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Latest News - September 2016
- Sony Xperia XZ And Xperia X Compact Will Arrive In U.S. Without Fingerprint Readers
- Judgment Day: Robot Overlords Estimated To Terminate 6 Percent Of U.S. Jobs By 2021
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Review: The OLED Display Update
- AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group Marks Its First Birthday As Polaris Shines Bright
- Stanford Engineers Develop 'Network Cookies' To Put Consumers In Control Of Net Neutrality
- Amazon Launches $50 Echo Dot With ESP Smart Voice Recognition, White Echo Speaker
- Leaked Intel Roadmap Highlights 10nm Cannonlake, Coffee Lake Processors For 2017 Through 2018
- Amazon Alexa Skills Triple To Over 3,000 In Just Three Months
- Microsoft Rewards Celebrates 50 Years Of Star Trek With Galaxy-Class Bonus Points
- Netflix Petitions FCC To Kill Dreaded And Unreasonable Data Caps
- 911 Emergency Lines Can Suffer DDoS Attack With Disturbing Ease, Putting Lives At Risk
- Apple iPhone 7 Review Roundup: Stellar Cameras, Blazing Performance, RIP Headphone Jack
- $50 Amazon Fire HD 6 Quad-Core Tablet, 75% Off Norton Security Deluxe Software For 5 Devices And More
- Samsung Market Cap Tanks By $22 Billion As 70 Cases Of Galaxy Note 7 Fires Reported In U.S.
- Amazon Accidentally Confirms Cheaper $49 Echo Dot Via Twitter Gaffe
- MSI VR One PC Backpack Brings GTX 1070 Graphics For Untethered Virtual Reality Gaming
- Sony Rolls Out Featured-Packed PlayStation 4 System 4.00 Update
- NVIDIA Unveils Tesla P4 And P40 Deep Learning Accelerators, Mini DRIVE PX 2 For Autonomous Vehicles
- Toshiba OCZ VX500 SATA SSD Review: Fast, Affordable Storage
- Huge Discount On Ethical Hacking, Cyber Security & Forensics Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
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All News for September 2016
At a time when biometric security solutions seem to be gaining traction in the mobile market, Sony for whatever reason has decided to remove the fingerprint scanner from its Xperia XZ and Xperia X Compact handsets before releasing them in the United States. The curious decision comes after Sony released the same...
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Nobody should feign surprise that robots are taking over. A new report by market research firm Forrrester predicts that robots will terminate 6 percent of jobs in the United States by 2021, jobs that were previously held by flesh and blood workers. To expect anything less would be naive, as collectively we're the...
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The ThinkPad X1 Yoga marks a marriage between two of Lenovo's premium notebook lines: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and the ThinkPad Yoga. The X1 Carbon line was introduced in 2012, bringing a largely carbon-fiber filled construction to decrease weight and increase durability compared to their previous X1 ultrabooks, while still maintaining the classic...
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Just over a year ago, AMD doubled down on its fight against a dominant NVIDIA in the graphics card market. AMD has always been a formidable competitor in desktop and mobile graphics, but more often than not, NVIDIA has come out with the upper hand (especially with respect to discrete graphics market share).
In...
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One of the most important and hotly debated topics of the Internet era has been net neutrality, the concept that all web traffic should be treated equally. Internet service providers and wireless carriers continue to fight against net neutrality rules and want the right to charge services like Netflix for faster...
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Amazon first launched its Echo speaker in November 2014, and it has quickly become a dominant force in the personal digital assistant market. Roughly a year ago, Amazon opened up the Alexa engine that powers the Echo to developers. The resulting Alexa Skills allow developers to “plug-in” their services to the speaker...
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Intel officially disrupted its "tick-tock" release cadence when it introduced Kaby Lake at the end of August, a new processor architecture that's intended to fill the gap between Skylake and Intel's long awaited transition to a 10nm manufacturing process. That will take place when Cannonlake arrives, which newly...
