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Latest News - November 2018
- Microsoft Surface Pro Patent Envisions Second Rear Display With Pen Stylus Support
- Blizzard Announces Diablo Immortal For Phones, Responds To Hellish Backlash
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Speed Binning Exposed: TU106-400A vs TU106-400
- 2.5 Geeks Webcast 11/3/18: Core i9-9900K, Threadrippers, RTX 2080 TI SLI, Yoga C930, Amiga ALIVE!
- SpiNNaker Powers Up World’s Largest Supercomputer That Emulates A Human Brain
- Apple’s First 5G iPhone Reportedly Set For Late 2020 Release With Intel Modem
- Apple, Fitbit Help Drive 67 Percent Surge In Q3 Smartwatch Shipments
- Seagate Will Swing Mighty HAMR Tech To Pound Out 100TB HDDs By 2025
- Amazon To Give Customers Full Control Over Package Arrival Days
- Where To Download Destiny 2 For Free On Your PC For A Limited Time
- Gigabyte Launches GeForce RTX 2080 Aorus Xtreme WaterForce With AIO Liquid Cooling
- Facebook Hack Reportedly Leaves Private Messages From 81,000 Accounts Up For Sale
- Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercar Flaunts Mythological Beauty And Formula 1-Inspired Cockpit
- Update: Intel CPUs Impacted By PortSmash Side-Channel SMT Exploit, AMD Likely Also Vulnerable
- Super Mario Odyssey Fully Playable On PC With Yuzu Emulator Likely Drawing Nintendo's Wrath
- Amazon Echos, Fire TVs, And Fire Tablets On Deep Discount In These Hot Pre-Black Friday Deals
- Apple Q4 Earnings Prove That Exorbitant iPhone Pricing Is Paying Off With Fat Profits
- Samsung's Global Smartphone Sales Crown Under Heavy Attack By Huawei Reports IDC
- 2018 MacBook Air Early Benchmarks Highlight Respectable Performance Gains
- OnePlus 6T Now On Sale At T-Mobile, But There Are Key Differences From Unlocked SKU
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All News for November 2018
A new Microsoft patent application has emerged that Redmond filed on May 1, 2017, but was only published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on November 1, 2018. The patent application shows an interesting feature that might turn up on a future version of the Surface Pro. The feature is a second supplemental...
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The next Diablo game is not headed to the PC platform, and instead will land on Android and iOS for hack-and-slash fun on the go. It's called Diablo Immortal, and it's a mobile massively multiplayer online action-role-playing (RPG) game in which "Diablo players will be able to answer the call to battle on their...
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EVGA is one of the few companies to release multiple GeForce RTX series cards based on NVIDIA's reference specs, and at reference price points (an important qualifier). That means you can actually buy a GeForce RTX 2070 for $499.99, rather than pay a premium for NVIDIA's own overclocked Founders Edition model, or any...
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On this latest episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco and Dave chat about Intel's super-fast Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU, AMD's new 12 and 24-core Threadripper 2920X and 2970WX, what happens when you put two GeForce GTX 2080 Ti cards in NVLink SLI, Lenovo's HOT new Yoga C930 laptop with killer Dolby Atmos...
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The brain is the most complex organ in the body and the most difficult to unravel. Scientists have developed a variety of ways to better understand the brain, including the use of supercomputers. The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer, the Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker), was just switched on...
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The first 5G networks in the United States are lighting up as we close out 2018, and should begin to slowly spread across the country in 2019. At the same time, smartphone manufacturers are gearing up for the 5G revolution, with a number of players expected to launch 5G smartphones during Q1 2019.
One major player...
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The wearables market is booming right now thanks to smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 4 that debuted in September, and other wearables like the Fitbit Versa and Samsung Galaxy Watch. When the wearables segment was young, devices were aimed mostly at technology loving people and were seen almost exclusively as a...
