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- PlayStation 4 Continues Console Domination Over Xbox One With February Sales Win
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Battle Mode Featured In New Trailer As Donkey Kong Dabs Onto Nintendo Switch
- MACOM X-Gene 3 32-Core ARM Chip To Challenge Intel Xeon Dominance In Servers
- T-Mobile Raised ‘Unlimited’ Data Cap To 30GB Per Month Before Throttling Occurs
- Google’s 55-inch 4K Jamboard Takes On Microsoft Surface Hub At Bargain $5,000 In May
- Plex Cloud Now Available For Plex Pass Subscribers, Creates Instant OneDrive And Dropbox Media Severs
- Google reCAPTCHA Becomes ‘Invisible’ Automatically Separating Humans From Bots
- Messenger Day Is Facebook’s Snapchat Stories Clone For Video And Photo Sharing
- Sprint Flaunts Ultra Fast Gigabit Class LTE Using Prototype Motorola Hardware
- WikiLeaks Seeks To Assist Apple And Google In Disarming CIA Vault 7 Hacking Tools
- Galaxy S8 And S8+ Renders Show Size Comparison With iPhone 7, Note 7 And Pixel XL
- Google Admits To Pixel And Pixel XL Microphone Defects, Offers Warranty Replacements
- FCC Launches Investigation Into Massive AT&T 911 Cell Service Blackout
- Uber Will No Longer Use ‘Greyball’ Software To Evade Local Regulators
- Microsoft Sneaks OneDrive Ads Into The Windows 10 File Explorer
- Imagination PowerVR Furian GPU Architecture Could Power Apple iPhone 8 And Beyond
- Facebook ‘Big Basin’ AI Compute Platform Adopts NVIDIA Tesla P100 For Next Gen Data Centers
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Review - The Fastest Gaming Graphics Card Yet
- 99% Off Zoolz Dual Cloud 2TB Storage In The HotHardware Shop
- Nest Reportedly Developing Sub-$200 Thermostat And New Smart Home Security Hub
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All News for March 2017
There was a time back during the closing months of 2016 when we thought that Microsoft had turned the tide with Xbox One sales. A rather extensive round of price cuts along with the release of the Xbox One S allowed Microsoft to beat the PlayStation 4 in console sales for four straight months.
However, Sony got its...
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Doing the "dab" did not work out so well for Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in Super Bowl L (50) when his team lost to the Denver Broncos by a score of 24-10. Maybe Donkey Kong will have better luck with it in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. The iconic gorilla can be seen doing the dab a few minutes into a new overview...
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Qualcomm isn’t the only manufacturer looking to cut into Intel’s seemingly insurmountable lead in the server chip market. We’re also seeing a challenge from lesser known MACOM, which is employing an ARM chip design that promises high performance (particularly in regards to memory bandwidth) with incredible...
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T-Mobile just changed the amount of data its customers are allowed to consume before they face potential throttling, depending on network usage. The limit now sits at 30 gigabytes per billing cycle, whereas previously T-Mobile's network management policy listed the ceiling at 28GB. Obviously that is not a ginormous...
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Google has finally attached a price to its forthcoming Jamboard, an interactive digital whiteboard designed to facilitate real-time collaboration in the work place. The company announced today at its Google Cloud Next conference that its Jamboard will cost $4,999 and that it will be available sometime in May. Whether...
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If you are a heavy Plex user, you will be happy to know that a rather intriguing new feature has exited beta and is now available to all Plex Pass Subscribers. Plex Cloud allows you to bypass the use of a local home server for your media storage — which likely has to run 24-7-365 to provide immediate access to your...
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Most web users would agree that entering text into CAPTCHA (Completed Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) boxes is annoying. It is also sometimes difficult to decipher the wavy text, leading to multiple attempts to prove yourself a flesh and blood human and not a robot. Well, good...
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Are you Facebook fan or part of the #Snapfam? Facebook’s latest feature Messenger Day is essentially the clone of Snapchat Stories. Imitation is the best form of flattery, right? According to Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger, “Millions of people around the world have already used Messenger Day to show...
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Sprint may be the fourth-place U.S. wireless carrier and panned for its spotty nationwide coverage, but the company is already laying the groundwork to boost its LTE network to gigabit speeds. The company is proudly proclaiming that it is the very first carrier to deploy Gigabit Class LTE on a commercial...
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Are you worried about the CIA cyber-espionage toolkit that was just revealed on Tuesday? Well, Julian Assange apparently has your back. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, recently promised that his organization would help companies like Apple, Google and Samsung to defend themselves against the hacking tools -- the...
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As we fast approach the March 29th official unveil for the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, we’re beginning to learn more details about both flagship smartphones. Earlier this week, the following image was provided which gives us a look at the [reported] 5.8-inch Galaxy S8 side-by-side with its 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+...
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If you’re having microphone issues with your Google Pixel or Pixel XL smartphone, you are not alone. A quick trip over to the official Pixel support forum shows over 800 replies in a thread dedicated to the problem.
“After a few hours of use and set up the microphone stopped working entirely, except when recording...
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If you listened to rap music in the early 1990s, you undoubtedly heard Flava Flav spit rhymes to "911 is a Joke," the song he is most famous for. However, it was no laughing matter when mobile phone users subscribed to AT&T's wireless service were unable to call 911 emergency dispatchers in more than a dozen states on...
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Uber has issued a statement defending the use of its proprietary Greyball software, while at the same time going on record prohibiting employees from using the application to evade regulators. Joe Sullivan, the company's chief security officer, said it will take some time to ensure the prohibition is fully enforced...
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When Microsoft announced that it would provide Windows 10 as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users during the first year of availability, you knew that there had to be some strings attached. As we’ve seen over the past year and a half, Microsoft has come under fire for its privacy policies, allegations of...
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Imagination Technologies introduced its next-generation PowerVR Furian architecture, which it says is an entirely new GPU architecture designed for the evolved graphics compute needs of next-generation consumer device. While not specifically stated, those future consumer devices could include Apple's forthcoming...
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It takes some serious hardware to do the things that Facebook is able to do. In an effort to stay ahead of the technological curve, the social networking site announced today at the 2017 Open Compute Project (OCP) summit in Santa Clara a next-generation GPU server called Big Basin. It's the successor to the Big Sur...
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NVIDIA is officially launching its most powerful gaming graphics card today, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. It was announced last week at the Game Developers Conference and pre-orders began shortly thereafter. However, the cards will begin shipping tomorrow, from on-line retailers, system builders, and add-in-board...
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If you’re in the market for an affordable could storage solution, with plenty of available storage space, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that may be right for you. A Zoolz Dual Cloud 2TB Storage Solution with 2TB of storage is currently 99% off and available for only a tiny fraction of the original...
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Have you been eye a Nest thermostat, but have been unable to justify the rather high price tag? Rumor has it that the home automation company is currently working on a “learning thermostat” that would ring in under $200 USD. The Alphabet, Inc. subsidiary is also supposedly testing a home-security alarm system, a...
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If you’re a regular user of Google Photos, then you know that the app and online version of the service uses machine learning to “put a name to a face”, making it easy to organize or search for photos by typing in a person’s name. Or you could type in the search term “beach”, for example, to bring up some photos from...
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Many American congressman are determined to overturn the “midnight regulations” of the previous administration. The United States Senate’s latest bill proposal would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s rules and allow ISPs to share private data without the consent of the consumer.
Senator Jeff Flake of...
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