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Latest News - February 2016
- Apple Announces Replacement Program For Faulty MacBook USB-C Cables
- Women Coders Surpass Male Peers In GitHub Blind Test But Gender Bias Is Clear
- Amazon Echo Sparks Steamy Relationship With Ecobee Smart Thermostats
- UK’s Draconian GCHQ Given Unimpeachable Powers To Hack, Track And Steal Data From Citizens
- Dell Venue 10 2560x1600 16GB Android Tablet Bundle Now $299, 16% Off Apple TV 64GB Streaming Device And More
- Microsoft Fetch iPhone App Uses Ruff Machine Learning To ID Your Dog’s Breed
- OCZ Trion 150 SSD Review: Affordable, Fast Storage
- Need for Speed Drifts Onto PC Platform March 15th With 4K, Manual Transmission And Wheel Support
- Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Device Bricking Error 53 Touch ID Lockdown
- AT&T To Start 5G Network Trials This Year Boasting Up To 100X Speed Increase Over LTE
- Google’s New Virtual Reality Headset Will Be Wireless, Won’t Require Smartphone Or PC Tether
- Samsung Galaxy S7 And Galaxy S7 Edge Pre-orders Might Include Free Gear VR Headset
- Samsung’s Platinum And Rose Gold Gear S2 Classic Smartwatches Available Friday For $450
- Microsoft Shares 'Quantum Break' Launch Details For Windows 10 And Xbox One
- Monster 98% Discount On IT Security & Ethical Hacking Certification Training In The HotHardware Shop
- Google Promotes ‘Physical Web’ By Allowing Bluetooth Beacons To Broadcast Info To Your Android Devices
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 LTE Modem Ushers In Scalable Gigabit LTE Speeds For Mobiles
- 50mpg Kia Niro Hybrid Launches Full Frontal Assault On Kooky Toyota Prius
- Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC Enables Slimmer, Longer Lasting Smartwatches
- Dell Venue 8 7000 OLED Android Tablet just $199, $200 eGift Card with Dell S2716DG 2560x1600 Gaming Monitor now $629 and More
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All News for February 2016
When is a cable not "just a cable"? When its insides are designed poorly. Never has that been more of a concern since the USB-C standard came out. By now, many people are familiar with Google's Benson Leung, a man who's made it his personal mission to defend the geek world at large from bad cables - an adventure that...
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If you're not affected by it, and don't know anyone else who's affected by it, it's easy to brush the issue of gender bias under the rug. The reality, however, is that it's an issue that's proven over and over again to be a serious problem. Apparently, it's even a problem in the programming world.
Six researchers...
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Amazon surprised a lot of people when, seemingly out of the blue, it launched a smart speaker called Echo. It may have seemed like an oddball product at the time, but not anymore. Echo's built-in digital assistant, Alexa, dutifully executes an assortment of commands—she'll even order Domino's Pizza! Echo works with an...
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If you thought that United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the country were incredibly adamant about spying on its citizens (going to extreme lengths to do so), you haven’t seen anything yet. Across the pond, the Campaigners Privacy International filed a formal complaint against the UK’s GCHQ...
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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 to share, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Venue 10 7000 10.5" tablet, an Apple TV 64GB (4th Generation) Streaming Device, a VIZIO S2121w-D0 2.1-channel Sound...
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We must say, Microsoft has gotten pretty good at using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to bring us cool smartphone and web apps. Microsoft has tried its best at guessing our age, and even our emotional state. Now, Microsoft is targeting man’s best friend with its new Fetch app.
Let’s get this out...
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The last time we saw OCZ, there were tearing up CES with an upcoming NVMe solid state drive that could transfer data at upwards of 2.7GB/s that was features alongside a few new SATA-based solutions, like the Trion 150 series we’ll be showing you here today.The OCZ Trion 150 is an update to last summer’s Trion 100, which was the first drive...
