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Latest News - February 2017
- Windows DRM Files Could Be Utilized To Rat-Out IPs Of Tor Browser Users
- Next Sony PlayStation 4 Update Will Add Support For External Hard Drives
- Plex Brings The Power Of Amazon Alexa, Adding Voice Control To Your Movies And TV Shows
- Facebook Computer Vision AI Can Now Creepily Search Your Photos And Understand What’s In Them
- LG UltraFine 5K Display Wi-Fi Interference Issues Reportedly Solved With Enhanced Shielding
- Apple Barely Edged Out Samsung In Q4 Global Sales Thanks To Strong iPhone 7 Demand
- Brady And Gronk Hand Out Beatdowns On Conan O'Brien's Clueless Gamer 'For Honor' Super Bowl Edition
- Zero-Day Exploit Affecting All Latest Windows Versions Causing Blue Screen Of Death Is Live On Github
- Microsoft Shares 2017 Game Plan For ‘Cool’ Windows 10 Devices Leveraging Cortana And Mixed Reality
- Nintendo Has Sold 1.5 Million NES Classic Edition Consoles Worldwide As It Works To Increase Production
- Researchers Pair HTC Vive With Microsoft HoloLens For ‘Shared Reality’ Magic
- Acer Rolls Out XR382CQK 37.5-inch 75Hz UltraWide QHD FreeSync Curved Gaming Monitor
- Madden NFL 17 Simulation Predicts Nailbiting Finish To Super Bowl Between Patriots And Falcons
- Holden’s Final Commodore GTSR W1 Brings Corvette ZR1 Thunder From Down Under
- Barnes and Noble Issues Nook Tablet 7 Power Adapter Recall Over Shock Hazard
- Apple’s 2017 MacBooks May Employ Custom ARM Chip For Handling Certain Functions Over Intel CPUs
- Facebook Crushes Earnings Forecasts Thanks To Mobile Ads, User Base Swells To Nearly 2 Billion
- Facebook’s Oculus Ordered To Pay $500 Million In ZeniMax VR Suit
- Activision Blizzard Launches Consumer Products Division Spearheaded By Former Mattel And Disney Exec
- GitLab Learns Hard Lessons After Production Data Accidentally Gets Nuked
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All News for February 2017
TorBrowser users could be in for a rude awakening thank to some rather nefarious Windows DRM-protected files that are making the rounds. It appears that malicious parties could use malware that is ensconced within DRM-protected files to reveal their true IP address.
It should be noted that this latest attack vector...
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If you are the owner of a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 4 Pro, we have some good news for you. Sony just announced today that an upcoming software update will bring support for external hard drives (among other things).
While Sony has always made it [relatively] easy to upgrade the hard drive in the PlayStation 4...
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It seems that everything these days is gaining voice control, and we're okay with that. After all, it's much easier to bark out a command to our smartphone or other electronic gadget rather than navigate through menus and apps. Well, that level of convenience is now part of Plex, the popular media player software...
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Little did we know it, but Facebook's engineers have been experimenting with a computer vision platform that is able to sort through photographs and search for what's contained in them, even when they're not tagged or captioned. For example, the platform can tell if the photo has a tiger in it or if someone is wearing...
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In mid-2016, Apple set off a chain of events that leads us to the current situation when it comes to Thunderbolt-enabled displays targeted at Mac users. The company discontinued its 27-inch Thunderbolt Display in June, leaving Mac users without a first-party monitor to connect to their machines. Later in the year...
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A common criticism of the iPhone 7 is that Apple did not innovate enough with the design or overall set of features. It is an incremental upgrade from the iPhone 6s that is better in a lot of ways and faster, but not very exciting. True as those criticisms are, it did not stop people from rushing out and buying the...
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Conan O'Brien sucks at video games. That much is evident by watching any episode from his Clueless Gamer series, and it's also what makes the series so hilarious. Choosing which one is the funniest is a matter of personal opinion and they're all pretty great, though we're partial to the latest episode featuring a slew...
