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Latest News - September 2016
- Amazon Wants To Secure Live Sports Broadcasting Rights For Prime Customers
- Google DeepMind Hails Breakthrough Advances In More Natural AI-Based Speech Generation
- IDC Predicts iPhone 7 Will Face Rough Waters In Cutthroat Chinese Market
- $479 Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Core i5 15.6" Laptop, Apple iPhone 7 Preorders Now Open And More
- Intel SSD 600P Solid State Drive Review: NVMe Performance, SATA Pricing
- Google Chrome Will Soon Warn Users When Visiting Unencrypted Websites
- FCC Drops Plan To Democratize The Cable Box, Pushes New App Agenda
- Bethesda Abandons Fallout 4 And Skyrim Mod Support On PS4, Blames Sony Bureaucracy
- This $50 Hak5 Turtle Can Steal Login Credentials From Unattended, Locked Macs And PCs
- Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, A10 Fusion Bests iPad Pro's A9X In Geekbench
- FAA Strongly Advises Passengers Against Using Red Hot Galaxy Note 7 On Flights
- Virginia Tech Gets Chipotle Flying Burritos Delivered Via Alphabet Drone
- Amazon Reportedly Prepping Spoken, Push Notifications For Alexa, Echo Speaker
- IBM Power8-powered Linux Servers Use Blazing Fast NVIDIA NVLink For AI, Deep Learning
- $419 Inspiron 15 3000 Core i5 15.6" Laptop, Playstation 4 Pro Console Preorder Now Available And More
- Apple Bucks Tradition, Won’t Announce Opening Weekend Sales For iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus
- Facebook Celebrates Star Trek's 50th Anniversary With Themed Like Buttons
- Nintendo Shares Rally As Super Mario Run Makes Leap To Apple’s iPhone
- Raspberry Pi Celebrates 10 Million Sales, Debuts New Feature-Packed Starter Kit
- Amazon Sets Alexa Up On Cheap Date With Faster, Longer Lasting Fire HD 8 Tablet For $90
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All News for September 2016
Amazon is trying to persuade sports fans to give up their cable networks and join Prime. To pull this off, Amazon is currently negotiating to carry live streaming video of sporting events. The company is particularly interested in sports with international appeal such as tennis, golf, soccer, rugby, and auto...
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We've no doubt all listened to a PC "speak" to us at some point in our lives. Today, technologies are advanced enough to make it so that understanding this speech is not an issue, though we're sure many would prefer that solutions sounded less robotic, or so stitched-together.
Google's DeepMind works on developing...
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The pieces are starting to come together following Apple’s announcement yesterday that it won’t be releasing opening weekend sales for its new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus flagships. “These initial sales will be governed by supply, not demand, and we have decided that it is no longer a representative metric for our...
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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, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all this fine Friday, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Intel Core i5-6200U based notebooks, an Amazon Fire 7" 8GB WiFi Tablet, a Sony...
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A couple of weeks back, Intel announced a slew of new solid state drives, targeting a wide array of market segments, that leverage 3D TLC NAND. One of those offerings was a new series of M.2 NVMe drives, dubbed the SSD 600P. According to Intel, the SSD 600P series is “designed to deliver PCIe performance at near-SATA...
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The last thing you want to do is broadcast your bank or other sensitive login credentials for any Nosy Nellie to see. That's why a properly secured website asking for your confidential information uses encryption. Starting soon, Google's Chrome browser will tattle on websites that fail to secure your passwords and...
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After taking on Internet service providers (ISPs) and wireless carriers with a set of net neutrality rules, it looked as though FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler was on the verge of going to war with cable companies next. That was the plan when, earlier this year, Wheeler talked about forcing cable companies to use open...
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We’ve got some bad news to deliver for PlayStation 4 gamers out there (and no, we’re not talking about the lack of 4K Blu-ray disc support on the PlayStation 4 Pro). While PC gamers were blessed with Fallout 4 mods and the Creation Kit back in late April, Bethesda made it clear that the PlayStation 4 would receive...
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You might think that logging out of your PC before leaving it unattended for a short time is relatively safe, but you'd be wrong. A security engineer at R5 Industries demonstrated how incredibly easy it is to swipe the login credentials of a locked Mac or Windows PC using just a $50 USB device that's available to...
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Apple iPhone 7 mania is already upon us. Apple’s next generation iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were announced on Wednesday, and preorders for the phones kicked off this morning. As we found out earlier this week, both models are powered by a brand new, quad-core Apple A10 Fusion processor. While we’ll likely find out...
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More bad news for Samsung, though not entirely unexpected. Due to concerns over a handful of recent reports of Galaxy Note 7 devices overheating and exploding, the United Stated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a statement to passengers that "strongly advises" them not to turn on the fire-prone device...
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If you’re a student enrolled at Virginia Tech, it will soon be raining burritos on campus. Seriously, we’re not kidding here. Google parent company Alphabet is testing an experimental drone delivery service using its Project Wing unit and a partnership with national chain restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Alphabet...
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Let’s pretend that you just asked Alexa to get an Uber for you. You go and get ready, but have no idea when your ride will arrive. In order to get that information, you have to ask Alexa when your Uber ride will be at your door. Amazon’s upcoming update, however, means that Alexa will now update you without being...
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We've been hearing about NVIDIA's NVLink for quite a while -- ever since the original announcement of Pascal -- but we've still not seen it put into broad use. That changes with NVIDIA's super-high-end Tesla P100, but it's still not shipping in huge quantities. What might come first is IBM's newest Linux-based...
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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 15 3000 Intel Core i5-5200U based laptop, a Samsung UN65KU6300 65" 4K UHD HDR Smart HDTV, a Corsair Gaming K70 LUX mechanical gaming keyboard, and more. Full details...
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When it comes to the opening weekend for a brand new iPhone release, Apple has a tradition of announcing record sales figures. The company usually proudly touts tremendous year-over-year growth, with Apple CEO Tim Cook proclaiming last year, “Sales for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have been phenomenal, blowing past...
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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Star Trek “like” button. It’s September mission: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek and to boldly go where no social media site has gone before.
Facebook is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Star Trek with some fun, temporary features. Some...
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Super Mario is one of the most iconic characters in gaming of all time, and the infamous plumber is certainly Nintendo's most valuable IP. With Nintendo finally focusing on mobile gaming, there's an opportunity to rake in a mountain of cash. Investors realize this, hence why the announcement of the forthcoming...
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Since it first hit the market in 2012, the Raspberry Pi has gone through numerous iterations and has become a popular sidekick for students and hobbyists alike. People use the low-priced mini computers are used to shoot down ace pilots in aerial combat simulations, they power retro arcade systems, and can be found in...
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For the first time, Amazon's Alexa voice service is headed to a tablet. It's one of the standout features of Amazon's new Fire HD 8, a budget slate built from the ground up to offer users all-day battery life, faster performance, and double the onboard storage of previous versions Fire HD tablets. The kicker here is...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Such is the case with the widely rumored Surface all-in-one PC that is reportedly on the way from Microsoft. Microsoft has found some success with its Surface Pro and Surface Book convertibles, so it makes sense that the company would look to extend the brand to other...
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While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration considers banning Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 handset outright from passenger aircraft, three airlines in Australia—Qantas, Jetstar, and Virgin Australia—have decided to continue letting the potentially explosive gadget on board, so long as passengers don't use or charge them...
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