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Latest News - April 2019
- Respawn's Apex Legends Laser Focus Puts Titanfall Sequel On Back Burner
- Intel Ramps-Up Additional 10nm Ice Lake CPU Production With Devices On Shelves For The Holidays
- iFixit Abruptly Removes Its Galaxy Fold Teardown At Samsung's Request, But Why?
- Biostar Teases AMD X570 Zen 2 Ryzen 3000 Racing Series Motherboards Ahead Of Computex 2019
- Corsair Unveils Ironclaw RGB Wireless And Glaive RGB Pro Killer Gaming Mice
- Amazon Blows Out Bose Speaker Deals Including The Sweet Solo 5 TV Sound Bar
- Microsoft Raises Windows 10 Minimum Storage Requirements For First Time With May 2019 Update
- Nintendo Boss Shoots Down Rumors Of New Switch Console Reveal At E3
- Microsoft Guidance Suggests Ditching Worthless Password Expiration Policies
- Mario Kart Tour Beta Drifts Onto Android Next Month, Here's How To Sign Up
- 2.5 Geeks 4/25/19: Area-51m, Intel 9th Gen, Zen 2, Maingear Vybe, Optane Memory H10, And More
- Get Apple's Second-Gen AirPods On Sale For $20 Off With This Hot Amazon Deal
- Avengers Endgame Fortnite Crossover Battle Royale Starts Today: Heroes Versus Thanos
- Verizon Announces 20 New 5G Ultra-Wideband Cities With Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Pre-Orders
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Anniversary Edition Pictured With Laser-Etched Celebrity Autograph Signature
- Samsung’s Exynos-Powered Galaxy View 2 Is A 17-inch Monster Android Tablet
- This $50 SanDisk 480GB SSD Is A Hot Deal You Can't Refuse
- AT&T Plots New Ways To Gouge Customers With 5G Phone Plan Upcharges
- BioWare Delays Anthem’s Major Feature Updates Indefinitely To Squash Bugs
- Dell XPS 15 Gets Great Updates And A Key Tweak, G Series Buffed Out Too
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All News for April 2019
Apex Legends seemingly came out of nowhere and took the gaming scene by storm, further underscoring how insanely popular the battle royale genre is right now. Even though there was some strategic planning to generate excitement around Apex Legends when it first came out—publisher Electronic Arts paid some notable...
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We have been waiting a long time for Intel to finally ship its 10-nanometer processors in volume, and barring any last minute hiccups, the company is still on track to do that this holiday season. During a conference call with reporters, Intel CEO Bob Swan doubled down on his company's commitment to 10nm, and said...
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One of the things that tech fans love is to see the insides of gadgets to get an idea of if they can be fixed if something breaks, and to satisfy curiosity. One of the great purveyors of teardowns is iFixit, and not long ago it published a teardown of the controversial Galaxy Fold smartphone. The major issue with the...
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Biostar is getting itself prepared for an onslaught of AMD Zen 2-based Ryzen processors, which are expected to be announced at Computex 2019 next month. In an official press release that was posted today, Biostar confirmed its fourth-generation RACING series motherboards with are going to underpin the "new AMD Ryzen...
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Corsair has been putting out PC hardware and peripherals for years that appeal to hardcore PC enthusiasts. When we last visited Corsair, we posted a hands-on with the Hydro Series H100i platinum CPU liquid coolers. The most recent gaming gear from Corsair come in the form of a pair of high-performance gaming...
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Amazon has had some very good deals in the tech realm of late. Two of the best deals have been for SSDs to enhance your computer storage. One deal was from Amazon-owned Woot and was for a 480GB Kodak-branded SSD. The other was yesterday when Amazon announced a significant discount on a SanDisk 480GB SSD. Today Amazon...
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Microsoft launched Windows 10 way back during the summer of 2015. Ever since that time, the minimum storage requirements have remained the same for the operating system: 32-bit versions required 16GB of storage, while 64-bit versions required 20GB.
Now for the first time, those requirements are changing...
