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Latest News - August 2016
- Apple's Darth Vader-Esque Space Black iPhone 7 Plus Makes An Appearance
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Pits Heroine Rebel Hell Bent On Stealing Plans For The Death Star
- No Man’s Sky In Stunning 4K With All IQ Settings Cranked Is Gorgeous
- Cornell Researchers Demo 'DiskFiltration' Hack That Steals Passwords And Crypto Keys Via Hard Drive Sounds
- $280 Inspiron Intel i3 15in Laptop, $100 FitDesk Under Desk Elliptical
- T-Mobile Boots Flagship HTC 10 Smartphone After Just Two Months Of Sales
- Corsair's Hydro GFX 1080 Is Part MSI, Liquid Cooled And All Badass
- NVIDIA Reports Record Earnings Of $1.43 Billion Up 24 Percent YOY With Strong Demand For Pascal
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided PC System Specs Revealed On Steam
- Facebook Retaliates After Ad Blocking Community Outsmarts Anti-Ad Blocking Code
- Oculus Rift VR Support For Minecraft On Windows 10 Arrives Next Week
- Microsoft’s First Windows 10 Redstone 2 Insider Preview Hits Fast Ring
- Microsoft Acquires Beam Interactive Livestreaming Service To Strengthen Xbox One Experience
- No Man's Sky Glitch Lets Unscrupulous Players Cheat Their Way To Riches And Victory
- Microsoft Backtracks On Draconian Skylake Support Restrictions For Windows 7 And Windows 8.1
- $125 Gift Card w/ 24in UltraSharp IPS Monitor, 40% off Black+Decker Cordless Drill Kit
- Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris Abandons Ship To Stir Creative Juices
- 100 Million Volkswagens Can Be Remotely Unlocked Via Simple Keyless Entry System Hack
- CybertronPC CLX Osiris 14 Gaming Laptop Review
- Federal Court Rejects FCC Plan To Save Municipal Broadband From Archaic State Regulations
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All News for August 2016
Cue the Imperial March, Darth Vader's theme song, because here comes the iPhone 7 dressed in "Space Black," or whatever Apple ends up calling it. And no, that's not our veiled attempt at calling Apple the Evil Empire, we're simply noting the return of an all-black handset, at least if a series of a leaked photos from...
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Here we go again folks, there's another Star Wars movie on the horizon and you better buckle up because it looks to be another action packed ride. Disney dropped its second official trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first in the Star Wars Anthology series that are to fill the gaps between the releases of...
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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months or so, you know that today marks the official PC launch of No Man’s Sky. The game launched for the PlayStation 4 on Tuesday (and has endured a few controversies along the way), but now PC gaming folks can enjoy the epic space adventure in glorious 4K...
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The lengths that researchers will go to in order to expose security weaknesses in computing technology never ceases to amaze us. The latest technological breakthrough (or security nightmare, depending on how you view it) comes to us courtesy of researchers from Cornell University, and it looks like something that...
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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 Inspiron 15 Intel Core i3-5005U-based laptop, a Vizio E40-D0 40" 1080p LED LCD Smart HDTV, an Anova Sous Vide Immersion Circulator Cooker, and more. Full details for all of...
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If you blinked you might have missed that HTC's flagship smartphone was ever available at T-Mobile. Well it was, but don't bother looking for the HTC 10 at T-Mobile at this point, because the wireless carrier served up an eviction notice to its apparently unwanted tenant and booted the smartphone from its stores just...
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There’s no question that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is a beastly graphics chip. Marco reviewed the graphics card back in mid-May and praised its stellar performance and relatively low power consumption compared to the competition. For the most part, we’ve mainly seen air-cooled versions of the GeForce GTX 1080 make...
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Life is good for NVIDIA. The GPU maker reported record revenue of $1.43 billion for the second quarter ended July 31, 2016, up an impressive 24 percent from $1.15 billion a year earlier and a gain of 9 percent sequentially from $1.30 billion in the previous quarter. After paying the bills, NVIDIA was left with a...
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Developer Eidos Montreal is putting the final touches on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided before publisher Square Enix releases the cyberpunk thriller in about a week and a half. If you're wondering whether or not your PC has the goods to run the title, minimum and recommended system specs are now on Steam, as well information about preloading the
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Facebook set off a firestorm in the ad blocking community earlier this week when it announced that it would introduce new code for its ads that would make them impervious to software blockers. To accomplish this, the social media giant altered the HTML code for its ads to make them indistinguishable from other content...
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One of the most popular games of all time is gaining support for one of the most popular virtual reality headsets of the day. We're of course talking about Minecraft and Oculus Rift, the pairing of which was scheduled to take place in a few weeks. Apparently things are ahead of schedule because one of Minecraft's...
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There was a ton of hype of anticipation leading up to the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, otherwise known as Redstone 1 and the OS's second major update since it launched in July of last year. Now it's time to look ahead to Redstone 2, one of two major updates Microsoft has planned for next year. If you want to get...
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Microsoft just acquired Seattle-based company Beam in order to enhance the Xbox One experience. Beam will enable viewers to directly participate in a live streamer's gameplay and broadcast. Matt Salsamendi, CEO and co-founder of Beam remarked, “As part of Xbox, we’ll be able to scale faster than we’ve ever been able...
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No Man’s Sky has only been out for two days on the Playstation 4 and comes out tomorrow on the PC. The developer has already released a few patches, but players are already exploiting the game’s lingering loopholes.
Gamers have found ways to quickly obtain rare items and finish the game. One player was able to...
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Microsoft set off a nuclear blast in the PC enthusiast community this past January when it announced that it would cut off support for Intel Skylake-based machines running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on July 17th, 2017. This was ostensibly a move to force more users to upgrade to Windows 10, or else face the possibility...
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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 UltraSharp U2412M 24" monitor, a Dell Latitude 13 7000 2-in-1 laptop, an Inateck 2.5" USB 3.0 HDD SATA External Enclosure, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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Another high-level executive is leaving one of Alphabet's units that operate outside of the company's main Google search business. This time it's Bill Maris, founder and chief executive officer of Google Ventures (GV), the venture capital investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding...
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If you own a Volkswagen Group vehicle that was manufactured within the last twenty years, chances are that a hacker would be able make their way into your “locked” vehicle with ease. A team of researchers from the University of Birmingham, led by Flavio Garcia, were able to clone the keyless entry codes used by...
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CybertronPC is hoping to hit a sweet spot for gamers with its new 14-inch laptop, the CLX Osiris 14. The system is light and slim for a gaming laptop, but it packs an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and Intel Skylake quad-core CPU under its hood, so this machine is clearly not messing around. The Osiris 14 is a member of CybertronPC’s CLX...
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The Federal Communications Commission led by chairman Tom Wheeler suffered a setback today in its plan to encourage and allow cities to build and expand their own broadband networks, as a federal appeals court ruled the agency didn't have the authority to block two states from setting limits on municipal broadband...
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It's still relatively early in the smart home movement that's been making headway into the mainstream market and that means there's a ton of untapped potential for creative and innovative solutions. One of them was just introduced by Logitech—it's the Pop Home Switch, or basically a programmable button that can...
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Today's a bad day security. First it was discovered that Microsoft accidentally leaked what amounts to a golden key for Secure Boot system, and now we find out there's a rather serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in all Linux systems since version 3.6 of the Linux kernel was deployed four years ago. Is...
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