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Consumers have never had more choices if they need to purchase storage, whether it's hard drives, flash drives, solid-state drives, or even cloud or network-attached storage. Save for a couple of blips, prices have steadily creeped downward and today you can score a 10TB hard drive for only $300, or a measly $0.03 per...
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Amazon has announced a new perk for Prime customers that worry about potential package theft, due to random arrival times. The new feature is called Amazon Day, and while it sounds like some sort of special sale, it essentially gives customers the ability to choose the specific day of the week when packages should...
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Have you been waiting for the right time to pounce on Destiny 2? Well, if you're ever going to take the plunge, now is the time to do it. Bungie and Activision announced at BlizzCon that Destiny 2 is free to download and play on PC, though you have to act relatively fast—it's a limited time offer that expires in a...
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We've seen plenty of GeForce RTX cards launched over the past two months, and the latest comes to us courtesy of Gigabyte. The company has unveiled the GeForce RTX 2080 Aorus Extreme Waterforce, which uses an all-in-one liquid cooling solution.
As for the actual board design, it's the same as that found on the Aorus...
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Facebook is the most popular social network out there, and seemingly the one with the most privacy issues. Last month a data breach impacted as many as 90 million user accounts with Facebook eventually claiming about 30 million accounts had been affected. Another security breach was announced in September with that...
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It looks as though the Bugatti Chiron, Mercedes-AMG Project One and McLaren Speedtail will have some new competition in the race for hypercar supremacy. Aston Martin has just revealed new images of its upcoming Valkyrie, and boy does it look delicious.
Aston Martin envisions the Valkyrie as being a Formula 1 car for...
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When it comes to impactful processor vulnerabilities, the two most well-known attacks announced the year are Spectre and Meltdown. The hardware and software industry scrambled to push out fixes to prevent these, and Microsoft is still working to minimize the performance impact of its mitigations.
Today, however...
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Nintendo has a hit on its hands with the Switch, a hybrid console that users can connect to their big screen TV or take with them for a portable gaming experience. Part of the success is because of first-party hits like Super Mario Odyssey. Interestingly enough, Super Mario Odyssey is now playable on the PC through an...
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Black Friday is still over three weeks away, but retailers are already showing their hand with respect to what deals they will have. So far, we've seen the tech goodies that Costco, Sam's Club, Kohl's and Target will have on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Amazon doesn't want to be left out, but it isn't...
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Apple is typically boisterous when it comes time to post its quarterly and year-end financial results, and while that was again the case with its latest earnings report, there is also cause for concern (or at least suspicion) among investors. First, let's start with the $62.9 billion in revenue Apple raked in during...
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Samsung may be headed towards a record quarterly profit, as its recent third quarter guidance indicates, but its smartphone shipments are down. According to data released by International Data Corporation (IDC), Samsung had a "challenging" quarter in which its smartphone shipments declined 13.4 percent to 72.2 million...
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It's only been a few days since Apple unveiled its refreshed MacBook Air notebook keeping the thin profile and sporting a Retina Display, Touch ID, and 8th generation Intel Core i5 processors among other tweaks. A few days later the first benchmarks for the 2018 MacBook Air have turned up on Geekbench giving us an...
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T-Mobile is offering to slash the price of the OnePlus 6T in half when trading in a qualifying phone, with the discount being applied over 24 monthly bill credits (essentially locking you into a two-year commitment). That's a tantalizing offer, though before you take the plunge, there are some things you should know...
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Ask a few muscle car guys what car they would go back in time and buy if they could, and a handful of them would say the classic, and incredibly valuable, Ford Boss 429 Mustang from 1969. While you can't go back in time and get a brand-new original Boss 429, you can purchase one of the Ford approved continuation 1969...
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During the summer, leaks were surfacing that suggested Lenovo was here to save us all from the notched smartphone reality that we face today. That smartphone was called the Lenovo Z5, however, when the Z5 launched it indeed featured a notch shattering the dreams of people wanting to avoid that feature. Lenovo has now...
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