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Get out your driving gloves and buckle up folks, the newest Need for Speed title from developer Ghost Games and publisher Electronic Arts is burning rubber to PCs next month with a few new fancy features in tow. One of those is a 4K resolution option with uncapped framerates. If you have the necessary horsepower to...
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Apple offered a logical explanation as to why iPhone 6 users might see the dreaded "Error 53" code on their smartphone after having an unauthorized repair person replace a defective screen, but will that explanation hold up in court? A class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
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Streaming video already accounts for the bulk of mobile traffic, and by 2020, Cisco reckons it will account for 75 percent mobile data. Higher resolution feeds and video sharing apps like Snapchat and Vine are all driving this trend, but can the wireless networks we use to access all this data keep up?
There's a...
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Google's contribution to the virtual reality market so far has been a blueprint for a low-cost viewer that users can can construct at home out of cardboard and a few other parts. It's a thumbing of the nose to the high priced competition—Oculus Rift sells for $599, and you need a relatively powerful PC to run it—but...
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Samsung is set to announce its next generation Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge smartphones on February 21st. It seems as though not much is being left to the imagination as specs and renders of the smartphones have leaked over the past few weeks, and now we’re learning about an enticing nugget of information for early...
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In late January, Samsung kicked off the global launch of the Gear S2 Classic New Edition smartwatch. The name is defiantly a mouthful, but it merely represents two new finishes available on Samsung’s range-topping Tizen-based smartwatch: Rose Gold and Platinum.
Although both new smartwatches went up for pre-order...
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With Remedy Entertainment's latest title, Quantum Break, launching on April 5th, Microsoft has decided to give us a two-month heads-up on a couple of important details surrounding the launch. First and foremost, the company has just announced that the game will be coming to the PC, and that those who pre-order the...
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Monster 98% Discount On IT Security & Ethical Hacking Certification Training In The HotHardware Shop
If you want to bolster your IT security skills, we've got an awesome deal running in the HotHardware Shop that you may be very interested in. IT Security & Ethical Hacking Certification Training, which includes training on CompTIA Security+, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Cisco's CCNA Security, is currently 98%...
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Users of the Chrome beta for Android are in for a bit of a treat, as the latest version has added support for "Physical Web" beacons. Don't worry if you've never heard of these, because most haven't. Google did talk about it a bit last summer, and it seems like a feature that could be incredibly useful at...
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Companies like Google and Comcast make big to-dos whenever they expand their 1Gbps fiber optic Internet service into a new areas, and with good reason—that's really freaking fast. It's also wired, the same of which can't be said for Qualcomm's crazy-fast Snapdragon X16 LTE modem, the industry's first commercially...
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It looks as though Hyundai and its affiliates are taking direct aim at the Toyota Prius, and with good reason. Despite the fact that gas prices have reached lows in the United States that we haven’t seen in years, the Prius is still the by far the best-selling hybrid vehicle on the market. Many have tried to copy the...
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Qualcomm unveiled a brand new mobile processor today, just don't expect to find it inside any upcoming smartphones or tablets. Instead, the company's new Snapdragon Wear 2100 System-on-Chip (SoC) is designed for the growing wearables market, and specifically for next-generation smartwatches.
Size and certainly...
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The weekend is almost in sight, but we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals for you. On tap for you all this Thursday, we have deals on the Dell Venue 8 tablet, a G-SYNC enabled Dell S2716DG 27" monitor, a NZXT Kraken X61 Liquid CPU Cooler, and a whole lot more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below...
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The Internet Archive back at it once again. Just a few days after sending us on a trip down memory lane with samples of DOS malware from the 80s and 90s, the Internet Archive is giving some much-needed love to Windows 3.1 — more specifically, the plethora of apps that were available for the platform.
The non-profit...
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Well it's official, LG Electronics is bonkers. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I'm just observing. Heck, going bonkers might turn out to be a genius strategy for a company trying to draw attention to its upcoming G5 handset when all anyone wants to talk about are iPhone and Galaxy devices. Or maybe LG is buckling...
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