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- NVIDIA Unveils Beastly Tesla P100 15 Billion Transistor, 16nm FinFET GPU With HBM2 And 21 TFLOPs Performance
- WhatsApp Obstructs Government Snooping By Enabling End-to-End Encryption For One Billion Users
- Roku's Slimmer Streaming Stick Gains Quad-Core CPU And Private Listening, Keeps $50 Price Tag
- BlackBerry Announces Android Marshmallow Open Beta For Flagship Priv
- Toyota Teams Up With Microsoft For Connected Car Collaboration
- HTC Vive VR Kit Hands-On Preview: Room Scale Virtual Reality Has Arrived
- Sony PS4 Update Enabling Remote Play Game Streaming For PC And Mac Arrives Tomorrow
- Bundled $100 Dell eGift Cards With Netgear Nighthawk Routers, Vizio D28H-D1 28” Smart TVs And More
- Facebook Wields Artificial Intelligence To Help Blind Users ‘See’ Photos
- Big Savings On A Complete Computer Science e-Learning Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- HP’s Ultra Thin 13-inch Spectre Goes MacBook Huntin’ With Skylake Core i7, Thunderbolt 3, Fancy Piston Hinges
- AMD Releases Details On 7th Gen, Bristol Ridge-Based FX And A-Series APUs
- Two High-Level Intel Execs Leading PC And Internet Of Things Divisions Abruptly Abandon Ship
- Amazon’s 8th Generation Kindle Flagship Coming Next Week Says CEO Jeff Bezos
- Amazon Fire HD 6” 8GB Tablet Now $69, Bundled $400 Gift Card + Samsung 55” 4K UHD Smart HDTV And More
- George Hotz's Homegrown Autonomous Car Project Gains $3.1M In VC Funding
- Analogue's 24-Karat Gold, $5,000 NES Proves Excess Is Best, Celebrates Zelda's 30th Birthday
- Apple Goes Glue Crazy With 9.7-Inch iPad Pro, Scores Miserably In Teardown Analysis
- iPhone SE Matches iPhones 6s In Performance, Tanks On Water And Drop Tests
- Nintendo’s Miitomo Social Extravaganza Prove Fruitful With 3 Million App Downloads And Counting
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All News for April 2016
NVIDIA just pulled the wraps off its fastest GPU and compute engine yet: the Tesla P100. This new GPU powerhouse is based on NVIDIA’s next generation Pascal architecture, which means that it’s built on a 16nm FinFET process. But even with thoroughly modern FinFET process tech, the Tesla P100’s die size measures 600mm2...
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With all the hoopla surrounding encryption and the U.S. Government’s desire to gain access to any and all data by any means necessary, many tech companies are taking notice. When Apple stood up to the government, it had the backing of some of the biggest names in tech. One of those companies was Facebook, and it’s now...
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When it comes to the media streaming category, Roku’s family of streamers usually top the sales charts. One of Roku’s most popular products has been been the Steaming Stick, which is priced at a reasonable $50 compared to $130 for the top-of-the-line Roku 4. After four years on the market (and two years since its last...
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Time are tough for BlackBerry, as they've been for an uncomfortably long stretch now, but the Canadian handset maker isn't throwing in the towel. BlackBerry continues to have high hopes that supporting Android will reinvigorate the firm, and taking a step in that direction, it's making available a custom Android 6.0...
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Toyota this week announced that it's partnering up with Microsoft in various ways to push new connected car technologies to the masses. The initiative begins with the launch of Toyota Connected, a new company that will serve as a data science hub for Toyota's operations around the world.
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Whether or not this latest push for virtual reality resonates with consumers and brings the technology into the mainstream remains to be seen. But it appears that all of the major players in the space, from the GPU manufacturers, to game developers, and VR leaders like HTC, Oculus, Samsung and Sony (among others) are...
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Sony is readying a new update (version 3.5) for the PlayStation 4, one that will introduce the ability to stream games to Windows PCs and Mac systems. The long overdue Remote Play feature brings parity to Microsoft's Xbox One in this regard, the latter of which gained the same functionality last summer.
