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Latest News - August 2016
- Facebook Declares War On Misleading Clickbait Articles In Your News Feed
- Comcast Lobbies To Charge Customers More To Protect Their Online Privacy
- Two And A Half Geeks 8/4/16: NVIDIA Titan X, Radeon RX 470, Alienware Aurora R5, Samsung Galaxy Note7, And More
- New iPhone 7 Plus Mockup Has Us Singing The Blues In More Ways Than One
- MIT’s Interactive Video Tech Could Make Pokemon GO More Immersive And Touchy-Feely
- $700 Off LG's 55" OLED 4K TV, $340 Apple iPad Air 2 4G And More
- LG V20 Android Nougat Flagship Makes San Francisco Debut September 6th
- Big Discount On Microsoft MCSA Server 2012 Certification & Cloud Computing e-Leaning Bundle
- Nintendo NX Graphics Performance To Reportedly Land Somewhere Between PS3 And PS4
- Skype Helps You Live Long And Prosper With Spock, StubHub, IFTTT AI Chatbots
- Intel-Backed Basis Peak Fitness Watch Recalled For Causing Blistering Burns
- Windows 10 Free Upgrades Still Working For Those With Valid Windows 7/8 Licenses
- Facebook Opens Area 404 Hardware Lab For Prototyping Drones, Oculus VR Tech
- AMD Radeon RX 470 Review: Polaris Gets Even More Affordable
- Hackers Reportedly Pilfer $72 Million In Bitcoins From Hong Kong’s Bitfenix Exchange
- Pokemon Go Creator Niantic Hit With $5 Million Class Action Lawsuit Over Player Trespassing
- Your Smartphone Battery Could Fingerprint Your Online Identity, Compromise Privacy
- Linux Users Reporting Windows 10 Anniversary Update Hoses Their Dual Boot Partitions
- $579 Dell Inspiron i7 Quad Desktop With 16GB RAM, $28 Wireless AC750 Range Extender, And More
- Revisit Nintendo’s Gaming Past With 13 Years Of ‘Nintendo Power’ Courtesy Of Archive.org
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All News for August 2016
When Facebook said this about clickbait....I WAS SHOCKED! But for real; Facebook recently announced that is attempting to cut down on the amount of clickbait that appears in user’s News Feeds. Facebook users complained about clickbait….AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
The website states that “our goal with...
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Internet providers are still hashing out issues with the FCC. In particular, Comcast is currently defend its “pay-for-privacy” model to the FCC [PDF]. Comcast has even contended that “the FCC has no authority to prohibit or limit these types of programs.”
So what exactly is the “pay-for-privacy” system?...
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Welcome back for the latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast. This week Dave, Marco, and Chris discuss the monstrous NVIDIA TITAN X, AMD's just-launched Radeon RX 470, the Alienware Aurora R5 gaming system, Samsung's Galaxy Note7, the Moto Z and its companion Moto Mods and More!
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It’s getting close to that time again — the time every year when Apple releases a new generation of iPhones. Last year, we were introduced to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus — both of which were supercharged versions of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s Plus that came before them.
This time around, Apple will present the...
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If augmented reality was an unknown to the world last month, it certainly isn't now, thanks to the insane popularity of Pokemon GO. That game has been responsible for opening many eyes to AR, and now, we've been seeing many comments floating about of how AR could prove more successful than VR. That's hard to argue...
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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 LG 55EF9500 55" 4K UHD 3D OLED Smart HDTV, an Apple iPad Air 2, a Dell XPS 8900 Intel Core i7-6700 based desktop system, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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LG spilled the beans earlier this week that there would indeed be a follow-up to 2015’s quirky V10 smartphone. The LG V20 will actually be the first smartphone to ship with Android 7.0 Nougat, which would give it bragging rights over Google’s incoming 2016 Nexus flagships.
At the time, LG said that the V20 would...
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If you’re looking to bolster your IT skills, get MCSA certified, and dig into cloud computing platforms, we’ve got a deal in the HotHardware Shop that will be of interest. A Microsoft MCSA Server 2012 Certification & Cloud Computing e-Leaning Bundle is currently 92% off and available for under 50...
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Nintendo needs another hardware success like the original Wii console and it's hoping its forthcoming NX console will fit the bill. Until it releases in March of next year, all we can do is speculate based on what little information Nintendo is willing to share at this point and the many rumors and supposedly leaked...
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Microsoft's been on a mission to bring a series of artificially intelligent chatbots to its Skype service as a way to enhance Skype and offer new experiences. That effort continues today with the introduction several more Skype Bots, including Spock, who can help you learn the ways of Vulcan logic (or provide a...
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Intel has issued a voluntary but important safety recall on all Basis Peak watches. It issued the recall after fielding reports of the handy accessory overheating, which Intel says can result in burns or blisters on the skin. Intel says it's important that owners of any Basis Peak watch stop using it immediately and...
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Microsoft made a huge fuss about getting customers to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.x to Windows 10 — all free of charge of course. The last day to perform the free upgrade was July 29th, and in the weeks leading up to that deadline, Microsoft employed some questionable tactics to get users to bite.
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Engineers working on different projects at Facebook now have a common meeting ground where they can share and exchange ideas, offer each other input, and learn from one another. It's called Area 404, a 22,000-square foot lab located in Facebook's Menlo Park office. It's outfitted with state-of-the-art machine tools...
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AMD has released virtually all of the Radeon RX 470's pertinent details over the last few weeks. If you've been paying attention to the graphics space lately, there's a good chance you're already familiar with the Radeon RX 470's GPU configuration, specifications, pricing, and expected performance levels. Today though, we're able put the final...
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Bitcoin investors, beware! $72 million USD worth of bitcoin was recently stolen from Hong Kong’s Bitfenix exchange. All trading within the company, including all digital token deposits to and withdrawals from Bitfinex, have been stopped until the culprits are caught.
Bitfenix is a trading platform for bitcoin...
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Many people in the last few weeks have grumbled about Pokémon GO players trespassing on private property. One of these grumblers is now taking Niantic to court. Plaintiff Jeffrey Marder of West Orange, New Jersey is filing a $5 million USD class action lawsuit against Niantic.
Marder noted that within the first...
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As if we needed another vector for our online privacy to be invaded, it appears that site operators may have another tool at their disposal when it comes tracking visitors. Security researchers from Princeton University have identified two scripts that are actively tracking users across the web using an HTML5...
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If you're a Linux user who happens to dual-boot with Windows, you should exercise extreme caution when upgrading to the just-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Not long after Microsoft's latest release, reports began to hit the Web concerning issues of hard drives having their data deleted. The issue has proven...
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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 based desktop system, a Samsung PM851 512GB mSATA SSD, a TP-Link RE200 AC750 Dual Band 802.11ac Wi-Fi Range Extender, and more. Full details...
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The Internet Archive is at it again. The non-profit continually tugs at our heart strings by freely making available Classic Apple II apps, thousands of classic MS-DOS titles, retro PC malware programs, and hordes of other media content from the past. This week, however, the Internet Archive is delivering a special...
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One of the worst sounds in the world is that awful grinding noise associated with a failing hard drive, followed by a series of clicks. It typically indicates HDD failure is imminent and that you better backup your important data, if it's not too late already. Hey, it happens, but is bum luck solely to blame? Maybe...
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It’s a great time to be a console gamer. There are plenty of hot titles that have recently been released or are on the horizon, Microsoft just rolled out its Xbox One S, Sony will soon be dropping the PlayStation 4 Neo, and virtual reality is coming to current generation Sony consoles via the PlayStation...
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