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Latest News - May 2019
- Intel Exec Discloses More Project Athena Strategy In Forthcoming Computex Unveil
- Samsung's Latest Deepfake AI Creates Talking Avatars From Still Photos
- Smartphones Now Have The Ability To Identify You By Your Gait
- Go Figure, Report Says Tesla’s Autopilot Is Far Less Competent Than Human Drivers
- NVIDIA Is Prepping A 'Super' GeForce Surprise For Computex 2019
- Panic’s Playdate Gaming Handheld Sports A Crank, Black And White Screen, 12 Indie Games
- Amazon Reportedly Developing Alexa-Powered Wearable That Can Be Your Empath
- 2.5 Geeks 5/23/19: Samsung And WD SSDs, OnePlus 7 Pro, Fractal Design Vision R2 RGB Case, Huawei's Woes
- Microsoft Debuts New Windows 10 Xbox Game Bar With Spotify And Broadcast Capture Memes
- Acer Launches Nitro 5 And Swift 3 Notebooks With Ryzen 3000 Zen+ APUs
- AMD 50th Anniversary Promo Is Still Rocking With Hot Deals On Ryzen And Radeon
- AMD's Alleged Ryzen 3000 16-Core Zen 2 Beast CPU Benchmarked In Cinebench R15
- The Sims 4 Is Available For Free Through May 28, Here's How To Get It
- Samsung Galaxy Home Mini Makes FCC Debut, Its Larger Sibling Still Hasn't Launched
- Another Windows 10 Zero-Day Exploit Code Released By Spurned Security Researcher
- Privacy-Centric Tor Browser Officially Lands For Android Devices
- Vizio's 50-Inch 4K HDR Smart TV Is A Steal At $319 With This Deal On Amazon
- US Judge Slams Qualcomm, Rules Its Patent Licensing Terms Are Anticompetitive And Illegal
- ARM Severs Relationship With Huawei In A Crippling Blow To The Tech Giant’s Chip Operations
- Google Admits Some G Suite Passwords Have Been Stored In Plaintext Since 2005
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All News for May 2019
Earlier this year, Intel gave us the first hints about its Project Athena initiative and earlier this month gave us a broad overview on what to expect with future computing designs. Like Centrino (which brought laptops into the Wi-Fi age) and Ultrabooks (which touted the idea of thin and light premium laptops)...
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What if the person you were watching on TV was not an actual human? Researchers from the Samsung Institute in Moscow and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have discovered a way to bypass 3D modeling. Samsung researchers recently introduced a new AI that can create talking heads from single photos and...
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Smartphone security is becoming more sophisticated by the day. Fingerprint scanning and facial recognition schemes are starting to supplant PIN codes and passwords, but have you wondered what the next frontier might be? One possible avenue is behavioral biometrics, and a company called UnifyID is leading the...
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Tesla is famous for its immensely powerful electric cars and their ever-increasing range thanks to advances in battery chemistry, motor design, and software updates. The company is also famous -- for better or worse -- for its Autopilot software, which allows the vehicle to take over the task of driving, and even...
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NVIDIA appears to have something waiting in the wings to take on a looming Navi threat from AMD. The company has posted a teaser video for an upcoming product that could be unveiled next week at Computex 2019.
NVIDIA isn't really giving us much to go on with the teaser, but the video is entitled "Something super...
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What fits in your pocket, can be cranked, and is fun to play with? Get your mind out of the gutter—the correct answer is Playdate, a new handheld gaming system from Panic, an Oregon-based software and video game company that has mostly focused on apps for macOS and iOS (it also published Firewatch, an adventure game...
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It seems that Amazon is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in particular Commander Deanna Troi, the half-human, half-Betazoid that can sense emotions. Amazon wants its Alexa digital assistant to have the same capability. In a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Amazon describes...
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris and Dave chat about some sweet new NVMe SSDs from Samsung and WD, the hot new OnePlus 7 Pro Android flagship, Fractal Design's Define S2 Vision RGB case, Huawei's government and supplier woes and more!
Show Notes:
06:50 - Samsung 883 And 983 DCT SSD...
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The initial roll out of the October 2018 Update for Windows 10 was quite the debacle, and now that the May 2019 Update has arrived, users might understandably be wary of making the leap. For gamers, however, the new Xbox Game Bar that comes with the latest update is a compelling reason to rethink that...
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Acer has unveiled notebooks that are powered by the latest AMD Ryzen Mobile processor with integrated Radeon Vega graphics ahead of Computex 2019. Acer is cramming the second-gen Ryzen mobile processors into the Nitro 5 and Swift 3 notebooks. The Nitro 5 can be optioned with up to a second-gen AMD Ryzen 7 3750H...
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AMD is having some specials that gamers and enthusiasts looking to build up a new PC might want to partake in. There are two weeks left to take advantage of the AMD 50th anniversary gifts to gamers with the AMD50 Game Bundle that offers Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Gold Edition and World War Z for free with the...
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Computex 2019 is less than a week away, which means that the rumormill is gearing up at a rapid pace ahead of the show. Over the past few months, we've been getting a flood of information on incoming 7nm Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 processors from AMD. At first, we thought that the family would top out with 12-core...
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Everyone likes free video games, and if you lean towards the casual sort of game, you might remember EA's The Sims 4. The game has been around for what seems like forever, with the launch trailer for the title first surfacing back in 2013. EA has been working hard to release new updates for the game and expansion...
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We have known for several months that Samsung is aiming to compete in the growing smart speaker market, though the company has yet to launch its anticipated Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby integration. Even so, however, the company is already looking ahead to launching a more compact version, presumably called the...
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SandboxEscaper is at it again, releasing another zero-day exploit into the wild without giving Microsoft a heads up before publication. If you recall, SandboxEscaper doesn't think too highly Microsoft and has published other zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the company's software dating back to the summer of...
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At long last, The Tor Project has officially ported its Tor browser to Android devices with the first stable release for Google's open source operating system. It is now available on Google Play and will also make its way to F-Droid within the next day. Previously, Android users had access to test builds, with the...
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There has never been a better time to be in the market for a big screen TV. Whereas buying a sizeable television used to command top dollar, costs have come down considerably over the years, to the point where a few hundred bucks gets you a 4K TV with HDR support. Proof of this exists in Vizio's new V-Series 50-inch...
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Qualcomm shares soared when it was announced that it had reached a multi-year deal with Apple to settle the pair's long-running global patent licensing fight. Today, Qualcomm shares are heading the opposite direction after a U.S. judge ruled that the company's patent licensing practices are both unlawful and...
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Huawei is in a world of hurt right now, and ARM just delivered another painful blow, perhaps the biggest one of all so far. Following suit with several other US semiconductor companies, ARM is suspending its business operations with Huawei. The move, if permanent, could have a devastating effect on the massive Chinese...
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Google has announced that it has begun to notify administrators about how some passwords were inappropriately stored on its servers. Google says that its policy is to store user passwords with cryptographic hashes that mask passwords to ensure their security. However, Google recently notified a subset of its...
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We're getting close to the end of May, which means that Microsoft was running out of time to publicly release the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. After a month of extra testing with Windows Insiders and likely plenty of internal testing, Microsoft has released the update (version 1903) to the public.
According to...
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Unless you've been living under a rock, then you know that Q3 is shaping up to be a big launch period for AMD. The company has confirmed that it will launch third-generation Ryzen 3000 desktop processors, second-generation EPYC server processors and Radeon RX Navi consumer GPUs.
Of those products, we know the...
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