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Latest News - September 2018
- Sony Says Final Goodbye To Legendary PlayStation 2 Console
- Battlefield V ‘Firestorm’ 64-Player Battle Royale Mode Showcased In New Trailer
- Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Shown With Sliding Camera Module, 5G Wireless Support
- Samsung's Folding Galaxy X Smartphone Will Debut By Year's End Says CEO
- Samsung Will Bring New Innovative Features To Mid-Range Phones Before Premium Flagships
- Xbox Chief Mike Ybarra Blasts Sony's Killjoy Blocking Of Fortnite PS4 CrossPlay
- Dell XPS 15 (9570) Review: Same Beauty, Even More Beast
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q Mobile Turing GPU Reportedly Weeks Away From Launch
- Google Rolls Out Free AI To Combat Spread Of Child Sexual Abuse Material
- iPad Pro 12.9 Renders Show What Apple Might Be Cooking Up Next Week
- Skype Ditches Snapchat-Inspired Makeover To Focus On Simplicity
- Chevy's C8 Corvette Ferrari Slayer Sheds Heavy Camouflage And Is Lookin' Good
- Canon's Newest EOS R Mirrorless Camera Leaks With Alleged 30MP Full-Frame Sensor
- Gigabyte Z390 Gaming SLI Motherboard For 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs Breaks Cover
- Careless Googler Leaves Pixel 3 XL In A Lyft In Latest Leak
- Shadow Of The Tomb Raider PC System Requirements Aren't Steep Unless You Want Ray Tracing
- Mercedes EQC SUV Is The Latest Attack On Tesla's EV Technology And Sales Lead
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Allegedly 25-35% Faster Than 1080 Ti In This 3DMark Benchmark Result
- Fortnite Goes High Stakes With Getaway LTM And Wicked Cool Grappler Gun
- Microsoft Sticks A Fork In Surface Plus Financing Program For Consumers
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All News for September 2018
The era of the Playstation 2 is over. Sony Japan’s aftercare service for the PlayStation 2 is ending after 19 years of operation. Aftercare services for the system will officially end on September 7th.
PlayStation 2 owners had roughly two-and-a-half months to fill out an online form to have their console repaired one last time. Those who
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There has been a lot of excitement brewing around Electronic Arts’ Battlefield V, and with good reason. The game has been held up as a showcase for NVIDIA’s RTX real-time ray-tracing, which looks absolutely amazing using graphics cards like the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. However, there’s more to Battlefield V than just...
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Xiaomi is apparently very excited about its upcoming Mi Mix 3 handset. it is launching soon, but in the meantime, Xiaomi's executives are chomping ("champing," if you're a stickler for grammar) at the bit to let consumers know what is coming their way. We say this because Xiaomi has posted yet another photo of the...
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It has long been rumored that Samsung is planning to release a smartphone with a flexible display at some point, allowing users to fold and unfold their handset as needed. Well, guess what? The rumors were true. Samsung is in fact prepping a foldable smartphone and it will see the light of day sometime by the end of...
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When it comes to modern smartphone ideology, it’s typical for high-end features to first show up on flagship devices, and then filter down over the coming months (and years) to lesser devices. Companies like Samsung and Apple are famous for this “hand me down” strategy on smartphones, tablets, and notebooks.
However...
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Sony has not exactly been a champion of supporting multiplayer gameplay across different platforms, otherwise known as crossplay. If there was a time and place to reverse course, it would be now, in Fortnite, the world's most popular battle royale shooter. Sony is sticking to its guns, however, drawing ire from not...
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The Dell XPS 15 should look familiar if you're a regular HotHardware reader. We’ve seen various iterations of this power-users’ mobile PC over the past few years, usually with an Editors’ Choice logo pegged at the end of the review. The latest version keeps that winning streak alive, thanks to new, more powerful six-core...
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NVIDIA recently announced a new generation of desktop graphics cards for consumers based on its Turing GPU architecture, and with specialized real-time ray tracing hardware underneath the hood. These new cards have the potential to usher in a new era in gaming. But what about mobile? It stands to reason that mobile...
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Google has announced a new AI that has a very noble cause, and that cause is to rid the internet of child sexual abuse images (CSAM). Google says that there are organizations of many sizes out there combating this plague and it wants them all to have the latest technology to help fight the spread of CSAM. Google's...
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September 12th is the data that Apple has penciled in to launch new iPhones and new tablets (and perhaps some additional hardware products). We have seen leaks that claim to give a glimpse at what the new iPhone XS will look like along with the coming Apple Watch refresh. The new iPhones are expected to have refreshed...
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Last summer Skype announced with some fanfare that it had overhauled its design. The design was very similar to Snapchat, and many Skype users didn’t like the change. Skype has now announced that after more than a year on the new design, it is changing back to a much simpler interface. Skype is also ditching its...
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The Detroit Auto Show is just a few months away, which means that the next-generation C8 Chevrolet Corvette is starting to shed more and more of its heavy camouflage. Back in early October, we got a nice look at the track-oriented C8.R racing around Road America wearing final bodywork.
This time around, the regular...
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It looks as though camera guru Canon is readying a full-frame mirrorless shooter for photographers who prefer to go that route as opposed to a digital SLR (DSLR). Called the EOS R, the upcoming mirrorless camera features a 30.3-megapixel full size CMOS sensor with dual pixel CMOS autofocus and a bunch of other...
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Sometime in the what we believe to be the near future, Intel will finally roll out its 9th generation Core processor family, which is rumored to include two 8-core CPU models. We'll have to wait and see about that. Until then, Intel's hardware partners are gearing up for the launch with supporting hardware...
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Google just can't seem to catch a break with the Pixel 3 XL. As if early prototypes of the smartphone leaking out on the internet weren't enough, it looks as though its own employees are creating headaches for the company. The latest incident involves a Pixel 3 XL that was photographed extensively over the weekend.
So where did this particular
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We are fast approaching the launch of Lara Croft's next big adventure, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is set to be one of the first games to support real-time ray tracing. It's also a reboot of the popular Tomb Raider franchise (new players can jump right in without feeling lost in the story line). As the launch...
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When Tesla first launched the Roadster, it proved that it could build a world-class electric vehicle (EV) with a realistic driving range and titillating performance. When the Model S was released, it showed just how far ahead the company was in the EV game compared to just about every other auto manufacturer on the...
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Hey, did you hear? NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX graphics cards can do ray tracing! Of course you've heard that, because real-time ray tracing has dominated the narrative. The big question mark, however, is the one that hangs over rasterization performance compared to the previous generation of Pascal cards. That will not...
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One of the reasons that Fortnite is the most popular game out there right now is all the work that Epic Games puts in to keep the game fresh. It seems like there is always a new mode, a new event, or new weapons for fans to check out. The latest change to the game is a new High Stakes challenge that will take place...
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Microsoft launched a program back in August 2017r called Surface Plus that allowed consumers to lease a Surface device with a 0% interest payment plan. One of the coolest things about the Surface Plus plan was that it allowed you to pay all 24 months of payments and keep the device or you could give it back to...
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It appears that action camera maker GoPro has plans to launch a new camera series in the coming weeks. No official word about the new cameras has come down from GoPro, but the launch must be close because images of a new Best Buy display going up in at least one store have surfaced. The actual announcement and launch...
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Progress never stops in the video and TV world with resolutions creeping ever higher. It took a while for us to finally get 1080p programming to support the TVs that had been around for years. Further infrastructure advances took us to 4K resolution TVs, and while there aren't any 4K resolution primetime shows from...
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