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Latest News - October 2015
- Microsoft Stuffs An 11th Sensor Inside Curvy Second Gen Fitness Band, Available October 30 For $250
- VAIO Brand Returns To U.S. With $2,200 Z Canvas 2-in-1 PC
- Ubisoft Teases 'Far Cry Primal' Ice Age Action Game
- Sony Bluetooth Headphone With Bundled $50 Gift Card Under $100, $579 Vizio 49in 4K TV And More
- AMD Partners With Dell And Oculus For VR Enabled PCs
- Space Saving iOS 9 ‘App Slicing’ Given Green Light By Apple Following iCloud Bugginess
- Google Found Guilty Of Russian Antitrust Violations, Must Unbundle Android Apps
- GeForce GTX 980 Ti Round-Up With MSI, ASUS, And EVGA
- $129 Roku 4 Streaming Box Gains 4K at 60 FPS Support, Refreshed OS And Remote Finder
- Time Warner Cable Combats Dreadful Customer Service With One-Hour Service Windows And Self-Deprecating Humor
- Dell Core i7 Skylake 1080p Laptop With 32in TV Just $849, SanDisk 240GB SSD Under $70 And More
- Google Nexus Devices ‘Stay Puft’ As Android 6.0 Marshmallow Hits The Airwaves
- Twitter Officially Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Also CEO Of Square
- Minecraft Gamer On Smoke Break Sets House On Fire For Live Stream Facepalm
- Care2 Petition Seeks To Stop Peeple App From Allowing You To Rate Others Like ‘Yelp For Humans’
- Struggling Device Maker HTC Says Monthly Android Security Updates Are ‘Unrealistic’
- Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 4 And New Lumias Tomorrow: What To Expect And How To Watch Live
- Super Villain Elon Musk Would Create Two ‘Fusion Stars’ Above Mars Instead Of Nuking Surface, To Make It Habitable
- Google Rumored To Be Readying Popular Apps Like YouTube And Maps For Windows 10 Ecosystem
- Daimler Brings Intimidating, Self-Driving Big Rigs To German Autobahn
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All News for October 2015
Microsoft made a bigger splash during its hardware event today than Shaquille O'Neal doing a cannonball in a kiddie pool. It unveiled new phones with fancy Windows 10 features, an updated Surface tablet, its first true laptop (not a 2-in-1), and a curvaceous fitness band, the last of which gains a curved display and...
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VAIO is back, baby, and in a big way. A year and a half after Sony sent its PC brand packing, VAIO makes a return to the U.S. market with the VAIO Z Canvas, a premium 2-in-1 device that's like a supercharged Surface Pro tablet powered by Intel's Core i7-4770HQ processor based on Haswell.
That's a quad-core chip with Hyper Threading support
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Ubisoft is trying out a new hype-building strategy. The company started a series of tweets yesterday, each with an image of cave drawings. This morning, Ubisoft tweeted “The writing is on the wall,” this morning, along with a link to a live stream depicting a cave wall with drawings. It’s a spooky stream, complete with moody music and cinders
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On the menu today, we have deals on a Sony MDRZX330BT/B Bluetooth on-ear Stereo Headset, a Lenovo Z41 Intel Core i7-5500U based laptop, a Cambridge Audio SoundWorks OontZ Angle 3 Portable Wireless Water Resistant Speaker...
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In case it hasn't been noticeable enough, within the next few months, virtual reality is going to hit the market hard. The most anticipated headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, are set to come out in early 2016, and it's expected that a bevy of content will stream out to the market at the same time. While there's still much up in
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Apple on Monday announced that it fixed an issue with its app slicing feature in iOS 9, and in doing so, developer's now have permission to begin using it. This is good news for Apple device owners rocking only 16GB or even just 8GB of internal storage, provided they've updated to iOS 9.0.2 (app slicing doesn't work...
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Russia's antimonopoly agency has given Google until November 18 to make amendments to features of its Android platform that it deemed anticompetitive. If Google fails to make the demanded changes, it could face stiff penalties of up to 15 percent of its revenue gained from mobile applications in Russia.
