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Latest News - February 2017
- ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero AMD AM4 X370 Ryzen Motherboard Gets Unboxed On Video
- SoftBank Renews Interest In Sprint Merger With T-Mobile
- Google Seeks User Feedback To Help Design Next Generation Pixel Smartphones
- Nintendo Switch System Software Footage Leaked Thanks To Retailer Preorder Gaffe
- Google’s Internet Beaming Loon Balloons Adopt Machine Learning To Improve Navigation And Coverage
- YouTube Will Banish Unskippable 30-Second Video Ads In 2018 To Appease Users
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg Pens 5700-Word Manifesto On Fake News, Censorship And The Perils Of Isolationism
- Samsung Chief Lee Jae-yong Arrested For Bribery As Corruption Scandal Investigation Expands
- Apple Could Add 3D Laser Facial Recognition On iPhone 8 To Augment Next Gen Touch ID
- AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 6-Core Benchmarks Leak, Zen Part Number Decoder Detailed
- AT&T Caves To Competition, Offers Hamstrung Weak Sauce Unlimited Data Plan
- AMD Ryzen AM4 X370 Motherboards From ASUS, Biostar And Gigabyte Leaked
- Twitter Is Temporarily Placing Abusive Users In Timeout To Curb Online Bullying
- Apple’s WWDC 2017 Gets Underway June 5th Highlighting Future Of iOS And macOS
- Sprint Counters Verizon And T-Mobile Unlimited Plans With Bargain Pricing, HD Video And A Free iPhone 7
- NVIDIA Quadro P4000 And P2000 Workstation GPU Review: Midrange Professional Pascal
- Facebook Puts LinkedIn In Crosshairs With Job Search Feature
- Sony Sunsets PlayStation Now Support For PS Vita, PS3 And PlayStation TV
- Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday Shockingly Delayed Until March Following Valentine’s Day Snafu
- Google Fiber Gains A New Boss As Reshuffling And Rumored Sale Cloud Once Promising Business Venture
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All News for February 2017
While everyone seems to be incredibly excited about AMD’s upcoming Ryzen processors, the motherboards that will pair with the monster chips are just as important. Today, we bring you some X370 chipset lovin’ courtesy of a new unboxing video that showcases the ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero. Sean from KWASTEK was sent an...
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It’s been a whirlwind week in the wireless industry. Verizon disturbed the hornet’s nest when it unveiled its Verizon Unlimited plan, which prompted direct responses from T-Mobile, Sprint and AT&T (in that order). Now were hearing about another shakeup that could be coming down the line — a merger between Sprint and T-Mobile.
We’ve heard
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Google’s first generation Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones were generally well received by the media and the enthusiast community. Powered by the best hardware available at its launch in Fall 2016, the Pixel smartphones offered excellent screens, good performance, great build quality and a clean Android 7.0 Nougat...
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It shouldn't be too shocking to learn that there are many people anxious to get their mitts on Nintendo's Switch console, and thanks to one retailer that didn't check its calendar carefully, many people are now envious of one lucky customer who managed to get their unit a full two weeks early.
That lucky user is...
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According to Google, more than half of the world's population is still without Internet access. One of Google's ambitious goals is to change that statistic. That's no easy task for several reasons, one of which is that some locations are just too remote for ISPs to set foot in. Google has been experimenting with...
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YouTube remains a free service for all (well, as long as you aren’t a subscriber to YouTube Red), so we have to put up with ads from a time to time to enjoy our daily allotment of cat videos and other time wasters. However, Google has finally gotten the hint that one particular format for its video advertising may be...
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Are you looking for new reading material to keep you busy this weekend? If so, you might consider a 5,700-word manifesto written by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It's titled "Building Global Community" and it covers a range of topics on what is needed to build a better, more supportive and...
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It's said that bad publicity is better than no publicity, though Samsung might disagree as the latter continues to pile on. Following its Galaxy Note 7 fiasco and the subsequent fire that broke out at its battery plant, the latest bad news for Samsung is that its de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong, has been arrested over...
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Given that we’re quickly approaching Spring, next generation iPhone rumors are really starting to pick up steam. The iPhone is coming up on its tenth anniversary, which means that people are expecting something really big from Apple for the fall reveal of the iPhone 8.
The latest news to come down from the rumor...
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If you thought the Ryzen hype train might start to slow down after weeks of leaks and rumors, think again. The closer we get to Ryzen's release (likely early March, with a possible announcement on February during AMD's Capsaicin event at GDC 2017), the juicier the leaks, it seems. Case in point, the latest bit of...
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With three of the four major U.S. wireless carriers duking out amongst each other with regards to unlimited data plans during the past week, AT&T was left to watch from the sidelines. The second place wireless carrier currently offers unlimited data, but only to customers that sign up for its DirecTV packages, which...
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If you're finding that your excitement level is Ryzen, then you've clearly been reading the many rumors swirling around the highly anticipated processor family right here at HotHardware. While it's largely expected that AMD will be releasing its first chips soon, that sure doesn't mean that the rumormill is going to...
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Do you kiss your mama with that mouth? Twitter has implemented a new policy where it is temporarily limiting the reach of those who violate its abusive behavior policies. The new protocol comes at a time when Twitter is revising its abusive content policies.
Affected users have been receiving emails stating, “We’ve...
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Apple recently revealed that its 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will get underway June 5th in San Jose, California. Many anticipate that Apple will announce iOS 11, as well as macOS 10.13. It is expected that roughly 6,000 people will turn out at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center.
Apple's marketing...
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There is a new wireless war taking place, and three of the four major U.S. carriers are actively engaged in fighting. It all started when Verizon Wireless announced that it was bringing back a new and reinvigorated unlimited data plan with included HD video streaming and 10GB of mobile hotspot data. T-Mobile countered...
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A couple of weeks back, NVIDIA unveiled a family of new professional Quadro cards, based on the company’s Pascal GPU architecture. The latest additions to the Quadro line-up run the gamut in terms of features and capabilities, from the low-power, small form factor Quadro P400 to the gargantuan, ultra-powerful Quadro...
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Move over LinkedIn (or should we say Microsoft) and make room for Facebook, the world's largest social network that is expanding its reach into professional territory with a new job search feature. LinkedIn has been the go-to social service to gain an edge in the professional arena and to link employers with qualified...
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Sorry PlayStation 3 owners, your console is among the many devices that PlayStation Now will cease supporting this summer. The same goes for the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV, along with all 2013, 2014, and 2015 Sony Bravia TV models. All Sony Blu-ray player models and all Samsung TVs are affected as well. The...
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If you’ve been following news coming out of Redmond, Washington this week, something rather unprecedented took place. Microsoft’s regularly-scheduled Patch Tuesday, which includes the usual collection of security fixes and updates, didn’t take place on Valentine’s Day.
Instead, Microsoft provided the following...
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The future of Google Fiber is anything but crystal clear. It was reported in October of last year that Google Fiber had put a halt on its plans to expand in 10 cities and that job cuts loomed as it looked to make a shift from ultra high-speed wired broadband service to wireless deployments. It was mostly quiet after...
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There are few names in the automotive space that are as revered as Ferrari, and the Italian company definitely knows how to make an entrance. So, it should come as no surprise that the company is dropping jaws with the new 812 Superfast, which is an outgrowth of the F12 Berlinetta. Ferrari says that this its most...
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AMD has the attention of the tech community at large with Ryzen, its next-generation processor line that takes aim at power users and enthusiasts. There have been several leaks and rumors surrounding Ryzen, especially over the past few weeks, and most questions will finally be answered when it launches to retail in a...
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