The ability...
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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 Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Smart Wi-Fi Gigabit Router and 3TB Buffalo USB 3.0 HDD combo, a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Intel Core i5-6200U-based notebook, a PNY 128GB High Speed MicroSDXC...
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Facebook is rolling out a new feature today that will help people who are blind or otherwise visually impaired know what's contained in a photograph. The feature is called automatic alternative text (or automatic alt text), and it's job is to audibly describe various elements contained in a photo, such as the number...
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If you want to bolster your coding, programming, and hardware knowledge, we've got a great promo running in the HotHardware Shop that may be right for you. A Complete Computer Science e-Learning Bundle, that includes 8 Courses (78+ Hours) is currently 89% off and available for only $39...
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Hewlett-Packed is ready to take on Apple in regard thin and light notebook designs, and it wants to be a design leader that other OEMs aspire to emulate. Hence we have today’s introduction of the HP Spectre, which is claimed to be the world’s thinnest laptop.
So how thin is it? According to HP, the partially...
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AMD just released some details regarding its upcoming seventh generation of A-Series and FX APUs, formerly codenamed Bristol Ridge. Bristol Ridge is essentially a refresh of the previous generation Carrizo design and uses the same 28nm process. In lieu of a die shrink, however, AMD has made improvements to the...
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Intel out of the blue announced high-level executive departures from two of its most high-profile business divisions. The first executive that is parting ways with Intel is Kirk Skaugen, who has been with the company for nearly 25 years. Skaugen most recently was in charge of the Client Computing Group (CCG). His...
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The last time that Amazon released a flagship Kindle e-reader was way back in October 2014. That is when the online retail giant released the Kindle Voyage to much fanfare. The Kindle Voyage brought with it a redesigned exterior, 6-inch 300pi e-ink display, an ambient light sensor and PagePress navigation with haptic...
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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 an Amazon Fire HD 6" 8GB WiFi Tablet, a Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro Intel Core i3-4160T based desktop system, a Samsung UN55JS7000 55" 4K UHD LED LCD Smart HDTV, and more. Full details...
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Back in December, we learned that famed hacker (and one-time Apple intern) George Hotz was looking to go toe-to-toe with heavyweights like Google and Tesla Motors in the burgeoning self-driving car market. Whereas those two companies have billions of dollars at their disposal and teams of engineers to develop software...
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The original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) debuted at $200 when it was released in the U.S. market over three decades ago. Gamers have since moved on to faster and more powerful systems since then, though if you're feeling nostalgic for old school NES action and want to go the luxury route, a company called...
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Apple's been on a mission to shrink its mobile products for consumers who prefer smaller size gadgets, hence the recent releases of the iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The folks at iFixIt already took the liberty of gutting the former, and now it's the latter that's fallen on the teardown site's operating table...
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Late last month, Apple reinvigorated its 4-inch form-factor with the release of the iPhone SE. Although everyone saw the device as an updated iPhone 5s, the design of the smartphone actually dates back to the iPhone 5, which was released in 2012.
So why did Apple go back to its archives to resurrect a nearly 4-year...
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Social media can be such a buzz kill sometimes. Take Microsoft's recent attempt to introduce an A.I. chatbot named Tay named to Twitter. Within 24 hours, Twitter had turned an innocent experiment into a hate spewing, racist chatbot that Microsoft had no choice but to shut down and apologize for. That's not how social...
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HP is due to reveal on April 5th what may be the thinnest notebook on the market. The HP Spectre is claimed to be 11mm- thick with a 13.3-inch display, and would beat Apple’s claims to having the slimmest products on the market. The HP Spectre will be announced in Versailles, France at a New York Times event.
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Intel’s Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition 10-Core Broadwell-E Monster Processor Breaks Cover, 25MB Cache
It's a good thing Intel waited until the weekend to let slip a mention of its forthcoming Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition processor on its website, because had the Santa Clara chip maker jumped the gun, everyone might assume it was an April Fool's Day prank. That's not the case for what we surmise is a mighty 10-core...
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