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Latest News - April 2017
- NVIDIA Titan Xp Breaks Cover In Tomb Raider And Other Benchmarks Then Gets Teardown
- Samsung Begins Galaxy S9 Development, Boosts Production Of Galaxy S8+ To Meet High Demand
- GameStop Investigating Major Credit Card Breach Of Online Customer Data
- Apple's OLED iPhone 8 Deliveries May Lag Several Weeks After September Launch
- MAINGEAR Gets Hands On NVIDIA Titan Xp And Rips Through Benchmarks, Even In SLI
- Microsoft Surface Takes Tablet Crown From Apple In JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey
- Google Makes Fact Check Tool For Search Available Globally To Stomp Out Fake News
- Samsung Preps 49.9-inch Mega Wide 32:9 ‘Grand Circle’ Format Curved Display
- WikiLeaks Exposes Grasshopper CIA Hacking Tool That Can Own A Windows PC And Remain Undetected
- BrickerBot Malware Attacks IoT Devices Bricking Them Permanently With A PDoS
- LG G6 Thin Bezel Android Beauty Now Available With Free Google Home Promo
- Windows 10 ‘Redstone 3’ Build 16170 Launches For Insiders On Fast Ring
- Early Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Rumors Point To Evolutionary Design And Kaby Lake Power
- YouTube Creators Must Clear 10K Channel Views Hurdle To Generate Ad Revenue
- Toys R Us Reports Another Nintendo Switch Quick-Hit Inventory Drop Incoming This Weekend
- Acer’s Beastly Predator 21 X Gaming Notebook Now Shipping With GTX 1080 SLI And Kaby Lake
- Mass Effect: Andromeda Patch Cures Crazy Eyes And Delivers Significant Gameplay Improvements
- Xiaomi Mi 6 Visits GFXBench Flexing Snapdragon 835 And 6GB RAM
- AMD Announces Ryzen-Optimized Windows Power Plan, Updated Ryzen Master Tool And Total War: Wahammer Performance Patch
- Facebook Messenger 'M' AI Assistant Now Snoops Your Chats To Offer Context-Based Suggestions
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All News for April 2017
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti’s reign at the top of consumer graphics food chain was short-lived. The $700 GTX 1080 Ti has now been supplanted by the $1,200 Titan Xp, a full-fat GP102 core that demolishes benchmarks first and asks questions later.
In case you missed it the first two times that we covered the Titan...
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Your unreleased Samsung Galaxy S8 is already so last season. Rumor has it that Samsung is already working on its next flagship phone, tentatively called the S9. The corporation has also supposedly increased production of the much anticipated Galaxy S8+.
If Samsung is indeed working on the Galaxy S9, then the...
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New and used games retailer GameStop has found itself in a bit of a rough patch these days. The company recently reported less-than-stellar fourth quarter results and is planning to close at least 150 brick-and-mortar locations, and perhaps as many as 225. That is on top of the store locations it closed just a few...
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The iPhone 8 is expected to be the most significant upgrade to Apple’s flagship smartphone range to date. The iPhone 8 will likely usher in an all-new premium design with an OLED display, and demand is expected to initially far outpace supply.
The iPhone 8 will likely be unveiled alongside both the 4.7-inch iPhone...
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Earlier this week, NVIDIA came out of absolutely nowhere with an announcement of a new top-end TITAN X, following-up to the Pascal-based TITAN X released (also out of nowhere) last summer. This new TITAN X, somewhat confusingly called TITAN Xp, offers more CUDA cores and faster memory than the previous gen Titan X for...
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Apple may have the world’s most popular tablet family with the iPad, but it appears that Microsoft is taking top honors when it comes to overall customer satisfaction. That’s according to survey results from the folks at J.D. Power, which indicates that Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets best the competition in a...
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One of the biggest problems on the web is the proliferation of fake news. Online services and Internet users alike face the same challenge—trying to discern between what is a legitimate news story and one that is outright false (or a satire). It is not always easy. According to Google, thousands of new articles are...
