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Latest News - September 2016
- HP Wants To Disrupt Copier Industry With $1 Billion Purchase Of Samsung Printer Division
- Lumia 950 XL Windows 10 Mobile Flagship Production Allegedly Ends Ahead Of Surface Phone Unveil
- Save 50% On NordVPN, Discounts On Dell Inspiron 15, And More
- Blizzard Announces Overwatch PC High-Bandwidth Update To Improve Network Timing And Gameplay
- Amazon, Pandora To Launch $5 Subscription Music Services In Coming Weeks
- Microsoft Preps Battlefield 1 Storm Grey And Military Green Xbox One S Bundles
- Two Israeli Teens Face FBI Justice For vDOS Global DDoS Operation
- Boston Dynamics Atlas Humanoid Robot Balances On One Foot, Skips Hokey Pokey
- Tesla Autopilot 8.0 Gains Radar-Centric Safety Upgrade
- Samsung Could Reportedly Remote Brick Your Defective Galaxy Note 7 If You Fail To Decommission It
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Reportedly Explodes In Brooklyn Boy's Hands Injuring Him
- Samsung Said To Be Eying AMD, NVIDIA GPU Tech For Future Exynos Mobile Processors
- Microsoft Rumored To Kill Lumia Windows 10 Mobile Smartphone Family By Year's End
- Amazon Expands US Pop-Up Stores To Highlight Red Hot Echo, Alexa
- Intel 7nm Chip Production Allegedly Slated For 2022 Debut Highlighted In Job Listing
- Vicious USB Kill Drive Slaughters Any PC You Plug It Into In Seconds
- Apple Car Rumored Mothballed As Program Hits Reboot For Self-Driving Software
- Update: Samsung And CPSC Both Urge Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Stop Using Devices Immediately
- Facebook's AI-Backed Trending News Feed Propagates 9/11 Hoax Stories
- Star Trek ComBadge Replica Gives One-Touch Access To Cortana, Siri, Google Now
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All News for September 2016
HP just made a rather large acquisition -- the company announced that it is purchasing Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion. The agreement was presented at Samsung Electronics’ Board of Directors meeting in Seoul, South Korea.
Dion Weisler, president and CEO of HP, remarked, “When we became a separate...
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Yesterday, we reported that Microsoft’s Lumia Windows 10 Mobile smartphones were on their way to the graveyard. According to various Microsoft insiders, production of the Lumia 550, 650, 950 and 950 XL was slated to end by December 2016.
However, a fresh report coming from WinBeta suggests that at least one of...
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One of the most frustrating things to occur in an online first-person shooter is to die when you truly believe you shouldn't have. Just made it around the corner in the nick of time? While it might appear that you should have lived, the server's netcode couldn't keep up, and still registered it as a kill for the...
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Somewhere along the line it was decided that $10 per month would be the standard rate for an unlimited streaming music subscription. Spotify and Apple Music both charge that amount for their base service, as do several others such as Rhapsody and Google Music. But is that too much for the general public at large?...
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Microsoft launched its slim and trim Xbox One S console back in early August. Taking up 40 percent less volume than its predecessor and packing variants ranging in capacities from 500GB to 2TB, the Xbox One S was only initially available in white.
That changes, however, with the launch of three new console bundles...
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Two 18-year-olds from Israel find themselves in hot water with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for their alleged roles in running a lucrative attack service called vDOS. They're said to have earned over $600,000 in the past two years by helping customers coordinate over 150,000 Distributed...
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You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about… The Hokey Pokey may be a song and dance that we all learned in elementary school, but a new Boston Dynamics robot is coming close to replicating some of the movements and balancing techniques that we humans...
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Tesla is in the process of upgrading its Autopilot system to better 'see' the world surrounding world and discern from potentially dangerous objects that need to be avoided and those that don't require braking. Several of the changes that will ultimately lead to a smarter Autopilot system have been introduced in version 8 of its software.
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It's a pretty scary thing when an electronic gadget is prone to exploding and catching fire, as has been reported to happen several of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 devices out in the wild. Adding fuel to the fire (see what we did there?), Samsung's been criticized for the way its handled the subsequent recall. It's still...
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By now, we’d expect that most all Galaxy Note7 owners would be well aware of the dangers surrounding the phone. Samsung is in the midst of a global recall for the phone, airlines around the world are banning the use of the phone aboard planes, the FAA has issued a strict warning against using the devices aboard U.S...
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Sometimes, it's best to accept the fact that you can't do everything yourself, and where microprocessors are concerned, that can be critical. Sometimes there's just no sense in reinventing the wheel. However, Samsung has been driving to build in-house graphics IP for its Exynos mobile chipsets for quite some time...
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The writing has been on the wall for quite some time — Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services Division has been a complete disaster and a money pit. Microsoft bought the division for $7.9 billion in spring 2014, and a year later, the company had to take an impairment charge of $7.6 billion for the...
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Amazon is tired of being merely an online retailer and is aggressively expanding into brick-and-mortar store locations. The company plans on opening over a dozen pop-up stores in American malls over the next year. The stores will particularly focus on Echo home speakers and Alexa.
While the Amazon bookstore that...
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Intel is currently working on "futuristic" 7-nanometer manufacturing technology, however, the development was revealed in an unusual way. Ashraf Eassa spotted a job listing that revealed that this advanced process technology will be available within the next decade.
Essa has pointed out that the job listing has...
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The USB port is one of the most influential and important inventions of the modern computing era, but like just about anything that's innovative and pervasive, there's usually potential to do harm as well. Need proof of that? Check out the USB Kill, a sly little USB stick that's capable of frying just about any...
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After a couple of years of intense rumor, it seemed certain that Apple had an autonomous (or any) vehicle-related announcement up its sleeve, ready to unveil at any time. In fact, it could be argued that Apple's foray into electric vehicles has been one of the most rumored projects on the planet. And even though it's...
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Update 4:25PM - Samsung is also now urging customers not to use their Galaxy Note 7 devices, stating: "Because your safety is our utmost concern, we ask you to power down your Galaxy Note7 and exchange it now. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of the U.S. Note7 Exchange Program detailed above." You can find...
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It looks as though Facebook still has some work to do with its Trending topics feature that's supposed to promote popular and relevant news stories from around the web. That's how it works in theory, anyway. In practice, Facebook's algorithm has struggled to discern between real and fake news articles, a point that...
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Attention Starfleet! You can now communicate like a member of the USS Enterprise with the ThinkGeek exclusive Star Trek TNG Bluetooth ComBadge.
ThinkGeek’s website states, “We've had a screen-accurate prop replica ST:TNG badge in our closet for a while. The only thing it was missing was the ability to emit the...
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The White House recently appointed Gregory Touhill, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, as the government’s first federal cyber security chief. The position was announced eight months ago as an attempt prevent and defend against hackers.
The position is part of a $19 billion “cyber security national action...
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Samsung has a mess on its hands with the whole Galaxy Note7 battery fire debate. There have been over 35 cases globally of fires breaking out while recharging Galaxy Note7 smartphones, with the most recent case occurring when a man’s Jeep Grand Cherokee went up in flames while his device was charging in the center...
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