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Latest News - May 2015
- IBM-Funded Study Cites Data Breaches On Average Cost Companies $3.8 Million
- Oculus And Facebook Acquire Surreal Vision For Deep Dive Into Augmented Reality
- Apple Kills Discoveryd Process In OS X After Torturing Yosemite Users For Months
- Latest iOS Bug Crashes iPhone Messaging App With Small String Of Text
- Microsoft Signs 20 Manufacturers To Ship Android Tablets Preloaded With Office
- ASRock X99 Extreme 11 Review: The Most Extreme X99 Motherboard?
- Google Cuts Price Of Nexus Player To $70 Ahead Of I/O Conference
- Free Linux Academy 30-Day Subscription In The HotHardware Shop
- Google Does More Good, Funds $20 Million ‘Impact Challenge’ Helping People With Disabilities
- Hackers Infiltrate IRS Systems Stealing Info On 100,000 U.S. Taxpayers
- Flagship OnePlus Two To ‘Shake Up’ Android Smartphone Market June 1
- Lenovo Broadens Consumer Laptop Portfolio With Z41, Z51, And Affordable IdeaPad 100
- Yet Another Report Asserts Force Touch Will Grace iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus
- Google Prepping 5.2 And 5.7-Inch Nexus Smartphones For 2015 Launch
- Father’s Day Gift Ideas From The HotHardware Shop
- GNU Creator Labels Windows And OS X As Malware, Trashes IoT Movement
- Samsung Z1 Tizen Smartphone Scoring High Marks In Emerging Markets
- 29% Off Dell UP2414Q UltraSharp Monitor, $247.99 Samsung 32” HDTVs And More TV Deals
- Duke Researchers Enable Graphics-Rich Cloud Gaming Without Chewing Up Mobile Bandwidth
- Cortana, Windows 10 Integration Coming To iOS And Android Phones
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All News for May 2015
Consider it an unfortunate sign of the times we live in that companies have to set aside enormous funds to contend with the cost of cyber related crimes. We're not talking chump change here -- according to a study by security firm Ponemon Institute that was funded by International Business Machines, the average cost...
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News on the Oculus front has been coming in at a rapid pace in recent weeks. We’ve learned that the Oculus Rift will ship to consumers in early 2016, we’ve seen a look at the device in its final form, and we’ve learned about minimum system requirements (OS X and Linux users are SOL at this point).
Today, we’re...
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Apple's OS X "Yosemite" brought a lot to the table, and while almost all of it has been good, there has been a stick in the mud. That stick is called "discoveryd", and relates to how the OS handles its networking duties. Since the release of Yosemite, many users have dealt with serious network stability issues, such...
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Imagine that without any misguided action or behavior of your own your iOS device were to crash, simply as the result of receiving a text string via your iPhone or iPad's Messages app. Next, imagine that after this "What the heck!??!!" event (and device reboot, of course) you subsequently could not even open the...
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Expect to see a lot more of Microsoft Office, even if you prefer Android devices. Microsoft announced today that has struck deals with 20 OEMs to put Microsoft Office and Skype on Android tablets. That’s in addition to Dell, Samsung, eight other OEMs and Pegatron, which Microsoft partnered with earlier this year to...
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Intel's X99 chipset, aka Wellsburg, is the company’s latest chipset for the high-end desktop market segment. Motherboards making use of the chipset have been readily available since last summer of 2014. Still, it took some time for motherboard manufacturers to kick out boards which can better take advantage of the...
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Patience isn't just a virtue, it's also a money saving tactic. More evidence of that comes in the form of a $20 price cut to the Nexus Player in the Google Store, which brings the total down to $79 with free shipping. Tack on another $40 if you also want the Gamepad, an optional accessory that isn't on sale. It also...
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We’ve got another great deal running in the HotHardware Shop. Simply log into the shop and you can get a 30-day subscription to Linux Academy for free. If you’ve ever wanted to lean the ins-and-outs of an alternative OS like Linux, here’s your chance to get started...
Linux Academy offers high-quality, self-paced...
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Google catches a lot of heat over privacy concerns and its business practices, but give the company credit, it spends a lot of money on philanthropic efforts. That includes $20 million that the company is putting up in the form of grant funding for the Google Impact Challenge, an initiative that's intended to help...
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Show of hands, who actually likes paying taxes? Anyone? It's not one of our favorite tasks either, and to add insult to injury, a band of advanced hackers reportedly infiltrated the Internal Revenue Service's records to collect personally identifiable information from over 100,000 taxpayers. It's believed that the...
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We already knew that OnePlus was planning to release a new flagship phone sometime in third quarter of this year, but now we have a date -- June 1. That's the date OnePlus indicated in a Twitter post along with a promise to "shake up the tech industry," which we take to mean the OnePlus Two, the much anticipated...
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Lenovo has been dominating the PC sales chart for the past few years thanks to an aggressive pricing strategy and generally rock solid products. The Chinese OEM is hoping to extend its lead in the consumer space with the release of a few new notebooks aimed at the consumer market: The Z41, Z51, and IdeaPad 100.
The...
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Where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire. And with regards to Force Touch on Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus refresh, you might as well label it a 4-alarm fire. The Wall Street Journal kicked off the festivities in early March, proclaiming that Force Touch would arrive on the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. KGI...
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Over the past few days, we’ve been hearing quite a bit about what Google has in store for 2015. Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend alone, we’ve learned that Android M has the internal designation “Macadamia Nut Cookie,” and that the operating system will bring native fingerprint authentication along with guaranteed...
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Father’s Day is right around the corner and we’ve got a number of cool gift ideas on sale in the HotHardware Shop, including the Blumoo Bluetooth Universal Remote, a Limited-Edition Code Black HD Camera Drone, a Veho Retro Leather Bluetooth Speaker, and a ShaveTech USB Travel Razor...
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Most people think of malware as being disruptive, unintended software. Short for "malicious software", malware explains itself pretty well, but as GNU founder Richard Stallman can attest, our interpretations of what makes software "malware" can vary greatly.
For Stallman, who just penned his insights for The...
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Samsung had big plans for its home brewed Tizen operating system. The idea was to storm the mobile world with its own OS and become less reliant on Google's Android platform in the process. It was an ambitious goal that was made even more difficult to attain due to delays and a seeming lack of interest, though there's...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, courtesy of the good folks at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell UP2414Q UltraSharp 24" 3840x2160 IPS Monitor, a Samsung UN32J5003 32" 1080p LED LCD HDTV, an Acer G257HL bmidx 25in 1080p LED LCD Monitor, and a whole lot more. Full...
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Cloud gaming is a technology that's already here, but with high bandwidth requirements and data caps still a thing that mobile users have to contend with, there's definitely room for improvement. The question is, how? Researchers at Duke University and Microsoft Research have been working together to answer that very...
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Microsoft seems serious about accommodating Android and iOS user when Windows 10 comes out later this year. The company announced this morning that it has an app that will help users access Windows 10 and Office features on their smartphones, regardless of platform.
At first glance, the Phone Companion app looks...
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If you're old enough to remember The Jetsons, a cartoon series that ran from 1962 to 1988, you probably thought we'd all be taking to the skies in flying cars by now. We're not there yet, but in place of flying cars, automakers and wealthy tech companies are testing out autonomous vehicles. Several prototypes already exist, including Audi's
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Fully baked-in Android Auto support is officially kicking off today with Hyundai’s mainstream Sonata midsize sedan (third-party head units began supporting Android Auto earlier this year). Drivers of 2015 or newer Sonatas can take their vehicles to their nearest dealership to have their existing infotainment system...
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