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Latest News - October 2019
- Google Now Requires OEMs To Hide Their Custom Android 10 Gesture Controls
- MSI Announces Alpha 15 Gaming Laptop With Radeon RX 5500M Navi And 144Hz FreeSync
- Revised Galaxy Fold Teardown Reveals “Chainmail” Armor And More Protective Measures
- How To Overclock Raspberry Pi 4 Over 2GHz For A Tasty Speed Bump
- Samsung 12-Layer 3D Chip Tech Could Deliver 24GB HBM2 For Next-Gen GPUs
- Russian Hackers Modified Chrome And Firefox In Sophisticated Web Traffic Spying Scheme
- Roku's New Interactive Roku TV Pop-Up Ads During Commercials Raise Eyebrows
- Microsoft Patent Details Vibrating VR Floor Mat For Interactive Living Room Gaming
- MSI Launches X299 Creator, X299 Pro 10G Enthusiast Motherboards For Intel Core-X CPUs
- Amazon Launches New Fire HD 10 Tablet With USB-C, Faster CPU, Longer Battery Life
- Intel Unleashes Xeon W-2200 Series CPUs With Price Cuts, Up To 18 Cores For Creators And Enthusiasts
- AMD Unveils Radeon RX 5500 Navi For Desktop And Mobile To Take On GeForce GTX Turing
- Sony PS4 Software Update 7.00 Brings New Party, Remote Play Features
- Sesame Street’s Elmo Gets A Side-Hustle Teaching Engineering For Mark Zuckerberg
- Google Pixel 4 May Employ A Convenient New Way To Summon Google Assistant
- How To Use Google's New Shopping Tool For Deal Price Cut Alerts: Bose, Sony, Powerbeats Live Now
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Falls To A Crazy Low 50% Off Price For Deal Seekers
- Window 10 1903 Facepalms Continue As Cumulative Update Breaks VMware Workstation
- If Your iPhone 6s Fails To Power On, Apple May Offer A Rare Free Repair For You
- Inception: Scientists Have Implanted Memories In Birds To Teach Them New Songs
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All News for October 2019
With Android 10, Google rolled out its own new gesture navigation, and while it's not perfect, it wants all OEMs to use it. Google is going as far as to require OEMs to hide their own gesture navigation systems from the setup wizard. The tip on this change comes in the latest version of the Google Mobile Services...
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Earlier today, AMD launched desktop and mobile versions of its new mainstream 7nm Navi-based Radeon RX 5500 Series. In our initial story, we briefly touched on the MSI Alpha 15, which will be the first gaming laptop to ship with the Radeon RX 5500M graphics cards.
Now, MSI is officially announcing the Alpha 15, and...
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The gang over at iFixit has got their hands on the revised Samsung Galaxy Fold and have torn it down. The teardown starts with a look at the new protective elements that Samsung added to prevent the Galaxy Fold from getting debris under the skin. iFixit says that Samsung has fortified many of the spots that previously...
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The Raspberry Pi 4 is one of the cheapest single-board computers around, and thanks to its substantial performance boost over its predecessors, it also represents a good bang for the buck if you're interested in learning Linux, or just want to kick back and play some of your favorite retro games in Lakka. The good...
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Samsung today said it has developed the industry's first 12-layer 3D-TSV (Through Silicon Via) chip packaging technology, calling it "one of the most challenging packaging technologies for mass production of high performance chips." And that is precisely what it will be used for—it will enable Samsung to mass produce...
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Security researchers at Kaspersky have identified a new strain of malware affecting Chrome and Firefox browsers. The researchers say the malware's authors "put a lot of effort" into how it manipulates digital certificates and mucks with outbound TLS traffic, which ultimate compromises encrypted...
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It's becoming harder and harder to find TVs these days that aren’t "smart" straight from the factory. Smart TVs with their integrated internet connectivity and media platforms make it easier for hardware OEMs to track your viewing habits (by default) and make additional revenue from advertising.
