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Latest News - November 2017
- Google Docs Was Down Briefly Yesterday And People Lost Their Minds
- Alleged Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus Spied In Geekbench Listing Boasting Exynos 9810 Chipset
- Motorola Polaroid Moto Mod Turns Moto Z Phones Into An Instant Camera Printer, No Shake Required
- Nintendo SNES Classic Returns To Walmart This Week, Here's When And Where To Order
- BlueBorne Exploit Could Have Exposed 20 Million Amazon Echo And Google Home Devices To Bluetooth Attacks
- Sprint Adds Free Hulu Streaming For Unlimited Freedom Plan Subscribers
- Lenovo ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Edition Review: Retro Style, Modern Performance
- Microsoft Gives Windows 10 Version 1511 New Life With Six Months Additional Support
- Essential Phone Finally Tastes Crunchy Android 8.0 Oreo Beta Goodness
- Amazon Black Friday Deals Kick Off November 17th With Big Discounts On Echo Family And HDTVs
- Samsung Galaxy S9 Mini Reportedly On Track To Challenge iPhone SE
- StarCraft II Twitter Account Roasts Star Wars Battlefront II For Microtransaction Hell
- All Hail The Mighty Tux As Linux Powers The World’s Top 500 Supercomputers
- StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty Is Now Free-To-Play, Here’s How To Get It
- Apple iPhone X And iPhone 8 Gain Faster 7.5W Wireless Charging With iOS 11.2
- Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard Upgraded With Water And Dust Resistance
- GameStop Temporarily Halts PowerPass Unlimited Used Games Rental Service
- Firefox Quantum Targets Google Chrome With 2x Faster Browser Engine And Slick UI Overhaul
- Wolfenstein II DLC Detailed, Here's When You Can Play The 'Freedom Chronicles' Trilogy
- HTC Announces Vive Focus Standalone VR Headset Powered By Snapdragon 835 SoC
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All News for November 2017
Google Docs has become the go to for many people in the business and personal world for collaborating on documents in the cloud. Normally you hit the Docs icon and start writing or open your saved documents in Drive and off you go. Yesterday, however, Google Docs was down, and people lost their minds. Reports indicate...
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The rumors have started in earnest about the next flagship smartphone from Samsung, which is expected to be called the Galaxy S9. Like Galaxy devices that came before it, the S9 is expected to come in a standard and plus sizes. A results page from Geekbench has surfaced that claims to show the results for the Galaxy...
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Back in the day, the way most people took photos was with a Polaroid instant camera of the sort that shot pictures out the front for you to watch develop before your eyes. That good old shake and wait just a minute Polaroid almost instant gratification is making a bit of a comeback with some retro photography fans...
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With Christmas right around the corner, you might be sweating what to get the gamer in your life. If a SNES Classic Edition retro console might be the ticket to holiday happiness for someone on your list, Walmart will have more coming and could potentially deliver the goods. You will have a chance to order one...
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We first got a glimpse at the BlueBorne vulnerability back in September, when it was revealed that that Bluetooth-based attack vector was exploitable on phones, computers, and IoT devices -- basically, anything with a Bluetooth radio. BlueBorne was especially nasty since it is capable of man-in-the-middle attacks and...
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As the fourth-place wireless carrier in the United States, Sprint is in need of a new strategy or ploy to stem its subscriber loss and become more competitive with the larger players in the market. To help on this front, Sprint has announced a new partnership with Hulu that will benefit users of its Unlimited Freedom...
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Anyone that has worked with laptops for a while might recall the ThinkPad brand from back in the day before Lenovo purchased the client PC division from IBM. One of the most notable things about the old-school ThinkPads was the keyboard, complete with a blue enter key and its the red trackpoint nub smack dab in the...
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Microsoft has decided to extend support for one of the earliest builds of Windows 10, version 1511, which it released two years ago. The early build is getting six additional months of support (through April 2018) from Microsoft, though not for all users. Microsoft's support extension applies to anyone using Windows...
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Essential Phone owners are about to enter an elite club. The Essential team announced on Twitter that a beta version of Android 8.0, otherwise known as Oreo, is available to download and install, though only through side-loading. An over-the-air (OTA) update is not yet available, however the final Oreo release for...
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Amazon is giving online shoppers a sneak peek at its upcoming Black Friday deals, and not a moment too soon. How so? Like many retailers, Amazon is not waiting until what has traditionally been Black Friday—the Friday immediately following Thanksgiving Day—to mark down its products, and instead is kicking things off a...
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When it comes to today's smartphones, it seems as though bigger is better in the eyes of consumers. The original iPhone shipped with a 3.5-inch display, but the current iPhone X ships with a 5.8-inch display. Likewise, Samsung is currently selling the Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy Note 8 which have 6.2- and 6.3-inch displays...
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Ladies and gentlemen, StarCraft won the Internet on Tuesday, and perhaps for the entire week. Or more precisely, the social media person who is responsible for StarCraft's Twitter account won the Internet, with a series of savage tweets mocking the microtransaction madness surrounding Star Wars Battlefront II and the...
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The Top500 list of supercomputers globally was published again this month, and one of the most interesting tidbits is that every single one of them runs Linux. This list comes out every six months and shows the top supercomputers in the world along with the countries with the most supercomputers. This fiftieth edition...
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StarCraft fans now have a free to play version of the popular Blizzard game StarCraft II. Blizzard announced that StarCraft II would go free-to-play back during BlizzCon and as of yesterday that game has debuted at no cost. If you want to get in on the free gaming action, this is how you do it.
You need a...
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When it comes to Apple's latest flagship smartphone, the iPhone X, it feels like in many respects, the company is catching up to features that have long been featured on Android devices. Minimal display bezels, OLED display panels and wireless charging have all been in the Android domain for a few generations (or...
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We've all been there; you are trying to get your game on or work at your computer and it seems as if all the crumbs fly right in the gaps between your keyboard or you spill a drink trying to get a sip in before you respawn. The problem with most keyboards is that once you get them wet or get lots of debris inside...
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GameStop's upcoming PowerPass used games subscription service hasn't even been officially launched yet, and it has already hit a pothole. PowerPass was first leaked late last month, and allows customers to rent an unlimited number of used games (one at a time) during a six-month period. After those six months are up...
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The public release of Firefox Quantum (Version 57) is finally here, and Mozilla is championing its credentials. According to Mozilla, Firefox quantum is roughly twice as fast as Firefox 52 from six months ago. In fact, the company feels that this is the most significant upgrade to the browser since Firefox 1.0...
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Is there anything more satisfying than blasting Nazis? It is at least in the running for the top spot of fun things to do, and Bethesda will ensure you can keep doing exactly that in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, with several bits of DLC that are on the way this holiday season. Dubbed "Freedom Chronicles," the...
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HTC today cut the cord on virtual reality hardware by introducing the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset that does not need to be tethered to a personal computer or smartphone. The Vive Focus is a completely self-contained solution with all of the necessary hardware integrated to the headset itself, including a...
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Microtransactions, for better or worse, have become a big business in the world of gaming. Ubisoft recently announced that its revenue from microtransactions now exceeds that of actual game sales. Electronic Arts isn't immune to this practice either, and has come under fire for nickel and diming customers to unlock...
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Give Apple CEO Tim Cook credit, he has been willing to alter the core design of the iPhone since stepping in to replace the late Steve Jobs, and for the most part the market has reacted positively. And for the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, Apple released the iPhone X with an organic light emitting diode (OLED)...
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