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Latest News - July 2016
- Elon Musk’s Tesla Master Plan Involves Sustainable Energy, Pickup Trucks And Ride Sharing
- Corning’s Gorilla Glass 5 Is Ultimate Defense For Smartphone Butterfingers
- NVIDIA To Demonstrate Foveated Rendering Tech To Reduce VR Workloads, Mimic Human Visual Systems
- Moto Z And Moto Z Force With Moto Mods Review: Excellent Execution
- 95% Off Professional Python & Linux Administration Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- Pokemon GO Fever Hits Desperate Lovebirds With PokeDates Dating Service
- Arrgh Matey! US Navy Faces $600M Lawsuit For Allegedly Pirating 3D Software
- Google’s Powerful DeepMind AI Helped Slash Herculean Data Center Power Bill
- ASUS Intel i3 Dual-Core 1080p Laptop Only $339, 30% Off Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 2560x1080 Wide Monitor And More
- NVIDIA TX1-Powered ‘Teal’ Drone Captures 4K Footage At A Blistering 70 MPH
- Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 App Gains Countdown Timer In Last Ditch Effort To Spur Upgrades
- LG’s 4K LTE-Capable Action CAM Hits Retail With Live Streaming Prowess
- NVIDIA Board Partners ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, And EVGA Unveil GeForce GTX 1060 Cards
- 3D Chip Inventor BeSang Claims New NAND Flash Tech Will Offer Insane 2 Cent Per Gigabyte Costs
- Intel Brews 6-Core, 14nm Coffee Lake Processors For 2018 Mainstream PCs
- Pokemon Go Hackers Mark August 1st On Calendar For Next DDOS Takedown
- Rise of the Tomb Raider Swings Onto PS4 October 11th With PlayStation VR Support
- Two And A Half Geeks: NVIDIA's Tom Petersen, GeForce GTX 1060, SHIELD With Plex, ASUS ROG STRIX Notebook And More
- Google Says Government Requests For User Data Hit Record High During 2015
- 1-Day Amazon Sales! Up to 50% off Select Logitech PC Accessories, $269 Onkyo TX-NR545 A/V Receiver & More
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Tesla is shifting focus always from being primarily an auto manufacturer to a company that is all about sustainable energy (the company recently dropped the “Motors” from its name). Elon Musk detailed his vision for the company in what he dubs “Master Plan, Part Deux” in a blog posting.
Musk’s original master plan...
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Death and taxes aren't the only unavoidable things in the world, so is the act of accidentally dropping your smartphone. If you're lucky it will land unscathed on the carpet or some other soft surface. And for the unlucky, Corning has your back—its new Gorilla Glass 5 is designed to protect against breakages from...
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Doing virtually reality (VR) well is very hard. It requires significant compute resources to render immersive VR worlds with the kind of fidelity, latency, and framerates necessary for users to feel truly connected. Whereas a typical PC game may feel smooth and immersive at a paltry 1080p resolution at 30 or 60 frames...
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Last month, the partnership between Motorola and Lenovo seemed to crystalize when the combined company stepped out with its first co-branded smartphone products that will ship here in the United States. Lenovo acquired Motorola's Mobility division from Google a couple of years back, but has rightfully lead with the...
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If you want to dive into the worlds of Python and Linux, we’ve got an e-learning deal in the HotHardware Shop that will be right up your alley. A Professional Python & Linux Administration Bundle is 95% off available for under $50 at the moment...
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Python is widely considered one of the best first...
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Ahh, summer love. Classic dates include picnics in the park, drive-in theaters, and...catching Pokémon? Pokémon trainers can catch Pikachu’s and dates with the online service PokéDates. Now you can Likitung with other trainers.
Dating site Project Fixup launched a new service on Wednesday that specifically targets...
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The U.S. Government doesn’t take too kindly to software piracy. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) especially takes issue with pirates, writing on its site:
Intellectual property theft involves robbing people or companies of their ideas, inventions, and creative expressions—known as “intellectual...
