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- MediaTek's New Dimensity 1000+ 5G Flagship SoC Plots To Undercut Snapdragon 865
- Microsoft's Xbox Series X Gameplay Livestream: When And Where To Watch
- Wink Slaps Its Smart Home Customers With Pay Up Or Get Lost Subscription Ultimatum
- NVIDIA's Latest Game Ready On GeForce NOW Thursday Releases Include Population Zero
- AMD Ryzen 3 3300X And 3100 Review: Serious Quad-Core Value
- Lenovo Infuses Its ThinkPad Laptops With Speedy Ryzen 4000, Ryzen Pro 4000 CPUs
- Microsoft Announces Surface Headphones 2 And Lower Price For Sleek Surface Earbuds
- Android TV UI Redesign Tipped To Shine Spotlight On Movies And Shows
- Google's Android 11 Beta Launch Show Is Coming, Here's When And Where To Watch
- HP Launches New Enterprise Chromebooks And Thin Client Portables
- Widespread Spectrum Internet Outages Reported Across US Amid COVID-19 Telecommuting Crunch
- Ring’s Entry-Level Video Doorbell Gets A Hardware Upgrade And Sleek Solar Charger Option
- This Wild Malware Attack Can Wirelessly Slurp Data Through Your PC's Power Supply
- Intel Core i9-10900K Comet Lake-S Chip Allegedly Hits Sweet 5.4GHz All-Core Overclock
- Microsoft Surface Go 2 Debuts With Bigger Display, Surface Book 3 Rocks Ice Lake And NVIDIA Turing GPUs
- Microsoft Offers $100,000 Bounty To Hack Its Custom Azure Sphere Linux OS
- Stadia Pro Adds Free Games For May Along With Wireless Controller Support On PC
- MicroProse, Legendary Creators Of Civilization, XCOM And Falcon 4.0 Is Back After 20 Year Gaming Absence
- T-Mobile Is Offering $500 Off The Galaxy S20 5G Family Of Smartphones
- Mortal Kombat 11 DLC Story Trailer Zeros In On Soul Devouring Shang Tsung
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All News for May 2020
Given that Qualcomm is the dominant force in the Android realm when it comes to mobile SoCs, it’s easy to forget that there are other competitors out there like Samsung’s Exynos family and offerings from MediaTek. MediaTek raised eyebrows last year with its flagship Dimensity 1000 flagship SoC that offered an...
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These are unique times, though despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft reiterated its goal remains to launch its next-generation Xbox Series X game console this holiday season (i.e., November or December). Same goes for Halo Infinite. Providing a sneak peek at what is to come, Microsoft...
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Wink its telling its customers they have an important choice to make: start paying a $4.99 monthly subscription fee or lose access to critical features for products they already purchased. Customers have just one week to make a decision, as the subscription (and features cut-off) goes into effect starting May 13...
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The goal of the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is to give gamers what NVIDIA calls a world-class GeForce PC gaming experience with low latency and ray-traced graphics on nearly any device. The streaming game service supports Mac, Android, Shield TV, and even low-specification PCs. NVIDIA remains committed to rolling...
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AMD announced a pair of new Ryzen 3 processors a couple of weeks back, designed to drive its Zen 2 microarchitecture down into even more affordable price points. These new processors, the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X, are the latest entry-level, quad-core processors in the Ryzen family. Over and above disabling a few cores and tweaking clocks,...
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Lenovo announced today that it is spreading AMD Ryzen 4000 love deeper into its laptop range, and has provided us with some availability dates for Ryzen 4000-powered notebooks that it announced earlier this year at CES 2020. Kicking things off is the addition of Ryzen 4000 SKUs to the existing ThinkPad E14 and E15...
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Earlier this morning, we brought you news about Microsoft's upgraded Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3. However, that isn't all that the company had new for consumers; it also announced the Surface Headphones 2 and a lower price for its highly anticipated Surface Earbuds.
