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- Motorola Moto Z3 Breaks Out From The Android Pack With Bleeding-Edge 5G Moto Mod
- This 32-Inch Dell IPS Display For Only $155 Is A Seriously Good Deal
- Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Trainers To Coach Kids Into Battle Royale Killing Machines
- 2.5 Geeks 8/1/18: Samsung HDR Gaming, Lenovo Smart Display, AMD B450 Boards, NVIDIA GeForce Gamescoms, Amiga Revived!
- Microsoft Surface Go Now Available And First Impressions Are Looking Great
- NVIDIA G-SYNC And What To Look For In Next-Generation HDR Gaming Monitors
- eTailer Claims AMD Ryzen Has Hit Desktop CPU Sales Parity With Intel
- NAND Flash Memory Pricing Nosedive Means Cheap, Large Capacity SSDs Are Coming For Everyone
- Alleged NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1180 Turing Reference PCB Leaks Ahead Of Launch
- Next-Gen iPad Pro’s Slim Bezel Design Confirmed By Hidden iOS 12 Icon
- Nintendo NES Classic Dominates PS4 And Xbox One With Skyrocketing Monthly Console Unit Sales
- Samsung's Galaxy Tab A 10.5 Promises Multimedia Thrills With A Budget Friendly Price
- Apple Must Pay $145.1 Million In Damages For Infringing On WiLan Patents
- Reddit Reveals Hackers Compromised User Data, How To See If You're Affected
- RED Hydrogen One Holographic Phone Hits The FCC Ahead Of AT&T, Verizon Launch
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Android Oreo Tablet Launches With DeX Support For Desktop-Class Productivity
- MSI Confirms 8-Core Intel Coffee Lake Support For Z370 Motherboards Via BIOS Update
- Turing's HubblePhone Dual Screen 5G Smartphone Concept Is A Gorgeous Snapdragon 855-Powered Pipe-Dream
- Spectrum Accused Of Throttling Netflix And Online Games In What Essentially Amounts To Extortion
- Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium Now Shipping With 5.8-inch 4K HDR Display And $1,000 Price Tag
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All News for August 2018
Back in late June, we were alerted to a new product announcement on tap for August 2nd from Motorola. Luckily for us, we're here live in Chicago at Motorola HQ today to see what the company has in store for consumers, and it's quite interesting.
The company launched the all-new Moto Z3, which serves as the follow-up...
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Are you looking to upgrade your monitor to something big, but don't want to spend a fortune? Well, good news. If you head over to Woot, you can score a Dell 31.5-inch display (model D3218HN) for $154.99 right now. The only real caveat is that it is factory reconditioned, not brand new. However, Dell backs the display...
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Traditionally, kids are expected to play sports like baseball, football, basketball, or other sports of the type you learn in school growing up. In modern times, however, kids and adults alike are playing a lot of video games, and the eSports arena can be as competitive and even more popular that traditional sports...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks podcast, Marco, Chris and Dave will be chatting about a hot, new Samsung HDR Curved Gaming Monitor, Lenovo's Google Assistant-powered Smart Display, SanDisk's Extreme Portable USBC SSDs, Commodore's Beloved Amiga is being reborn, and NVIDIA has something special up...
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Microsoft's smaller, more affordable Surface tablet is now shipping to customers. Unveiled earlier this month, the Surface Go is a 10-inch tablet that weighs a scant 1.15 pounds, making it the smallest and lightest Surface to date. Best of all, it won't smack you in the wallet or purse—pricing starts at a reasonable...
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HDR -- you’ve undoubtedly seen the three letters stamped on the box of the latest 4K monitors and TVs while passing by them in the store, and while it is still relatively new HDR (High-Dynamic Range) technology is, without question, changing the way in which our senses take in next-gen entertainment. NVIDIA is at the...
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We always look forward to CPU sales reports from Mindfactory, because it's not often that a retailer takes the time to breakdown sales numbers for individual processors for us all to disseminate. AMD's second-generation Ryzen 2000 series processors have been on the market for a few months now and we're starting to see...