Roku is looking to...
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The problem for gamers who try and play VR games in their living room is that the immersion factor means furniture in the home becomes a hazard. Microsoft has a new patent application that has surfaced that shows what it is thinking about to help define the VR playing area to make play safer. The patent application is...
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Following the launch of Intel's latest Core X-series (Cascade Lake-X) of high-end desktop (HEDT) processors, MSI has come out with a trio of new X299 motherboard options for creators and professionals, including the Creator X299, X299 Pro, and X299 Pro 10G, the latter of which comes bundled with a 10G "Super LAN" card...
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Late last month, Amazon unleashed a bevy of Alexa-related products including new smart speakers and even smart earbuds. Today, the company is making a more low-key announcement in the form of an upgraded Fire HD 10 tablet.
As Amazon puts it, the new Fire HD 10 is better in nearly every way thanks to specs bumps...
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Intel Unleashes Xeon W-2200 Series CPUs With Price Cuts, Up To 18 Cores For Creators And Enthusiasts
Intel on Monday unveiled a bunch of new Xeon W-2200 series processors at comparatively aggressive price points. The new Glacier Falls CPUs range in core and thread count from 4-cores/8-threads up to 18-cores/36-threads, and are up to around 50 percent less expensive than the previous generation Xeon W-2100...
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Not long after recent rumors of incoming entry-level Navi-based Radeon graphics cards started making the rounds, AMD has made an official announcement of its new Radeon RX 5500 family. As its naming implies, these new graphics cards will slot in beneath the existing Radeon RX 5700 family.
AMD is making available...
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Sony has announced that the latest update for the PlayStation 4 is coming this week around the world. The new software will take the PS4 to system version 7.00. The update brings with it key system features, including features for Party and Remote Play. Sony notes that a number of the new features, including the...
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How do you get to Sesame Street? Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg may hold the key. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Primary School is working alongside the Sesame Workshop to offer a new education curriculum.
The Primary School and Sesame Workshop have been working together on this new curriculum over the...
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Google is building a number of cool features into the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, and details have been leaking like crazy over the past month. Another new feature has now leaked that outlines an interesting new way that users of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will be able to activate the Google Assistant. The new...
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Google has updated the Google Shopping service, and the redesigned experience is now available in the U.S. for mobile and desktop users. Google says the service gives information from thousands of stores in one place, and you can discover and compare millions of products online or in a store nearby. Users can get a...
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AMD's Ryzen 3000 family of Zen 2 processors is burning up the sales charts due to their value pricing and multi-threaded benchmark prowess. But now that the Ryzen 3000 processors have had a few months to "spread their wings" so to speak, some rather deep discounts can be found on the previous generation Ryzen 2000...
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I consider myself a lucky fellow, as I have managed to avoid any major issues (and even minor ones) when installing updates for Windows 10, both big and small ones (*knock on tree flesh*). Others have not been so fortunate. Microsoft's most recent cumulative updates have caused a few headaches around the web, from...
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The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s are old devices now, but there are a lot of people out there who are still using them -- and Apple was still producing the smartphones as of August 2019. For those who have an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s that is now failing to power on despite your best efforts, Apple may fix your device at no...
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One of a human baby’s most exciting developmental steps is learning and repeating their first word. However, we still do not fully understand what happens in the brain that helps this learning process takes place. Researchers are now a little closer to understanding speech development, however, and the methods they've...
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AMD is riding high on its Zen 2 CPU architecture, both on the desktop and in the server sector, and has managed to steal some market share from Intel because of its recent success. Lest anyone think AMD will now rest on its laurels, the company put that notion to rest during a recent HPC-AI Advisory Council conference...
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Microsoft can't seem to get it right over the last year, with Windows Update seemingly break things nearly every time the company sets out to address an issue a past update caused. Case-in-point is the latest Windows 10 KB4524147 cumulative update that shipped on October 3rd, with security fixes and to address the...
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