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Latest News - November 2016
- Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Invitational eSports Tournament Kicks Off December 3rd
- Infineon Processor Powered Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube In Under A Second
- Yahoo Staffers Knew Of State-Sponsored Attack On 500 Million Accounts In 2014
- Facebook Bug Temporarily Kills Users Placing Memorials At The Top Of Their Profile
- AT&T Stream Saver Will Throttle Mobile Video To 480p By Default, Opt-Out Required
- $720 New Dell XPS Intel i7 Quad-Core Desktop (Fits 225W Video Cards), $250 Gift Card + Tablet Remote With 55in Vizio 4K UHD HDTV And More
- Google DeepMind AI's Ability To Discern Physical Objects Is Mere Child's Play
- Instagram Stories Empowers Creators With Mentions, URL Links, And Boomerang Videos
- Nintendo NES Classic Edition Sells Out Fast, Scalpers Quadruple Retail Price
- Sony PlayStation 4 Pro Gains Weight To Tackle 4K Gaming But Is Easily Gutted For DIY Repairs
- Xbox One Chalks Up Fourth Consecutive Monthly Sales Victory Over Rival PS4
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 Series And Deep Learning GPUs Buoy Blockbuster Q3 Earnings
- Mark Zuckerberg Denies Bogus Facebook News Feed Stories Affected U.S. Election
- HTC Vive VR Headset Goes Completely Wireless With $220 TPCast Accessory
- Ay Caramba! The Spanish Government Wants To Ban Internet Memes?
- Facebook Vows To Fix Its Serious Misinformation Problem Spread By Bogus Algorithmic Promotion
- Google Combats EU Antitrust Attacks On Android With Surprisingly Convincing GIFs
- Snapchat Spectacles Are Now Available Via Minion-Esque Vending Machines
- $609 Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Intel i7 17.3" 1080p Laptop With AMD GPU, $30 Off Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan Membership, And More
- Siri Integration Comes To PayPal iOS App, Send And Request Money With Your Voice
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All News for November 2016
Call of Duty might not be the biggest name in eSports, but its popularity is nonetheless huge and it has the potential to become even bigger. Will Infinite Warfare help that? It's really hard to say at this point, but Sony and Infinity Ward seem very keen on pushing it as hard as they can.
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As difficult as a Rubik's Cube puzzle is to solve to a human, it might not seem like that complicated of a problem. We're talking about a mere 6-sided cube with 9 segments on each side. How hard could it be? Well, for humans, most people would take several minutes, but at least one dedicated solver can make it happen...
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Yahoo is again catching fire over a security breach dating back to 2014 that compromised the accounts of 500 million users, though this time the criticism is aimed at Yahoo's lack of timely disclosure. The company fessed up earlier this week that at least some of its employees had knowledge that a cyberattacker backed...
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The grim reaper made a surprise visit to Facebook heading into the weekend and collected a bunch of souls, including that of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the world's largest social network turned graveyard due to a glitch. Many users logged into Facebook only to find that the site was reporting them as...
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At the start of 2017, AT&T will enable a new feature by default for customers using its “most popular plans” for mobile devices. Called Stream Saver, the feature will effectively cap all streaming video to your smartphone at 480p no matter the source.
For those that still have plans with data caps, Stream Saver...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go, we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals to share. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell XPS Tower Intel Core i7-6700 Quad-Core Skylake Desktop system, a Vizio SmartCast M55-D0 55" 4K HDR HDTV, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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Google's DeepMind has been working on some truly incredible things over the past couple of years. Just last week, we learned that DeepMind would be teaching itself how to play StarCraft II, which wouldn't be the first time it had a gaming focus. Before Google acquired DeepMind a couple of years ago, its AI was used to...
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Posting so-called stories to social media is one of the hottest trends right now, though it also means there exists some overlap. That's especially true with Instagram stories and Snapchat stories, two very similar things, though the former is introducing some nifty new tricks that will help it stand apart from the...
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If you were dead set on having a bit of officially-sanctioned Nintendo gaming nostalgia in your hands, your chances of scoring the NES Classic Edition at retail price are quickly dwindling. The retro gaming console went on sale today (retailers did not offer pre-orders) and is quickly selling out online.
Taking a...
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A teardown analysis of the original PlayStation 4 console released in 2013 showed that Sony wasn't afraid to bare all its consoles naked bits. The company even posted its own teardown video, which owners of the console could use as a guide when attempting repairs or upgrading the storage drive. Well, good news for...
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Microsoft is feeling pretty good about its gaming console business, and with good reason. The company announced today that the Xbox One has outsold the PlayStation 4 for the fourth consecutive month in the United States according to The NPD Group. Microsoft has never had such a lengthy string of victories over the...
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We don't know what is going on behind closed doors but we wouldn't be surprised if NVIDIA's brass popped a bottle of bubbly today. They deserve it—the company reported record revenue of $2 billion for the third quarter ended October 30, 2016, up 54 percent from the $1.3 billion it collected in the same time period a...
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Facebook as a real problem with the way it vets news articles and posts them to people's Feeds. The social network has taken steps to remove human bias from the equation, but in doing so, false stories have begun to litter the landscape. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is well aware of the issue, though he...
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We told you earlier this week about the MSI VR One, which allows you to freely roam around in a virtual environment, completely unencumbered by wires. The VR One accomplishes this feat by strapping a fully functional gaming PC on your back, complete with GeForce GTX 10 Series graphics, Intel Core i7 processor and a...
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While the U.S. is coming off a contentious presidential election, no matter how you feel about the outcome, be happy you live in a land where Internet censorship is a non-issue. In contrast, Spain and its ruling Popular Party led by prime minister Mariano Rajoy is making a push in congress to ban the use of memes...
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There’s no question that Facebook’s Trending Stories has a credibility issue. Trending Stories came under fire earlier this year when it was alleged that Facebook was purposefully suppressing politically conservative news stories. The blowback from the outrage surrounding the scandal led Facebook to fire the editorial...
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Google just opened up a new battleground with GIFs. The European Union is attempting to din the global corporation for supposed anti-competitive Android bundle policies. Google has responded not only in the written form, but with a handful of surprisingly convincing GIFs.
Google has been accused of paying OEMs to...
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What is that yellow thing in the corner? Is it one of Gru’s minions? Nope, it is a vending machine for Snapchat’s Spectacles. The camcorder-like sunglasses are now available in “Snapbots” near Snapchat’s headquarters in Venice, California.
The Spectacles are intended to help customers take hands-free videos. The...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all this afternoon, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Intel Core i7-6500U based laptop, an Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For...
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For better or worse, parting with your money just got a heck of a lot easier on iOS devices. All you have to do is bark a command to Siri to the effect of, "Hey Siri, send my brother Todd $50 using PayPal" and she will happily coordinate the transfer, simple as that. Siri will ask for confirmation, of course, just...
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MSI definitely got our attention with the unveil of its VR One gaming backpack. Traditional PC-based VR systems like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require you to be tethered to your desktop or laptop, which limits your ability to freely interact with a virtual environment. The MSI VR One bucks that trend by essentially...
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Have you managed to avoid playing Overwatch up to this point? Blizzard's crazy popular shooter has amassed 20 million players without your participation, but if you want to add to the ranks (or simply see what all the fuss is about), you'll have a chance next weekend to try it out for free. That's because Blizzard is...
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