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Latest News - February 2017
- Valve Is Shuttering Steam Greenlight, Will Allow Direct Game Publishing For Developers
- Sprint Offers Family Of 5 Unlimited Data, Talk And Text For $90 Per Month
- Google DeepMind Grooms Skynet Uprising By Teaching AI To Become Aggressive Or Cooperate In Teams
- Activision’s Call of Duty Franchise Going ‘Back To Its Roots’ With Traditional Boots On The Ground Gameplay
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 iCX FTW2 Review: Everything Detected, More Than Just A Cooler
- Xbox One Sales Hit Record High In January, But Still Couldn’t Surpass PS4
- Microsoft Cortana Can Learn Your Email Commitments And Hold You Accountable To Make Good On Them
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg Demos Oculus Gloves For Typing And Interacting In Virtual Reality
- Pascal GPUs Help NVIDIA Crush Q4 Earnings, Datacenter And AI Units Show Surging Growth
- Windows 10 Cloud’s UWP Walled Garden Crumbles, Allowing Win32 Apps To Run Unopposed
- NSA Contractor With Top Secret Clearance Indicted For Stealing, Hoarding Classified Documents
- Microsoft Highlights More Windows 10 Project NEON UI Changes Including Refreshed Taskbar
- GameBand Smartwatch Brings Retro Atari Gaming And Amazon Alexa To Your Wrist
- Apple’s 10th Anniversary iPhone 8 With OLED Display Could Top $1,000
- Facebook Deploys Machine Learning To Sniff Out Discriminatory Advertising
- Tesla Model 3 EV Pilot Production To Reportedly Ramp February 20th
- Facebook Shutters 200 Best Buy Oculus Rift VR Demo Stations Due To Limited Interest
- AMD Denies Report Of Official Ryzen Windows 7 Drivers, Confirms Windows 10-Only Support
- Leaked AMD Ryzen Pricing Should Give Intel Pause About Kaby Lake Positioning
- PS4 Pro Boost Mode Nets Up To 38 Percent Performance Boost For Some Games
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All News for February 2017
Five years after announcing Steam Greenlight, Valve today said that it will be pulling the plug on the “democratic” system that allows Steam users to choose which game is worthy enough to be vetted for inclusion via the software distribution platform.
Valve says that it has learned some key lessons from Greenlight...
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When you are in fourth place among the America’s top four wireless carriers, you need to do something to stand out from the crowd. If you can’t best your rivals on speed, service quality or coverage, the best target to aim for is pricing. Sprint is doubling down on its “value” positioning today with the announcement...
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Over the years, we've seen numerous examples of how AI can enrich our lives. It could brew us an awesome beer, solve serious health diagnosis cases, and of course, handle every day problem solving tasks in a number of other ways. We can also use AI and deep learning to simulate real-world scenarios, such as what would...
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We have the feeling that Activision Blizzard wasn’t anticipating that backlash that came with the announcement of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in May of last year. However, once the initial trailer for the game popped up on YouTube, the venom flew furiously at the thought of not only taking combat into space, but...
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For close to two decades, EVGA has been producing graphics cards based on NVIDIA GPU technology. The company's current line-up consists of literally dozens of cards featuring GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs, with various clock speeds, cooler configurations, and form factors. Although the GeForce 10 series has been out for...
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Microsoft can celebrate a strong start to 2017 in terms of console sales. The company said it sold more Xbox One consoles in the United States in January of this year than any previous January, of which there have been three others since the Xbox One debuted in November of 2013. That is a pretty remarkable feat...
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Most of us could probably stand to be a little bit more organized, whether it's remembering to pick up milk on the way home or making sure not to miss little Katie's recital right after turning in those blueprints to the boss at noon. That is where digital assistants can be useful. Cortana is one of them and Microsoft...
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Waving around motion controllers is cool and all, but for virtual reality to offer an deeper level of immersion, recognizing hand and finger movements would go a long way. That seems to the be the direction Oculus is headed. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a handful of pictures taken from the Oculus Research lab...
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Things are definitely looking good over in NVIDIA land these days. Yesterday afternoon, the company announced its fiscal Q4 2017 and full-year fiscal 2017 earnings and the results were quite impressive. Revenue for the quarter shot up 55 percent to $2.17 billion compared to the same period a year ago. Likewise...
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Microsoft hasn’t even officially announced Windows 10 Cloud, but the new operating system has already been “hacked” to add functionality that isn’t officially sanctioned. For those that need a refresher, Windows 10 Cloud is a new variant of Microsoft’s current consumer operating system that will only allow you to...
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What do you collect? Rare stamps? Falcons fans’ tears? How about classified national defense documents? Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was recently indicted by a federal grand jury on the charge that he purposely collected classified information regarding national defense. He...
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We've been talking about Microsoft's 'Project NEON' for a couple of months now, and while we now have a good idea of what it's going to be bringing to the table, we're in for a rather long wait. The public release isn't slated to arrive until late 2017.
Project NEON is an evolution of the design language in Windows...
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We first brought you news of the Atari GameBand last month when the company teased the announcement via a new website. The only clues that we had about the new device were two fists raised into the air joined by the statement: “Brand New Gaming Hardware Coming soon…”
Well, we now know what Atari and its partners...
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Diamonds are the traditional tenth anniversary gift, but Apple reportedly has a little something different up its sleeve. Apple is planning on releasing a tenth anniversary iPhone 8 with an OLED display and it will likely cost upward of $1,000 USD.
The 5.7-inch iPhone 8 (or iPhone X) will likely look quite...
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In no uncertain terms, Facebook says "discriminatory advertising has no place" on the world's largest social network. To keep it off of there, Facebook last fall started providing better education to advertisers about its prohibition against discrimination. It also beefed up the procedures it uses to enforce...
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Do you have your eyes on Tesla’s entry-level Model 3 electric sedan? Well, you aren’t the only one as over 300,000 people plunked down $1,000 deposits to hold their place in line to receive the vehicle, which starts at $35,000 before federal and state tax credits.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that regular...
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Consumers at large do not seem to be ready to embrace the concept of virtual reality, at least not at today's asking price—a high-end headset costs $599 to $799, plus there is the cost of a PC with sufficient hardware to support VR experiences. Due to low sales of Oculus Rift in Best Buy, Facebook has decided to close...
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Well, it looks as though any hope that PC users had of receiving official Ryzen driver support in Windows 7 have officially been flushed down the toilet. Earlier this week, we reported that comments made at an AMD Partner Meeting in Germany suggested that the chipmaker would provide its own official Windows 7 drivers...
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AMD is going to release its first batch of highly anticipated Ryzen processors to retail in just a few more weeks. Many questions will be answered at that time, including the big one that is one everyone's mind—how much will these new processors cost? Well, you might not have to wait to find out. An online shop seems...
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The PlayStation 4 Pro is a beefier console than the non-Pro version. That is true of its physical size and more importantly it is true of the hardware inside. Rather than let the hardware upgrades go wasted on existing games that have not been patched to utilize the added resources available in the PS4 Pro, Sony is...
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If you’re looking to enter the world of network security, penetration testing, and white hat hacking, we’ve got an amazing deal currently running in the HotHardware Shop. We’ve got a complete White Hat Hacking & Penetration Testing Bundle on sale for under 20 bucks, which is a massive discount over the regular...
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Intel’s previously cancelled Fab 42, which calls Chandler, Arizona home, is back on again. Intel originally began construction on the chip plant back in 2011, but “paused” construction following the downturn in the PC market. "The new construction is going to be left vacant for now and it will be targeted at future...
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