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Latest News - August 2016
- HP's Cheap And Colorful Stream Windows 10 Notebooks Are Perfect Foils For Chromebooks
- Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Golden Key To Windows Secure Boot Fortress Of Solitude, Damage Likely Irreversible
- Huge 93% Discount On Complete C Programming Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- GoPro’s Six-Camera Omni Virtual Reality Rig Goes On Sale August 17th
- Mainstream Apple iPhone SE Becomes A Big Hit In The U.S. And Europe
- President Obama Can Now Receive Your Gratitude or Grievances Via Facebook Messenger
- $579 Inspiron Intel i7 Quad-Core Desktop, $400 GC w/ Samsung 65" 4k UHD HDTV & More
- Microsoft Reportedly Developing Three Surface All-in-Ones With Optional 4K Displays
- LG V20 Leaked Renders Showcase Dual Cameras, USB-C Port, Potential Modular Design
- Nintendo Classic Edition Console To Feature Retro CRT And Modern ‘Pixel Perfect’ Modes
- ElGato Ransomware Claws At Android Devices, Steals SMS Messages
- Intel Sharpens AI Skills With $400 Million Purchase Of Nervana Deep Learning Startup
- Quake Champions Calls Out The PC Master Race, Console Peasants Need Not Apply
- Apple Finally Plans Major Overhaul Of MacBook Pro Featuring OLED Touch Panel, Touch ID Power Button
- Google Chrome 53 To Choke Out Adobe Flash, Chrome 55 Will Default To HTML5 By Year’s End
- FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Internet Privacy Should Not Become A Luxury
- Samsung Pay Susceptible To Credit Card Skimming, Although Attacks Are 'Highly Unlikely'
- AT&T Hit With $7.8 Million FCC Fine For Complicity In Directory Assistance Billing Scam
- $175 Gift Card w/ Samsung 50" 4K UHD HDTV, $30 32GB Flash Drive for iPhones
- Seagate Goes For Gold With 60TB SAS SSD Prototype At Flash Memory Summit
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All News for August 2016
Google may be lighting up the education market with Chromebooks, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft and its partners from introducing low-cost Windows-based devices in response. This time around, Hewlett-Packard is hoping to raise a few eyebrows with its revamped “Stream” PC lineup.
The new Stream family consists of...
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Someone at Microsoft is having one of those Southwest moments where the airlines asks, "Want to get away?" That's because someone at the Redmond outfit leaked a security key that could allow attackers to bypass the protections in Windows devices that are put in place through Secure Boot. Worse yet, now that the...
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Do you want to learn to code? If so, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that may be right for you. A Complete C Programming Bundle is currently discounted by 94% and available for under 45 dollars...
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C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language that is ideal for...
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If you are interested in creating 360° VR content, then perk up your ears. GoPro’s Six Camera Omni will be available for sale on August 17th for $5,000 USD.
The Omni is a six-camera rig that relies upon pixel-level synchronization. This synchronization allows the six cameras to act as one. If the user adjusts...
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Apple introduced its mainstream iPhone SE earlier this year to fill a sizable gap in its smartphone lineup. Priced from $399, the iPhone SE crams in the brainpower from the iPhone 6s (Apple A9 processor, M9 motion processor) into the body of the iPhone 5s. Given that the iPhone 6s starts at $649, the iPhone SE...
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Do you have something that you need to say to Mr. President? Is your preferred method of communications social media? Well, now you can message President Obama via Facebook.
Reading letters from the public has been a tradition since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln actually held regular office hours in...
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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 3650 Intel Core i7-6700 desktop, a Samsung UN65KU6300F 65" 4K UHD Smart HDTV, a Brother MFCL2700DW multifunction printer, and more. Full details for all of today’s...
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Back in early July we first began hearing rumors that Microsoft was making plans to add an all-in-one (AIO) PC to its Surface family. Microsoft has given us multiple generations of Surface and Surface Pro tablets along with the innovative Surface Book, so an AIO would be a welcome addition.
Today, Windows Central...
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LG is getting ready to release it's V20 smartphone, a follow-up to the funky V10 device and the first handset on the planet to come sweetened with Android 7.0 Nougat. There's been plenty of leaked information ahead of the phone's planned September 6 unveiling, and now the first batch of renders has started making the...
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Nintendo's pulling out all the stops with its NES Classic Edition console, especially in regards to how the more than two dozen baked in retro titles will look on your big screen TV. Utilizing your HDMI input, you'll have a standard HD-resolution gaming experience if that's what you're after, but the console will also...
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Go ahead and cue up Cartman's "No kitty, that's a bad kitty!" soundbite, only this time it's not in reference to stealing those delicious Cheesy Poofs. McAfee's mobile malware research division found a sample of ransomware for Android that it's calling "ElGato," and once infected, it can steal a user's SMS messages...
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Intel, the world's largest producer of semiconductors, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nervana Systems, a deep learning startup founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California. The move buy the startup is in recognition of the growing role artificial intelligence will play in everyday...
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Quake Champions was announced back in early June to much fanfare. The game, which is PC-only, is being billed as the ultimate eSports showcase for FPS gamers. However, the PC-only approach to the development of the game is sure to be a bummer for console gamers that have become accustomed to having access to hit PC...
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The MacBook Pro is long overdue for a major refresh, having not received one in over four years, and rumor has it Apple's planning some big changes. One of those changes is the addition of a secondary Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) display nestled above the keyboard in place of the standard row of Function...
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The complete eradication of Adobe Flash from the face of the internet can’t come soon enough. Browser manufacturers and many websites are doing everything in their power to send Flash packing as quickly as possible.
Google today gave an update on the state of Flash depreciation in its popular Chrome browser...
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Should privacy on the internet come at a premium? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler does not think so. Wheeler has been battling ISP’s in order to guarantee that all internet customers have an equal amount of privacy. He remarked, “I would hope that privacy doesn't become a luxury item”.
This comment is an obvious snub to...
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Many have touted mobile payments and digital wallets like Apple Pay and Android Pay as being more secure and convenient than regular plastic credit cards. It turns out these mobile methods can be just as vulnerable to scams as more traditional payment methods. In fact, Samsung recently confirmed that Samsung Pay is...
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AT&T and the FCC are butting heads, but for once, it is not over net neutrality. AT&T has been fined $7.75 million USD for indirectly participating in a directory assistance billing scam. Affected customers are expected to receive $6.8 million of these funds while the remaining $950,000 is a fine that will go to 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 a Samsung UN50KU6300 50” UHDTV, a Dell XPS 8900 Intel Core i7-6700 desktop, a SanDisk 32GB iXpand Flash Drive, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below...
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If you thought that Samsung’s monstrous 15.3TB PM1633a SAS solid-state drive (SSD) was impressive, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Seagate strutted into the Flash Memory Summit this week touting a new SAS SSD that offers four times the storage capacity of the PM1633a — that’s right, this new enterprise-class SSD has a...
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In the latest episode of what's become an ongoing Silk Road soap opera, the U.S. Marshals Service announced this week that it plans to auction more than 2,700 Bitcoins that were confiscated as a result of several investigations tied to the illegal marketplace. All tallied, the Bitcoins are worth in the neighborhood of...
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As much as we like piecing together formidable desktop systems crammed full of high end hardware, the future of PC gaming for many mainstream users may lie in more compact setups. Certainly there's been a push to get PC players out of a dank basement and into the living room with Steam Machines and similar...
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