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Latest News - December 2019
- Ex-NASA Engineer Returns To Ensnare Pathetic Porch Package Pirates With Glitter Bomb 2.0
- Intel Buys AI Chip Firm Habana Labs For $2 Billion In High Stakes Race Against NVIDIA
- Lexar Demos Blazing Fast 7GB/sec PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD For Gaming Rigs
- AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Beast Chip Hits 5.6GHz To Claim World Record
- Google Halts Chrome 79 Android Rollout After Serious Bug Trashes User Data
- Get A Nintendo Switch For $269 After Savings With This Hot Gaming Deal
- FBI Arrests Devs Behind Two Massive Illegal Streaming Sites Larger Than Netflix, Hulu
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: Next-Gen Android Phone Benchmark Preview
- Pathetic Money Grab As Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Dings Players $20 For Kill Death Ratio Stats
- Google Pixel 3a And 3a XL Hit Lowest Prices Ever Unlocked With This Smoking Hot Deal
- You Too Can Feel The Fortnite Force With Lightsabers, Rey And Fin In Epic's Rise Of Skywalker Update
- Updated: Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Is Just $299 With This Super-Hot Holiday Deal
- Say What Again! How To Enable Samuel L. Jackson And Other Celebs On Amazon Echo
- Here Are Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Behind-The-Scenes Shots Leaked By Nintendo
- 2.5 Geeks: AMD's Scott Wasson Talks Radeon Adrenalin 2020, 20th Anniversary Gigabyte And Thermaltake Giveaway
- These Blowout Bose Deals Are Better Than Black Friday, Up To 40 Percent Off On Amazon
- Google RCS Is A Major Upgrade To Android SMS Texting, What Is It Exactly And How To Use It?
- TCL And Vizio 4K HDR Smart TVs Are Steals At Up To $700 And 58% Off With These Hot Deals
- You Can Overclock AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 XT To 2.1GHz On Air With This New Tool
- Facebook Has Refused Government Requests For Backdoor Into Encrypted Chats
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All News for December 2019
A former NASA engineer who exacted revenge on thieves last year by booby-trapping seemingly innocuous packages of expensive electronics with an exploding mess of glitter is back at it again. His hilarious mission to gift porch pirates a...
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Intel is banking heavily on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a growing revenue stream in the years to come. Intel booked $3.5 billion in AI-related revenue during 2019 -- which represented a significant 20 percent year-over-year...
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The PCIe 4.0 era is amongst us, primarily [for consumers] thanks to the arrival of AMD's Ryzen 3000 processors and X570 motherboard platform. Up until now, we've seen a number of PCIe 4.0 consumer SSDs arrive with read/write speeds topping...
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One of the beastliest mainstream desktop processors you can buy right now is AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X. Calling it a 'mainstream' part is strictly a technicality, because with 12 cores and 24 threads at its disposable, the Ryzen 9 3900X is one...
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Google was forced to stop the rollout of Chrome 79 for Android devices recently due to a bug. The bug was discovered when mobile app developers reported the update was deleting user data and resetting mobile apps. The bug occurred during...
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Are you looking for a gift idea (for someone else or perhaps to treat yourself)? If so, there are plenty of bargains out there. One that catches our eye today is the Nintendo Switch. Over on Amazon, you can snag one for $269.99, which is...
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Streaming video is big business today with sites like Netflix and Hulu offering huge amounts of content that people can stream anywhere they have an internet connection. As many subscribers as Netflix and others have, two of the biggest...
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We are fresh back from the 2019 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit, during which the company revealed a number of new products and technologies. In addition to the XR2 5G next-generation VR platform, new Always-Connected PC processors, and the...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players have complained about a variety of issues with the game since its launch in August. One thing that players have been upset about is the absence of kill-death ratios during most matches. The good news...
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There's no question that Google knocked it out of the park when it released the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL smartphones. In case you didn't already know, not everyone needs (or wants) to spend $700 or more on a flagship Android smartphone...
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You Too Can Feel The Fortnite Force With Lightsabers, Rey And Fin In Epic's Rise Of Skywalker Update
Fortnite fans who missed out on the special "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" event can now catch a look at what the Fortnite X Star Wars gameplay will include. The big draw here is that players get to duke it out with lightsabers in...
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Updated 12/16/2019 @ 11:04am
The limited-time deal at Woot has now expired. Our original article continues below:
Don't waste your time lamenting the fact that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now in the rear view mirror. What had...
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Alexa is quite the ubiquitous digital assistant living inside Amazon smart speakers, TVs, and other products. Alexa can help users with all sorts of tasks, from setting reminders to turning lights on and off. Some don't care for the...
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Nintendo is fairly good at keeping secrets, so much as that is possible in the internet era, so it is not surprising that we have heard very little about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 since it was announced at E3 this past...
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For this latest installment of HotHardware's 2.5 Geeks, our mainstays Dave and Marco have a nice chat with Scott Wasson of AMD, who serves as a Senior Manager, Product Management for the Radeon Technology Group. As such, he's just the...
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Anyone who missed out on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals at Amazon and thought those big savings were a thing of the past, should take heart. Amazon still has some excellent deals on audio gear going right now, some that are...
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Google RCS is now available on all Android devices in the United States. Its recent availability has brought up questions about its use and features. Today we will break down what it is, how to use it, and, most importantly, how it...
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have come and gone, but that doesn't mean you can't still get good deals. The big game will be here before you know it, and if you want a bigger screen to watch the game or to give as a Christmas gift...
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AMD is ending 2019 with a mad dash to the finish, having just recently launched its Radeon RX 5500 XT in 8GB and 4GB flavors for 1080p gaming, and dished out a major overhaul to its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition driver package for...
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Facebook has been fighting with the U.S. government and the governments of other countries over end-to-end encryption plans that would block anyone, Facebook included, out of chat conversations on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook...
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Google has been on a mission to improve the texting experience on Android. Following up on its Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol, which is supposed to bring functionality akin to what's available on iMessages on iOS devices...
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Updated 12/13/2019 @ 12:26pm
Yesterday, it was reported that Samsung Electronics President Young Sohn declared that 1 million Galaxy Fold devices had been sold since its summer launch. That was quite an achievement for a phone priced at...
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