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Latest News - May 2017
- Amazon Brings Alexa Voice Calling And Messaging To Echo Family
- Apple iPhone 8 Sales Could Be Bolstered By OLED Display And Free AirPods
- Amazon 'Echo Show' Unveiled With Video Calling, Dual Speakers And 7-inch Touch Display
- Toshiba Demos First 64-Layer BiCS 3D NAND-Based NVMe SSD At Dell EMC World
- Microsoft Plugs ‘Crazy Bad’ Zero-Day Windows Exploit With Emergency Patch
- AMD Radeon RX Vega Launch Shipments May Be Limited By HBM2 Capacity
- NVIDIA Commits To Training 100,000 Developers On Fast Growing Deep Learning Sector In 2017
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 And 630 Bring Faster LTE And Superior Battery Life For Mid-Range Phones
- Air Force’s Top Secret X-37B Space Plane Lands After Two-Year Mission In Orbit
- Facebook Wages War On Fake News Ahead Of UK Election By Deleting Thousands Of Accounts
- Google Exec Says Windows 10 S Validates Chrome OS Design Philosophy
- Android O Beta Coming Soon, Tipped For Google I/O Launch Next Week
- Comcast Launches Xfinity xFi Cloud Platform To Manage Home Wi-Fi Network
- Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Cube Review: Big Gaming Performance In A Small Package
- Amazon Echo Commands 70 Percent Of Burgeoning Voice-Enabled Speaker Market
- Microsoft Surface Head Panos Panay Denies Imminent Surface Pro 5 Launch
- Harman Kardon Teases Invoke, A Microsoft Cortana-Powered Smart AI Speaker
- Intel AMT Vulnerability’s Hijacking Horrors Revealed By Whitepaper
- Walmart Patent Filing Reveals Amazon Dash Style Automatic Reordering Device
- Sole Surviving Nintendo PlayStation Rare Prototype Is Now Fully Functional
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All News for May 2017
Earlier this morning, Amazon surprised no one by announcing the Echo Show, a touchscreen-infused Echo device that was first leaked last week. One of the pivotal features of the Echo Show is the ability to make voice calls to friends and family members that also have an Echo Show, or those that use the Alexa...
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Sometime this year (likely in October), Apple will launch the iPhone 8. This will be an important product release not just because it is another flagship phone, but it marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, the handset that transformed the market for cellular devices. Apple is expected to make a splash to celebrate...
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After a major leak last week, Amazon has officially taken the wraps off its latest AI smart speaker: the Echo Show. If you’re familiar with previous devices like the Echo, Echo Tap and Echo Dot, then you should know that the Echo Show has the same basic capabilities as its siblings.
However, where the Echo Show...
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We first learned about Toshiba’s “world’s first” 64-layer, 512Gb BiCS flash NAND back in early February. Later that month, Toshiba began shipping samples of the NAND, promising that it would help enable high-performing and more cost-effective 1TB solutions in a single package.
This week, Toshiba is showcasing its...
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A vulnerability researcher at Google is giving props to Microsoft for issuing a quick fix to what he described as a "crazy bad" remote code exploit in the company's malware protection engine. He also said it was the worst of its kind in recent memory, and that is because prior to the patch, a remote attacker could...
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AMD is on the cusp of releasing its hotly anticipated Radeon RX Vega graphics card lineup, which will be debut sometime this quarter. If all goes well for AMD, its Vega release will once again make it competitive with NVIDIA in the high-end GPU segment just as Ryzen made the company competitive with Intel in the...
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We are starting to sense a recurring theme from NVIDIA at the annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Last year at GTC NVIDIA unveiled its DGX-1, the world's first deep learning supercomputer. Featuring Tesla P100 GPUs based on its Pascal architecture, the DGX-1 made clear NVIDIA's commitment to deep learning and...
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It’s easy for us to get caught up with the “top of the ticket” when it comes to smartphone processors. On the Qualcomm side of things, the top dog offering is most definitely the new Snapdragon 835, which powers Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones. However, there are less potent mid-range chips...
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Residents near Cape Canaveral, Florida were awakened by a strange alarm clock on Sunday morning. The United States military’s secretive and experimental Orbital Test Vehicle, or X-37B space plane, broke through the sound barrier on its return to earth awakening many residents. It landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
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Facebook is preparing for election season in the United Kingdom. The social media giant claims to have detected and deleted tens of thousands of “fake news” accounts. Facebook also plans to run advertisements in British newspapers about how to spot fake news sites.
Simon Milner, Facebook’s director of policy in the...
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Microsoft announced its Windows 10 S operating system last week at an education-focused event in New York City. There’s no question that Windows 10 S is a direct assault on Chrome OS, which has taken the education market by storm. However, one Google exec sees Windows 10 S as proof that his company made the right...
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If you’re looking to get your hands on a less buggy version of the upcoming Android O release, you won’t have long to wait. Google just announced via its official Android Beta Program website that it has officially closed the Android Nougat beta. In its place, Google says that the first Android O beta is “coming...
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We're living in a mobile world folks, and you might as well embrace it. The alternative is to reminisce about the good ol' days while yelling at the kids on your lawn, only they won't hear you because they're too busy texting and sending Snapchats on their mobile phones. But I digress (slightly). The point here is...
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The Lenovo IdeaCentre Y710 Cube is a small form factor (SFF) PC aimed at hardcore gamers on the go. The toolbox-size computer packs solid desktop hardware, including an Intel Core i7-6700 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, giving it the horsepower necessary to handle most modern games. And, like a toolbox...
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Launching a successful technology product is sometimes all about timing. That was certainly the case when Amazon came out Echo two and a half years ago. The proliferation of increasingly affordable Internet of Things (IoT) products had started to bring smart home functionality into the mainstream, and with every...
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If you were hoping to get your hands on an "all-new" Surface Pro 5 any time soon, Microsoft’s Surface chief is throwing some cold water on those plans. In an interview last week, Panos Panay dropped a bombshell, stating, “There's no such thing as a Pro 5."
Panay went on to say that whenever the company could bring...
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Amazon and Google are duking it out in the smart home speaker market, the former with its Alexa-enabled Echo products and the latter with its Google Home device, but this is not a two-horse race. As the market grows, so does the competition. Harman Kardon has taken notice and is partnering with Microsoft to offer a...
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Intel last week finally got around to plugging a security hole that existed for decades affecting platforms with Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability (ISM), and Small Business Technology (SBT). Consumer systems were untouched by this bug, but otherwise systems dating all the way back to...
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Walmart is working on the perfect product for people who hate shopping in stores. A recent patent filing revealed that Walmart is currently developing a device that resembles the Amazon Dash Button. The main difference? Users would not even need to press a button in order to reorder their needed item.
Walmart’s...
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The wonderfully retro and incredibly rare Nintendo PlayStation has now been made fully functional. The Nintendo PlayStation did not initially include any games. Gaming and electronics freak enthusiast Ben Heck of the Youtube channel The Ben Heck Show, however, recently managed to get Super Boss Gaiden running on the...
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There are many questions surrounding AMD's next generation GPU architecture known as Vega, most of which have to do with performance. Those will be answered definitively soon enough. In the meantime, teases and leaks continue to give us glimpses of what to expect from Vega. The latest leak comes from what appears to...
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Microsoft has just been granted a patent that could help the company to fight back against users that have been taking advantage of its OneDrive cloud storage service to share pirated materials. Now more than ever, users are storing a lot of their data outside of their homes or devices, taking advantage of services...
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