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Latest News - February 2016
- Trump Says Boycott Apple For Squaring Off With FBI Because He 'Just Thought Of It'
- Facebook To Bring Display Ads To Popular Messenger App
- Volvo Wants To Replace Your Car Keys With Your Smartphone
- Seagate Announces World's Fastest And Slimmest 2.5-inch HDD
- Dell Optiplex Micro Core i3 Mini PC Just $329, 61% Off Lorell Sit-to-Stand Monitor Riser And More
- FCC Approves Proposal To Spark Set-Top Cable Box Openness And Innovation
- Fallout 4 Takes Top Honors As DICE Awards Game of the Year
- Windows 10 Redstone Preview Build 14267 Moves To Fast Lane
- Apple iOS Update Fixes iPhone-Crippling Error 53 Bug
- HP Elite X3 Phablet Brings Beastly Snapdragon 820, 6-inch QHD Display To Windows 10 Mobile
- Rare Savings On Dell Inspiron 3000 i7-4790 Desktop Now $549, 44% Off Alienware 13 i7-5500U Gaming Laptop And More
- Eccentric 'Cybersecurity Legend' John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For FBI And Save America
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai Supports Apple In Its Backdoor Access Fight
- Apple Launches ‘Trade Up With Installments’ iPhone Payment Plan As Sales Fall
- MINIX NGC-1 Intel Braswell-Based Silent, SFF Mini PC Review
- Microsoft Eradicates Persistent Surface Pro 4 And Surface Book Bugs With Firmware Update
- Google Gmailify Brings Full Gmail Experience To Yahoo And Outlook Users
- Samsung Gear S2 Classic 3G Shipping March 11th With World's First GSMA-Certified eSIM
- U.S. Pentagon Will Upgrade 4 Million Computers To Windows 10 Within A Year
- Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 Bitcoin Ransom To Rescue Hacked Network
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All News for February 2016
Apple is coming under fire for its refusal to comply with an FBI request to unlock an iPhone 5c used by one of two terrorists in December’s San Bernardino mass shooting. U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym ruled earlier this week that Apple...
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Facebook's Messenger app isn't the most-liked on the planet. Why? Well, the company thinks that everyone is a-OK with the fact that two separate apps need to be used for the same service, something that caused quite a stir in the summer of 2014 when the company forced people install the...
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Volvo has been firing on all cylinder lately, having recently launched the attractive, all-new XC90 crossover, and lifting the veil on the S90 sedan. And just this week, Volvo set wagon lovers’ hearts ablaze with the reveal of the V90.
Now, Volvo is making a run for techies by doing away...
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Seagate is trying to make mechanical hard drives sexy again and it's doing it with a new thin and fast 2-terabyte mobile HDD for laptop applications. According to Seagate, its new drive is the planet's first and only 2TB capacity HDD offered a scant 7mm capacity, which is the same thickness as...
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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 straight from our friends at TechBargains. On the menu today, we have deals on a Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro Intel Core i3-4160T-based SFF...
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If anyone was concerned that appointing a former cable industry insider as the FCC chairman would mean that the regulatory body would favor the cable industry, those concerns have been completely obliterated over the past few years. First...
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The 19th annual DICE Awards is in the books, and with it is recognition of Fallout 4 as Game of the Year for 2015, the evening's top honor. It was one of three awards Bethesda's wildly popular RPG set in post-apocalyptic Boston won at the ceremony, which was hosted by comedian and gamer Pete...
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Microsoft continues to make headway on Redstone, the codename for the next major update to Windows 10. Those subscribed to the Fast ring in Microsoft's Windows Insider program can take a sneak peek at some of the forthcoming enhancements in Redstone courtesy of a new Windows 10 preview build...
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Apple has issued an updated version of iOS 9.2.1 specifically for iPhone users who encountered the once mysterious "error 53" message that left their handsets unusable. The update restores bricked iPhones and disables the security check that could cause an Error 53 message, which Apple says...
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"Gentleman, you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.” We first heard word that Hewlett-Packard was looking to get back into the smartphone game with a Windows 10 Mobile device back in late December. Codenamed “Falcon,” we were...
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Welcome back for the latest edition of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 3000 Intel Core i7-4790-based system, a Logitech K470 Illuminated Ultra-Thin Keyboard, a...
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Wondering what John McAfee is up to these days? It's not sniffing bath salts nor is he fleeing foreign countries as a person of interest in a murder investigation and faking heart attacks—been there, done all that—instead he's on a mission...
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It's not often that people feel compelled to side with Google on the topic of privacy, but the company's newest CEO, Sundar Pinchai, gives us a great reason to. As Brandon covered in great detail yesterday, Apple has been ordered by U.S...
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There’s definitely cause for concern in Apple land; the company’s most profitable product, the iPhone, is slowing down. In Apple’s most recent earnings report, iPhone sales barely budged year-over-year, rising from 74.5 million units in...
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One of the myriad benefits of Intel’s strong focus on power efficiency in recent years is that relatively high performance processors are now able to fit into tiny form factors. Case in point, the recently released Intel Compute Stick for 2016. That little gizmo has a quad-core processor...
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Good news if you own a Surface Book or Surface Pro 4 device—Microsoft has issue a cumulative firmware update that addresses a whole host of problems, everything from sleep management woes (some users reported exceptionally poor battery...
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Spam is one of a handful of Internet scourges—we all hate it, and to some extent, we all suffer from it. That's one of the reasons why Gmail is so popular. Google's home brewed email service is really good (not perfect) at thwarting spam...
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We first got a taste of programmable sims when Apple launched the iPad Air 2 in 2014. The proprietary “Apple SIM” allows users to change their wireless carrier at any time via software without having to swap out physical SIM cards...
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Microsoft has to be impressed with the overall positive reception to Windows 10 and rate of adoption compared to previous releases, particularly Windows 8. According to Microsoft, more than three quarters of its enterprise and education...
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A medical center located in Hollywood, California, paid hackers 40 bitcoins worth nearly $17,000 in U.S. currency to decrypt its files that were being held ransom. The ransom amount is far less than the $3.6 million that was being thrown...
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If you’re in need of some reliable, fast cloud storage, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that may just what the doctor ordered. A lifetime subscription to Genius Rescue 2TB Cloud Backup service is significantly discounted...
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It could be said that ARM chips are what help make the world go ‘round these days, at least in terms of mobile and embedded applications. And ARM is back at it again with with a next generation of its Cortex-R Series real-time processor...
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