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- EVGA Unleashes Z370 Motherboard Lineup To Complement Intel 8th Gen Core Coffee Lake CPUs
- Apple Squashes macOS 10.13 High Sierra Bug That Exposed Passwords For Encrypted APFS Volumes
- Netflix Is Raising Prices Again To Feed Original Content Budget
- Microsoft Launches Edge Browser Beta For Android And iOS
- T-Mobile Offers $325 To Pixel 2 Or Pixel 2 XL Owners Activating A New Line
- Study: In-Car Infotainment Systems Lead To Increased And Deadly Driver Distractions
- HP Blames Microsoft For Dooming Elite X3 Windows 10 Mobile Smartphone To An Early Death
- Users Report Apple iPhone 8 Plus Cracking Open While Charging Hinting At Battery Failure
- Google Pixel 2 Family Guaranteed 3 Years Of OS And Security Updates
- Seagate Launches 12TB IronWolf NAS And 12TB Barracuda Pro Hard Drives
- Intel Core i7-8700K And Core i5-8400 Review: Coffee Lake - More Cores, Performance And Value
- Lenovo ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Edition Laptop Preview: Ode To A Mobile Workhorse
- Google Pixel 2 Camera Puts A Beatdown On All Challengers In DxOMark Benchmark
- Google Launches $999 Pixelbook, Wireless Pixel Buds Earphones And Google Clips AI Camera
- Google Home Mini, Home Max Expand Google's AI Smart Speaker Assault Against Amazon Echo
- Google Announces Pixel 2 And Pixel 2 XL With Dual Pixel Cameras, Headphone Jack Goes MIA
- Lenovo Legion Y720 Laptop Review: High Performance, Affordable Mobile Gaming
- Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Hits RTM Ahead Of October 17th Launch
- Western Digital Ships Monstrous 14TB Helium-Filled Enterprise Class Hard Drives
- Google AI Boasts Much Higher IQ Than Microsoft Bing And Apple Siri In New Study
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All News for October 2017
We can now add EVGA to the list of companies that support Intel's 8th generation Core processors, dubbed Coffee Lake, with the help of three Z370 motherboards. Three boards is pretty standard fare for EVGA, with this launch following the theme of other recent ones. Those wanting an mATX motherboard have an option in...
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Apple's macOS High Sierra was released to the public late last month, and very quick it was discovered that the operating system contained a very serious security exploit. In this particular case, the exploit takes advantage of the new Apple File System (APFS).
A Brazilian software developer by the name of Matheus...
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Netflix is easily the most notable streaming video service out there and the thing that helps keeps it that way is the wealth of original programming that the network offers. Not only does it have a lot of original content including shows and movies, but that content it's typically VERY good. The downside to this...
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Microsoft's Edge browser hasn't exactly been well received on the Windows 10 operating system. Globally, Microsoft Edge has just a 5 percent share of the web browser market, while Chrome is dominating the field with a whopping 60 percent. With its desktop share not looking so hot these days, Microsoft is focusing its attention to the mobile
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T-Mobile never misses an opportunity to throw shade at the competition, and it especially likes to pick on Verizon. It is not always talk, however—putting action behind words, T-Mobile has an offer for anyone who is interested in buying a fancy new Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL handset. If you are willing to jump ship and...
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Creature comforts inside automobiles are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with a larger emphasis placed on the infotainment system. However, drivers should use caution when fiddling around with in-vehicle electronics. There have been numerous reports and studies of the ill effects of distracted driving, and it is...
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It appears that Hewlett-Packard has a bone to pick with Microsoft, and it's in regards to the latter's failed execution in the smartphone operating system space. While Microsoft had been the primary manufacturer of Windows 10 Mobile devices with its Lumia line, it had also recruited big name OEMs like HP to bring...
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It would not be an iPhone launch without reports of manufacturing problems of one kind or another. Throughout the years, there have been complaints of yellow banding resulting from the adhesive underneath the display (iPhone 4), a purple haze when snapping photos (iPhone 5), and of course bendgate (iPhone 6)s, to name...
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Google on Wednesday formally introduced its new generation of Pixel phones, with pricing starting at $649 for the 5-inch Pixel 2 and $849 for the Pixel 2 XL, placing them in premium territory. You can tack on another $100 if jumping from 64GB to 128GB of built-in storage, pricing the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL at $749 and...
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Seagate has rolled out a pair of new HDDs with the first of them being a 12TB 3.5-inch unit in the IronWolf line aimed specifically at NAS environments. That drive has features specifically to make it perform inside a network attached storage (NAS) device including AgileArray and dual-plane balancing along with RAID...
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The upheaval of the high-end desktop processor segment continues today with the official release of Intel’s latest Coffee Lake-based 8th Generation Core processors. 2017 easily been one of the most exciting years in a decade for desktop processors, thanks in no small part to AMD’s entire line-up of Ryzen products...
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If ever there was a brand of laptops that folks might refer to as “iconic,” it would be Lenovo’s ThinkPad line of business-class machines. The ThinkPad line was also a very successful go-to notebook brand for many mainstream consumers over the years as well. Known for their minimalist, straight-forward but highly...
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The camera is one of the most-used features on modern smartphones, and manufacturers are always cooking up news ways to make them faster, boost image quality, and add new effects typically reserved for standalone professional cameras. For those that really care about camera performance, the DxOMark test is one that...
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Yesterday a leak turned up that claimed to tell what specs the Google Pixelbook was going to pack into its chassis. Today the device has gone official and we know exactly what hardware is used and how much the Pixelbook will cost.
As the rumor yesterday claimed, there are three storage capacities available...
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When it comes to AI smart speaker, Amazon has been the market leader with its Echo ever since it was introduced back in late 2014. The retail giant just recently refreshed its Echo family, but Google isn’t sitting idly by. In fact, it is expanding its “Home” speaker family with the introduction of the Google Home Mini...
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Given all of the leaks out of Mountain View over the past month, we already knew about most of what Google planned to announce today at its major hardware event. As expected, the company announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones, which will carry Google’s Android 8.0 Oreo torch through this time next...
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The PC gaming market continues to grow, thanks in part to the increasing popularity of eSports. While Lenovo is best known for its Thinkpad and Yoga family of notebooks with legendary reliability and slick form factors, it was time the company got serious about gaming. So, Lenovo took the plunge and launched a new...
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Microsoft has completed work on its Fall Creators Update for Windows 10. As of build 16299.15, the Fall Creators Update reached RTM (release to manufacturing) status, which is the final code that gets doled out to OEM system builders so they can pre-load PCs with the final version for day-of-release availability...
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Western Digital is breaking out the big guns when it comes to enterprise-class hard drives, and this week the storage giant announced the HGST Ultrastar Hs14. Like its predecessor, the Hs14 takes advantage of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology, however, it offers 40 percent more capacity and twice the...
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Perhaps Google should invest in a bumper sticker that reads, "My AI is an honor student," and then motor around Redmond and Cupertino where Microsoft and Apple are respectively headquartered. Compared to Bing and Siri, Google's artificial intelligent system is a cut above the competition, according to new research at...
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There has been some excitement amongst the Android faithful over the Pixel 2 smartphones that are due to launch today, and leaks have landed recently giving us an idea what the devices will look like. Those images have already stoked the disappointment in many hopefuls, because the Pixel 2 smartphones have thicker...
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There are some interesting things to be discovered when removing the integrated heatspreader (IHS) from a processor, a delicate and dangerous (to the CPU) process known as delidding. For example, you might uncover so called 'dummy dies' as famed overclocker der8auer did when delidding a Threadripper 1950X processor...
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