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Want to get your hands on a HOT new Google Pixel XL smartphone? Then make sure to point your browser over to the HotHardware Shop and check out this page! We’ve got a giveaway running for the next month in which you could win of these awesome smartphones... Description Google has gotten into the smartphone game, and you can nab your Pixel Read more...
Qualcomm is making the bold move to 10nm FinFET process technology for its next generation smartphone SoC (System on Chip), and it has enlisted Samsung to help. The two powerhouse companies in the mobile and semiconductor industries announced this morning that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 will be manufactured on... Read more...
In late October, we got our fist peek at a new tablet from Barnes & Noble that is destined to take on the budget Amazon Fire. The tablet broke cover via an FCC filing, but now it has been officially unveiled. The device, called the NOOK Tablet 7, features — you guessed it — a 7-inch IPS display with a resolution of... Read more...
Lost in translation? Translators are incredibly helpful, but can often be inaccurate or sound robotic. To combat this, Google just introduced its Neural Machine Translation which helps to make translations smoother and easier to read. The Neural Machine Translation translates entire sentences instead of small... Read more...
We’re already half way through the work week, and we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals to share. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Samsung 55-inch 4K UltraHD Curved LED Smart HDTV, a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Intel Core i5 Quad-Core 15.6-inch Gaming Laptop, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For more Read more...
Up until Satya Nadella took the reigns at Microsoft, it wasn't a secret that Redmond company didn't take too kindly to Linux. The situation has sure changed over the past couple of years, though. Even the company's massive Azure platform supports Linux, and a couple of months ago, it ported its popular PowerShell admin tool to the Penguin-fueled Read more...
We all have that musty box in our attic filled with the old photographs we never got around to digitizing. The digitization process can be incredibly time consuming and costly. However, Google just introduced its PhotoScan app to make saving those precious photos easier than ever. Why did Google just release... Read more...
Like the former Red Sox star David Ortiz stepping up to the plate and knocking one out of the park, NVIDIA stepped up its game this year and hit a home run with its Pascal architecture. Now it gets to reap the rewards of all the R&D that went into its latest and by far greatest GPUs it ever released. Sales are up big... Read more...
If you were following along two weeks ago, shortly after the launch of the 13-inch MacBook Pro (sans Touch Bar), then you know that Apple has been making it increasingly difficult to repair and upgrade its Macs. Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro was mocked for the consolidation of components onto a single logic board and... Read more...
Study after study have shown the dangers of driving while distracted, something that has become a growing problem with the advent of smartphones. However, it used to be that making calls and firing off text messages were the biggest culprits. Not anymore. They're still responsible for distracting drivers, but so are... Read more...
Last month, Seagate made headlines with the world’s highest capacity 2.5-inch hard drive: the BarraCuda ST5000. Coming in at 5TB in size, it’s hard to imagine that such a drive would leave mobile computing enthusiasts starved for storage space. A month later, Seagate has stuffed that hard drive into an external... Read more...
Do you even VR, bro? That seems to be the question the computer industry at large is interested in asking, as there is a concerted effort to push VR gaming and experiences as the next big thing. It's coming from all directions, even system makers, hence the Trident from MSI. The Trident is a "complete and ready-to-go... Read more...
The holiday shopping season isn't even in full swing yet though it looks like we already know what one of the hottest selling items will be: Nintendo's pint sized NES Classic Edition. Demand is red hot for the miniature version of the most popular game consoles of all time, and that's led to inflated price tags on... Read more...
Microsoft is furthering its efforts to go green. The company just made its largest wind energy purchase (237 megawatts) through wind farms aligned with Allianz Risk Transfer (ART) and Black Hills Corporation. Microsoft plans to power its datacenter in Cheyenne, Wyoming entirely by this windpower. According to... Read more...
This past summer, we learned that even though the US government is adamant about fighting piracy, it found itself in a "Do as I say, not as I do" situation. So far, it's managed to - but given hard evidence, we can't imagine that it's likely to last for long. Starting back in 2011, the Department of Defense's US... Read more...
Trolls and cyber-bullying have been around since the very beginning of the internet. Twitter now has a way to sift through the potential hate, as the social media website is expanding the “mute” feature to encompass notifications. Twitter noted that cyber-bullying inhibits “people from participating on Twitter, or... Read more...
OnePlus has just announced a minor update to its flagship OnePlus 3 smartphone, which was announced over the summer. The new OnePlus 3T brings with it a few noticeable updates, but we doubt that any of them will be enough to get owners of the original OnePlus 3 to trade in their devices. The most prominent change... Read more...
One of the benefits of an electric vehicle and many hybrids is that they reduce noise pollution compared to their gas guzzling brethren. On the surface, that sounds like a good thing, until you get plowed into by one because you didn't hear it coming. To prevent that from happening, the U.S. Department of... Read more...
Major entities are taking steps to crack down on the proliferation of fake news, and you can count Google among them. The sultan of search is putting together a new policy that would prevent websites from misrepresenting content on its AdSense advertising network, a move that won't totally get rid of fake news but... Read more...
When you purchase a brand new Android smartphone, you hope that you won’t have to deal with malware that is spying on you at every turn. To protect yourself, you might avoid side-loading apps or only download seemingly trusted apps from the Google Play Store. However, what if you do everything right and are still... Read more...
In search of the next big money maker, Apple is considering a foray into augmented reality, a sector company CEO Tim Cook thinks will be really big. The company's interest is described as being in the exploratory phase at this point, as it look at whether there exists a significant market opportunity for a set of AR... Read more...
If you’ve been anxious to dive into some officially-sanctioned Mario gaming on your iOS device, the wait is nearly over. Nintendo announced this morning that Super Mario Run, which was originally revealed by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto during the iPhone 7 keynote, will be available on the iPhone and the iPad... Read more...
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