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- HP’s Ginormous Omen X Emperium 65 144Hz G-SYNC HDR Display Is Now Available
- 2.5 Geeks 3/8/2019: Quadro RTX, GeForce RTX Metro Exodus, Intel’s Spoiler, Apex Legends And More
- Blizzard's Original Diablo Game Available To Purchase Now On GoG
- Google Assistant Smart Displays Add More Natural Interactions With Continued Conversation Mode
- Amazon Echo Maintains Smart Speaker Lead In The U.S. As Adoption Booms
- That Blinking White Pixel On Your Samsung Galaxy S10 Is A Feature Not A Bug
- Latest Discrete GPU Shipment Numbers Show NVIDIA Easily Crushing AMD
- Motorola Moto RAZR Folding Phone Secondary Screen Details Leaked
- SpaceX's Historic Crew Dragon Mission Successfully Ends As Capsule Lands Safely
- Apple AR Glasses Expected In 2020 As An iPhone-Dependent Accessory
- Battlefield V's Massive Firestorm Battle Royale Map Exposed In Leaked Tutorial Video
- Alleged OnePlus 7 Specs Highlight Snapdragon 855 And Massive 4000 mAh Battery
- Windows 10 Hits 800 Million Installations Becoming Fastest Growing Version Ever
- Microsoft Surface Book 2 Entry-Level SKU Rumored For Quad-Core Kaby Lake-R Upgrade
- Valve Axes 13 Employees Primarily Affecting Its VR Division
- Apple Hiring 1200 Employees In Qualcomm’s Backyard To Further 5G Modem Development
- BioWare Identities Anthem PS4 Crashing Cause, Fix Coming Next Week
- Microsoft Warns Latest Windows 10 October Update Can Cripple Game Performance
- Nintendo Labo VR Kit Brings Cardboard VR Accessories To The Switch
- Huawei Formally Files Lawsuit Against US Government Over Product Ban
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All News for March 2019
During CES 2019 at the beginning of the year, HP rolled out a massive gaming monitor for gamers wanting the most screen space possible. The giant monitor was called the Omen X 65 Emperium, and we got to spend some hands-on time with it at the show. HP gave it an equally gigantic price of $4,999; so if you have been...
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Brittany and Chris join Dave to chat about NVIDIA’s new Quadro RTX 4000 card, GeForce RTX Ray Tracing and DLSS in Metro Exodus, Intel’s new Spoiler security vulnerability, Alienware’s Wireless Gaming Headset and Elite Gaming Mouse, the smash gaming hit that is Apex...
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Gamers who played a lot of the original Diablo game back in the day, we know what you will be doing this weekend. Blizzard has announced that it has re-launched the original Diablo I game in its entirety and that the game can be purchased and downloaded right now on GOG. The game sells for $9.99, making it quite...
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If you have a Google Assistant-backed Smart Display, but have been envious of the Continued Conversation feature available to standalone Google Home speakers, your moment in the sun has arrived. Google announced today that the handy feature is rolling out today to the Google Home Hub and other devices like the Lenovo...
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A new report is out that looks at the smart speaker market in the U.S. for 2018, and the market grew significantly year-over-year. Voicebot.ai, an analytics company, reports that smart speaker owners in the U.S. increased by 40% in 2018 to close the year at 66.4 million smart speaker owners. The total number of smart...
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At long last, Samsung's much anticipated Galaxy S10 family is on sale today, as in you can actually pluck one from a retail shelf and bring it home (as opposed to going the pre-order route). Already, however, some users have noticed a blinking white pixel that is causing concern. Rest assured though, it is a feature...
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Following the cryptocurrency boom that took off in 2017 and then fizzled out in 2018, it was expected that GPU add-in board (AIB) shipments would see a significant decline during the closing months of 2018. Well, the latest figures are in from Jon Peddie Research, and they show that the cryptocurrency sugar high has...
