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Latest News - April 2018
- NVIDIA GeForce And AMD Radeon GPU Pricing Continues Downward Trend As Supplies Improve
- Amazon Echo Speakers Can Now Double As Intercom Systems With Alexa Announcements
- PUBG Corp Goes For The Legal Jugular Filing Lawsuit Against Copycat iOS Games
- Amazon Key Available Nationwide, In-home Delivery For Prime Still Limited
- Apple's All-New Modular Mac Pro Will Arrive In 2019
- Plex VR App Adds Oft-Requested Support For Gear VR Headsets And Oculus
- Office 365, Outlook.com And OneDrive Gain New Weapons To Fight Malicious Attacks And Ransomware
- HP Debuts ZBook Studio x360 G5 Mobile Workstation With 8th Gen Xeons And NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
- EVGA Z10 Mechanical Keyboard Review: A Unique, Full-Featured Gaming Deck
- Google Voice Seeks Beta Testers For New Wi-Fi Calling Functionality
- Western Digital Black 3D NVMe Gaming SSD Breaks Free With Up To 3,400 MB/s Reads
- Facebook Now Says Cambridge Analytica Accessed Data Of 87 Million Users
- Gigabyte Rolls Out Trio Of Aorus Coffee Lake Gaming Notebooks With Up To Core i9 Muscle
- Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Preview Brings Improvements To Sets And Tabs
- Google Workers Sign Petition To Kill Pentagon AI Project
- 2.5 Geeks 4/4/18: New Coffee Lakes, XPS 15 2-in-1, Intel Hades Canyon, HDR ThinkPad, NVIDIA Supercomputers!
- Fortnite Battle Royale High Explosives v2 Mode Showcases Maximum Destruction
- Samsung Odyssey Z Gaming Notebook Boasts Beefy 8th Gen Core i7 And So-Called GTX 1060 Max-P GPU
- OnePlus Confirms Snapdragon 845, 8GB RAM And 256GB Storage For OnePlus 6
- Amazon Fire 7 And HD 8 Tablets Updated To Function As Hands-Free Alexa Speakers
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All News for April 2018
For the most part, graphics card pricing has been out of whack for the past several months, due to both a memory chip shortage and a boom in cryptocurrency mining. It's been depressing for gamers, but the good news is there appears to be...
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Amazon Alexa has grown to become an invaluable resource in millions of American households since its introduction in late 2014, with the company's Echo family of smart AI speakers taking the lead. Amazon has added numerous features to the...
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PUBG Corp has been surprisingly quiet amid so many games hitting mobile devices, PC, and consoles that focus on very similar Battle Royale modes that it made so popular. So far all that PUBG Corp has done is rail against Epic Games'...
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You can now let people into your home when you are gone with the help of Amazon Key. The feature first launched in October of last year in limited areas; now Amazon has announced that it is available nationwide. Prime members in 37 cities...
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Apple's "trash can" Mac Pro was heralded as a remarkable achievement in design and performance [by Apple] when it was first announced back in 2013. However, the machine was neglected by Apple, and was hardly updated during its lifecycle. In fact, Apple made the rare admission that the design...
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Back in late July, Plex tiptoed into the world of virtual reality with the support for Google's Daydream VR platform via the Plex VR app. For those with a supported smartphone and a Daydream View VR headset, you could experience your...
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Microsoft has announced that Office 365 has gained some new security features that are meant to help protect users from online threats. These new features will go along with the security features already integrated with Office 365, like...
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Hewlett-Packard is cranking out a new family of ZBook mobile workstations, and as you might expect with new devices being announced this week, they are powered by Intel's newest 8th generation processors. The highlight of the family is no...
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EVGA is best known for its graphics cards, and for good reason. EVGA is the number one NVIDIA authorized board partner in the U.S. and they have been for a long time. Like many brands in the PC enthusiast space, however, EVGA has started...
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Do roaming charges have you feeling down? Good news—Google has begun beta testing Wi-Fi calling on its Google Voice service for Android devices and on the web. As for iOS, Google says support is coming soon, but did not offer up a specific...
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There is no shortage of options when it comes to fast solid-state drives to enhance the storage subsystem on our gaming rigs. Western Digital is adding to the mix with the new WD Black 3D NVMe SSD, which is specifically being aimed at...
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Facebook's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer wrote a blog post outlining all the ways the world's largest social network intends to protect user data, including some key changes to various APIs that previously made it a bit too easy...
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Pat yourself on the back if you resisted the urge to buy a gaming laptop in anticipation of Intel launching new 6-core/12-thread mobile processors. They are finally here, and we are seeing a whole bunch of new laptops pop up with these...
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Microsoft has announced that the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build is ready for download for folks who are opted into Skip Ahead. The new Build is 17639 (Redstone 5) and one of the big updates that lands with this build is some major...
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Some Google employees aren't happy that their employer is working on a project with the Pentagon that involves artificial intelligence (AI). The program in question is called Project Maven and the goal isn't to create some sort of fancy technology destroying AI to be deployed in times of war...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave discuss Intel's barrage of Coffee Lake CPUs that arrived this week, including Core i9 6-core chips for laptops, Dell's great new XPS 15 2-in-1 with its Intel/AMD...
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Fans of Fortnite who are sad at the ending of the Sniper Shootout Event have a new limited time event they can partake in and this mode blows the bejeebers out of stuff. The new event is called High Explosives v2 and it is part of the v3.4...
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Earlier this week saw the release of new Notebook 3 and Notebook 5 mainstream notebooks from Samsung, both of which feature Intel's 8th generation Core processors. Now the company is offering up something a bit more interesting in the form...
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OnePlus isn't really leaving much to the imagination when it comes to its upcoming OnePlus 6 smartphone. Although we've seen plenty of leaked specs for the smartphone hit the internet over the past few weeks, OnePlus is using its own...
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Amazon is pushing out a new update to two of its Fire tablets: the Fire 7 and Fire HD 8. This over-the-air update in effect turns the tablets into hands-free Alexa speakers, which furthers the ubiquity of Amazon's dominant AI voice...
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In a blog post, Valve vowed to continue developing and supporting its Linux-based SteamOS even though "Steam Machines aren't exactly flying off the shelves." Valve delivered the message in the wake of news spreading that it removed the...
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In mid-March, Intel announced that it had made tremendous progress in releasing microcode updates to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in its processors. At the time, Intel said that its microcode updates had been...
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