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Latest News - August 2016
- Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update May Launch August 9th
- Xbox One S Teardown Reveals Microsoft's Secrets For Thinner, Cooler, Slightly More Powerful Console
- Anyone In The U.S. Can Now Buy A $3,000 HoloLens AR Headset
- NVIDIA TITAN X Review: The Pascal Beast Unleashed
- Hands-On The Samsung Galaxy Note7 With Revamped Gear VR Headset
- 200 Million Yahoo Accounts Allegedly Held Ransom For 3 Bitcoins, Roughly $1,800 US
- Instagram Creates Perfect Clone Of Snapchat’s Ephemeral ‘Stories’ Feature
- Dell Latitude 13 7000 Core M 1080p 2-In-1 Laptop Only $600, Xbox One S Releases Today
- Xbox One S Delivers 7 Percent GPU Clock Boost Over Predecessor, Some Games Benefit
- Tablet Market Plunges 12 Percent In Q2 As Consumers Seek More Productive Form-Factors
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Unveiled With Double Curved Screen And Sci-Fi Inspired Iris Scanner
- Police Unlock Murder Victim’s Samsung Galaxy S6 With Paper Printout Of Fingerprint
- Microsoft Announces Gears of War 4 eSports Pro League With $1 Million Prize Pool
- Comcast Faces $100 Million Lawsuit For Selling Near-Worthless Service Plans In Washington State
- New ‘Nexus Launcher’ Reportedly Debuting With Android 7.0 Nougat Nexus Flagships
- Huge Discount A Lifetime Subscription To TigerVPN Lite In The HotHardware Shop
- Western Digital Enriches Datacenter Storage With 10TB Capacity Gold Series Hard Drives
- No Man’s Sky Superfan Paid $1,300 For Leaked Copy, Brags With Uploaded Gameplay Videos
- AT&T And Comcast Allegedly Conspire To Derail Google Fiber Rollout In Nashville
- 500GB Samsung mSATA SSD Only $100, Oculus Rift In Stock, $279 Dell Core i3 Laptop And More
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All News for August 2016
At long last, Microsoft released its Anniversary Update for Windows 10 yesterday, though not for every platform. The long anticipated update, which is the second major one for Windows 10 since it was released a year ago (we called them Service Packs in the old days), is now available for PCs, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens, but not for Windows
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The technology teardown specialists at iFixIt wasted no times getting their eager mitts on Microsoft's brand spanking new Xbox One S console, a slimmed down version of the original with a few notable upgrades, including a GPU that's clocked around 7 percent higher. So what's it like playing a real life game of...
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Microsoft just made it easier to purchase its HoloLens Development Edition hardware if you live in the United States or Canada. There's no longer an application process or need to be invited, you can just head over to the online Microsoft Store and buy the augmented reality eyeglasses outright, though you better bring a bag of loot—it costs
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NVIDIA dropped a bomb a couple of weeks back and shocked almost everyone in the enthusiast community with the surprise announcement of the new, Pascal-based TITAN X. If you missed our original coverage, the story went something like this: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang lost a bet, and out of the blue went and gave away a few TITAN X cards at a...
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Earlier this morning, Samsung held its latest Unpacked event in New York City where it unveiled the highly anticipated Galaxy Note7 smartphone. At the event, Samsung also announced U.S. availability for the Gear 360 camera (it arrives August 19th with a price tag of $349) and a revised Gear VR headset that features...
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Surprise, surprise, Yahoo has been hacked AGAIN. This time, 200 million Yahoo accounts are supposedly being shopped around for 3 bitcoins, or roughly $1,800 USD.
A hacker known as Peace has listed the alleged credentials of Yahoo users on The Real Deal marketplace. He had been trading the data privately, but...
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Have you ever wished that Instagram was more like Snapchat? Instagram heard your deepest, darkest desire and has introduced “Stories”. This feature, “let’s you share all the moments of your day, not just the ones you want to keep on your profile.”
