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- Nokia 9 Prototype Rocks Snapdragon 835, Dual Cameras And 5.3-inch QHD Display
- Netgear Adds Data Collection To R7000 Router Firmware To Get All Up In Your Bits
- Nintendo Switch Splatoon 2 Bundle With Neon Pink And Green Joy-Cons Snubs U.S. Gamers
- Windows 7 PCs Account For 98 Percent Of All WannaCry Infections, Only $100K Ransomed So Far
- Google Home AI Smart Hub To Gain Hands-Free Calling In The U.S.
- Google's Android O Comes With A Killer New Feature, Graphics Driver Updates
- Microsoft Research Unveils Compact Holographic AR Wide Angle Displays To Advance HoloLens Technology
- Tim Cook Spotted Testing Breakthrough Apple Watch With Blood Glucose Monitor
- WikiLeaks Exposes Athena CIA Spying And Hacking Malware Targeting All Windows PCs
- Sony's Mighty PlayStation 4 Pro Can't Run Destiny 2 At 60 FPS
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Specs Leak Alleges Cortex A75 Cores And LPDDR4X
- WannaCry Ransomware Holding Your Windows PC Hostage? Recover It With This Tool
- Motorola Moto Z2 Force Poses For Its Closeup With ShatterShield Display And Dual Cameras
- Uber Threatens To Fire Lead Engineer Over Court Order In Alleged Theft Of Waymo Trade Secrets
- Ford Brings Android Auto And Apple CarPlay To All 2016 Vehicles Via DIY Update
- Windows 10 S Can’t Run Linux Distros Available From Windows Store
- AMD Confirms Radeon RX Vega To Be Faster Than Frontier Edition, Soft Computex Launch
- Microsoft’s Refreshed Surface Pro Leaks With Anticipated Kaby Lake Muscle
- ASUS ROG Just Teased Its Ryzen Gaming Notebook Ahead Of Computex
- Save Big On A 2-Year Private Internet Access VPN Subscription In the HotHardware Shop
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All News for May 2017
Will the Nokia 9 be as legendarily indestructible as the Nokia 3310? The world is about the find out. Photos and specs of the new Nokia flagship, dubbed Nokia 9, have recently leaked and the device is looking solid. Specs include a 5.27 inch QHD display with a resolution of 1440 X 2560 and a pixel density of 557ppi...
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When many think about the security of their devices, it's easy to look at the obvious targets: desktops, notebooks, mobile devices, and of course, the software on all of them. In reality, one of the most vulnerable pieces of digital equipment in our homes can be the router - an effective entry point that gives access...
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The Nintendo Switch has been a bonafide sales hit across the globe, and has allowed the Japanese gaming giant to put a little more swagger in its step. Sales of the console have been so strong, in fact, that the Nintendo Switch topped both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 (the usual home console sales champ) during...
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For a quick minute, it looked as though a strain of ransomware that was seemingly stolen from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was going to be a major problem for PCs around the world, and in particular Windows XP systems. Microsoft even made the unusual move of releasing an emergency patch for Windows...
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Among a number of other updates announced this week at Google IO, it was revealed that hands-free calling was coming to the popular Google Home AI assistant. And those hands-free calls will quite literally be free – the update itself and calls made from the device will come at no additional cost.
When the feature...
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Could Google’s Android O possibly go modular? Google’s own Romain Guy, Android Graphics Team Manager just revealed that his team has been working on making it so that device graphics drivers can be updated through the Play Store. The functionality should be ready for select devices by the time Android O is officially...
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Microsoft Research Unveils Compact Holographic AR Wide Angle Displays To Advance HoloLens Technology
Microsoft hopes to soon rival the holograms featured in sci-fi works like Star Trek and Star Wars. The company just unveiled compact holographic AR wide-angle displays that it anticipates will advance HoloLens technology.
Microsoft has been experimenting with true, phase-only holograms that are created through the...
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Apple is already winning the wearables war, but it is the next version of the company's Apple Watch that could end up a real game changer. Tim Cook, the man in charge, was seen at the Apple campus in Cupertino, California wearing a prototype blood glucose monitor connected to an Apple Watch. If such a thing could make...
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WikiLeaks has posted its latest release from the Vault 7 series of CIA-related leaks that exposes a tool dubbed “Athena”, which acts as a beacon on compromised Windows-based systems and gives the agency remote loader capabilities as well.
Athena and its associated tools function on all versions of Windows from XP...
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If you're a Destiny fan who's been dreaming of the day when you'd be able to play Destiny 2 at a smooth 60 frames-per-second, you're going to be hugely disappointed to learn that's not going to happen - unless you play on the PC. #PCMasterRace? Not so fast...
As baffling as it is, Bungie has admitted that Destiny...
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The newness hasn’t even worn off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, but there’s already talk of its successor. Most reports seemed to agree that upcoming flagship will be called the Snapdragon 845, but the finer details are where there are some discrepancies between the varying reports.
The latest news coming from...
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The Wanna Decrypter ransomware that began floating around the Internet late last week, or WannCry as it's commonly known, has made a lasting impact, with hundreds of thousands of PCs worldwide being affected. What the malware does is even more alarming: one minute, you're using your computer normally; the next, your...
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Motorola is ready to unleash the second generation of its flagship Moto Z family, and luckily, we’re getting a glimpse at what the device has in store. Leaked renders give us a good look at the smartphone from both the front and the back, and for obvious reasons, it doesn’t stray too far from the original winning...
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The lead lawyer for Uber has threatened to fire Anthony Levandowski, one of the company's top self-driving car engineers, if he refuses to cooperate with an ongoing investigation into accusations that he stole trade secrets from Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Google's parent company Alphabet. Levandowski...
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If you own a 2016 Ford car or truck, some new smartphone/infotainment goodness is now coming your way. The American auto giant today announced its SYNC 3 version 2.2 software, which enables both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay for all 2016 model year vehicles. So, if you own a lowly Fiesta subcompact or a highfalutin...
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When Microsoft announced a new SKU of Windows for education markets called Windows 10 S, it was very clear that it only support app installations from the Windows Store. Microsoft also recently announced that some Linux distros are headed to the Windows Store, and what wasn't so clear is whether users would be able to...
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AMD definitely turned heads when it announced the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition earlier this week. Based on AMDs 14nm FinFET “Vega” architecture, the professional workstation graphics card promises 13 TFLOPs single-precision compute performance and includes 16GB of HBM2.
However, what about those of us who simply...
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Microsoft disrupted the hardware space when it took matters into its own hands and developed the Surface to showcase its vision for Windows 8. That feels like an millennia ago, and while Microsoft's hardware partners have stepped up to the plate with similar designs since then, the Surface lives on. Its latest model...
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Earlier this week AMD talked about its mobile strategy with regards to Ryzen and said that we can expect a variety of Zen-powered laptops starting in the third quarter of this year. Picking up where AMD left off, ASUS and its Republic of Gamers division posted a teaser video giving us a shadowed look at what will...
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It's amazing just how fast politics can move when corporate interests are at risk. Merely two years ago, we reported on the Federal Communication Commission's approval of clear net neutrality rules - a major win for the open Internet. It didn't take long before parties inside and outside the FCC got to work on trying...
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Lenovo is already breaking out its back-to-school laptop lineup and the current school year isn’t even over yet. With that being said, the company has new Flex 5 convertibles in the mix along with new IdeaPad notebooks and the enthusiast-class Legion Y920 gaming notebook.
Starting off with the Flex 5, it is...
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