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Latest News - December 2017
- Samsung Unveils Refreshed Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus Mid-Range Android Smartphones
- Japanese Scientists Accidentally Discover Glass That Repairs Its Own Cracks In Seconds
- Oculus Rift And Touch Bundle Pricing Temporarily Drops For Last Minute Holiday Shoppers
- Geekbench Dev Confirms Apple Throttles Performance On iPhones With Older Batteries
- PUBG Levels Up With 3D Replay System And Kill Cam In This Week's 1.0 Release
- Samsung Galaxy S9 Tipped For Late February Reveal, Fresh Images Leaked
- Google ARCore Takes Center Stage As Project Tango AR Platform Heads For Retirement
- Amazon Digital Day Returns December 29 With Savings Up To 80%
- Facebook To Penalize Tacky Posts That Beg For Likes And Shares, Cleaning-Up News Feeds
- Mozilla Retreats After Mr. Robot Firefox Extension User Backlash
- AMD's Next Gen Navi GPU Architecture Found Referenced In Linux Drivers
- Samsung Patent Filing Shows Folding Dual Screen Galaxy Device
- Microsoft Rewards Kind-Hearted Boy Who Gave Up His Xbox To Donate Blankets To Homeless
- Intel Document Details 1.5TB And 960GB Optane SSD 900P Solid State Drives
- Apple Face ID Epic Fail Allows Two Unrelated Chinese Women Access To iPhone X
- Pentagon's $22 Million UFO Investigation Program Is Straight Out Of The X-Files
- Windows 10 Bundled Password Manager Found To Have Gaping Security Hole
- California Dept Of Health Issues Warning On Keeping Cell Phones Next To Your Body
- Mozilla Mr. Robot Promo Backfires After Firefox Auto-Installs Dubious Looking Glass Extension
- Uber Accused Of Bribery, Hacking Competitors And Espionage By Ex Employee
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All News for December 2017
Samsung has pulled the wraps off a pair of smartphones that may appeal to the users out there who can’t bring themselves to part with $1,000 for a high-end device. The new devices are the 2018 versions of the Galaxy A8 and A8 Plus. As you would expect, other than the size of the screen the two devices are very...
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A group of Japanese scientists have made an accidental discovery that could have a huge impact on smartphones and other gadgets in the future. The scientists developed a new type of glass that can self-heal, fusing itself back together when it cracks. This could mean the end to shattered smartphone screens and costly...
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If you're looking to find a last-minute gift for the PC gamer on your shopping list, and don't mind parting with nearly four Benjamins, the Oculus Rift is now on sale for the low, low price of $379. This represents a $20 discount from its normal selling price.
We should note that this isn't the lowest price we've...
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It looks like the developers behind the popular cross-platform Benchmark have confirmed suspicions that many users have amassed with regards to overall system performance on "older" iPhones. Earlier this month, we reported on a link between CPU throttling on some previous generation models and iOS updates that were...
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PUBG is insanely popular right now and new features destined for the 1.0 release of the game has players all excited. The first is a new 3D replay feature that will arrive on December 20th. The announcement of the feature came from a South Korean firm called Minkonet that is building the replay system for the...
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are likely to be among the best-selling smartphones of 2018, and there is no doubt excitement surrounding their upcoming release. Samsung upped the ante with Infinity Displays on its 2017 Galaxy S8/S8+ flagship smartphones, and we're expecting a further refinement of that design...
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Google announced that it is closing the door on Project Tango, the augmented reality platform it introduced in 2014 in effort to bring AR experiences to mobile devices, particularly smartphones. Though as the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens. That is the case here as well—in place of Tango, Google...
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For regular Amazon shoppers -- and who isn't these days -- you'll be happy to know that the online retail giant is bringing back its Digital Day. If you're already familiar with Amazon Prime Day, then think of Digital Day as the "digital" equivalent of that sales spectacular. According to Amazon, this year's Digital...
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Facebook is a mixed bag, isn't it? On one hand, Facebook is a wonderful platform for keeping in touch with old friends and family members when you're separated by distance. Through the wonders of social media, you can stay plugged into the lives of people who might otherwise be lost acquaintances. But in order to do...
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We could have told Mozilla that installing an extension on its Firefox browser to promote a niche TV series would be a bad idea, but nobody from Mozilla asked us. Mozilla should have known this too. Now it does, on hindsight, following a backlash from angry Firefox users who discovered that an extension had been...
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This has been a big year for AMD, there is no doubt about that. Having launched a new CPU and GPU architectures (Zen and Vega, respectively), the company thrust itself back into relevancy in the high-end market, whereas previously the top shelf was the exclusive domain of rival Intel. So, what's next? On the GPU side...
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There have been plenty of rumors and leaks about a Samsung Galaxy device with a folding screen flying around over the last few months. A new patent application surfaced recently that outlines a folding Galaxy device with two screens. It looks very much like the device in Microsoft's patent with dual folding screens...
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A 9-year-old boy from Ashland County, Ohio recently gave up his Christmas wish of an Xbox One X to make the cold winter months more bearable for the homeless population in his area. That boy is Mikah Frye, and his grandmother originally planned to purchase him an Xbox One X for Christmas. However, after talking with...
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When we reviewed Intel's Optane SSD 900P series back in mid-November, we came away wholly impressed with the storage device. Based on Intel 3D Xpoint memory technology, the Optane SSD 900P series delivers incredible overall performance compared to NAND-based NVMe solid state drive rivals.
One of the biggest downsides...
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Another day, another Face ID fail that allows unauthorized people to log into the iPhone X. This time around, no creepy masks or 3D printing hardware was needed. The two women who can unlock the same iPhone X are not even related, as we have seen in the past when a child was able to unlock his mother's iPhone X using...
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For all the tens of thousands of people around the world that believe in UFOs and aliens, there are vast numbers of people who label the believers as nut jobs and ostracize them as crackpots. This means that many people in the military who encountered unknown objects in the skies over the years never reported the...
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Several months ago, Microsoft began bundling Keeper, a third-party password manager, with an image of Windows 10 that is intended for developers. Users noticed the password manager in the list of pre-installed apps after performing a clean installation of Windows 10 from a freshly downloaded build, so it was not...
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We've been warned about the potential risks of cell phone use due to radiation for ages, but to date, there hasn't been definitive information published that would warrant some sort of formal government or industry action. Nothing changes with that today, but California's Department of Public Health has deemed the...
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In geekier circles, Mr. Robot is one of the most popular television shows on the planet. It's well-written, well-acted, and most importantly, it's captivating. That said, the show isn't necessarily universally well-known and perhaps its most recent publicity effort just went a little too far. It was with great...
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Uber has been in hot water over the last few months for some very unsavory allegations. Among them was that Uber was hacked resulting in the data of 57 million customers being stolen. The company allegedly paid the hacker $100,000 to delete the data. The latest issue stems from a 37-page letter that Ric Jacobs, a...
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Microsoft might have killed off its Windows Mobile devices, but the company is still working on a smallish device with dual screens that will slip into the Surface family. The device has dual displays that meet in the middle with a trick hinge. The major details that the patent images and abstract focus on is the...
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Back in September, Google praised the benefit of autoplaying content on the web, pointing out that users watch and listen to a lot of media these days. At the same time, Google said one of the biggest complaints is unexpected media playback, which can not only make unwanted noise, but also consume power and use data...
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