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Latest News - August 2016
- Facebook Takes Human Bias Out Of Trending Topics Selection By Going Algorithmic
- Intel Aims To Snatch Apple From TSMC’s Claws To Produce A-Series Chips For 2018 iPhone 8
- Google Hires Former Airbnb Exec Shaun Stewart To Bring Self-Driving Cars To The Masses
- Sprint Ribs T-Mobile With Unlimited Freedom Premium Plan And HD Video Streaming
- Linux Celebrates Its 25th Birthday This Week
- Domino’s Gets Approval For Fresh Pizza Deliveries By Drone In New Zealand
- Custom GeForce GTX 1080 Round Up With ASUS, EVGA, And Gigabyte
- Dell XPS 8900 i7 Quad-Core Desktop For Only $685.99 And $10 Udemy Coding & Development Course Sale
- Fantom Ransomware Poses As Windows Update, Encrypts Your Files For Fun
- Apple Patent Reveals Future iPhones Could Nab Fingerprints And Photos Of Suspected Thieves
- Princeton University Researchers Unveil 25-Core Open Source Piton Processor At Hot Chips
- Google Fiber Hits Trouble Waters As Alphabet Tightens Purse Strings, Halves Staff
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update Coughs Up Blue Screen Of Death When Amazon Kindles Are Connected
- NC State University Researchers Find iOS Sandbox Profiles Are Full Of Security Flaws
- Take An Epic VR Field Trip To Mars In A School Bus Driven By Unreal Engine
- HP Sure View Displays Adopt 3M Privacy Tech To Shield Your Laptop From Nosy Onlookers
- Apple Nixes Three Critical Security And Privacy Exploits With iOS 9.3.5 Update
- Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Busts Out On Scene With 30MP Sensor, Wi-Fi, 4K Video
- $579 Dell Inspiron i7 Quad-Core Desktop With 16GB RAM, $400 eGift Card With 2016 Samsung 65" 4K UHD HDR Premium HDTV And More
- Intel Unleashes 3D NAND Onslaught With Six New SSDs For Consumer And Enterprise Markets
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All News for August 2016
Facebook has been catching heat over allegations that its news team frequently buries conservative news topics, allegations it denies. Nevertheless, the world's top social network is making some changes to its Trending topics feature that promotes certain news stories over others in an effort to make the process more...
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We learned earlier this month that Intel had purchased its very own ARM license and will soon be manufacturing ARM-based processors for third-parties. Intel, which has remarkable chip fabrication capabilities, however, won’t be producing ARM chips of its own design.
This newest development already has analysts...
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Google is really trying to get the ball -- or should we say tire -- rolling on its self-driving car project. The company just hired one of Airbnb’s top executives, Shaun Stewart. Stewart’s job will be to aid in the commercialization of Google’s self-driving car technology.
Stewart’s specialty lies in building and...
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Sprint just announced Unlimited Freedom Premium, the sister plan to their recently-launched Unlimited Freedom. The plan is targeted at customers who want to stream videos, music and games at a higher resolution. Unlimited Freedom Premium is intentionally supposed to undercut T-Mobile.
Sprint’s Unlimited Freedom...
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If you're a Linux fan, then you should know that this week is a very special one. On August 25, 1991 - 25 years ago - Linus Torvalds shot out a simple message to a Minix usergroup which stated that he was working on a Minix replacement. Within, he famously said that his creation wouldn't "be big and professional like GNU".
Not even Linus
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One day soon you may look up and say, "It's a bird...it's a plane...no, it's a pie in the sky!" That's because Domino's Pizza has partnered with Flirtey, a tech startup that specializes in delivery by drone, to launch the world's first commercial pizza-by-drone delivery program. The effort kicks off in New Zealand and...
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NVIDIA hit a lot of high notes with the Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1080. When the Founder’s Edition launched earlier this summer, it received accolades for its excellent performance, power efficiency, and host of new features. If you’d like a refresher on what’s new in NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture and see what makes the...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go, we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals to share. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell XPS 8900 Core i7-6700 based desktop system, the Amazon Fire stick, $10 Udemy Sitewide Online Courses, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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A security researcher for AVG has discovered a new piece of ransomware called Fantom that masquerades as a critical Windows update. Victims who fall for the ruse will see a Windows screen acting like it's installing the update, but what's really happening is that the user's documents and files are being encrypted in...
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Apple has filed a patent application with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) that could flip the script on iPhone and iPad thieves looking for a fast payday. What they'll get instead is a visit from local law enforcement—the patent involves taking a snapshot and capturing the fingerprint of the thief...
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Researchers at Princeton University recently showed off a 25-core processor they designed specifically for data centers. It's called "Piton," named after the metal spikes rock climbers hammer into cracks or seams of mountainsides to anchor their position, and it's built after a scalable architecture that could boost...
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When Google Fiber first launched in Kansas City back in 2012, it was hailed as a revolution in high-speed internet connectivity for consumers and businesses. Offering gigabit internet speeds for $70 per month was unheard of at the time, and Google promised to quickly spread the service across the United...
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Late last week, we reported that the Anniversary Update was causing problems for certain webcams that were otherwise working fine in Windows 10. Today, we’re learning of yet another hardware incompatibility with Windows 10, and the inconvenience to users is far greater this time around.
Customers are reporting that...
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When it comes to smartphone vulnerabilities, we’re used to hearing about Google’s Android operating system getting raked over the coals. After all, Android has 85+ percent global market share according to Gartner and is an easy target. iOS has had its fair share of security issues as well, but not to the extent that...
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Planetariums are so 2015. Framestore has created the world’s first VR field trip to Mars in a school bus powered by Unreal Engine 4. Ms. Frizzle ain’t got nothing on Framestore.
Gary Marshall, Framestore Senior Developer, remarked, “When I first heard about the project, my reaction was, ‘This is absolutely nuts’...
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Let's say you're writing a message to that fine-looking lady or fella you swiped right on in Tinder. Suddenly, your friend starts peeking at your message over your shoulder. What do you do? HP has got your back. The company’s Sure View tech, which was originally developed by 3M, shields your laptop from nosy...
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If you have an iPhone, there's a chance that nefarious parties not affiliated with Apple could be tracking you. However, Apple’s latest update, iOS 9.3.5, eliminates several critical security and privacy exploits and should [hopefully] keep you safe.
NSO Group, an Israeli startup that sells software that can track...
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Canon today is delivering a rather big update to its venerable EOS 5D professional full-frame DSLR. The original 12.8-megapixel EOS 5D was introduced in 2005, which was followed up by Mark II and Mark III updates in 2008 and 2012 respectively. Today signals the arrival of the EOS 5D Mark IV, which is just as...
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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 Lenovo Thinkpad T460, a Samsung UN65KU6500 65" 4K UHD HDR Smart HDTV, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals...
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Intel has been relatively quiet on the solid state drive (SSD) front lately, though the company has likely been devoting a lot time and resources to its upcoming 3D XPoint storage architecture. However today, the company has unleashed a flood of new SSD products that cover a broad spectrum of usage scenarios.
All...
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In the gaming industry, it's not uncommon to hear about cases where one developer clips code from another. We've even seen it happen on Steam's Greenlight service, where some smaller developers churn out a quick game and "borrow" assets from other established games. It's not often though that we hear about this kind...
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It's pretty remarkable how popular Snapchat has become. That hasn't gone unnoticed by the tech community at large—Facebook tried on at least two occasions to buy Snapchat, first for a whopping $1 billion then again for a staggering $3 billion, both which were turned down. Now Apple appears to want in on the action, though instead of making
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