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Latest News - June 2018
- Mazda's 2019 MX-5 Miata Gets A Hefty Power Boost To Dial Up The Fun Factor
- Toyota Leveraging Le Mans Racing Experience For Road-Legal Hybrid Hypercar
- Facebook AI Can Digitally Open Your Annoyingly Closed Eyes In Photos
- Thieves Execute Mission Impossible Style Heist Of $100K In Apple Gear From Best Buy
- TP-Link Deco M9 Plus Tri-Band Mesh Router Adds Smart Home Controls And Alexa Support
- PUBG Channels Fortnite Combat With 4km x 4km Sanhok Map Launching This Week
- IBM Project Debater AI Throws Down With Human Champ And Wins
- AMD 2nd Gen Threadripper 2990X 32-Core Benchmarks Leak, Ready To Skewer Core i9
- Ailing Tesla Losing Its Charge As Musk Makes Claims Of Sabotage
- Google Medical Brain AI Can Predict When Patients Will Die With Alarming Accuracy
- Microsoft’s Xbox Live Avatars Arrive As Your Customizable Digital Doppelgänger
- AMD 7nm Radeon Pro Vega 20 Workstation Graphics Card Benchmarks Leak
- Sony’s Fortnite Cross-Play Ban Is A Dumb Money Grab Says Former Sony Online Exec
- Australian Court Hits Apple With $9 Million Fine Over Error 53 Bricked iPhones
- Best Buy's Smoking Pixel 2 XL Deal Offers $400 Savings
- Oppo Find X Android Superphone Rocks All-Screen Design With Motorized Pop-Up Camera
- Android Messages Brings Browser Based Texting To Your Desktop Or Laptop PC
- Updated: AMD Scoffs At Intel Core i7-8086K Anniversary Giveaway With Ballsy Threadripper Trade-In Offer
- Microsoft Acquires Flipgrid Education-Centric Social Video Platform
- Video Games Called Digital Heroin For Those Afflicted With WHO’s Newly Classified Gaming Disorder
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All News for June 2018
The Miata may get mocked for its "dainty" looks and relatively low power output, but you can't ignore its extremely lightweight design and impeccable manners with regards to handling. Whereas the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is a blunt instrument, the Miata is a surgical tool.
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Toyota is developing a new 'hypercar' that is based on its TS050 Hybrid LMP1 race car that won Le Mans. Called the GR Super Sport Concept, Toyota's Gazoo Racing (TGR) division showed off the at the 86th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, after having first revealed it at the 2018 Tokyo Auto Salon in January. The news...
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Photography is a tricky thing, and we're not even talking about principles like the rule-of-thirds or using Bokeh effects to spice up a snapshot. No, the real trick is dealing with that subject that has a tendency to close his or her eyes. In my neck of the woods, we call that subject "Tammy," and if it's a group...
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A gang of thieves in Georgia must be big fans of Ethan Hunt and the Mission Impossible series. The thieves had their eyes on expensive Apple gear located in a Best Buy store, and decided that rather than go through the front door (or even more inconspicuously through the back entrance) it would be better to go in...
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TP-Link has been making mesh routers in the Deco range for a while now that are designed to give you WiFi access all around a home or office. Last year, the company launched the Deco M5 mesh router and now the company has announced the new Deco M9 Plus. This mesh router is notable because in addition to offering WiFi...
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PUBG was all the rage with gamers in 2017 until the Fortnite battle royale made hit the scene and quickly began to win out in concurrent player numbers. PUBG has been working to gain back its lost popularity to outpace Fortnite, and has in the past promised better performance to lure back gamers. Now, a new map is...
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IBM took its most recent AI system, dubbed Project Debater, and entered it into a competition against human debating champions. The event was held at the IBM Watson West site in San Francisco, California. Project Debater started by preparing arguments for and against the following statement: “We should subsidize space...
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Yesterday, AMD was trolling Intel by offering contest winners of its Core i7-8086K Limited Edition a chance to trade it in for a 16-core/32-thread Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Today, we're getting an [alleged] early look at the second-generation Ryzen Threadripper -- specifically, the range-topping 2990X SKU.
This...
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Tesla is going through a critical phase in its existence at the moment. You can count that quarters that the company has reported a profit in its decade of existence on one hand; it has come under attack for Autopilot crashes (including some that resulted in death); and recently, a spontaneously combusting Model S...
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Lest there be any doubt to Google's mindset as a company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently said that artificial intelligence is more important than electricity or fire.Google also recently rebranded its Google Research division 'Google AI' to better reflect its commitment to one of the biggest fields in technology at...
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As with any sector of humanity, gamers are a unique and diverse bunch with different ethnic backgrounds, styles and sense of fashion, shapes, sizes, and so forth. For nearly a decade, Xbox gamers could choose an avatar to represent themselves in the virtual world, albeit with limited selections. That's about to...
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There are some interesting things happening in the professional graphics hardware market. Just a few days ago, there was a slide making the rounds that depicted a Radeon Pro V340 graphics card with 32GB of HBM2 memory, and it was speculated that it has a pair of 14-nanometer Vega 10 GPUs underneath the hood...
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The heat is being dialed up on Sony over its wildly unpopular stance on Fortnite cross-play. As you know, Fortnite is cross-platform capable, and is available to play on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, macOS and iOS.
PlayStation 4 gamers are able to play against those on the PC, macOS and iOS, but...
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A crippling bug that could effectively brick an older iPhone or iPad is going to cost Apple at least $9 million, which is how much a federal court in Australia fined the company. The fine is not due to the actual software flaw that Apple later patched with iOS 9.2.1, but for telling some Australian iPhone and iPad...
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Android fans in the market for a new phone may want to check out the deal that Best Buy has going right now on the Pixel 2 XL. The electronics retail giant is offering the Pixel 2 XL 64GB smartphone in black or black/white for $18.74 per month via Verizon. That is a total savings of $400 and the deal breaks down in part with an instant credit
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Oh display notch, how we barely knew thee. The iPhone X introduced the masses to the display notch on smartphone. Shortly after, Android manufacturers broke out their copying machines to implement similar designs on their flagships. Now, however, some rather inventive OEMs are looking past the stopgap notch in an...
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Android users who favor Android Messages as their default messaging application will be thrilled to hear that Google has begun the rollout of desktop browser support. That means that text messages can be sent and read on the PC. The rollout of the new feature will be staggered throughout the remainder of the...
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Earlier this month at Computex, Intel announced its Core i7-8086K processor to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the famed 8086 debut. The flagship mainstream processor offers 6 physical cores (12 threads) and has a single-core boost of 5GHz.
To coincide with the launch, Intel kicked off a contest to giveaway 8,086...
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Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Flipgrid, a social learning platform, and intends to leverage it to bring social learning to students around the globe. Flipgrid currently boasts users in over 180 countries with over 20 million pre-kindergarten to PH.D. level educators, students, and families using the...
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Are you an avid gamer? And we don't mean simply gaming a few hours a day -- we're talking about every waking hour of the day; every free moment glued to your mouse, keyboard and monitor as you consume yourself in games like Overwatch and Fortnite. If this describes your life, you could actually have a gaming disorder...
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It took a little longer than we would have liked, but we’ve finally got the AMD and Corsair sponsored Raven Ridge giveaway system built up and ready to ship off to the winner! We put together a short video of the build process for those of you that would like to see how the rig came out. As you’ll see, with all of...
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A pair of macOS security experts have discovered a bug in the latest version of macOS that exposes the contents of files, including ones that are encrypted and are supposed to be safe from prying eyes. The security flaw exists within Apple's 'Quick Look' feature, which caches thumbnails and names of files, even when...
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