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Latest News - May 2016
- Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone Ships To Developers Fall 2016
- Oculus DRM Update Torpedoes Revive Hack That Let HTC Vive Owners Play Rift Games
- U.S. Children On Average Receive Their Very First Smartphone At Age 10
- OS X 10.12 Could Leverage iPhone Touch ID To Unlock Your MacBook Or iMac
- Two And A Half Geeks 5/20/16: GeForce GTX 1080, Skull Canyon NUC, HTC Vive, ThinkPad X1 Yoga And More
- Under $650 Dell Inspiron i7-6500U Skylake Laptop, Crucial BX100 120GB SSD Now $38 And More
- If This Hyper-Reality Demo Is Where Augmented Tech Is Heading, We’re All Doomed
- Gran Turismo Sport Drifts Onto PlayStation 4 November 15th, PlayStation VR Support Likely
- Gartner: Android Commands 84.1% Of Global Smartphone Market While Windows Phone Flatlines At 0.7%
- Halo 5 Coming To Windows 10 PCs With 4K Support And Limited Free-to-Play Multiplayer
- Xiaomi Teases Its First Aerial Drone Ahead Of May 25th Reveal
- Chromebooks Outsell Macs For The First Time In Q1 US Market Share
- Uber’s Self-Driving Car Road Trials Kick Off With Modified Ford Fusion Hybrid In Pittsburgh
- Google’s Chrome OS Secret Weapon Includes Impending Support For Play Store And Android Apps
- Bezos Says Amazon Is Learning From Fire Phone Disaster And Is Working On Even Bigger Failures
- LG 55" 4K Smart TV Under $450 Effective Price, $499 Dell Core i5 SFF Desktop And More
- Android Wear 2.0 Arrives This Fall With Greater Smartphone Independence, Improved Text Input
- Microsoft Cortana For Android Adds Notification Mirroring To Windows 10
- Netflix’s Fast.com Tool To Test Download Speeds Looks Like A Hamstrung SpeedTest Ticker
- HP’s All Aluminum EliteBook 1030 Steps Out With Skylake And QHD Display With Edge-To-Edge Glass
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All News for May 2016
Do you folks remember Project Ara? It seems like ages ago when we last talked about Google’s modular project that would allow you to essentially build your very own “perfect” smartphone and swap out components with ease. Want to swap in an always-on secondary display? No problem, just slide the module in place and...
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It looks as though the folks at Oculus aren’t too happy about the Revive hack that we told you about in mid-April that allows Rift-exclusive games like Lucky’s Tale and the Oculus Dreamdeck demo to run on competing hardware like the HTC Vive. Just five months ago, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey proclaimed, “If customers...
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About a decade ago, many of us had a cell phone. Unlike today, however, most people were rarely attached to them unless they were trying to set a new texting record or needed to beat the high score in some Snake clone. But today, even more of us have smartphones, and unlike a decade ago, we are permanently glued to...
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If you’re heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, there could be a new convenience feature headed to OS X 10.12 that would allow you to forget about entering a password to login to your Mac. A new report making the rounds suggests that the next major operating system release from Apple will gain the ability to use a...
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Welcome back for the latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks Webcast - Dave, Marco, Chris and Brittany discuss NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080, Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Yoga, Intel's Skull Canyon NUC, the HTC Vive VR kit and drop some hints about our next giveaway, where you could win some killer Lenovo...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals before we go. On the menu today, we have deals Dell Inspiron 15 (5559) Intel Core i7-6500U based notebook, an Acer Aspire E5-575G, a Linksys EA6350 AC1200+ Dual-Band Gigabit Ethernet Router, and more. Full details for...
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Some amazing things are happening in technology. We have augmented reality and virtual reality solutions finally getting off the ground, and gadgets like Google Glass and Microsoft's HoloLens have given us glimpses of what the future might be like. But alas, these early looks only paint a partial picture of where...
