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- NVIDIA Stealthily Launches GeForce GTX 1060 With 6GB GDDR5X To Counter AMD Polaris Refresh
- Samsung Galaxy S10 May Offer Great Innovative Features For A True Bezel-Free Flagship Phone
- Verizon Backtracks On Decision To Carrier Lock All Pixel 3 Phones, For Now
- Shhh Be Vewwy Quiet, Alexa Whisper Mode Rolls Out To Amazon Echo Devices Today
- Pro Overclockers Waste No Time Setting Intel Core i9-9900K Overclocking Records North Of 7GHz
- Epson Accused Of Shamelessly Bricking Third-Party Ink In Printer Firmware Updates
- Microsoft Pushes Out Three Windows 10 Cumulative Updates With Lots Of Fixes
- ASUS Reportedly Prepping Radeon RX 590 ROG Strix Polaris Refresh Graphics Card
- Hate The Notch? You Should See Next Year’s Phone Display Design Solution For It
- Intel Core i9-9900K CPU Review: 8-Core 9th Gen Coffee Lake Benchmarks
- Vertu Emerges From Bankruptcy With $5,000 Titanium-Clad Aster P Smartphone
- Porsche Prices 600 Horsepower Taycan Performance EV At $92,500
- NVIDIA SHIELD TV Gains Deeper Google Home Integration And Expanded Voice Controls
- Apple Sends Invites For October 30 Event In NY, New iPad Pros And Macs Expected
- 2.5 Geeks Webcast: Pixel 3, GeForce RTX 2070, Intel 9th Gen, Acer Helios And Swift & More!
- Xiaomi Teases Black Shark 2 Gaming Phone Arriving October 23
- Windows 10 19H1 Preview Build Lets Users Remove More Preinstalled Apps And Bloat
- T-Mobile Offers New Samsung And LG Phones On Sweet 36 Month Payment Plan
- Here’s A Killer Deal On A 50-Inch Toshiba Smart 4K HDR Fire TV For Just $350
- Samsung Unveils Galaxy Book 2 ACPC Powered By Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
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All News for October 2018
NVIDIA is all about its GeForce RTX series with real-time ray tracing and DLSS support right now, but rumors of AMD getting ready to introduce a refreshed Polaris GPU may have prompted to the company to upgrade one of its Pascal parts. So far there has not been any official announcement or fanfare, but a visit to...
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Samsung isn't exactly hip to the idea of display notches that seem to be proliferating in the smartphone market. In fact, the company has gone out of its way to mock manufacturers that have relied on the notch to expand the size of their display screens while minimizing bezels.
Now we know the reason why Samsung is...
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When early birds starting picking up their Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones from Verizon this week, they were met with befuddlement when it was discovered that the devices were carrier locked. While this might not seem all that surprising given that the Pixel 3 is a Verizon carrier-exclusive device, Verizon has...
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Amazon talked up its new Whisper Mode back in September, when it outlined how it was able to get the feature to work. What Whisper Mode does is allow Alexa to respond to a whispered command with a whispered response. Why would you need this? One usage scenario would be for people using an Alexa device in a room where...
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After weeks (or even months) of build-up, Intel has today launched its 9th-gen Core series, led by the eight-core, sixteen-thread Core i9-9900K. We took an in-depth look at Intel's latest hotness earlier, finding that overall, Intel's new mainstream top dog offers the strongest single-threaded performance going, as...
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A senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit public interest organization, says Epson may be engaging in "deceptive" behavior by intentionally preventing third-party ink from working in its printers. According to the complaints EFF has received, Epson is doing this through firmware...
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Microsoft is still testing its October 2018 Update for Windows 10 after taking it offline to investigate reports of missing files. The issue is purportedly fixed, though Microsoft is not yet ready to start doling it out to the general public yet. In the meantime, Microsoft issued a trio of cumulative updates for...
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AMD seems to be focusing on squeezing as much out of its Polaris architecture as possible while we wait for Navi to arrive. There have already been several generations of Polaris parts, including the Radeon RX 400 series, Radeon RX 500 series, and a refreshed release of the latter. Now there is chatter of a Radeon RX...
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It used to be that nothing was certain but death and taxes, to quote Benjamin Franklin (who wasn't actually the first to point this out, but is probably best known for the phrase). Well, we can add to that short list. In today's landscape, certainties include death, taxes, and display notches on a growing number of...
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After what seemed like months of leaks and speculation, Intel officially announced its 9th Generation Core desktop CPU line-up a couple of weeks back, at a lavish event in New York City. Though the upcoming Core X series processors, the beastly 28-core Xeon W-3175X, and the 9th Gen Core i family don’t feature...
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Vertu is a name that had been around for many years before the company filed for bankruptcy about a year ago. The problem for Vertu is that it catered to a crowd of wealthy individuals that could drop $10,000 on a smartphone with specifications that were often mediocre; and that is a very small market. Vertu is back...
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The world is steadily moving towards electrified cars, and while some sports car manufacturers are fighting this trend, others are fully embracing it. One of the marques that is hip to electrification is Porsche, and it has priced its slick Taycan EV sports car at a cool $92,500 for starters. However, with the myriad...
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NVIDIA's "do everything" SHIELD TV is an incredibly potent media streamer + gaming platform, and it already features native support for the Google Assistant. However, the current implementation of voice control with the Google Assistant leaves a lot to be desired and is quite limited in its capabilities.
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What is Apple brewing up? The company recently sent out invitations to members of the media for their October 30th event in Brooklyn, New York. The media invites featured various Apple logo designs and promised that “there’s more in the making”.
The October 30th event will likely feature other Apple products...
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks wild and woolly webcast - Marco, Chris and Dave had a nice fireside chat about Google’s new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Android phones, the Acer Swift 3 laptop with Intel Optane, the Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 performance with a sweet...
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The stakes in the gaming smartphone arena are getting higher as more players enter the field. Razer got the ball rolling with the Razer Phone, and since then we've seen entries from the likes of Xiaomi and even ASUS. Back in April, Xiaomi revealed the original Black Shark gaming phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845...
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As solid as Windows 10 is as an OS all-around, Microsoft made some design decisions with it that have annoyed its faithful customer base (unless you feel like you have no choice but to use Windows, of course). Privacy has been at the forefront of complaints, with the OS tracking us like never before, but more...
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Smartphone makers seem intent on finding out exactly how much money they can get away with charging for their flagship phones, with several models now topping the $1,000 mark. Traditionally, wireless carriers would let customers spread the cost over a period of 12 or 24 months. T-Mobile is taking things a step...
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Here's my bold, and maybe biased prediction: Red Sox are going to the World Series, Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl, Celtics are a lock for the NBA Finals, and the Bruins will compete for the Stanley Cup. If you're a diehard Boston sports fan like myself and want to catch all the glory on something bigger and...
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Samsung on Thursday announced the Galaxy Book 2, a new always on and "Always Connected" PC (ACPC) built for all-day productivity. It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 mobile platform, which Qualcomm purpose-built for these kinds of devices with a claimed 30 percent performance uplift compared to previous...
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While Intel has been having problems with mass production of its 10nm product lines, other tech giants like AMD and Samsung are well along in their 7nm endeavors. AMD is currently sampling 7nm EPYC processors, and we're learning today that Samsung has now started mass production of chips using its 7nm LPP EUV...
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One aspect of smartphones that largely gets overlooked is security. For many consumers, the technical details surrounding stronger encryption just isn't as interesting as advancements in camera technology and other prominent features. For those who do care to know more, however, Google wrote a blog post describing its...
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