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Latest News - June 2016
- Huawei’s 12-inch MateBook 2-in-1 Windows 10 Convertible Ships July 11th From $699
- Dell XPS 8900 Core i7-6700 Desktop now $779, 37% off Corsair Vengeance K65 Mechanical Keyboard, And More
- GeForce GTX 1080M GPU For Gaming Notebooks Reportedly Ships With 8GB GDDR5 Memory
- Microsoft Highlights Edge Browser On Windows 10 While Slamming Chrome’s Horrible Battery Drain
- Intel’s 72-Core Xeon Phi Processor Boasts AI And Machine Learning Mastery, Now Commercially Available
- Microsoft Lumia 550 Entry-Level Windows 10 Mobile Smartphone Plummets To $99
- HP Initiates Worldwide Recall To Replace Potentially Overheating Laptop Batteries
- UC Davis KiloCore CPU Packs 1,000 Cores, Sips 0.7 Watts Of Power And Runs On Single AA Battery
- Turn Your Android Smartphone Into A Retrotastic Game Boy With This Sweet Smart Boy Mod
- NVIDIA Announces Tesla P100 PCI Express Card For Deep Learning And HPC, Shipping Q4
- No Man’s Sky Settles 3-Year Legal Spat Over Name With Sky TV
- Hack The Pentagon Campaign Unearths Over 100 Security Vulnerabilities
- Google Raises Stakes 33 To 50 Percent For Android Bug Bounty Rewards Celebrating First Anniversary
- Domino's Bails On T-Mobile Free Pizza Promo Due To Crushing Demand
- Here's How To Unlock Facebook Messenger's Football App And Race For The UEFA Euro 2016 Cup
- Twitch Takes Legal Action Against Spammy Traffic Inflating Viewerbot Services
- Microsoft Knocks Up To $150 Off Surface Pro 4 And Tosses In Free Surface Dock
- Firefox Containers Allows Users To Login With Multiple Identities On A Single Site
- OnePlus Purposefully Gimped OnePlus 3’s 6GB RAM To Improve Battery Performance, Here's How To Unlock it
- Acer Confirms Online Store Breach, Nearly A Year’s Worth Of Credit Card Data Exposed
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All News for June 2016
Huawei’s Microsoft Surface competitor finally has an arrival date for consumers in the United States. The 2-in-1 convertible will ship July 11th, and will be priced from $699 as we previously reported.
“Huawei MateBook has generated incredible excitement since its launch at Mobile World Congress and attracted rave...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell XPS 8900 Core i7-6700 based desktop system, a Corsair Vengeance K65 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, a Samsung UN55KU6300 55" 4K UHD LED LCD Smart HDTV, and more. Full details for...
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NVIDIA’s has yet to make an official announcement, however this past weekend Swedish gaming notebook manufacturer IVY listed their new notebooks as powered by NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080M. The key feature of the GeForce GTX 1080M is the 8GB of video memory which spells higher resolution textures and screens.
While...
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Google Chrome might be the most popular browser on the planet, but it has long been criticized for its insistence on tearing through laptop batteries. Between the high memory consumption and negative impact on battery life, Microsoft is trying to capitalize on this achilles heel with its Edge web browser.
The PC...
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Intel Xeon Phi Processor DieIt’s been nearly two years since we first heard about Intel’s next generation Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” processors, which are geared towards the High Performance Computing (HPC) segment. The processors are a big part of Intel’s Scalable System Framework (SSF) and are built on using...
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If you're looking for an entry-level handset based running Windows 10 Mobile, just head over to the Microsoft Store and grab yourself a Lumia 550. Microsoft has the unlocked handset marked down to $99, compared to its normal selling price of $139, and you also get a prepaid T-Mobile 3-in-1 SIM kit with 40 minutes of...
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Summers are meant to be hot, but your HP computer should not be. HP recently announced a worldwide voluntary safety recall and replacement program for certain notebook computer batteries. The affected batteries were sold or replaced worldwide March 2013 through August 2015 as accessories or spares for specific HP...
