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Latest News - February 2020
- Adata Forecasts Higher Memory Prices This Year Due To Impending Coronavirus Threat Mitigation
- Yes Your Philips Hue Light Bulbs Can Be Hacked Too, Update Firmware Now
- Motorola Razr Flip Phone Blings Out With Attractive New Gold Finish, Shipping Times Slip For Orders
- Next Gen AMD EPYC Rome Zen 2 Processor Details Revealed In ASUS Firmware Update
- 2021 Cadillac Escalade Unveiled With Three OLED Displays, Enhanced Super Cruise, Optional Diesel Power
- Atari VCS Game Console Pre-Production Finally Begins With Refinements And Dev Kits Shipping
- Qualcomm Showcases Gorgeous Snapdragon 865 8K Recording Hinting At Galaxy S20 Capabilities
- Google Photos Accidentally Sent Backed Up Videos To Strangers Via Takeout
- Google Chrome 80 Arrives Today With These Major Changes To Cookies
- Blizzard Is Offering Refunds To Angry And Frustrated WarCraft 3: Reforged Gamers
- Sony Launches PlayStation 5 Site As Global PS4 Shipments Hit 109 Million
- NVIDIA GeForce NOW Goes Live With PC Game Streaming Anywhere At Prices That Undercut Stadia
- Samsung Unleashes 3rd Gen 16Gb HBM2E 4.2Gbps Memory For HPC Systems
- Watch The First 10 Minutes Of Doom Eternal In Hellishly Gory 4K/60 FPS Glory
- Intel's Rumored Cascade Lake Xeon Refresh To Counterattack AMD's Dominant EPYC Rome Enterprise CPUs
- Gigabyte Z490 Intel Comet Lake And B550 AMD Ryzen 3000 Motherboards Leaked By EEC
- Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Rumored To Debut In April With Demonic 700+ HP Powerplant
- Elon Musk To Host "Super Fun" Tesla Party/Hackathon At His Mega Mansion
- TCL Leaves BlackBerry Phones Dead On The Vine As Licensing Deal Ends In August
- Google's Meena AI Chatbot Is Surprsingly Human-Like, Even Tells Dad Jokes
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All News for February 2020
Pricing for DRAM and NAND flash memory products have proven to be fickle over the years, as the memory chip market is a volatile one. It sometimes seems like even changes in the wind can affect pricing. Or more recently, the Coronavirus that is wreaking havoc is also affecting the memory market. That said, Adata...
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Security researchers are warning of an exploit in the ZigBee low-power wireless power protocol that could allow an attacker to infiltrate a home network through smart lighting. The researches focused primarily on Philips Hue smart bulbs because of their market popularity in the smart lighting segment, though the...
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Motorola Razr mania has reached a fevered pitch, and customers will begin receiving their preorders (and devices will be available to purchase at physical Verizon Wireless retail locations) stating tomorrow, February 6th. With that in mind, a new finish that was previously announced for the Razr has been...
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Normally we would not be all that interested in a random firmware update for a 1U rack server. However, ASUS appears to have tipped the pending launch of four additional AMD EPYC "Rome" processors with the latest firmware update for its RX700A-E9-RS12, which packs a dozen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays and sells for...
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We got our first taste of the 2021 Cadillac Escalade in mid-January, when General Motors posted a single drawing of the vehicle's dashboard. Now, however, the veil has fully been lifted from the Escalade and we're getting a comprehensive look at it from bow to stern.
The new Escalade is still a huge, hulking...
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The first half of January was a busy month for the Atari VCS team. It was on hand at CES 2020, showing off the Atari VCS game console with live demos and more. After CES 2020 wrapped, the team headed to China to work on manufacturing. The company says that over a two-week period in January, the team oversaw a...
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The first smartphones using Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 865 SoC will be arriving on the market very shortly. And while many people will be looking forward to the Snapdragon 865 with respect to performance and its accompanying Snapdragon X55 5G modem, it will also usher in the era of 8K video recording for Android...
