016
- Microsoft Delivers Fix For Windows 10 Cumulative Update Reboot Loop
- AT&T Announces Eleven New Metro Areas For GigaPower Fiber Rollout
- Maingear Rush 1ofONE Gaming PC Adds A Swig Of Liquid Coca-Cola Refreshment
- FBI Arrests NSA Contractor For Allegedly Stealing And Disclosing Classified Hacking Computer Code
- Skyrim And Fallout 4 Mod Support Coming To PS4 With Sony And Bethesda Ending Dispute
- Samsung Nabs Original Apple Siri Developers In Acqusition Of Viv AI Startup
- Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Ignites On Southwest Plane, U.S. Launches New Investigation
- Hands-On With The ASUS ZenBook 3 And ZenWatch 3, A Dynamic Duo
- ASUS Transformer 3 Pro And Mini Expand Potent Portfolio Of Hybrid 2-in-1 Convertibles
- ASUS ZenFone 3 Family Adds Deluxe Special Edition With Snapdragon 821, 256GB Storage
- Lenovo Phab2 Pro Arrives In November As World’s First Project Tango AR Phone
- Charter Sues Louisville To Slow Non-Existent Google Fiber Rollout Citing Preferential Treatment
- First Pixel XL Benchmarks Detail A Very Early View Of Made By Google Performance
- Call of Duty Infinite Warfare And Modern Warfare Remastered Require A Beefy 130GB Free Disk Space On PS4
- $449 Dell Inspiron 3650 Intel Core i5 Desktop With 12GB RAM, $500 Gift Card With LG Signature 55in 4K UHD OLED HDTV And More
- Motorola To Roll Out Sweet Android 7.0 Nougat Goodness To Many Legacy Moto Phones
- Amazon Prime Reading Offers Unlimited Access For Kindle Books, Comics, Magazines
- Apple Patent Reveals Touch ID Fingerprint Sensor Tech That Works Through Display
- Google, Apple, Microsoft Deny Yahoo-Style Email Scanning For The Government
- Dual AMD Vega GPU Cards Coming In 2017 With Massive 18 TFLOPs Of Compute Performance
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All News for October 2016
Last week, Microsoft delivered Windows 10 Build 14393.222, which on the surface seemed like any of the other countless updates that came before it. However, many users encountered endless reboots as the update attempted to install, only to fail repeatedly.
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The race is on to bring gigabit Internet service to as many residential homes across the nation as possible. One of the participants is AT&T, which announced plans to expand its fiber-optic network to 11 more metro areas. The expansion is part of a broader initiative to bring AT&T...
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We’ve seen some pretty interesting themed gaming PCs over the years, but this has to be one of the most “refreshing” that has come across the news desk in recent memory. Maingear has just announced a partnership with Coca-Cola, and the result is the Rush 1ofONE Coke eSports custom gaming PC.
On the outside, the...
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It's come to light that a former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) was arrested back in August by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The agency suspects the contractor might have stolen and disclosed classified computer code developed by the NSA to hack into networks of governments around the...
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At long last, Bethesda is bringing mod support for Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition to PlayStation 4 players after working out an arrangement with Sony. That was the plan all along, of course, with Bethesda originally intending to bring modding to the PS4 back in June. But then Sony set up a roadblock by refusing...
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Samsung could use a win right about now and it may have gotten one by agreeing to acquire Viv Labs, an interesting startup that developed a unique, open artificial intelligence platform that could end up putting Siri to shame. It's a valid comparison both because Viv is on track to become another digital assistant for...
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Samsung's nightmare scenario with its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 launch continues as yet another handset—this time a replacement phone that's supposed to be unaffected by the original recall—overheated and emitted heavy smoke. It happened on a grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that was scheduled to travel from...
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We're capping off our Zenvolution coverage today with an overview of the ZenBook 3 and the ZenWatch 3. We were able to get some "hands-on" time with both new ASUS devices and they're pretty impressive pieces of hardware.
The ZenBook 3 is now decked out with Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processors; in this case, the...
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Hybrid 2-in-1 convertibles is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global PC market, and OEMs are understandably hammering the segment hard. ASUS has given us numerous generations of its Transformer convertibles over the years, and continues that tradition today with the official launch of the Transformer 3 Mini...
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On two previous occasions, ASUS has announced new members of its ZenFone 3 family. Between the jumble of specs and models relegated to certain localities, a few bits may have been dropped in translation. However, at the company’s Zenvolution event held this evening, ASUS made things crystal clear surrounding the...
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This past June, Lenovo invited select press to an event in San Francisco where the company unveiled two upcoming products: Phab2 Pro, and Moto Z. We took a look at the (seriously awesome) Moto Z a couple of months ago, and now, we have the Phab2 Pro to look forward to next month.
We'd understand it if you felt a...
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In the city of Nashville, Tennessee, Google Fiber is running into trouble with incumbents who are trying to slow its rollout of gigabit internet service. Google Fiber has limited service within the city, and is dependent on gaining access to utility poles to expand its footprint. However, Comcast and AT&T are making...
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Google came out with guns blazing yesterday with the unveil of its latest take on the flagship Android smartphone. Google retired its Nexus branding and launched the Pixel and Pixel XL Android Nougat smartphones.
Both smartphones come with impressive specifications that are worthy of Android flagship status. The...
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The wait for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is down to about a month, though in the meantime, the game's retail packaging for the PlayStation 4 gives us something interesting to talk about. Apparently the game, which comes with a digital code to download a remastered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, will...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 3650 Intel Core i5-6400 based desktop system, a LG Signature OLED55B6P 55" 4K UHD HDR OLED Smart HDTV, a ROBO 3D R1 Plus 10x9x8in ABS/PLA 3D Printer, and more. Full...
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It's always with eager and hopeful anticipation that Android device owners wait to find if and when a major new version of Google's mobile operating system is headed to the their handset. Well, if you're rocking a semi-recent Motorola phone, the odds are in your favor. That's because Motorola published a list of more...
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Being an Amazon Prime member has a bunch of perks, not the least of which is free two-day shipping on millions of qualifying items. However, it's become much more than a free-shipping program over the years. Members get unlimited streaming access to select movies and TV shows (Prime Video), ad-free access to more than...
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When Apple launched the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus last month, it took away the physical Home button, instead leaving behind a fixed panel with haptic feedback to simulate a button press. Future iPhones may ditch this vestigial Home button altogether (and with it, traditional Touch ID) to allow for a more advanced way...
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In the wake of a report outing Yahoo's email scanning program for the government, a handful of other major tech firms have gone on record saying they don't snoop your incoming messages for Uncle Sam. Those firms include Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, four of which pretty much denied ever receiving...
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Rumor has it AMD is planning a dual-GPU graphics card based on its forthcoming Vega 10 architecture that's due out next year. The card will be aimed at the professional market (initially, at least) where it will serve up an impressive amount of power for professional level content creation and things such as deep...
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A recent discovery has the Linux community buzzing, and it involves a bug in systemd, an init (initialization) system used in many modern Linux distributions to bootstrap the user space and manage all processes. Many regular Linux users might not even understand what systemd is, and that's because it just works, it...
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Says it ain’t so, Yahoo. As if Yahoo doesn’t have enough trouble on its hands with the revelation that 500 million users accounts were compromised in a 2012 hack (that number could actually surpass 1 billion users according to recent reports), a new report suggests that Yahoo provided a helping hand to the U.S...
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