Starting off with the Surface Headphones 2...
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When people want to watch a movie or TV show, most don't care where the show comes from as long as they can easily find the content they want. A rumor is going around that claims a big update is coming for Android TV that will focus on making the actual "discovery" process for movies and shows easier for users, while...
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Are you ready for a new version of Android? Ready or not, it's right around the corner, at least in public beta form. Google plans to launch the Android 11 public beta on June 3, 2020, with a livestream announcing the details. Normally this is something that would be rolled out during Google I/O, but that event was...
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HP has launched several new Chromebook computers that aim at enterprise users who need machines that need cost effective and powerful. One of the devices is the HP Pro c640 Chromebook Enterprise that is designed for working in the cloud. The c640 is powered by 10th generation Intel processors and has up to 12 hours of...
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Most of us across the United States have been hunkered down in our homes, only venturing out for necessities over the past few months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That means that millions of Americans are relying on their home internet connection now more than ever to work from home and complete school...
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Back in early March, Ring launched its Video Doorbell 3 and Video Doorbell 3 Plus complete with 5GHz Wi-Fi support, improved motion detection, and Pre-Roll technology (which shows 4 seconds of video prior to an alert being triggered). Today, Ring has unveiled an update to its entry-level Video Doorbell.
Like the...
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There are multiple ways to sneakily extract data from a PC, and not all of them involve directly tapping into the storage device. Even a PC that is not connected to a network is vulnerable. These are referred to as air gapped systems, and security researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel's Ben Gurion University of the...
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It's been almost a week since Intel formally introduced its 10th generation Core processors for the desktop (Comet Lake-S), and later this month, the launch will be accompanied by reviews and actual retail availability. In the meantime, we still have to rely on leaks to catches glimpses of what Comet Lake-S will be...
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Microsoft today pulled the wraps off the Surface Go 2 and the Surface Book 3; and it looks as though the leaks were right on the money with these two new computing products. As expected, both bring newer Intel processors to the table, and in the case of the Surface Book 3, optional NVIDIA Turing-based discrete...
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Think you have what it takes to thwart the security mechanisms in Azure Sphere, a comprehensive security solution Microsoft developed for the Internet of Things (IoT) category? Those who do could potentially collect up to a $100,000 bug bounty. That's some serious cash, and it applies to two specific type of...
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The Google Stadia streaming service is adding four games for that will be available to all "Pro" users to claim and play for free right now. The first of the free games is The Turing Test. It has players unraveling the mysteries surrounding an outpost on the icy moon of Europa.
Zombie Army 4: Dead War has players...
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In an announcement that came completely out of left field for us today, one of the most storied game publishers that had been previously left for dead has been resurrected. We're talking about MicroProse, of course, whose last game was 2002's Grand Prix 4 (released under the Infogrames umbrella).
MicroProse first...
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The first thing that anyone wanting a new smartphone looks for is deals and discounts. No one wants to pay full price for phones as expensive as flagship devices are these days. The good news is most flagship smartphones are available at various carriers with discounts. Samsung's Galaxy S20 5G smartphone family (our...
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Mortal Kombat 11 was one of the best-selling games of 2019 and received mostly positive reviews from both critics and casual gamers. The game’s popularity was further bolstered by skin and character DLCs. It appears that NetherRealm Studios, the developers behind Mortal Kombat, are now focusing their attention on a...
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The biggest and baddest smartphone SoC on the market in Android land is no doubt the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. Based on 7nm tech, the 8-core SoC comes mandatorily paired with the discrete Snapdragon X55 5G modem and powers current flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S20 family and the OnePlus 8 Series.
With recent...
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After several years of development, Amazon Game Studios is close—very close—to launching Crucible, a free-to-play team-based player-versus-player (PvP) action shooter. It will go up against some stiff competition, namely Overwatch and Valorant, the latter of which is currently being tested in a closed beta and due to...
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