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Amazon Alexa has been gaining new skills at a dizzying pace. Back in early June, Alexa had amassed 1,000 skills, and by the end of that month the number had already jumped to 1,400. Today, that number stands at over 3,000. That’s a remarkable feat for the humble, voice-activated speaker that first launched back in...
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The Star Trek 50th anniversary celebrations just keep on comin’. Now, Microsoft Rewards is offering bonus points for select Star Trek movies and television shows. The company is “thrilled to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek with this bonus Microsoft Rewards offer, giving you the chance to relive your favorite moments...
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Your mom may think that you spend too much time on the Internet, but Netflix most certainly does not. Netflix has asked the FCC to prohibit data caps, because it claims that caps are unreasonable and noncompetitive. Netflix insists that caps “may impede the ability of some households to watch Internet television in a...
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Researchers from the Negev Cyber-Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University recently released a terrifying piece of news. It explains that if a malicious entity decided to craft malware that infected only a few thousand mobile phones, it would be possible to cripple an entire 911 system. That means legitimate...
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Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will begin shipping to customers this Friday, but the tech press began posting their thoughts on the smartphones early this morning. The general consensus is that it’s a notable upgrade for those who currently own an iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus or older, and that those with an iPhone...
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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 Amazon Fire HD 6 8GB Quad-Core Tablet, a Samsung UN60KU6300 60" 4K UHD HDR Smart HDTV, a Norton Security Deluxe Software bundle, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals...
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After making a series of moves to restructure its mobile business and renew interest in its Galaxy handset line, the situation with the recently released Galaxy Note 7 is taking quite a toll on Samsung. The South Korean electronics firm saw its market capitalization plummet by $22 billion over the past two days, a...
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Good luck trying to get your hands on an Amazon's tiny speaker accessory, the Echo Dot, which plugs into your existing speaker system and allows you to summon Alexa, smarty-pants digital assistant that keeps getting better with time. The Echo Dot's been sold out for the past two months, though don't fret, it appears...
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Virtual Reality (VR) is the “next big thing” in the gaming arena, and MSI is delving into the market feet first with the world’s first VR backpack. Dubbed the VR One, MSI bills the device as the thinnest and lightest backpack PC system ever made.
While VR systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift traditionally...
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Sony's next major update for the PlayStation 4 console, version 4.00 (otherwise known as Shingen) has left the beta stage and is going out today to all PS4 owners, bringing with it a refreshed system user interface (UI), Folder organization, updates to the Quick Menu and Share Menu, improvements to Library, and...
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NVIDIA pushed the gaming sector forward with its Pascal architecture, perhaps more so than any new GPU architecture in recent memory when factoring in both performance and price. However, gamers aren't the only ones who stand to benefit. The GPU maker today announced some new additions to its Pascal-based deep...
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Although NVMe PCI Express solid state drives are all the rage as of late, due to their relatively strong performance and inherent feature benefits, manufacturers continue to tune and refine their SATA based offerings as well. Case in point: the brand new OCZ VX500 series solid state drives we’ll be showing you here today. The OCZ VX500 series...
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If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to code, secure systems, or administer Linux servers, we’ve got a cool promo running in the HotHardware Shop that may lay the foundation. For a limited time, an Ethical Hacking, Cyber Security & Forensics Bundle is heavily discounted and available for only $49. That's 98% off the...
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The electric vehicle (EV) wars about to really heat up. General Motors has thrown down the gauntlet with the Chevrolet Bolt, announcing early this morning that the vehicle will have an EPA combined driving range of 238 miles per charge. That’s well in excess of the 200+ mile range that GM has been promising all along...
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is one of the world’s largest if not THE largest tech expo held each year. Well over 100,000 tech enthusiasts and press congregate in Las Vegas every January to see the latest computer hardware, gadgets, and high-tech automobiles that companies have to offer. One Silicon Valley...
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