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The latest in a long line of Gran Turismo games is coming to the PlayStation 4 this fall; November 15th to be exact. Gran Turismo Sport is being billed as the “world’s first racing experience to be built from the ground up” with online racing that’s officially sanctioned by the Federation International Automobile...
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Remember the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man that lumbered through New York City in the original Ghostbusters? That's how big Android has become, which coincidentally is on its Marshmallow release. That's not to say that Android is bloated and slow, just that it's really big—out of the 349 million smartphones shipped in the...
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Microsoft and 343 Industries are bringing multiplayer action to Halo 5 on PC, albeit in a roundabout sort of way. Multiplayer will be part of Forge - Halo 5: Guardians Edition for Windows 10, the long winded name of Halo's custom map builder and toolset. It will be a free download though it won't feature full...
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Xiaomi is such a tease. MIUI forum moderator “Nanana” intimated that a Mi Drone is “flying to town on May 25th”.
"I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky."
The hint stated, “The surprise doesn't just end here. Something wonderful and cool is flying to us very soon. A Bamboo-copter? In China, it's the...
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For many people, especially in education, Chromebooks offer the right combination of price, security, and functionality. According to Google, schools in the U.S. are now buying more Chromebooks than all other devices combined, and not to be scoffed at, that's helped propel Chromebooks over Macs in overall shipments to...
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Uber customers may be comfortable with the idea of being shuttled around by a human driver, but what if in the future those human drivers were replaced with computers? Fully autonomous/self-driving production vehicles are definitely going to be hitting our roads within the next decade, so it makes sense that Uber...
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We reported on a leak last month that suggested that Google's Chrome OS would finally be gaining support for the company's Play Store, hinting that it's a feature that could be announced at the company's I/O conference. Well, as it happens, the company did confirm the feature at I/O, but surprisingly, it didn't make a...
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When it comes to smartphones, we can only remember a few recent outright flops that were not only rejected by the tech community, but also general consumers. There was the ill-conceived Microsoft Kin, the HTC First “Facebook Phone” and more recently, the Amazon Fire Phone. In late 2014, Amazon took a $170 million...
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Welcome back for another installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on an LG 55UF6800 55" 4K UHD IPS webOS 2.0 Smart HDTV, a Dell Inspiron Small 3000 Intel Core i5-6400 based desktop system, an Amazon Fire HD 6" 8GB WiFi Tablet, and more. Full details for...
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While other smartwatch operating systems seem to evolve at a somewhat glacial pace (a la watchOS), Google is kicking into overdrive with regards to adding features to Android Wear. The company is continually adding little tweaks and new software features here and there, and this fall will see yet another big revamp...
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It appears that Microsoft is looking to bring tighter integration between its Cortana digital assistant and Google's massively popular Android platform. Specifically, it appears Microsoft is adding Windows 10 notification mirroring to Cortana on Android, as some users have already reported noticing the feature.
One...
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Are you getting the broadband speed you're paying for? An easy way to check is to use one of the many available testing services on the web, one of the more popular being Ookla's SpeedTest. Netflix has a vested interest in your broadband connection, so it went and released a speed tester of its own.
It's a simple...
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Hewlett-Packard is struttin’ its stuff in the ultrabook class with the brand new EliteBook 1030, which slots in nicely between the lower-end EliteBook Folio 1020 and the range-topping EliteBook 1040. In fact, the EliteBook 1030 is actually based on the 12.2-inch CNC-machined aluminum body of the EliteBook Folio 1020...
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Google's taken contingencies for the inevitable day when a self-driving car mows down a pedestrian. To keep injuries to a minimum, Google filed for and was granted a patent for a sort of sticky hood that would grip people who've been hit by an autonomous vehicle. The concept behind it is to prevent people from...
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If you haven't changed your LinkedIn password in several years, now would be a good time to get on that. Not only is it good practice to change passwords much more frequently than that, there's a chance that your login details were compromised four years ago and are just now being shopped around in an underground...
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