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Latest News - May 2015
- Notorious iOS Jailbreaker Hacks Web Browser Onto Apple Watch, Discovers iOS 8.2 Framework
- Google, Delphi Deny Fault In Four Accidents Involving Self-Driving Cars Since September
- The FCC Won’t Let Them Be! Wheeler And Company Reject Telecom Petitions To Delay Net Neutrality Rules
- Apple Sits Atop Contracting Chinese Smartphone Market, Samsung And Lenovo Are Biggest Losers
- Google Play Offers Pre-Register Option For Unreleased Apps And Games
- Amazon Gets Fresh With New Jersey As Its Grocery Delivery Service Expands
- All Future Battlefield 4 DLC To Be Free For Everyone, Not Just Premium Subscribers
- Bright House Networks To Call Off Wedding To Cable Titan Charter Following Comcast’s Failed Bid For TWC
- Microsoft Nixes Ancient ActiveX Support In Windows 10 ‘Edge’ Web Browser
- 2016 Dodge Viper ACR Steps Out With 600 Pound-Feet Of Neck-Snapping Torque And A Whole Lot Of Badass
- Photobucket Hacker Devs Arrested For Stealing Private Photos, Passwords From Users
- Apple Beats On Streaming Music Service Competition With Free Trial Period, Sample Songs, New iTunes Radio Stations
- Meet CHIP The World’s First $9 Computer That Could Give Raspberry Pi A Run For Its Money
- AOL Dial-Up Still Generates Millions Of Dollars From Over 2.1 Million Subscribers
- Lenovo Says LaVie Z 360 Won't Operate Properly In Tent Or Stand Modes, Offers 5% Refund
- Keurig Acknowledges Customer Backlash, Performs 180 Following Failed DRM-Laced K-Cup Push
- FCC Chairman Wheeler To ISPs: ‘You Don’t Have A Lot Of Competition’
- Google To Allow More Granular Control Of Privacy Controls in ‘Android M’
- WD My Cloud EX2100 Dual Bay 8TB NAS Review
- Cyanongen Recruits Truecaller Caller ID And Spam Blocking For Dialer App
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All News for May 2015
To nobody's real surprise, the jailbreak community upon learning that the Apple Watch was freewheelin' it on wrists everywhere without a browser onboard set out to fill that gap. And in somewhat short order the celebrated Comex — the developer behind JailBreakMe, and a former Apple intern — has weighed in first...
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Google and others are investing in a future where automobiles are fully automated, getting us from point A to point B on their own. We're at a very early stage in what could be a revolution in the auto industry, though it doesn't bode well that around 8 percent of the self-driving cars motoring around California have...
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Late last week, we reported on the lack of sympathy FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). While ISPs complain about how net neutrality -- and especially Title II classification -- could stifle innovation and hurt competition, Wheeler's response was a simple: "You don't have a lot of...
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There's evidence to suggest that China's smartphone market is headed towards saturation. According to the number crunchers at International Data Corporation, smartphone sales in China dipped 4 percent year-on-year with 98.8 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2015. This is the first time in six years that...
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We’ve all probably been there before — you read about an awesome new app that you are just dying to get your hands on. The problem arises when you find out that the app won’t be released for a few months (or longer), and there’s no exact release date in sight. And by the time that the developer does get around to...
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Residents of Northern New Jersey are the newest to benefit from Amazon's local grocery delivery service. Known as AmazonFresh (one word), Amazon seems to have expanded into several new ZIP codes, including those for Hoboken, Weekawken, Jersey City, Newark, Paramus, Edison, Montclair, and New Brunswick, all of which...
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Battlefield 4 may be 18-months-old at this point, but DICE has made it clear that it has no intention of halting the production of new content. On its way in the near-future are two night maps, a community map, some new weapons, and even a new game mode called Gunmaster.
The question that's been on many BF4...
