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- 61 Percent Of Drivers Admit Texting While Driving Says AT&T
- NVIDIA Releases Game-Ready GeForce WHQL Drivers For The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Insane Apple Accessory Pricing Continues With $39 iPhone Lightning Dock
- Apple Snuffed HDTV Plans In 2014, Carl Icahn Says Otherwise
- Toruk AP10 Drone With HD Camera On Sale In The HotHardware Shop
- Russia Eyes Sailfish OS To Loosen Death Grip From Apple iOS, Google Android
- NovaKing Retires, Shutters Popular and Illegal EZTV Torrent Distribution
- $480 Dell XPS 8700 Desktops, 20% off iTunes Codes, And More For Gadget Lovers
- Microsoft Clarifies Upgrade Paths For All Windows 10 Editions
- CEO John Chen Says BlackBerry’s Smartphone Will One Day Become Profitable
- Automatic Transforms Your Car Into Rolling Smart App Platform
- Microsoft To Host Tournament Celebrating 25 Years Of Solitaire
- Apple, Google Lead Tech Coalition Urging Obama To Denounce Software Backdoors
- Apple Debuts 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Force Touch, Cheaper 27-Inch 5K Retina iMac
- FTC Requests Protections For Valuable RadioShack Customer Data
- AMD Details High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM Tech, Pushes Over 100GB/s Per Stack
- Ricoh Develops Power-Generating Rubber Material, Looks Like ‘Fruit Rollup’
- LG’s Smartphone Family Expands With G4 Stylus And G4c
- AT&T Quietly Launches 4.7-Inch Curved Screen LG Escape2 For $180 Off-Contract
- Civilization: Beyond Earth Embraces Rich, Alien Seas With ‘Rising Tide’ Expansion
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All News for May 2015
We've long heard about the dangers of text messaging while behind the wheel, yet according to a survey conducted by AT&T, it's still the most prevalent activity by those who admit to engaging in smartphone activities when driving. And how many admitted such behavior? Seven out of 10 surveyed, a staggering number made even more frightening
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The Witcher 3:Wild Hunt is available today, and it’s riding a wave of positive reviews. If you’re picking the game up for PC and you have an NVIDIA graphics card, you’ll want to download the latest driver before you fire up the game. NVIDIA released a new driver update with support for the game.
NVIDIA GeForce...
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In addition to the revised 15-inch MacBook Pro and 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina Display news from this morning, Apple has introduced a new accessory for all Lightning-equipped iPhones: the iPhone Lightning Dock. The addition of the dock is surprising for two reasons. First, why did it take so long for Apple to release...
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For years it seemed that every discussion on Apple's new product lines and innovation required mention of an eventual Apple iTV (this writer's moniker for such a device, and not to be confused with that amorphous not-a-TV Cupertino-created product with 'TV' in its name, Apple TV). The company had stylishly cracked digital music delivery, sold
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If you’ve been thinking about picking up your very own drone, we’ve got a good deal running on the HotHardware Shop for the next five days. The Toruk AP10 Drone with HD Camera is on sale for 6% off, which brings the price down to under $680. More details and a link to this deal are available...
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Like China, officials in Russia aren't happy that so much of the nation's technology is reliant on software that originates from the United States. In an effort to change that, the country's minister for communications and mass media, Nikolai Nikiforov, reportedly announced plans to develop a brand new mobile...
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It's a day of mourning for TV show pirates, as one of the web's most popular portals for illegally downloading TV torrents -- EZTV -- has effectively been shut down. No, it wasn't the U.S. government that swooped in and ended the operation. Instead, EZTV's demise is the result of a hostile takeover.
According to...
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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 Dell XPS 8700 Intel Core i5-4460 based desktop system, an HP ENVY 14t Core i5 based laptop with Beats Audio, a Jabra Move Wireless Bluetooth Headset and a whole lot more. Full...
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When Microsoft first announced Windows 10 in late January, we learned that the operating system would be a free upgrade for customers currently running Windows 7 and Windows 8.x. Considering how much of a leap that Windows 10 is over Windows 8.1 — and especially Windows 7 — this move represents an excellent...
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BlackBerry isn’t finished yet, and a comeback is in the works. That’s the word from BlackBerry’s CEO, who not only thinks that the ailing company has the potential to rebuild, but believes that the BlackBerry smartphone will be integral to its success.
Believe it or not, BlackBerry managed to turn a profit in Q4 of...
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An auto startup called Automatic is turning to third-party developers to help turn your dumb car into a smart one. The way it plans to do that is through a new app store for its car adapter, a small device that plugs into almost every car manufactured since 1996. By partnering with over 20 third-party developers, the...
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Whether or not you'd consider yourself a "Solitaire Master", if you enjoy the classic card game at all, you may wish to pay attention to a competition Microsoft is going to be hosting next month. This competition is how the company has chosen to celebrate the fact that solitaire first made an appearance in Windows a...
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Apple and Google are part of a coalition consisting of more than 140 tech firms, cryptologists, and civil society groups who have come together to urge President Barack Obama to shut down any government proposals that would require smartphones and other communications to have so-called backdoors for law enforcement to...
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The early reports were off by a day, but Apple has indeed refreshed its 15-inch MacBook Pro and iMac Retina lineups. You won’t find any external changes to tip you off to the changes that lurk beneath either product line, but they are still quite notable.
As previously reported, the 15-inch MacBook Pro has gained a...
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Give RadioShack credit, the iconic electronics chain lasted nearly a century and survived part of the Internet era before ultimately filing for bankruptcy. However, the chain's impressive 94-year run doesn't give it a free pass to treat customer data like an asset, or so that's the stance the Federal Trade Commission...
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Over the past few months, a number of details regarding AMD’s next-generation Radeon 300-series graphics cards has trickled out, even though the cards aren’t due to launch for quite some time. While official details of the actual GPUs that will be used to power the cards are still scarce (though rumors abound), AMD...
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Is that a Fruit Rollup in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Although it looks like the tasty treat that I remember fondly from my childhood, Ricoh truly has an innovative new rubber material on display which can turn pressure and vibrations into electricity.
OK, now I know what you’re thinking — rubber...
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LG has been going full-bore with the smartphone announcements lately. The company impressed us all with its Qualcomm Snapdragon 808-powered G4 flagship, which is shipping this week worldwide, and just last week introduced the Lancet Windows Phone (which unfortunately is a decidedly budget-oriented device). And just yesterday, AT&T quietly
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May has been a big month for LG smartphone launches. LG Mobile released its budget-friendly Windows-based Lancet late last week and then announced that it is rolling out the flagship, Android-based LG G4 in the coming days. As it turns out, the company also gave carriers the green light to sell the LG Escape2, which...
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Seven months after the release of Civilization: Beyond Earth, the game's first expansion pack has been announced. Called Rising Tide, this expansion pack revolves around water, water, and more water. Players will be able to colonize and explore vast oceans, while encountering new leaders and aliens, and producing...
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Welcome back for a Monday installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a fifth-generation Intel Core i7-powered Dell Inspiron 15 (7000-Series) with AMD R7 M270 graphics, a Dell Venue 8 7000 Android Lollipop tablet, and an LG 50LF6000 50-Inch 1080p 120Hz...
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ASUS’ red hot ZenFone 2 is about to make its big U.S. debut, and we can hardly wait. More specifically, the ZenFone 2 will launch tomorrow in two variants, both of which will be come from the factory unlocked.
The cheaper model will come standard with a 1.83GHz Intel Atom Z3560 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of...
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