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Your next solid state drive (SSD) upgrade might offer more storage for your dollar than any previous SSD purchase. DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, forecasts that the average selling price of NAND flash memory chips will drop 10 percent sequentially in the third and fourth quarters of this year, despite Q3...
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Psst! Do you want to see a naked picture? It is really sexy, though there is a caveat—we are not sure if it is real. You can't trust anything on the Internet, as you are aware, so for all we know these naked pics are fakes, Photoshops, spoofs. But maybe they are real? If so, then here is your first look at an...
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We're getting our first look at Apple's next-generation iPad Pro, and surprisingly, it's not coming from a supply chain leak. Instead, it's Apple that has leaked the details courtesy of the newly-released iOS 12 Beta 5.
As was the case last year when a glyph of the iPhone X confirmed the shape of the device before...
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Much to the dismay of gamers, new and old, Nintendo abruptly stopped production of its wildly popular NES Classic Edition console last year before it had a chance to satiate demand. It was an unpopular decision, one that Nintendo rectified when it brought the throwback console back to life this past June. Nintendo...
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Samsung unveiled the high-end Galaxy Tab S4 yesterday and with all the fancy hardware inside that tablet, the price came in at a steep $650 to $750. That is certainly a bit much for many people looking for a new tablet, but Samsung also rolled out the Galaxy Tab A 10.5-inch tablet with much less fanfare and a...
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Apple has lost an ongoing patent battle against a Canadian patent holding firm called WiLan. WiLan proudly announced that it won a judgement against Apple to the tune of $145.1 million after it was found that the company's iPhone family infringed upon a pair of patents. That is most certainly a fraction of a drop in...
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Reddit has announced that it suffered a security breach between June 14 and June 18 of this year. The website learned of the hack on June 19 and says that an attacker was able to compromise the accounts of a few Reddit employees along with Reddit's cloud and source code hosting providers. The main attack was...
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What at one timed seemed to many like vaporware to many is finally coming closer to release. RED's Hydrogen One holographic smartphone just gained approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which paves the way for it to be sold in the United States.
Some additional details about the phone were gleaned...
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After a few leaks regarding its impending arrival, Samsung has officially unveiled its Galaxy Tab S4, its latest take on a "premium" Android tablet. A few years ago, Android tablets seemed to be all the rage, but they have seemingly fallen out of favor in recent years (Google has abandoned its own fist-party hardware...
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Late last week, we came across an ASRock motherboard box shot that alleged Intel's H310 Express chipset will have support for upcoming 9th generation Core Coffee Lake Refresh processors. Today, MSI is providing evidence that the Intel Z370 chipset will also support the new CPUs.
Confirmation of the support came...
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A company called Turing (not to be confused with the rumored name of NVIDIA's next-generation consumer GPU) is taking the concept of a dual-screen smartphone the next level. Turing introduced the HubblePhone, a futuristic device that it is aiming to release in a couple of years. To Turing's credit, the HubblePhone...
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Charter is not making many friends in high places in New York. Just the opposite, the New York State Public Service Commission announced it has revoked its approval of a 2016 merger between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable (TWC) due to Charter, doing business as Spectrum, wavering on promises it made...
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Sony has begun shipping a new flagship phone, the Xperia XZ2 Premium, though you better be ready to spend some big bucks if you want to bring one home. The handsets costs $999.99 (let's just call it a grand), and there is no cheaper option. There also is not a more expensive option—it is available in a single...
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AAPL is heading towards new highs after Apple posted strong earnings for fiscal Q3 2018. Revenue jumped 17 percent year-over-year to $53.3 billion while earnings per diluted share increased 40 percent to $2.34. The company's net income for the quarter came in at $11.5 billion.
During the quarter, Apple shipped 41.3...
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If past leaks are any indication, Intel is getting ready to launch a handful of 9th generation Core processors, essentially a refresh of Coffee Lake, including one or two 8-core CPUs. To go along with the new chips, Intel is also prepping a Z390 Express chipset. When will it all come out? A newly leaked roadmap points...
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