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- Fallout 4 1.4 Patch Arrives For PlayStation 4 And Xbox One
- Apple Legal Chief Eviscerates ’Cheap Shot Brief’ As FBI Threatens To Demand iOS Source Code
- Robots Tasked With Exploring Fukushima Nuclear Wasteland ‘Killed’ By Intense Radiation
- $649 Core i7 Alienware Desktop, Bundled $150 Amazon Gift Card With Sennheiser HD 600 Headphones And More
- Lumia 650 Windows 10 Mobile Smartphone Available To Preorder For $199 Off-Contract
- HP Spectre x360 15t Review: A 4 Pound Convertible Beauty
- Adobe Rushes Another Patch For Critical Flash Player Exploit To Battle-Worn Users
- MIT Polaris AI Algorithm Reduces Web Page Load Times By Up To 34 Percent
- Michigan State Researchers Spoof Galaxy S6 Fingerprint Scanner With Inkjet Printer
- Modular LG G5 Arrives Stateside In April With Free Charging Cradle And Extra Battery
- Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14283 Treks Onto Fast Ring
- FCC Proposes Privacy Rules That Would Greatly Limit How ISPs Share Your Data
- Verizon CFO Claims Unlimited Data Is ‘Short-Term Game’ And Metered Plans Are The Future
- Bundled Gift Card With $229 Dell UltraSharp UZ2315H Monitor, 40% Off Allsop Monitor Stand And More
- Apple Will ‘Loop You In’ During March 21st Keynote, iPhone SE And 9.7-inch iPad Pro Expected
- Galaxy S7 Vs iPhone 6S Performance Showdown Shows Samsung Has The Upper-Hand
- Canon’s $550 Rebel T6 Brings NFC And Wi-Fi To Entry-Level DSLR Market
- AMD XConnect Brings High Performance External GPU Support To Ultraportables, 2-in-1 Convertibles
- Google AlphaGo AI Notches Second Straight Win Against Legendary Go Player Lee Sedol
- Microsoft Shames Administrators Who Block Windows 10 Upgrades With Nag Screens
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All News for March 2016
Okay PC players, you can stop thumbing your nose and sticking your tongue out at your console owning brethren at being first to receive Fallout 4's latest patch, version 1.4. Following its release on PC last month, Bethesda has gone and rolled out the newest Fallout 4 update to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Bethesda's doling out the patch
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The battle between Apple and the FBI over unlocking the iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernardino mass shooters is getting nasty — really nasty. Although Apple and the U.S. Government are set to see each other in court on March 22nd, the two have been playing up their respective sides of the story to the public...
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This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of one of the most brutal earthquakes ever recorded. On March 12th, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked northeast Japan, creating a tsunami that ultimately killed some 19,000 people, and displaced hundreds of thousands others. As if the effects from the natural disaster...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go, we’ve got a fresh serving of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On the menu for you all this fine Friday we have deal on an Alienware Alpha Core i7-4785T-based Steam Box, a Core i7-6500U-based Microsoft Surface Book, a set of Sennheiser...
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All signs are pointing to Microsoft’s Lumia 650 being the end of the line for the long-running Lumia smartphone family. First ushered in by Nokia, then absorbed by Microsoft, it now looks as though Microsoft will pin its future smartphone hopes on in-house designed “Surface” phones.
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Update 4/26/2016: We've updated our battery life test suite for this review and have new more real-world metrics to share on page 6. It was just about this time last year that HP first took the wraps off its chic, convertible ultrabook, the original Spectre x360. Although the Spectre name wasn’t new, HP’s approach to the ultrabook’s design...
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It seems as though most (if not all) Internet users are awaiting the day when Adobe Flash is finally eradicated from the face of the earth. The Adobe Flash Player plugin has long been a security liability, resource nightmare and battery hog (for mobile users). Although Adobe has announced that it is winding down the...
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It's been a long time since webpages consisted of simple text. Today's webpages are far more complex with audio, video, fancy graphics, JavaScript, and everything else that goes into making an enticing portal. Browser makers have done an overall good job of keeping up with the times, but researchers at MIT's Computer...
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Fingerprint scanning is quickly becoming a standard security feature on high-end smartphones. The perceived notion is that this type of biometric safeguard provides a superior means of security due to the unique patterns of everyone's fingers, but a new study and experiment conducted by researchers at Michigan State...
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LG's attempt to shake up the smartphone industry begins in earnest early next month, which is when the South Korean electronics maker plans to ship its modular G5 handset to the United States. The "early April" release isn't much of a surprise—LG had previously announced plans to ship the G5 to Canada on April...
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Microsoft's grand vision for the future is a single ecosystem spread across multiple device categories. That ecosystem is based on Windows 10, which is now installed on more than 200 million active devices around the world. Suffice to say, Windows 10 is off to a fast start, but what about Windows 10 Mobile? Microsoft...
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During his tenure as FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler has taken on the telecom industry with net neutrality, and more recently, is looking to upend the cable box market by forcing cable and satellite providers to open their services to third-party hardware manufacturers. Now, Wheeler is turning his attention to another hot...
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If you're one of those rare folks that happen to have an unlimited plan without any caveats, you're in a very enviable situation. It's clear that most carriers don't want to offer unlimited packages at all, and if they do, they typically raise the price enough over time to encourage subscribers hop over to a metered...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell UltraSharp UZ2315H 23" 1080p IPS Monitor, an EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 Graphics Card, a Halter Manual Adjustable Height Sit to Stand Desk, and...
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Apple has finally confirmed what we’ve known for the past two weeks thanks to well-informed leaks. It will hold a keynote event at its Cupertino headquarters on March 21st to announce a handful of new products. As is usually the case with its press invites, Apple simply says “Let us loop you in,” leaving us to guess...
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The immediate comparisons are inevitable. Apple and Samsung are the two most dominant smartphone manufacturers in the world right now, commanding an overwhelming combined market share that dwarfs their competitors. So, when one of these mobile juggernauts releases a new flagship device, analysts, press, and consumers...
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Digital SLR cameras are finally starting to catch up with smartphones! Surprised by that statement? Well, we're not talking about picture quality—DSLR cameras still and might always take better photos than smartphones—but in terms of offering basic connectivity features even in entry-level models. Such is the case...
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AMD is making it easier than ever to hookup an external graphics card to your ultraportable notebook or 2-in-1 PC thanks to new technology introduced in the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.2. AMD has unleashed its XConnect technology, which makes it a trivial affair to add an external Radeon graphics card via...
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Score another victory for artificial intelligence, and specifically for Google's AlphaGo computer. The product of Google's DeepMind division, AlphaGo was again victorious against legendary Go player Lee Sedol, winning a second consecutive time to take a commanding 2-0 lead as part of a five game series.
This is...
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It’s been quite a while since we reported on Microsoft employing sneaky tricks to persuade users to upgrade to Windows 10. But perhaps the company was just waiting until our guard was down, because Microsoft it at it again. This time around, however, it’s targeting businesses and system administrators that have...
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Ah, to be the billionaire co-founder of the world's most popular social networking site. That's the position Mark Zuckerberg finds himself in, and one thing is for sure, he's enjoying life. He's also spreading the fun to Facebook users in unique ways, which would explain why he wore a virtual Iron Man mask to announce...
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Rather than work things out in private, the FBI has chosen to drag Apple through court and force its hand in providing technical assistance in cracking the security of an iPhone 5c model that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters. There's been a lot of posturing on both sides, and with regards to the FBI...
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