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Latest News - July 2016
- Snapdragon 821 Is Qualcomm’s Fastest Chip Ever Thanks To 2.4GHz Kyro Cores
- Samsung Expands Popular 850 EVO SSD Family With $1,499 4TB Model
- Fallout Shelter Comes To PC This Thursday With The Game's Biggest Update Yet
- Copycat ‘Pokémon Go’ App Wreaking Havoc With Droidjack Android Malware
- Space Disaster Game ADR1FT Enters Earth Low Orbit July 15th On PlayStation 4
- Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code Hits Github Thanks To NASA Intern
- Fatal Tesla Autopilot Crash Opens Door For Stringent NTSB Oversight Of Autonomous Vehicles
- Skype Chatbots Can Now Join Group Text Conversations For Fun, Frolic Or Productivity
- Microsoft Opens Minecraft-Based 'Project Malmo' AI Platform To All
- YouTube Looking To Launch Online TV Service Next Year With ESPN, ABC, And CBS
- Open Space Adventure Game No Man's Sky Finally Goes Gold After 4 Years In Development
- ASUS And Gigabyte Already Teasing Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Boards
- Massive 40 Million iCloud Account Hack Could Hold Apple Devices Hostage For Russian Ransomware
- Microsoft And UW Researchers Set World Record Storing 200MB Of Data On A Single Strand Of DNA
- Google Hardens Chrome’s Security Against Quantum Computer Encryption Hacking
- Consumer Reports Dings Rugged Samsung Galaxy S7 Active For Failing Water-Resistance Tests
- Amazon Promotes Alexa-Exclusive Voice-Activated Sales And Secret Prime Day Deals For Echo
- Facebook Messenger Goes ‘Mission Impossible’ With Self-Destructing, End-to-End Encrypted Chats
- Save 47% Off Dell Inspiron 3650 SKYLAKE Desktop, AOC G2460PF 24” Gaming Monitor Now $209 And More
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update Inches Closer To RTM With Build 14383 For PC And Mobile
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All News for July 2016
For the better part of the year, one of the most sought after System-on-Chips (SoCs) for flagship devices in the mobile world has been Qualcomm's speedy Snapdragon 820, an efficient chip highlighted by the company's first ever custom designed 64-bit Kyro CPU with clockspeeds up to 2.2GHz. Well, now there's the...
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If you’re a fan of Samsung’s 850 EVO SSD series (and we here at HotHardware are definitely big fans), you’ll be happy to know that the family is growing in size yet again. After announcing 2TB capacities a year ago, Samsung has seized on the opportunity to double the maximum storage capacity of the 850 EVO to a...
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Bethesda's been teasing a major update to Fallout Shelter for the past month, Update 1.6, which will bring the popular mobile title to the PC platform. In the days leading up the update's July 14 (this Thursday) launch, Bethesda has taken to Twitter with catchy rhymes to hype the release of what it says it will be the...
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With Nintendo's latest game - a mobile one, at that - the company has proven that there is still a lot of innovating to do in the market. While Pokemon GO is based on another title, Ingress, any game is going to have a greater chance of success when it features one of the most popular franchises ever. GO isn't just...
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Adr1ft, the first-person survival game set on a damaged space station, will soon be available on PS4. This is the first game from Three One Zero, a company formed by former Microsoft Xbox team member Adam Orth.
The game was inspired by Orth’s own dramatic departure from Microsoft. When Microsoft's Xbox One was...
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Houston, we have some code. The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code is now available for free online, thanks to a NASA intern that uploaded it to Github.
In the 1960’s, MIT programmers wrote thousands of lines of esoteric code for Apollo 11's flight software. They invented “rope memory,” and created a special...
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Following the first fatal accident involving Tesla's autonomous vehicle technology, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending a team of five investigators to Florida next week to investigate the crash and the circumstances that allowed the accident to occur. That's in addition to a probe by the...
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At its Build conference this past spring, Microsoft unveiled the latest killer feature for its Skype service: Chatbots. Chatbots are bots, as the name implies, that can chat intelligently with users to give them the information they're looking for quickly and easily. While customer service is a focal point of many...
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At its core, Minecraft is a game. It's designed to be fun, immersive, and challenging. But as we've seen in recent years, it can become a lot more than just a game, thanks in part to its extreme modularity. Especially with the introduction of the Redstone block, we've seen people create everything from calculators to...
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If you're a cable-cutter who's hated to lose some key channels by dropping cable TV, you might just be in luck when YouTube rolls out what's in effect a replacement later this year.
It's been rumored for quite some time that the company has wanted to offer a subscription-based service that would include a number of...
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It's been quite the two months for the No Man's Sky developer team. A couple of months ago, we reported that the game would be suffering yet another delay; news that didn't sit well with everyone who has been waiting 'forever' for the game. Weeks later, Hello Games settled an absurd dispute with Sky TV, allowing the...
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NVIDIA and AMD have locked horns on the mid-range battlefield for graphics cards, the latter with its $200 (4GB) and $239 (8GB) Radeon RX 480, and the former responding with its $250 GeForce GTX 1060 ($300 for the Founder's Edition). Of course, it's the custom cards that are most interesting, and though the GTX 1060...
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It's beginning to look like some rather sophisticated hackers have made their way into Apple's core and crippled iCloud security so severely that some iPhones have essentially been held hostage. A few iPhones here and there might not seem like a big deal, but ultimately, there could be a staggering 40 million iCloud...
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Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington have set a new record for DNA storage. The pair was able to record 200 megabytes of data on the molecular strands. Once encoded, the data was smaller than the tip of a pencil.
How does storing digital data on DNA work? The data is translated from binary into...
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It may still be in the early days for quantum computers, but Google is already experimenting with post-quantum cryptography. Someone could potentially retroactively break any communications that were encrypted with today’s standard encryption algorithms. Google is attempting to encrypt some of its connections through...
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In early June, Samsung launched the Galaxy S7 Active on AT&T. The smartphone, which is a ruggedized version of the standard Galaxy S7, features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, and a massive 4000 mAh battery. But the real reason to purchase a Galaxy S7 Active is for its “go...
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The second annual Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, and just as we expected, the company is pushing the deals as hard as it possibly can. As if a singular mega-deals day wasn't enough to build up hype, Amazon has been offering daily deals to lead up to the big day - and yes, those are only for Amazon Prime...
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“This tape/message will self-destruct in five seconds.” That was a refrain we heard on the 1960s TV show Mission Impossible (and later in the Tom Cruise-helmed movies). Facebook is taking a page from this self-destructing message trope with the addition of end-to-end encryption for its hugely popular Messenger...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go we’ve got some HOT deals to share. On tap for you all this fine Friday, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 3650 Core i7-6700-based desktop system, an AOC G2460PF 24" 1080p 144Hz 1ms LED-backlit AMD FreeSync Gaming Monitor, an LG 55LH5750 55" Smart HDTV...
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Subscribers to the Windows Insider program who signed up for the Fast ring have a new Windows 10 build to play with, that being build 14383. It's available for both PC and Mobile, and with this release Microsoft moves ever closer to the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) version of its Windows 10 Anniversary Update that's...
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Microsoft might be trying just a little too hard to identify with today's youth by throwing down lingo that comes off as wildly inappropriate and cringe worthy from a professional entity. Hey, we're all for letting incoming interns know that there's a party going on and there will be beer pong, but referring to...
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Both Microsoft and Sony are on a path to shake things up in the console world by releasing upgraded systems with more powerful hardware equipped for gaming at 4K Ultra HD. Their plans represent a deviation from the traditional console cycle in which several years lapse in between brand new machines, and if you ask...
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