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A bunch of researchers at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have built a "many-core" processor unlike any other. Aptly named KiloCore, the new CPU contains a staggering 1,000 independent programmable processors, which is presumably the first of its...
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It should be a secret to no one at this point that if you own a mobile device, you can probably run a game emulator without issue. This is especially true on the Android side, thanks to its increased openness. There, you'd actually have a difficult time finding a game platform that wasn't supported through emulation...
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Remember that scene when Al Pacino playing the part of Scarface famously said, "Say hello to my little friend!"? Well now NVIDIA is bringing out the big gun in PCI Express form in what it considers the "most advanced data center GPU ever built," the Tesla P100, a crazy fast GPU accelerator based on NVIDIA's powerful...
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The highly hyped adventure survival game known as No Man's Sky will keep its name when it launches later this summer. That may seem like an odd confirmation, but apparently it took "three years of secret stupid legal nonsense" for indie studio Hello Games to secure the right to use the word "Sky" following a legal...
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We wrote earlier about the kind of success Google has been seeing with its Android bug bounty program -- success that has led the company to actually increase its rewards. Over the years, we've seen other major companies offer bug bounties as well, such as Facebook and Microsoft, so it's clear that they can provide...
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It might be hard to believe, but it's now been an entire year since Google decided to expand its bug bounty mechanism towards an ecosystem that desperately needed it: Android.
At the time the program launched, and leading up to this point, the maximum payout for reports has been $38,000. That kind of figure is not...
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It's hard to argue that one of the best things on planet Earth is pizza. Many people are up for eating pizza regardless of the time of day, and regardless of what flavor it is. Pizza is just amazing, and it holds the power to shut down entire promotional deals - as Domino's is finding out.
Via its T-Mobile Tuesdays...
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It looks as though Facebook is doing everything in its power to persuade people to move on over to its Messenger platform. The latest trick up Facebook Messenger’s sleeve is a hidden football (soccer) game. The launch of the game neatly coincides with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Euro 2016...
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Twitch is a wonderful thing. It's the world's leading live video platform for gamers where more than 100 million people go to every month to broadcast, watch, and chat about gaming. But with its popularity there's also potential for abuse, which has come in the form of various bots. More than just an annoyance, Twitch...
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Looking for a last minute gift idea for pop to celebrate Father's Day? Fear not, Microsoft has your back, assuming your dad's in need of a new PC and you have the budget to fulfill that request. If so, be advised that Microsoft has shaved up to $150 off its Surface Pro 4 family of 2-in-1 devices, and you get a free...
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Firefox has a solution for those of us who like to keep multiple tabs and accounts open at once. With Firefox Containers, users can open tabs in multiple different contexts – Personal, Work, Banking, and Shopping. This is currently an experimental feature in Nightly, a 64-bit version of Firefox.
Each context has a...
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The OnePlus 3 is one of the hottest phones going at the moment. It offers a serious punch for its $400 asking price, and like all other OnePlus models before it, we expect it to be snatched up quickly by those who want something a little different, and get involved in an ecosystem where the phone vendor doesn't mind...
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If you've shopped at Acer's US website at any point between May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016, you have immediate reason for concern. Acer has just revealed to the California Attorney General's office that its ecommerce servers were hit last spring, and remained vulnerable up until this spring. Unfortunately, this isn't...
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The FCC has another battle on their hands. On Thursday, the “Future of TV” Coalition, a group consisting of mostly of the top TV providers, released plans for their “Ditch the Box” campaign. The pay-TV industry would commit to creating apps to allow consumers to watch programs without needing to lease a box. The FCC...
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Do you get nervous and start sweating bullets when you have to make a left-hand turn at a busy intersection with no stop light? The scenario is a little more common in big and busy cities like Los Angeles, and to make commutes a little less stressful for drivers, Waze created a new routing feature that bypasses...
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