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Newer versions of Windows, including Windows 10 are vulnerable right now to a new Server Message Block (SMB) zero-day exploit that has been shown as a proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was first demonstrated by @PythonResponder and requires a user to connect to a SMBv3 server for a successful attack.
Given the...
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At Microsoft's WinHEC 2016 conference, which took place in December in Shenzhen, the company outlined suggestions of what the hottest devices in 2017 should include. The company has finally made its presentation public, so we can get a feel for what's coming this year. Admittedly, not much should be a surprise, but...
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How popular is the NES Classic Edition console? According to Nintendo, it has sold 1.5 million Famicom Mini and NES Classic Edition consoles since their release in November. These numbers were confirmed by Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, who spoke about the consoles’ success during the company’s most recent...
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Can HTC Vive and Microsoft HoloLens users ever truly share a virtual experience together? Are they doomed to stagger through their own lonely artificial reality worlds? Well, Google intern Drew Gottlieb has an answer. Gottlieb’s software allows Microsoft HoloLens users to peek into the virtual reality worlds of the...
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Acer is further fleshing out its gaming monitor lineup with the release of yet another UltraWide release. Today’s addition comes in the form of the XR382CQK, which sports a massive 37.5-inch 21:9 display with a resolution of 3840x1600. But the UltraWide resolution isn’t the only thing that the XR382CQK brings to the...
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is the greatest of all time (GOAT) at his position and it's not up for debate. Haters will hate and I'm fine with that. Deflategate was nothing more than a smear campaign by media outlets desperate for hits (I'm looking at you, ESPN), and a blatant power grab by NFL...
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General Motors recently announced that it is killing off its Australian-bred and produced, rear-wheel drive Holden Commodore. For Americans, this means that the Commodore-based, hard-charging Chevrolet SS is also being euthanized.
But Holden isn’t going down without a fight, which is why it is coming out guns...
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Believe it or not, Barnes and Noble is still selling Nook devices (remember those?). The Nook Tablet 7 is one of its newer models and if you happen to own one, stop using the included power adapter immediately. Barnes and Noble has issued a recall due to the risk of shock. The company warns that the power adapter's...
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Apple’s notebook computers aren’t exactly known as energy hogs — well, if we toss aside the Consumer Reports battery fiasco that was attributed to a Safari bug — but it’s always appreciated to eek as much battery life as possible out of a machine. Given that Apple has full control over the hardware and software stack...
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It was a pretty big deal when Facebook amassed 1 billion active monthly users a little over four years ago. Of the achievement, company co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said it was "humbling and by the far the thing I am most proud of in my life." Now just a few short years later, Facebook is on the cusp of doubling the...
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Co-Founder Palmer Luckey And CEO Iribe To Pay $50M And $150M Respectively
ZeniMax on Wednesday won a $500 million award in its lawsuit against Oculus. Mark Zuckerberg's testimony was not enough to fully sway the jury, which sided with ZeniMax and found that Oculus executives broke a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)...
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Activision Blizzard Launches Consumer Products Division Spearheaded By Former Mattel And Disney Exec
If you're a fan of any Activision or Blizzard game series, then there's a new reason to be excited. Announced today, parent company Activision Blizzard is launching a new division focused squarely on consumer products. Love Overwatch? Expect to see an even greater selection with your geek gear soon.
To launch this...
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Here at HotHardware, we've talked a lot about the importance of keeping good backups. On a personal level, a failed backup would affect just a couple of people (if not just one); but carelessness in the enterprise can can affect a lot more people. Unfortunately, this is a lesson GitLab has found out the hard...
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The people of New York state are taking Charter to court. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office is suing Charter-owned Spectrum (previously Time Warner Cable) for knowingly failing to live up to its promise of ‘blazing fast’ and ‘super reliable’ service. Schneiderman remarked, “The allegations in...
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Patriot fans are not the only things jumping up and down in Boston right now. Google-owned Boston Dynamics has developed a robot named Handle that moves incredibly quickly and jumps on two wheels. The company has not officially announced it, nevertheless, footage of the robot was leaked on YouTube.
Most Boston...
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