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Latest News - August 2016
- Leaked AMD Deck Shows High Performance Vega GPU Targeted For 1H 2017
- 95% Off An Ultimate Computer Security Bundle In the HotHardware Shop
- Intel Kaby Lake 7th Gen Core Series: Higher Perf-Per-Watt, Enhanced Media Engine
- Apple Ordered To Pay $14.5 Billion In Back Taxes To Ireland By Unamused European Commission
- ASUS Launches Beastly X99-E-10G WS Motherboard With On Board 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- Apple Officially Raises The iPhone 7 Flag And Sends Out Launch Event Invitations
- Samsung Launches A Trio Of Drool-Worthy Curved Quantum Dot Monitors
- Gamers Revolt And Demand No Man's Sky Refunds Due To Bugs And Boring Game Play
- Opera Sync Users, 1.7 Million Of You, Reset Your Passwords Now, You’ve Been Hacked
- T-Mobile Amps T-Mobile One Speeds And Unlimited Data Starting September 1st
- Here Are The Tastiest Sweet Features Of Android 7.0 Nougat
- 30% Off Select Lenovo Laptops, Including The Hot Lenovo X1 Carbon
- Philips Hue Sensor Says When You Walk In You Light Up The Room
- Microsoft Rips On MacBooks In Latest Surface Pro 4 Commercial, Like A Hat For Your Cat
- Blizzard Introduces Live Facebook Streaming For Battle.net Games Like Overwatch, WoW And Hearthstone
- Thin And Light Intel Apollo Lake Notebook Designs May Do Away With Replaceable RAM
- Halo 5 Forge To Require 16GB Of RAM For 4K Game Play At 60 FPS, 12GB At 1080p
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Cashes In On A Cool $36 Million In AAPL Shares
- Dell Launches S2417DG 24-inch 165Hz G-SYNC Gaming Monitor
- Corsair Announces New LUX Mechanical Keyboard Family With Cherry MX Switches
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All News for August 2016
Over the past few months, AMD has been preoccupied with shoving its Polaris-based GPUs (GCN 4.0) out the door. Offering a 2x advantage in performance-per-watt compared to its predecessors, the Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 offer great performance at reasonable prices.
But what about the follow-up to Polaris?...
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If you're looking to bolster your security skillset, we've got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that will be of interest. An Ultimate Computer Security Bundle with certifications in CISSP, Encryption, Pentesting, and Ethical Hacking -- among others -- is currently discounted by over 95% and available for under...
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Intel 7th Gen Core Series Kaby Lake WaferIntel is readying a new family of processors based on its next-gen Kaby Lake microarchitecture. We’ve heard quite a bit about Kaby Lake over the last few months, and were even able to show you it in action last week while covering IDF, but today we’ve got many more details to...
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Apple’s longstanding beef in the European Union over allegations of tax dodging has finally come to a dramatic end (pending an appeal, of course). In essence, Apple simply delayed the inevitable, as the European Commission is ordering that the American tech giant repay 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in back taxes to...
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It's kind of surprising that even in 2016, 10Gbps Ethernet is uncommon in the home. Over the past decade, every component in our PC has gotten faster: CPUs, GPUs, storage, USB, and even memory. But Ethernet? The vast majority of us are still rocking 1Gbps connections - a little disappointing when even a modest...
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It’s not “May the 4th be with you” but Apple exclaims that they will “See you on the 7th.” There will be an Apple event on Wednesday, September 7th at 10:00 AM at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California, in which it is widely expected that Apple will announce the new iPhone 7.
The iPhone 7 and...
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IFA 2016 does not start until September 1st, but the announcements are already rolling in. Samsung will be releasing the CFG70 and CF791-- the world’s first curved quantum dot gaming monitors. The CFG70 will be available in 24-inch and 27-inch models while the CF791 will come in at a an expansive 34-inches.
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If you're not having fun playing No Man's Sky or are tired of contending with the bugs, you may be able to get your money back. Some gamers are reporting that they've been able to successfully receive a refund for No Man's Sky through Valve's Steam platform even if they've played the game for more than two hours...
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Data breaches happen all too frequently to companies both big and small. The latest victim is Opera Software, the Scandinavian outfit behind the Opera browser that's especially popular on mobile devices. Opera's security team said it detected signs of a attack on its sync system, and though the hack was quickly...
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T-Mobile earlier this month dealt what it hoped would be a major blow to Verizon and AT&T, the two top dogs in wireless, by eliminating data plans altogether and introducing T-Mobile One, an unlimited everything plan for one low monthly price. It generated a lot of buzz, and now T-Mobile is amping things up with...
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Forget the Rock, can you smell what Google is cooking? It's Android 7.0, otherwise deliciously known as Nougat, the next major version of its open-source mobile operating system. Nougat is set to arrive with LG's forthcoming V20 phone, and as with past releases, it will trickle out to more devices, both old and new as carriers get around to
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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 an array of Lenovo notebooks, including the ThinkPad T460p with and Intel Core i5-6440HQ processor and the X1 Carbon. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For...
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Some people have the ability to light up a room just by their very presence. So can you, says Philips, when you use its Hue gen 2 app for iOS and Android. The new generation app for the company's smart lighting system gives you better control over your home illumination along with some intuitive ways of brightening up...
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Shots fired, shots fired! Microsoft took aim at Apple in a new advertisement with a snarky jingle highlighting ways in which its Surface Pro 4 tablet is better than a MacBook, the latter of which is "less useful like a hat for your cat." It's the latest in a long line of Mac versus PC commercials where Apple and...
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Blizzard Introduces Live Facebook Streaming For Battle.net Games Like Overwatch, WoW And Hearthstone
Streaming is big business, and almost every developer and gamer wants in. For gamers, this couldn't be more true than with Blizzard's portfolio of games. Games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch are full of moments well-worth streaming, so in the latest version of Blizzard's own game client the company has built new...
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Notebook makers have answered the call for increasing thin and light solutions, but at what cost? The quest for even thinner waistlines and lighter profiles has been met with sacrifices, such as the demise of the removable battery (there are exceptions, though comparatively few). That's just the start of...
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Developer 343 Industries is wrapping up work on Halo 5: Forge, the free version of Halo 5's map editing tool that's scheduled to release for Windows 10 next month. If you're planning on using it to build maps and play custom games on your PC, you'll need to bring some relatively high end hardware to the party...
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Ah, to be the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation, wouldn't that be the life? Oh sure, there are daily stressors that come with the territory, but so does a lopsided compensation package. Apple CEO Tim Cook knows this better than most. As part of a predetermined plan, Cook last week sold a chunk of Apple shares...
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If refresh rate matters a lot to you in gaming, then you might want to pay attention to the brand-new S2417DG from Dell: a monitor spec'd at 165Hz. Well, as long as you're willing to cough up for a graphics card that can reliably deliver 165 FPS in your games!
As its model name suggests, the S2417DG is a 24-inch monitor, so for many, that
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Can you remember a time when Corsair didn't make gaming keyboards? In recent years, it's almost hard to, as the company has released a countless number of models and has become a vendor known for quality design. That's important, as when these peripherals cost $100 or more, it's nice to know that they'll...
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A team of smartypants from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labl (CSAIL) have developed a new Wi-Fi system purportedly capable of transmitting wireless data more than three times faster than the Wi-Fi we use today. And on top of being significantly faster, it doubles the range of modern day Wi-Fi...
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Earlier this week, WhatsApp made the surprising move to begin sharing user information with its parent company, Facebook. WhatsApp's original stated goal was to know “as little about you as possible”, but that mantra seems to have been thrown out the window in an effort to further increases Facebook’s booming mobile...
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