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Latest News - September 2018

All News for September 2018

PC gamers trying to make the crossover to gaming on consoles have long wanted full mouse and keyboard support for the Xbox One. Microsoft has mulled support for the preferred PC gaming input method for years, and reports in June claimed that Microsoft held a conference with Razer detailing the Turret keyboard and... Read more...
NVIDIA has made it official. The least powerful version of its new GeForce RTX Series of gaming cards will launch on October 17th. The company made the announcement today via Twitter, and the GeForce RTX 2070 Turing-based graphics cards will have a starting price of $499 for third-party cards. If you want an... Read more...
The legal war between Qualcomm and Apple is getting nastier by the minute. The latest salvo is being lobbed by Qualcomm, which filed a lawsuit again Apple on Monday alleging that the company was sharing "vast swaths" of confidential information with Intel. If you recall, Qualcomm filed a lawsuit in early November... Read more...
Google has been the sultan of search for a very long time now, and through the years it has constantly been tweaking things, adding features, and generally just looking to stay in front of the pack. Most would argue it's done exactly that—'Google' is basically a verb in modern vernacular. To keep things going in that... Read more...
Just when you thought there could not possibly be yet another leak having to do with Google's unreleased Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL handsets, BAM!, here comes another one. Once again, we're getting to see what in all likelihood the upcoming Pixel 3 devices will look like when they launch, based on what appear to be... Read more...
When Apple announced the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max earlier this month, it made some bold claims about battery life for both flagship devices. Compared to the iPhone X, Apple said that the iPhone XS would last 30 minutes longer per charge. When it comes to the massive iPhone XS Max, the company said that runtimes... Read more...
Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption II is one of the most anticipated launches of the year. The game is landing on console systems first, but a leak has tipped a PC launch date thanks to a developer posting to his LinkedIn profile that he was working on the PC version of the game. A gameplay trailer turned up in August showing us some of the fantastic Read more...
When it comes to electronics, one way to stretch your dollar is to stay a generation behind. This can prove particularly savvy if you strike right when a new product is announced, as the 'old' one might not be all that old or outdated at that point. Following that philosophy, you can snag a 2nd generation Echo Dot... Read more...
We love high performance gaming monitors here at HotHardware, so we're always on the looking for new entries from popular player in this space. So, Acer's new XZ1 series definitely caught our eyes when it was officially announced this month. Available in both 27- and 31.5-inch screen sizes, these XZ1 monitors offer... Read more...
Gigabyte is all over the GeForce RTX launch, including models that will be sold under its Aorus gaming brand. The company has finally provided a first look at one of those cards, the Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme 8G, and also revealed several upcoming GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti product models. Let's... Read more...
Apple unveiled its new 2018 iPhone models earlier this month, and the devices included the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. Not long after the devices were announced, a report surfaced that claimed the devices offered faster downloads than previous generation iPhones. However, some iPhone XS and XS Max buyers... Read more...
A few weeks back, we showed you a handful of Commodore Amiga-related hardware projects that were designed to breathe new life into the popular, vintage machines. Even decades after Commodore’s demise, the Amiga user community remains vibrant and new hardware is being introduced at a steady clip, relatively... Read more...
Microsoft just announced that its next-generation Office 2019 productivity suite is available today for volume license customers. This is the traditional "offline" version of Office -- you know, the way that Microsoft used to deliver the productivity package before it began to focus more on the cloud-based Office 365 and recurring revenue Read more...
Apple has announced a strategic partnership with Salesforce that will combine iOS and the Salesforce customer relationship management platform to bring new features to business users. The two companies are working together to bring Salesforce developers a new Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS and a new iOS App Development... Read more...
Microsoft announced the Surface Hub 2 back in May as the follow-up to the first-generation collaborative display. Featuring a 50.5-inch 4K+ PixelSense display (with the familiar 3:2 aspect ratio), Microsoft promised a huge leap in capabilities over its predecessor and a 2019 ship date. Today, however, Microsoft is... Read more...
Roku is making 4K streaming hardware even more affordable for those that don't have a Smart TV (or for those that simply don't like the Smart TV interface on their current television). The company has announced the Premiere and Premiere+, which both offer 4K HDR streaming. This is a direct stab at Amazon, which is... Read more...
It may seem hard to fathom, but Google's Android operating system turned 10 years old over the weekend, and what a remarkable decade it has been for what has become the world's most widely used mobile OS. Andy Rubin and the rest of Android's co-founders probably aren't surprised at Android's success, giving that they... Read more...
Earlier this month, the biggest update in the Apple Watch's relatively short lifespan was released in the form of the Series 4. The smartwatch officially went on sale this past Friday and as you might expect, teardown analysis of the device wasn't far behind. The folks at iFixit have put the Apple Watch Series 4... Read more...
In the realm of music, cassette tapes are largely dead and compact discs (CDs) are not far behind. Streaming music is both the present and future, and there are big bucks at stake. Hence why satellite music giant SiriusXM today announced that it is acquiring Pandora for around $3.5 billion. Once closed, the all-stock... Read more...
Intel's attempts to mitigate side-channel vulnerabilities in practically every processor released in the past decade has not come without consequences. There was the whole random reboot issue that affected Haswell and Broadwell CPUs (it was later resolved), and now there are reports of a recent Windows 10 update is... Read more...
Hot on the heels of NVIDIA releasing its GeForce RTX series based on Turing with fancy-pants real-time ray tracing and AI technologies embedded within, AMD is set to launch...another Polaris part? So it goes, if the rumor mill is to believed, with AMD said to be prepping a new graphics card based on a 12-nanometer... Read more...
Samsung has been having a tough time finding the right mix of features and cool design for its smartphones in recent months. The company has been accused of peddling products that look too much like previous versions with minimal updates, which in turn has led to soft sales for key products like the Galaxy S9 and... Read more...
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