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Over the past month or so, we've been hearing lots of rumors concerning at least two follow-ups to the Nintendo Switch. Earlier this week, reports indicated that a Nintendo Switch Lite would launch in June with a more attractive price point than the $299 original.
Today, however, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa made...
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There are few things more annoying in the modern world than having to change your password every few months. Experts have long argued that password reset rules do little to actually promote security. Microsoft is the latest company to propose dropping password expiration policies.
Aaron Margosis the Principal...
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There is an odd veil of secrecy surrounding Mario Kart Tour, the upcoming mobile port of sorts that will see Mario and his friends (and enemies) hit the pavement on smartphones and tablets. Nevertheless, while information is few and far between, we now know at least one additional thing—there is closed beta headed to...
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris, and Dave chat about Intel's Optane Memory H10 for laptops, Maingear's hot new, affordable Vybe gaming PC, Alienware's killer Area-51m flagship gaming laptop, Intel's new 9th Gen mobile processors, expectations for AMD's Ryzen 3000-series Zen 2 chips...
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Apple just launched its second-generation AirPods a month ago, and surprisingly, they are already on sale. The sale comes at a time when the AirPods have been rather hard to come by, even from Apple retail stores.
Amazon is currently selling the AirPods with Charging Case for $139.99, which is $20 off the regular...
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Thanos is a bad, bad man. Or maybe he is just misunderstood. By now we all know how Avengers: Infinity War ended, and I expect this topic to be fully explored in Avengers: Endgame, which is out now and releases more broadly tomorrow. I haven't seen it, and even if I had, I'd refrain from posting spoilers. However, as...
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Coinciding with Verizon's exclusive preorder availability of Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G handset, the nation's largest wireless carrier on Thursday announced the expansion of its 5G Ultra Wideband network into 20 additional US cities. That's good news for people who happen to live in places like Atlanta, Boston, and...
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More information about AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition processor is finding its way online ahead of its anticipated release next week. If the latest leaked images are any indication, part of what will make the Anniversary Edition SKU unique from the regular Ryzen 7 2700X is AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's...
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Most of the news in the Samsung world the last few days has been surrounding the very high profile failures of the Galaxy Fold smartphone in the hands of reviewers. Samsung has postponed the launch of the device as it investigates. While the Galaxy Fold debacle is going on, Samsung is business as usual with other...
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Earlier this month Amazon-owned Woot ran a deal on an SSD with the Kodak brand that netted those who ordered 480GB of SSD storage space for a scant $40. If you missed out on that deal and have been kicking yourself for not upgrding to SSD goodness, you have another chance. This time it's an actual a device from a well-known storage brand name
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We are just at the early stages over the shift from 4G LTE wireless coverage to 5G. So far in the United States, only AT&T and Verizon have lit up their 5G mobile wireless networks, but coverage is limited to just a handful of cities and 4G LTE-trampling speeds are spotty at best.
However, once 5G networks become...
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BioWare's Anthem was highly anticipated when it was first announced, but the launch didn't go as planned for the developers. The game has been plagued with bugs and issues that gamers have been unhappy about (like a recent bug which made the level one weapons in the game the most powerful weapons of all). Aside from...
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It's not uncommon for OEM system builders to refresh their products the moment new GPUs or CPUs are announced. Intel's recently announced 9th Gen Core mobile processor additions and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650 launch provided an opportunity to do that very thing, and Dell responded in kind by retooling its G5 and G7...
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The Nintendo Switch is one of the fastest selling consoles of all time. As of December 2018, Nintendo had sold 32.27 million Switch consoles. Could a successor prove to be just as successful? Rumor has it that Nintendo will release a “lite” version of the Switch by the end of June and a a slightly beefier iteration by...
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It seems like ages ago when NVIDIA launched the SHIELD K1 tablet, but it looks as though the company may be looking to make a successor to that discontinued device. Although we don't have any insight what this potential device could look like, references to a new tablet have been uncovered in newest version of...
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