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- Watch Fortnite Titans Do Battle In These Super Cool Pro-Am VODs
- Mozilla Developing Alexa-Like Voice-Controlled ‘Scout’ Web Browser
- Donkey Kong Barrel Smashing Arcade Classic Re-Released For Nintendo Switch
- Instagram Removes Screenshot Alerts Letting Creepers Stalk Undetected
- MysteryBot Android Malware Fuses Keylogger, Ransomware And Banking Trojan Into Toxic Hellstew
- Grayshift Says It Already Beat Down And Cracked Apple's iOS 12 USB Restricted Mode
- Valve Aims To Slip Steam Link Past Apple Censors By Axing Game Purchasing Feature
- Google DeepMind Empowers AI With Creativity To Perceive And Render Our 3D World
- Windows 10 April 2018 Update Now Available For All With The Help Of AI
- Microsoft Explains Why It Won’t Rush To Fix Every Reported Windows Security Exploit
- Samsung Delivers Chromebook Plus V2 Premium Chrome OS Convertible With Stowable Pen
- Huawei MateBook X Pro: Performance And Value In A Sleek Ultraportable
- Active Shooter Dev Still Plans To Release School Shooting Game Citing Freedom Of Expression
- Amazon Now Shipping DeepLens AI Machine Learning Camera For $250
- Verizon Wireless Launches 'Above' Unlimited Data Plan For Extreme Data Hogs
- Apple’s Crackdown On Unauthorized iPhone USB Data Access Has Law Enforcement Livid
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 11/20 Turing GPUs To Support Real-Time Ray Tracing And HDMI 2.1
- Nintendo Jabs Sony For Sabotaging Fortnite Cross-Play, Sony Issues Feckless Response
- Google Is Apparently Seeking Windows 10 Certification For Pixelbook
- Aston Martin Rapide AMR Is 007's Not So Stealthy Four-Door Family Car
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All News for June 2018
Epic Games dipped into its wallet to extract a cool $3 million for its Fortnite Pro-Am tournament, with the prize money earmarked for charity. The tournament consisted of 100 competitors split evenly between celebrities NBA player Paul George (for the Oklahoma City Thunder) and actor Jon Heder from Napoleon Dynamite...
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Digital assistants are now a part of everyday life for many users, whether it's barking out commands at Siri on an iPhone, summoning Google Now (or later Duplex) on an Android device, asking Cortana to look something up in Windows 10, shouting at Samsung's Bixby on a Galaxy device, or asking Amazon's Alexa to perform...
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When it comes to Donkey Kong, most of the news surrounding the game in recent months have been the negative aura surrounding "King of Kong" Billy Mitchell. However, Nintendo has some positive and exciting news surrounding the original arcade version of the game: it is now available on the Switch console.
Donkey Kong...
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Instagram is no longer testing a feature that alerted users when someone else would take a screenshot of their story. The feature had been in place for several months and would plop a starry icon next to the username of anyone who snapped a screenshot, thereby letting the user know that someone saved a potentially...
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Researchers have discovered a new strain of malware for Android devices that combines different styles of attack into a single package.
Called MysteryBot, the new malware hits victims with a banking Trojan, keylogger, and ransomware in one fell swoop. The good news here is that the cybercriminals responsible for...
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Apple wants to make it harder for anyone to gain unauthorized access to iPhones with a new USB Restricted Mode in iOS 12. That move infuriated law enforcement as it meant that the GrayKey iPhone hacking tool (and others from Cellebrite) used by authorities to crack iPhones would be useless. Grayshift, the company...
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Valve had many gamers excited when it announced that the Steam Link app would let you stream games from your PC to your iOS device. Not so long after the announcement, Steam Link landed in beta on Google Play for Android aficionados. Unfortunately for the iOS users, Apple blocked the app with Phil Schiller explaining...
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Google has been able to train its various DeepMind AIs to do some very cool things. The AlphaZero AI was able to destroy the highly acclaimed Stockfish chess program over a 100-game match, winning 28 of the matches outright and tying the other 72 matches for a no loss record. DeepMind certainly isn’t the only AI that...
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After months of internal and public testing (via the Windows Insider program), Microsoft released the Windows 10 April 2018 Update on the very last day of April. Microsoft rolled the update out in phases to help minimize install failures and hardware incompatibilities (which did tend to pop up on occasion).
Today...
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Not every problem has an immediate solution. Microsoft recently explained how it prioritizes resolving vulnerabilities. Some vulnerabilities are fixed through a quick security update, while others are saved for the next version of Windows.
Microsoft revealed that it asks two questions before providing a security...
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Samsung has pulled the wraps off its second-generation Chromebook Plus, now called the Chromebook Plus V2. The South Korean company bills the Chromebook Plus V2 as a premium device at a “competitive price point”. While some may only think of low-cost entries when they hear the word Chromebook, devices like Google's...
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Had someone asked us a year ago what we thought the top laptop brands would be heading into the summer of 2018, one name that would probably not have been mentioned is Huawei. It's not that laptops are a foreign product category to the Chinese manufacturer, it is just that Huawei is better known here in the U.S. for...
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After getting booted off Steam for past infractions, Active Shooter developer Anton Makarevskiy is still planning to release his controversial game through his company Acid Software, he announced on Twitter. He also insisted that his game, which tasks the player with either locating and terminating a school shooter...
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Back in November of last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled the world's first deep learning enabled video camera for developers, called DeepLens. Now more than half a year later, Amazon is finally taking orders for DeepLens. The asking price is $249 with free two-day shipping for Prime members, and while...
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After bashing unlimited data plans nearly two years ago, Verizon Wireless is launching a third entry into its current family of unlimited data plans. The new plan is called Above Unlimited, and it is the most feature-packed unlimited plan that Verizon offers.
But first, let us cover the existing plans. Go Unlimited...
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Apple has confirmed plans to bolt shut a security hole in iPhone devices that law enforcement agencies have been using to gain entrance into locked handsets after seizing them from suspected criminals. As can be imagined, those same agencies are none too pleased with Apple's decision. As far as Apple is concerned...
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Almost everything we know about NVIDIA's next generation GeForce GPUs is based in rumors and speculation. That will change sometime this summer, and by August at the latest, as NVIDIA is scheduled to talk about its next-gen GPUs at the Hot Chips conference. In the meantime, the latest chatter is that NVIDIA's upcoming...
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The backlash against Sony for blocking Fortnite cross-play on the PlayStation 4 with other console gamers is growing. Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch was released earlier this week, and like the Xbox One port before it, gamers are unable to compete against those on PlayStation 4 (although all consoles can play...
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When Google launched the new Pixelbook back in October 2017, there was no denying the svelte and sexy style of the device. The problem for many was that the little rig was $999 and only ran Chrome OS, which for many was a deal breaker. Google later made the device a testing ground for the Fuchsia OS. A new rumor is...
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If 007 ever decided to settle down with a nice young lady and have some kids out in the countryside, the Aston Martin Rapide AMR would be his car of choice. This beast is all sports car, but just so happens to have enough doors to haul the kids whilst hauling all the arse you want. AMR stands for Aston Martin Racing...
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A newly discovered security vulnerability in modern Intel X86 processors has been revealed that affects the processor's speculative execution technology – like Spectre and Meltdown – and can be used to access sensitive information, including encryption related data. Over the last day or two, patches have quietly...
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Office 365 is getting a facelift. Microsoft recently announced that it will release several updates for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Microsoft’s goal with these changes is to offer users a more powerful and streamlined experience.
Microsoft will initially release three updates. First, Office 365 will...
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