Instagram remarked, “Instagram has always been a place to share 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 Dell Latitude 13 7000 Intel Core M-Y71 based convertible device, an Xbox One S 2TB Launch Edition Console, a Logitech MX Master Wireless Mouse w/ Dark Field Laser, and more. Full...
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The Xbox One S officially launched today, and it’s an evolutionary upgrade for Microsoft’s current generation of consoles. The Xbox One S is 40 percent smaller than its predecessor, gains an IR blaster and includes a slightly revised wireless controller that now features built-in Bluetooth connectivity.
But what...
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Tablet PCs have been around for ages, but when Apple released its first iPad, it's as if the world suddenly realized just how useful they could be. Immediately, iPads flew off the shelves, and a countless number of competitors popped out of nowhere with their own take on things. In recent years, Microsoft has even got...
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It’s that time of the year again; time for Samsung to release the latest in its long line of Galaxy Note smartphones. The original Galaxy Note arguably created the “phablet” class of smartphones and has always been the standard-bearer for the category. Samsung is looking to prove its dominance once again with the...
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Law enforcement officials found a way to unlock a murder victim's Samsung Galaxy S6 by using specially printed copies of fingerprints on file from a previous conviction. It wasn't easy thwarting Samsung's biometric security, but with the help of Anil Jain, a professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan...
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Microsoft is putting up some big money for eSports players who plan on honing their skills in Gears of War 4 after it releases. It's getting its own Pro Circuit, Microsoft announced today, with a generous prize pool of $1 million in cash awards that can be won through marquee live open events around the world operated...
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Comcast is back in the news again. Yesterday, we reported on Comcast’s part in making it more difficult for Google to deploy its high-speed Google Fiber internet service in Nashville, and today we’re hearing that the media giant is facing a $100 million lawsuit in the state of Washington.
So what exactly did...
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A new version of Android is on the horizon, Android 7.0 otherwise deliciously known as Nougat, along with a refresh of Google's Nexus smartphone line (assuming the new phones will still carry the Nexus name) for 2016. But wait, there's more! Well, maybe. Rumor has it Google is planning to debut a fancy new Launcher...
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For the next few days, we’ve got an awesome deal running in the HotHardware Shop on a VPN suite. A lifetime subscription to TigerVPN Lite is 93% off, and available for only $49. More details on this deal are available below...
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There's an Apple parody that jokingly proclaims "Gold is best!" in reference to the gold colored iPhone handsets, but for Western Digital, gold really does represent the top of the line. WD Gold that is, a series of datacenter hard drives introduced in April that now boasts a brand new 10-terabyte capacity option...
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Is it possible to love a game too much? One reddit user may be testing the fanboy limits. Redditor daymeeuhn reportedly paid $1,300 for a leaked copy of No Man’s Sky and then bragged about it with videos of gameplay.
Daymeeuhn claims he bought the game from a seller on eBay and had it shipped via FedEx. He proved...
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If you’re a tech nerd like all of us here at HotHardware, you crave speed. Faster graphics cards, faster processors, faster SSDs, faster smartphones — you get the idea. And of course, who wouldn’t want faster internet at relatively reasonable prices? In markets around the United States where there is little to no...
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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 512GB mSATA Solid State Drive, a Dell Inspiron 15 Intel Core i3-5005u based notebook, a 12-Pack of Eneloop AAA Rechargeable Low Discharge Batteries, and more. Full details...
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If you think the 5.7-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (or the upcoming Galaxy Note 7) is about the limit of what you can handle when it comes to modern smartphones, rest assured that OEMs are content with delivering even larger devices. We’ve seen the new HP Elite X3 Windows 10 Mobile smartphone with its 5.96-inch display...
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Many customers are upset by the latest Pokémon GO update. Some ticked off redditors have reported that they have received full refunds for the purchases of the Pokémon GO app, since the game is no longer working in the manner they originally anticipated.
When the game was first released there were “footsteps” that...
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