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Another day, another data privacy flub, and this time it's from Google. Google Takeout is a service that allows users to download their data from Google apps as a backup or to use it with another service. That sounds good on the surface until, somehow, Google managed to send backed up videos to unrelated users. Google...
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Homer Simpson spoke for all of us when he said, "Mmm...crumbled-up cookie things" in Lisa the Greek (Season 3, Episode 14). I mean really, who does not like cookies? Or cookie things? Be that as it may, cookies in browsers are not always so delectable, and so Google is changing the recipe for developers with the...
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Blizzard has begun granting refunds to gamers who purchased WarCraft 3: Reforged because the game has been unpopular, and many buyers are upset with the quality of the game. Some gamers are so unhappy that there have been calls for lawsuits against Blizzard. To fend off any potential legal battles, Blizzard has begun...
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It's not exactly the explosion of details that we were hoping to receive on the PlayStation 5, but Sony today launched the official website for its next-generation game console. The new official homepage for the PS5 confirms that it will launch in time for the Holiday 2020 shopping season.
"We've begun to share...
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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is now available for all, meaning that it is no longer relegated to a select few that were accepted in waves as part of the early beta program. With this announcement, anyone can now join in with the service that allows you to bring the power of PC gaming to just about any...
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The name "Flashbolt" sounds like it could be a comic book superhero, or a spell you cast when running up against some ruffians in a role playing game. Neither of those things are what Samsung had in mind when launching Flashbolt, which is actually its third-generation high bandwidth memory 2E (HBM2E) designed for high...
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According to id Software, the upcoming Doom Eternal will be "the best game we've ever made." That is a tall order to fill considering a string of great games that has come out of the software house over the past nearly three decades, but early trailers for the game have us buying into the hype.
We're equally...
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Intel closed out 2019 with $72 billion in revenue, an all-time high for the company, and one heck of a feather for CEO Bob Swan to put in his cap (it was his first full-year at the helm). So, it's not as though Intel has entered into a tailspin. However, Intel does face stiffer competition from AMD these days than...
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Motherboard makers can ill afford to let their foot off the gas pedal, not when there are now chipsets on the horizon. Intel is readying its Z490 chipset for its upcoming Comet Lake-S processors, while AMD is apparently prepping a B550 chipset for its Ryzen 3000 series. Meanwhile, Gigabyte is locked and loaded for...
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Dodge is intent on Hellcat-ing all of the cars it has in its lineup. We've had Hellcat versions of both the Charger and Challenger. Dodge's full-size SUV, the Durango, is now set to get the Hellcat treatment. A brief teaser of the 2021 Durango SRT Hellcat surfaced in the Dodge House of Power | The Fast Saga trailer...
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Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk are well known for using unconventional methods to both hire key employees and improve their electric vehicles. The latest hiring tactic that Musk and company are using to lure in new programmers for AI and Autopilot is to hold a party at Musk's house. Musk tweeted about the event, noting...
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It looks as though it's the end of the line for BlackBerry smartphones, as the company’s existing licensing deal with TCL Communications is coming to an end on August 31st 2020. TCL first entered into to an agreement in December 2016 to license the BlackBerry name for a family of smartphones in the KEY...
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The true measure of a chatbot is not simply its ability to offer responses to questions, or even to just to make sense when 'conversing' with a human. Instead, it is the ability to allow a flesh and blood person to suspend disbelief and feel as though they are chatting with an actual intelligent being (and do it...
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Preorders for the all-new Razr opened late last month, and Motorola will begin shipping the folding smartphone to customers on February 6th. However, those that want to try out the smartphone in person right now, you can visit your nearest Verizon Wireless store to see one on display.
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Adobe Flash has long been a method that developers used to put interactive content on the internet. There are tens of thousands of games out there that use Flash that will no longer work when December 31st, 2020 comes around. At the end of 2020, Flash will die off as most major web browsers remove Flash support. Ahead...
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