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Latest News - October 2017
- Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark III Compact Camera Boasts 24.3MP APS-C CMOS Sensor
- Apple Will Reportedly Dump Touch ID Fingerprint Sensors For All 2018 iPhones
- Microsoft Edge On Windows 10 Blocks Malware Better Than Chrome Or Firefox
- OxygenOS Android 8.0 Oreo Open Beta Available For OnePlus 3/3T, Here’s How To Set It Up
- Cryptocurrency Mining Software Is Secretly Churning On Half A Billion PCs Worldwide
- PUBG Preps Delightful Desert Map And Vaulting System Update, Crests 2.3 Million Concurrent Users
- GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Benchmarks Leaked From Ashes Of The Singularity Database
- OnePlus To Be More Transparent About OxygenOS Data Collection Following Backlash
- Download Google’s Pixel 2 Launcher And Give Any Android Phone A Pixel 2 UI Makeover
- Politifact Fact Checking Website Hacked To Mine Monero Cryptocurrency
- Ethereum Price Surges Inspiring Confidence With Tricky Byzantium Code Update Set For Sunday
- Future iPhones May Gain Apple Pencil Support, Copying Signature Galaxy Note Feature
- Qualcomm Lawsuits Seek To Cripple Apple With iPhone Production And Sales Ban In China
- Pi-Top Raspberry Pi Modular Laptop Redesigned With 14-inch 1080p Display
- iOS 11 Already Surpasses 44 Percent Adoption, Overtakes iOS 10 Install Base
- Samsung Forecasts Record Q3 Profits As CEO Announces Resignation Amid 'Unprecedented Crisis'
- Microsoft Windows 10 Violates Privacy Laws, Lacks Consumer Transparency Says Dutch Privacy Authority
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 2 (2017) Review: Nearly Perfect With OLED
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Full Specs Leak Ahead Of Spooktacular Halloween Debut
- Alleged OnePlus 5T Leaked Render Reveals Galaxy S8-Like Design With Thin Bezels
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All News for October 2017
Canon has announced a new digital camera that has a pair of firsts for the company's point-and-shoot camera line. The major feature of the new flagship G1 X Mark III PowerShot camera is that it has the largest imaging sensor ever crammed inside a Canon point-and-shoot camera: a 24.3MP APS-C CMOS sensor.
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When the first rumors emerged that Apple would be going with bezel-free flagship iPhone, many assumed that the company would be using a Touch ID fingerprint sensor embedded within the actual display panel. However, this wasn't the case, and Apple actually developed a facial scanning tech that worked in conjunction...
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Microsoft Edge is far from the most popular web browser on the market, but it does take top honors in at least one category: blocking malware. NSS Labs conducted tests in which it measured how effective today's leading browsers are at protecting users from socially engineered malware (SEM) and garden variety phishing...
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We posted a fun project yesterday for those who found themselves with a bit of free time on their hands this weekend: installing the PIxel Launcher on any Android smartphone they choose (as long as it's up-to-date, of course). Now, we have stumbled on yet another cool smartphone project, although this one applies only...
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All statistics are notable in their own right, but once in a while, one comes along that seems downright mind-boggling. Take this one: 500 million people are currently affected by unauthorized cryptocurrency mining. Remember when pop-up ads were the biggest offense? That's child's play. If you run into a website...
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PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG) just keeps getting better, and apparently more addictive. Having only days ago setting a concurrent user record (1.5 million) on Steam, where the game is available in Early Access form, PUBG has now set yet another one with 2.3 million players simultaneously logging in and playing...
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There have been lots of rumors surrounding NVIDIA's still-unannounced GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, most of which point to a launch happening later this month. Missing from all the chatter, however, has been any benchmarks. Well, that changes today. The first benchmarks (that we are aware of) of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti have...
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After an almost mind-boggling number of security and privacy issues that have deluged into our lives over the past handful of years, you'd think that companies would begin to take their customers' private data seriously. Still, there are some who just don't seem to "get it", and apparently, OnePlus has proven to be...
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Are you a little too anxious for the upcoming launch of Google's highly anticipated Pixel 2? If so, or you simply love the idea of getting an early look at how Google setup Oreo on its new flagship smartphones, we think we have a new weekend project for you. But don't fret, this one couldn't get much easier. As long...
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Some websites inject your PC with a cryptocurrency mining script to tap into your system's CPU cycles. It is used as an alternative to advertising (or sometimes in conjunction with it) to make money off of your visits, though not all sites are upfront about the practice. Worse yet, a hacked website could be using your...
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Something big is happening in the cryptocurrency market. Ethereum, the second largest digital coin behind Bitcoin, is receiving a major change to its codebase on Sunday, and nobody knows what exactly will happen. The update amounts to another hard fork, which for the most part have gone well for Ethereum miners and...
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Apple is often accused of "adopting" features that have been found on Android devices for years, and making a big deal out of them when finally integrated into its own devices. Qualcomm was nice enough to give us a pretty nice rundown of tech that was first pioneered on Android devices ahead of the official unveil of...
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The gloves are coming off in the legit brawl between two major players in the smartphone industry: Qualcomm and Apple. While we've detailed the legal bickering between the two tech giants on this site on numerous occasions, Qualcomm's latest move is aimed at crippling Apple's base of manufacturing in China.
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Education startup pi-top has rolled out a revised version of its take on a Raspberry Pi-powered laptop. According to pi-top, the modular laptop is designed to help students learn how to code, and give them experience with piecing together electronic components.
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We are not trying to spark of war of words between iOS and Android users, but when it comes to platform fragmentation, it does not really exist in the iPhone community. What is equally remarkable, however, is how quickly iPhone owners adopt major iOS updates. According to the latest data from Mixpanel, iOS 11 has...
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Weird things can happen on Friday the 13th. Case in point, Samsung today announced its earnings guidance for the third quarter of 2017, saying it expects to a record operating profit of 14.5 trillion won (~$12.9 billion), compared with 5.2 trillion won (~$4.6 billion) during the same quarter a year ago. That is cause...
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Microsoft Windows 10 Violates Privacy Laws, Lacks Consumer Transparency Says Dutch Privacy Authority
This isn't the first time that Windows 10 has come under attack from government regulators, and it probably won't be the last. Autoriteir Persoonsgegevens, the Data Protection Authority (DPA) for the Netherlands, is accusing Microsoft of violating data protection laws with the Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro...
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One could argue that the two primary features of a modern laptop that can most prominently define the user experience would be its display and keyboard. After all, these two aspects make up the majority of a notebook PC's human-computer interface. If that's the case, then Lenovo's latest ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 2) with...
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There have been multiple reports of NVIDIA readying a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card for a launch sometime later this month. While we generally take leaked info with a healthy dose of salt, what we have seen and heard leads us to believe this is real news. We are anxious to see what the final spec looks like...
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There is some speculation that OnePlus will release a new handset in the next couple of months, potentially a OnePlus 5T or even a OnePlus 6. Fueling that speculation is a purportedly leaked press rendering of a the former, which is making the rounds on the web. The render shows a handset with an all-screen front...
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One of the things that helped T-Mobile to grow so fast was the reintroduction of unlimited data plans. We all know that "unlimited" really isn't unlimited though and when the T-Mobile One plan debuted it had a cap of 32GB of use per month before data prioritization. That cap was raised to 50GB in September. Customers...
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Gaming peripheral maker Razer started a teaser campaign yesterday that appears to show a person holding a smartphone. Not long after, a tweet turned up that showed the CEO of the company with what we assume to be that smartphone peeking out of his pocket. We have to wait until November 1 to officially see what Razer...
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