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Earlier this month, Motorola confirmed that it is indeed working on a folding smartphone (likely dubbed Moto RAZR); one that will inevitably be compared to the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the crowd favorite Huawei Mate X. Previously, a potential design for the smartphone was revealed by the World Intellectual Property...
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At this point, we tend to take it for granted that SpaceX will stick its landings. However, the company's latest landing is one for the books. SpaceX's unmanned Crew Dragon capsule landed off the coast Florida after a trip to the International Space Station. This was the first time in fifty years that an astronaut...
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Is Apple working on an augmented reality (AR) device? Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently reported that consumers should expect AR glasses from Apple sometime next year. The device will supposedly be marketed as an iPhone accessory.
Apple’s AR glasses will serve primarily as an iPhone display while the actual...
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Pitting players in a battle royale scenario where the map shrinks until only one person or squad is left standing is all the rage right now—see the success of PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG), Fortnite, or more recently Apex Legends as evidence of this. Battlefield V will be joining the fray, and a leaked tutorial...
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It’s getting close to the time when OnePlus announces its first Android flagship for 2019. The company’s follow-up to the OnePlus 6T is likely to be called the OnePlus 7, and we’ve already captured some pretty detailed speculative renders of the device. Now we’re getting an idea of what kind of specs the smartphone...
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By Microsoft's own accounting, it is adding more than 100 million Windows 10 devices to the fold per year en route to that elusive (so far) goal of hitting 1 billion devices. The number now stands at 800 million, and while that is still 200 million short of where Microsoft had hoped to reach in relatively short...
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The Surface Book 2 is not a cheap laptop, with the least expensive 13.5-inch model checking in at $1,149. That configuration is built around an Intel Core i5-7300U processor, which is only a dual-core chip that is now a couple of generations old (Kaby Lake). However, rumor has it that Microsoft will soon be refreshing...
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Activision Blizzard recently announced that it would be laying off 800 workers, even though it had generated a near record in quarterly revenue. The company noted that despite the big revenue for the quarter, it hadn't lived up to its potential. Another company in the gaming segment has announced layoffs, albeit on a much smaller scale: Valve.
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The days of Apple relying on Intel modems may be coming to an end sooner rather than later. Right now, Apple’s marriage to Intel with regards to 4G LTE modems is one of convenience. Apple is involved in a drawn-out legal battle with Qualcomm over modem licensing fees and would prefer to not to user their chips out of...
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EA and BioWare have had a rough few weeks. Reports were running rampant that the major new IP, Anthem, had severe issues that were causing PS4 game consoles to crash with some claims that these crashes had bricked the console. Earlier this week, a report surfaced that Anthem was also causing crashes on Xbox consoles...
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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update strikes again. Microsoft has had nothing but trouble with its most recent major feature release for Windows 10. We’ve detailed the bungled travails of the October 2018 Update in great detail in the past, but the most recent cumulative update is particularly affecting...
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Nintendo has been doing well with the cool Labo Toy-Con kits that it launched last year. Nintendo has now announced a new addition to its lineup: the Labo VR Kit. These kits allow gamers to build cardboard accessories for the Switch that turn it into a VR gaming platform.
The Starter Set + Blaster offers a headset...
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As was expected, Huawei on Thursday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the United States government over a provision (Section 889) to the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that effectively bans all US government agencies from using products manufactured by the company (as well as ZTE), over...
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If you are reading this, there is a good chance you are doing so on a Chrome browser, based on the available market share data. And if that is the case, do yourself a solid and update Chrome, "like right this minute." That suggestion is not coming directly from us, but from Justin Schuh, Google Chrome's security boss...
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Anthem players who spent hours grinding and leveling up and working towards a potent Masterwork endgame weapon were dismayed to find out that they already possessed the most powerful weapon in the game—a first-level common Defender Rifle. Despite what the numbers show, there is a bug that allows it to kill enemies...
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