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Google’s powerful DeepMind AI is saving the company a lot of dough. The technology has resulted in a 15 percent improvement in power usage efficiency (PUE). Get your calculators out. Google said it used 4,402,836 MWh of electricity in 2014 which is the equivalent to 366,903 family homes in the United States. The...
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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 an ASUS F555LA 15.6" 1080p Core i3-5010U based notebook, a Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" 2560x1080 21:9 UltraWide IPS LED LCD Monitor, a Vizio M60-C3 60" 4K UHD 240Hz LED LCD Smart...
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There are drones, and there are drones that can capture video. And then there are drones like the Teal that can fly at over 70 MPH and capture 4K footage. Whoa.
When someone purchases any sort of drone, they'll have a specific use case in mind. Some drones are good for racing, while others are good at capturing...
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When we last visited Microsoft’s upgrade nag screens, the company got incredibly bold by taking over Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users’ computers with a full screen prompt to upgrade to Windows 10. Now with the deadline to upgrade to Windows 10 a little over a week away, Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to...
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LG is just a tad late bringing its anticipated Action Cam with LTE connectivity to market (the company stated in May that it would ship in June), but it's now starting to roll out, first to South Korea and then followed by other "key markets" in the coming weeks. It's not entirely clear when and if LG will launch its...
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If you’ve already read Marco’s excellent analysis of the GeForce GTX 1060, then you know that NVIDIA has produced a compelling graphics card for the mainstream market that offers respectable performance and extremely low power consumption (and if you haven’t read the review, you can find it here). And following the...
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At some point in time, solid state drives (SSDs) are likely to finally supplant mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) just as USB thumb sticks replaced floppies, but it won't happen until the cost of NAND flash memory drops even further, paving the way for parity in terms of price-per-gigabyte. It may even happen sooner...
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Intel shook things up when it announced that Kaby Lake would sit in between Skylake and Cannonlake, thus disrupting its tick-tock release cadence with a third generation processor family based on a 14nm manufacturing process. Now it appears that a fourth generation family of 14nm CPUs is on the roadmap, that being...
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The same hacking group that claimed responsibility for ticking off every Pokemon Go player on the planet by overwhelming the game's servers with a DDoS attack last weekend is planning another attack. Poodle Corp, as the hacker group calls itself, issued a notice on Twitter that the next barrage on Pokemon Go's servers...
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Although Rise of the Tomb Raider started off life on the Xbox One in November, it was always intended to make its way to other platforms. It landed on the PC in January and today, we’ve learned that PlayStation 4 owners will be able to purchase the game on October 11th.
The launch on the PS4 culminates with Rise of...
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Join us for another episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast! In this episode, we have special guest Tom Petersen, Director of Technical Marketing for NVIDIA, to talk about the GeForce GTX 1060. We'll also be chatting about NVIDIA's SHIELD Android TV device now with Plex Media server capabilities, the...
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Google has just reported that there were over 40,000 request for user data from the government between June and December 2015. Requests for user data has steadily increased since 2009, however this was the highest number yet.
Google admitted that this number was not comprehensive. For example, the same Gmail...
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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 an Acer Aspire E Intel Core i5 15.6-inch notebook, a Vizio SB2920-C6 29" soundbar, an Onkyo TX-NR545 7.2ch 4K Network A/V receiver, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals...
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New York City’s subways have a terrible reputation. Any television show featured in NYC seems to dedicate at least one episode to the notorious transportation system. But New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is looking to shed that image, and just unveiled a new design for the subway system which includes Wi-Fi, USB...
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Any way you look at it, today's storage technologies are impressive. We can hold a tiny memory card no larger than our finger nails that can fit thousands of images, songs, and documents, and potentially hundreds of videos. We even just wrote about a new consumer hard drive from Seagate that packs 10 terabytes inside...
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