What's at...
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Although the $999 GeForce GTX Titan X is currently the King of the single-GPU hill, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the far more palatable option for most hardcore enthusiasts, due to its lower $649 starting price point. As we showed you in our initial coverage of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, however, the card is still a monster in terms of performance....
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The last major play in the streaming box market has finally delivered the goods. Apple recently launched its 4K-less fourth generation Apple TV, Amazon upped its game with a 4K-capable and bargain-priced Fire TV and Google just last week unveiled a colorful new Chromecast. Today is Roku’s turn with the introduction of...
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Cable and Internet Service Providers like Time Warner Cable have been blasted time and time again for horrible customer service. While it hasn’t exactly reach top “A-hole” status like Comcast, its performance in customer satisfaction surveys leaves much to be desired.
The company feels your pain and doing its best...
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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 Lenovo Z50 15.6" 1080p Core i7-4510U based laptop, a TP-Link TC-7610 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem, a SanDisk SSD Plus SDSSDA-240G-G25 240GB Solid State Drive, and more. Full details for...
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True to its word, Google is now rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow for its first-party Nexus devices. Purchasing hardware that has Google’s official stamp of approval on it means that you’re always the first in line to get updates to the latest operating system and that you’re well covered when it comes to timely...
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At long last, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is back in the CEO seat. Dorsey made the announcement this morning in an 8-K filing and on an investor call - and also shared the news via Twitter, of course. The move heaps more onto Dorsey’s already-full plate; he is (and plans to remain) CEO of mobile payments service...
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Minecraft is a hugely popular game around the globe, and Microsoft was wise to snatch up its creator, Mojang AB, for $2.5 billion last year. Given its popularity, it’s not uncommon to see Minecraft gamers live stream their digital exploits for all to see. What is uncommon, however, is to see such a mundane activity...
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Some of the worst ideas are those that purport to solve a problem that doesn't exist. A potential app called "Peeple" might be even worse. Described as "Yelp for humans," the unreleased Peeple app initially aimed to give users to the ability to rate fellow human beings on a scale of 1 to 5 and post reviews, good or...
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HTC President Jason Mackenzie shed some light on why his company is not committing to monthly security updates for Android like Google, LG, and Samsung all do. According to Mackenzie, a monthly release schedule is simply "not realistic," not when HTC has to go through the process of receiving approval from wireless...
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Microsoft has a big hardware unveil set for tomorrow morning and we’re eagerly awaiting to see what the company has in store. Luckily, Microsoft will be streaming the event for all to see tomorrow morning at 10 AM EST — you’ll be able to watch event online using your web browser or from the comfort of your living room...
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One of the most famous scenes in the Star Wars saga is when Luke Skywalker stands on his home planet Tatooine and watches a double sunset. If SpaceX founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk gets his wish, a similar scene could play out for a future generation on Mars, but first we have to hurl nukes in the planet's...
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It's no secret that Google and Microsoft haven't been on the friendliest terms for quite some time, something the large number of lawsuits each firm has filed against the other has no doubt had something to do with. However, it appears that the frosty relationship may be thawing. Last week, both companies revealed...
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Daimler and Google couldn’t be taking more opposite approaches to putting autonomous vehicles on public roads. Google’s Lexus SUV and “gumdrop” car are unassuming vehicles that are meant to blend in with human traffic without causing a stir. Daimler, on the other hand, just sent a Mercedes-Benz Actros truck on a...
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Facebook has partnered with Eutelsat Communications to provide broadband Internet access to large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, which is the area of the continent that lies south of the Sahara desert. As part of the initiative, the two companies inked a multi-year agreement with Spacecom to beam broadband service from...
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Pesky little things like a mortgage and little Billy's college fund might prevent you from plopping $150 on the fancy pants Xbox One Elite controller. Don't sweat it, your pedestrian controller is still a fine tool for gaming, and it's going to get even better when Microsoft rolls out an update that allows for...
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