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Federal regulators put into a motion a legal process that would have made it very difficult for Comcast to proceed with its blockbuster plan to acquire Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $45 billion, and as a result of Comcast pulling out of the proposed buyout, Bright House Networks has abandoned its own plans of merging...
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Since Microsoft appointed Satya Nadella as its CEO, we've seen the company make some dramatic transformations, and given what we've seen in recent years, it's proven quite refreshing. That carries on through to Windows 10, which is shaping up to be one of the, if not the, best OSes Microsoft has ever...
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2016 Dodge Viper ACR Steps Out With 600 Pound-Feet Of Neck-Snapping Torque And A Whole Lot Of Badass
Have you wanted a Dodge Viper, but have held back simply because it's not designed for track use? I feel you. Fortunately, Dodge does, too, as its brand-new 2016 ACR model proves. Dodge says that this 'American Club Racer' model is the fastest-ever street-legal track Viper ever, and if the mere thought of driving this...
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The market may be filled to the brim with image and video sharing websites, but one of the oldest ones, Photobucket, still proves to be a popular choice. As we're now finding out, though, it's a choice you may want to reconsider if you have an account with the service.
The US Department of Justice yesterday...
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No one except Apple itself knows when it's going to be relaunching its Beats Music service, but one thing we can feel pretty confident about is that when it launches, it's going to make a big impact. Apple doesn't do things small, and given its expertise in the digital music market, Beats Music could become a huge...
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When the first Raspberry Pi model came out just over three-years-ago, who would have guessed the kind of spark it'd have on the market? Since its release, there have been numerous add-ons available for it, a ton of different software crafted for it, follow-up models, and of course, lots of competition.
Well, up to...
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Remember the terrible sounds your modem used to make when dialing up access to the Internet? In the early days, you had to monitor your minutes online, practice patience as pictures downloaded at a snail's pace, and tolerate trolls who would try to boot you offline with programs called punters. It was a crappy era for...
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We were all hyped up about Lenovo’s latest LaVie Z series of tablets and convertibles, which both went on sale this week. After all, both models — first announced at CES — offer 13-inch QHD displays, a Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Even more impressive is that the LaVie Z (notebook) weighs in at just...
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Keurig’s attempt to lock its competitor’s coffee pods out of its brewers (all while running “The choice is yours” branding) has finally come to something of an end – though it’s not one that will appease some Keurig owners. The company announced that it is bringing back the My K-Cup in time for the holidays, giving...
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Long before the FCC passed its net neutrality rules, the agency's chairman, Tom Wheeler, didn't instill much confidence in those who favored them. This hinged on comments Wheeler previously made -- some of which made it sound like he didn't properly understand why net neutrality was important. Fueling this anxiety...
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Google is making an effort to give users greater control of their privacy settings with Android M. Rather than giving apps a direct access to whatever user data that it desires, Android M users will be able to select on a per-app basis if they wish to grant access to photos, location data, and contacts.
After all...
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The WD My Cloud EX2100 is a new prosumer-oriented NAS drive from WD that continues the company's adventures in the realm of "personal cloud" storage. These drives are aimed directly at people who use Cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, and others. The marketing speak from WD is that those services require a monthly payment...
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One of the reasons why Cyanogen exists and is so popular is because the developers are intent on building a better Android experience than even Google can deliver. It's a bit of a lofty goal, and part of the strategy entails bundling in third-party apps and services that users will find most useful in place of...
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We’ve got another awesome giveaway running in the HotHardware Shop many of you will probably be interested in. For the next 27 days, there is a Microsoft Surface 3 up for grabs. The recently released Surface 3 is one of the sleekest and most versatile 2-in-1 ultra portables to hit the market yet. Additional details are posted below...
FINALLY,
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A couple of months ago, we posted about the prospect of a subscription-based Windows. Given the changing landscape, it wasn't that hard to believe that such a thing could come true, and if it didn't, many believed that the next version of Windows wouldn't be like what we're used to.
At Microsoft's Ignite...
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