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Once you have experienced an ultra-wide 21:9 aspect ratio monitor, it can be hard going back to using a more traditional 16:9 aspect ratio display. That added horizontal real-estate comes in handy for multitasking. It can also be great for gaming, allowing for a wider field of view without investing in dual monitors...
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The latest bombshell to come out of WikiLeaks’ Vault7 series of leaks from the CIA, exposes a tool codenamed “Grasshopper”, which allows operatives to deploy persistent surveillance and hacking payloads on target Windows-based computer systems and remain undetected from popular anti-malware and anti-virus...
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There are lots of obvious examples of how IoT (Internet of Things) connected and smart devices can enrich our lives. However, as we've noted numerous times over the past year, there are a number of caveats that can also come with them. The glaring issue of course has to do with security, or the lack of it really. And...
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Although a certain “other” South Korean electronics manufacturer is looking to set off a nuclear explosion in the flagship Android smartphone market later this month, LG is hitting the ground running today with its all-new G6. First announced back in late February, the LG G6 has been a bit slow making its way to...
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Microsoft is just now putting the finishing touches on the Windows 10 Creators Update, and it hasn’t even pushed the operating system out to the general public yet — that doesn’t happen until April 11th. However, Microsoft isn’t sitting still just because the Creators Update is ready for public consumption; it’s ready...
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Microsoft first introduced the Surface Pro 4 way back in October 2015, and it has soldiered on since then without major updates. That will change, however, this year when Microsoft introduces the Surface Pro 5.
The latest rumors surrounding the Surface Pro 5 come from a well-connected source: Paul Thurrott. The...
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Becoming a YouTube star is not just good for your ego, it can be financially rewarding. In some cases, that is an understatement—look at megastars such as Felix Kjellberg (better known as PewDiePie) and famed prankster Roman Atwood, both of which have earned millions through YouTube. If you have an interesting shtick...
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Ever the elusive game console, the incredibly hard-to-obtain Nintendo Switch is prone to making surprise appearances every now and then. That was the case two weeks ago when Toys R Us announced it would have a limited number of Switch units available on Saturday, March 25 when the doors opened at 9 AM. Well, if you...
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We’ve seen plenty of gaming excess over the years when it comes to desktop and notebook systems, but the Acer Predator 21 X definitely comes close to taking first prize when it comes to over-the-top gaming goodness (at least on the mobile side). First announced earlier this year at CES, the Acer is finally shipping...
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The sad reality of gaming is that it is not uncommon for a title to ship with bugs. Some have a few crawling around while others are infested to the point where even the Orkin man would cringe. After plenty of hype and anticipation, Mass Effect: Andromeda fell somewhere in between, leaving many gamers feeling...
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Xiaomi founder and chief operating officer Lei Jun previously confirmed that his company is prepping a new flagship smartphone, the Mi 6, but until there is a formal announcement the specs remain a mystery. Well, officially speaking, anyway. Unofficially, we may already known what the Mi 6 is toting underneath the...
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AMD's new Ryzen processors offer a plethora of performance and efficiency benefits over the company's previous generation chip architecture, and even compare favorably against its well-prepared competition -- namely Intel. However, Ryzen's launch wasn't exactly flawless, as the platform was in need of some refinement...
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Facebook’s “M” AI assistant is getting even more powerful, and will leverage that power to provide “suggestions” as you use the increasingly popular Messenger app (over 1 billion active users per month). Facebook has been testing M’s interactions with Messenger on a “small percentage” of its users, and we are now...
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Shrimp on the barbie? Try Apple on the barbie. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing Apple over “Error 53”, which bricked iPhones and iPads last year that were repaired by third-parties. The ACCC claims that the forced software bricking violated Australian consumer law.
Last February...
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Comcast has just announced its new unlimited wireless service, Xfinity Mobile. The service supposedly provides “America’s largest, most reliable 4G LTE network along with Comcast’s 16 million WiFi hotspots to provide consumers with a better wireless experience, for less money, on today’s most popular devices.” Xfinity...
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