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Latest News - August 2016
- Hackers Infiltrate Oracle MICROS Point-of-Sale Division, 333,000 Cash Registers At Risk
- Facebook Sticks Up Middle Digit To Ad Blockers And Will Circumvent Them
- Pokemon Go Battery Saving Feature Returns As Niantic Tests New Tracking Mode
- Over 10,000 Classic Amiga Games And Applications Available To Play Online Courtesy Of Internet Archive
- 2TB Xbox One S Supplies Are Dwindling And SKU Won’t Be Restocked
- Monster 85% Discount On AWS Mastery Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- More Powerful PlayStation 4 Neo Tipped For September 7th Unveil In New York
- Research Suggests Gamers Get Better Grades, While Social Sites Rot Your Brain
- Linux Kernel 4.8 Release Enables NVIDIA's Pascal, Raspberry Pi 3 And AMD GPU Overclocking
- Hulu Says Farewell To Its Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Service
- Massive No Man’s Sky Day-One Patch Is A Proverbial Game Changer
- Samsung Hints That Galaxy S8 Might Only Come With Curved Edge Display
- Walmart Purchases Jet.com For $3 Billion In An Effort To Catch Nimble Amazon
- Apple Watch 2 Reportedly Keeps Same Form-Factor, Adds GPS And Larger Battery
- iPhone 7 Rumored With Haptic Feedback Home Button, Low-Light Conquering Dual Cameras
- QuadRooter Security Vulnerability Lays Treacherous Trap For 900 Million Qualcomm-Based Android Devices
- AMD Radeon RX 460 Review: Polaris On A Budget
- Google Self-Driving Car Director Chris Urmson Hits Exit Ramp To Pursue Other Projects
- World's First Public Website Went Online 25 Years Ago
- IBM's Powerful Watson AI Sniffs Out Rare Form Of Leukemia In Japanese Patient
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All News for August 2016
MICROS, one of the largest point-of-sale payment systems in the world, has been hacked by a Russian organized cybercrime group with a history of hacking into banks and retailers. The full extent of the security breach is still being evaluated, but given the size and scope of MICROS, this could turn out to be another...
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It’s on now. The battle between websites and users that block online advertising is about to come to a head, and we’ll have Facebook to thank for it. Browser users that surf with ad blockers enabled often see polite messages on certain websites asking them to turn off the functionality, as it robs content providers of...
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There's a new update available for Pokemon Go and because Niantic seems to have learned its lesson about not communicating with gamers, the release notes reveal a list of feature updates that go way above and beyond "minor text fixes," the sole description in one of Pokemon Go's earlier updates. Among the various...
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If you've been feeling nostalgic lately, the Internet Archive has your fix. Jason Scott, the tireless archivist that's fleshed out the site with thousands of classic titles for MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Sega Genesis, Atari 7800, and other dated platforms, all neatly wrapped in emulation, has added more than 10,000 Amiga...
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The $299 2TB Xbox One S was the first SKU made available for Microsoft’s refreshed console, and it remains the only console that you can actually get your hands on at this moment. The 500GB and 1TB SKUs are available for pre-order right now, but won’t arrive in stores until August 23rd.
We always knew that the 2TB...
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If you’re looking to improve your IT skill set and learn the ins and outs of Amazon Web Services, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that will be on interest. A Developer's AWS Mastery Bundle is currently 85% off and available for under 30 bucks...
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Microsoft has had its time to shine in the spotlight with the release of its 40 percent smaller Xbox One S, and next month will be Sony’s time to capture the attention of both the press and gamers. According to VICE Gaming, the upcoming PlayStation 4 refresh will be unveiled on September 7th.
The console, which we...
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It might seem counterintuitive, but new research hailing from Australia is suggesting that teenagers who play video gamers actually score higher on academic tests than their non-gamer counterparts. The data was compiled from over 12,000 Australian high schoolers that took the 2012 Program for International Student...
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The first release candidate of the 4.8 Linux kernel has just been unleashed, which means its stable release is not too far behind. This particular version packs a serious wallop, so let's dive right in.
For starters, there's some serious graphics love in 4.8, which includes initial NVIDIA Pascal support. That...
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If you’re the kind of person that loves streaming movies and televisions shows and doesn’t mind putting up with ads in order to keep the service completely free, then we’ve got some interesting news for you. Hulu announced today that it is killing off its free, ad-supported streaming service in favor of a...
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No Man's Sky by Hello Games is one of the most hotly anticipated titles in recent memory, let alone of 2016. One eager fanatic even paid more than $1,300 for an early copy then proceeded to post lengthy gameplay videos online, videos filled with spoilers. How do you combat this if you're the developer? By releasing a...
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In what cold be classified as a bold move, Samsung is considering only releasing a version of its next generation flagship Galaxy device—presumably the Galaxy S8—with a curved edge display. That means there would be just a single SKU rather than two separate versions of the same flagship, one with a regular display...
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In many ways Walmart is the offline version of Amazon, the one-stop shop for everyone from car parts and baby diapers to groceries and toothpaste. Now in an effort to significantly bolster its online presence and become Amazon's primary web competitor, Walmart has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire...
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The next version of the Apple Watch isn't likely to look much different than Apple's first generation wrist wearable device, though it will boast some fancy (and requested) new features, the biggest of which is GPS tracking, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted in a research note to investors over the...
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The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be revealed for all in roughly a month, but details on Apple’s next generation flagships continue to leak at a furious pace. Last week, we saw the iPhone 7 Plus in a stunning shade of blue via a prototype mockup.
Today, the always reliable Mark Gurman is shedding some more light...
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Check Point, the company that's perhaps best known for its ZoneAlarm security software, found four vulnerabilities that put at risk most Android smartphones tablets. Collectively called QuadRooter, Check Point's mobile research team says the set of vulnerabilities affects Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets, of...
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AMD and NVIDIA have been launching graphics cards at a rapid clip this summer. In the last three months or so, about ten new desktop GPUs have been launched or announced, targeting virtually all market segments. Thanks to new architectures and more advanced manufacturing processes, this latest generation of GPUs offer far better performance...
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When it comes to fully autonomous vehicles, no other company comes close to Google’s prowess or its commendable safety record (after millions of miles of driving, only one accident has been proven to be the fault of a Google car, and even that was a relatively minor incident). Unfortunately for Google, it has lost a...
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Everyone has birthdays and anniversaries, but not everyone considers them to be that significant. However, an occasion that is hard to argue as being anything but notable is the anniversary of the first webpage going live on the World Wide Web (remember when we used to call it that?). This weekend marks the 25th year for the first publicly-accessible
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We've long been promised that computers will be able to make us healthier, which of course includes being able to detect and fight cancers. Now, we see a real-life example of that happening, and thanks is owed to IBM's powerful Watson supercomputer.
When a Japanese patient had some form of leukemia that doctors...
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In the broadband-testing world, Ookla's Speedtest dominates with copious amounts of useful data being compiled every day. According to its latest US broadband report, the company says that there are a staggering 8 million tests conducted worldwide each and every day. Those numbers mean one thing: we can get a very...
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Pikachu's have been prohibited; Bulbasaurs have been banned; Charmanders are nowhere to be found in Iran. All poetry aside, authorities in Iran have banned Pokémon GO due to unspecified “security concerns”. The ban has been issued by the High Council of Virtual Spaces which oversees all online activity.
However...
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