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Latest News - November 2015
- Rivet Networks Q&A: From The Bigfoot Killer NIC To Qualcomm And Back
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III Generates Record $550 Million In Just Three Days
- Google Maps Sends Standalone GPS Units To Early Grave With Offline Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Search
- Google To Yank Chrome Support For Windows XP, Vista In 2016
- Microsoft Uses Machine Learning To ‘Read’ Your Face, Determine Your Emotional State
- Apple’s Tim Cook Says Microsoft Surface Book ‘Tries Too Hard and is Sort of Deluded’
- Basemark Launches GPU Vulkan Benchmark To Yardstick Next Gen OpenGL Performance
- NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Brings Supercomputer Performance To Autonomous Drones, Vehicles
- ARM Launches Low Power 64-bit Cortex-A35 For 'The Next Billion Smartphone Users'
- T-Mobile Binge On Offers Unlimited Netflix, Hulu, HBO Streaming Without Killing Your Data Plan
- 1-Day Amazon Sale On Select Sony Flash Memory Products, Samsung D3 5TB External Hard Drive For $109 And More
- Qualcomm Unleashes Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics, Better Performance, Lower Power For Mobile Devices
- Motorola Droid Turbo 2 And Droid Maxx 2 Review: Shatterproof And Value Android
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Says PCs Are Dead, Draconian UK Surveillance Bill Would ‘Hurt Good People'
- Samsung Gear VR Headset Now Available To Pre-order For $99, Ships November 20th
- HTC’s One A9 Pricing See-Saw Rebounds With Limited Time Return To $399
- Google Democratizes AI Research By Giving Away TensorFlow Software
- Time Warner Cable Ditches Cable Box Fees With $10/Month Roku 3-Powered TV Service Trial
- EVGA’s New GQ Power Supplies Strut Value Like A Boss
- Intel Turns Sights On ARM Server Onslaught With New Xeon D Processors
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All News for November 2015
PC gamers and longtime HotHardware readers will no doubt be familiar with the Killer series of network controllers. We’ve taken a look at a number of the add-in versions over the years, including the original beast with the massive “K” heatsink. Many of today’s gamer-targeted motherboards also feature Killer...
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If you need any further confirmation that the Call of Duty is still serious business for Activision Blizzard, look no further than these latest figures that are rolling in regarding the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The game managed to generate in excess of $550 million worldwide within three days of its...
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It's tough to get lost these days. That's because we're increasingly becoming connected creatures with mobile devices always at the ready, devices that can tell us where we are at any given moment and how to get to where we need to be. Well, until the connection is lost, at which point you might find yourself...
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Sound the alarm, Google's ending support for its Chrome browser in Windows XP and Windows Vista! You there, on your outdated Mac, quit snickering -- Google's also cutting off support for Mac OS X versions 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). If you're rocking one of these older OSes, continue using Chrome at your own
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By now, it should be clear that machine-learning is turning into big business for the biggest corporations. We learned back in September that Apple is on a hiring spree to bring in some good talent, and Amazon even leases out the fruits of its efforts for researchers to take advantage of. Even more recently, we...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t making any friends on the PC side of the aisle this week. Cook took to the interview circuit this week to heavily promote the release of the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro and didn’t waste any time kicking some dirt in the eyes of PC fans around the world.
When questioned on his thoughts about PCs...
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Tomorrow's VR (virtual reality) applications are going to usher in a new era of graphics based on the Khronos Group's Vulkan API. To make sure the industry is properly equipped to benchmark such things, Basemark today announced its new GPU Vulkan benchmarking software, which it's developing in close cooperation with...
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NVIDIA may be a graphics powerhouse when it comes to add-in boards for desktops and integrated graphics for notebooks, but the company isn’t putting all of its eggs into one basket. It also tiptoes into supercomputing efforts, automotive technology (the company’s Tegra X1 powers the 2016 Audi TT’s “virtual cockpit”...
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If you purchased a higher-end smartphone in the past two years, chances are good that it has an SoC under its hood that packs ARM's ARMv8 architecture. It's what made 64-bit mobile processors possible, and with that comes increased performance as well as the ability to utilize lots of memory, among other processing...
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Today, brash T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced the latest piece of its long-running Uncarrier initiative. Uncarrier X was teased late last month, and well-known smartphone leaker Evan Blass even spilled the beans saying that T-Mobile would offer unlimited streaming for video services like Netflix and HBO. As Legere...
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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 Select Sony Memory Products, a Samsung D3 Desktop 5TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, a Poweradd Apollo2 Solar Panel 10000mAh External Battery Pack, and more. Full details for all of...
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Get ready for the next generation of mobile. So says Qualcomm, a formidable force in the mobile sector with its Snapdragon silicon, and today the company held an event in New York City to demonstrate for the first time its highly anticipated Snapdragon 820 System-on-Chip (SoC). More than just a speed bump and refresh...
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Not long ago, we kicked the tires on Motorola’s well-received Moto X Pure Edition. The smartphone impressed us with its Quad HD display and overall build quality, as well as its $399 price tag, which places it more reasonably below the lofty prices of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Apple iPhone 6S lines. Today, we’re...
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On the eve of opening up sales for its highly anticipated 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a wide-ranging interview in which he talks about topics ranging the United Kingdom’s efforts to snuff out smartphone encryption and user privacy in the name of national security to future medical...
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There's been a lot of chatter about virtual reality technology transforming the consumer landscape, and little by little, the revolution is getting underway. It takes another step today with Samsung's Gear VR headset going up for pre-order at a rather affordable $99, with shipments slated for a week from Friday...
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We’re beginning to wonder if HTC execs are asleep at the wheel as hits every pothole and speed bump in the road ahead at full speed. The company first came under fire for allegedly ripping off the design of the iPhone 6/iPhone 6s with its new One A9 smartphone — a claim that it shrugged off, citing that it was in fact...
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In the world of machine-learning, there are few companies putting as much effort into its progression than Google. We learned just a few weeks ago about one of Google's "signals" called RankBrain that helps handle our most outlandish search requests, and today, we learn of TensorFlow, an important learning library...
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Could this latest move by Time Warner Cable mean the beginning of the end for big, power hungry cable boxes? That remains to be seen, but it’s an interesting change of direction to say the least. Time Warner Cable is trialing a new TV service in New York City and New Jersey that will allow customers to replace their...
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Whenever a company uses the word "value" to describe a product, our skepticism meter starts buzzing. In many cases, their definition of value either differs from ours, or the low price comes at the expense of quality. EVGA contends that neither is the case with its new line of GQ power supplies for budget conscious buyers.
The tagline for
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Companies like Qualcomm have made gains in the server and micro-server markets with ARM-based silicon, but in doing so, they may have woken a sleeping giant in Intel, the world's largest semiconductor player. Intel recognizes the growing market for low-cost, low-power servers, and in addition to its x86 Atom-based...
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It seems as though the entire gaming world is ready for tomorrow’s release of Fallout 4. Earlier today, we learned that both GameStop and Best Buy are tossing in a free copy of Fallout 4 with the purchase of a new PlayStation 4 console. And a week ago, we learned of a killer Black Friday deal from Dell that will...
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Well folks, here’s the first of Volkswagen’s actions to “make customers” whole with regards to #DieselGate. In case you need a refresher, Volkswagen admitted to installing a “defeat device” on 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesel engines (under the TDI brand name), allowing them to ace the EPA’s emissions tests. However...
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