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- Elon Musk Claims Tesla Residential Solar Tiles Will Cost Less, Last Longer Than Conventional Roofs
- Intel’s AI Future Banks On Nervana And Knights Mill Processors For 100-Fold Performance Boost
- Amazon Announces Enticing Alexa-Exclusive ‘Voice Deals’ For Echo Owners
- Huawei Honor 8 Review: A Stylish, Affordable Android Smartphone
- Samsung Extends Android 7.0 Nougat Testing To Galaxy S6, S6 Edge And Note 5
- Rare 20% Off Amazon Prime Membership, Up To 60% Off Amazon Black Friday Countdown And More
- Apple Announces $149 Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus ‘Touch Disease’
- Google Swings Account Banhammer On Pixel Owners Embroiled In Reseller Sales Tax Loophole
- Akamai Reports Global DDoS Attacks Surged 71 Percent During Q3 Thanks To Mirai Botnet
- Serious Linux Vulnerability Found By Just Holding Down The Enter Key For 70 Seconds
- Apple Reportedly Conducting Feasibility Study Of Trump's Vision Of The American Made iPhone
- SpaceX Files Application To Blanket Earth's Orbit With Over Four Thousand Internet Beaming Satellites
- Office Depot Accused Of Pushing Bogus Malware Removal Services On Customers To Meet Sales Quotas
- Microsoft Surface Studio Review Roundup: Beauty And Innovation Paired With Outdated Internals
- Cortana Adds Tracking Your To-Do Lists To Its Skills Repertoire In Windows 10
- Early Black Friday Deals On Computers, Online Courses, Bluetooth Wireless Headphones And More
- Qualcomm Bug Bounty Offers Up to $15,000 To Unearth Snapdragon SoC And Modem Exploits
- ASUS ROG GX800 Gaming Laptop Goes Bonkers With GeForce GTX 1080 SLI And Water Cooling
- FBI Forensics Lab Has Successfully Unlocked 87 Percent Of Devices Connected To Ongoing Cases
- Amazon Prime Falls To $79 On Friday To Celebrate ‘The Grand Tour’ Debut
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Elon Musk isn’t just content with shaking up the car market (Tesla) or the space industry (SpaceX). With the shareholder-approved acquisition of SolarCity, Musk is also looking to revolutionize solar energy in the United States.
Late last month, Musk unveiled textured quartz glass tiles that will be used in place...
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Intel is laying a roadmap for to advance artificial intelligence performance across the board. Nervana Systems, a company that Intel acquired just a few months ago, will play a pivotal role in the company’s efforts to make waves in an industry dominated by GPU-based solutions.
Intel’s Nervana chips incorporate...
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Online shopping may seem like the modern thing to do, but if you're moving your mouse and pecking away at your keyboard (or tapping on your touchscreen), you might already be behind the curve. That will be the case if voice shopping takes hold, as Amazon would like to see happen. From now until Monday, Amazon Prime...
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Electronics manufacturer, Huawei (pronounced "wah-WAY"), has been around for a very long time. It's the largest telecommunications company in the world, actually, though it doesn't have the same brand recognition in the US versus competitors like Apple, Samsung, or Motorola. We won't delve into all of the politics...
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Samsung earlier this month started inviting users to beta test Android 7.0 (Nougat) on their Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge devices, but those are not the only handsets it is focusing on. Earlier this week Samsung started cooking up Nougat for its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge devices, and now it has begun developing the...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go, we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all this Friday, we have deals on an Amazon Prime 1-Year Membership, a Dell Inspiron 3650 Intel Core i5-6400-based desktop system, and more. Full details for...
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Apple is offering to repair iPhone 6 Plus handsets that exhibit display flickering or are having multi-touch issues, though not for free as consumers had hoped. Instead, the "Multi-Touch Repair Program for iPhone 6 Plus," as Apple is calling it, is a new service that runs $149, assuming the screen is in working order...
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Many Pixel owners woke up this week to find that their Google account had not only been suspended, but their mail, photos, documents, and anything else linked to their Google identity had been lost. Google is punishing Pixel owners who took advantage of a tax loophole in order to purchase their phones at a reduced...
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We recently witnessed a new and disturbing trend in cyber security and that is the widespread hacking of Internet connected devices to initiate DDoS attacks on an unprecedented scale. That is the method that made possible the Mirai botnet that targeted security expert Brian Krebs and his security blog with 620...
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Security researchers have found a rather alarming vulnerability in Linux that could ultimately allow an attacker to copy, modify, or destroy the contents of a hard drive, along with with configure the network to exfiltrate data. That in and of itself is cause for concern, but the real harrowing part about this is how...
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Apple may be an American company, but the bulk of its products (save for the long-neglected Mac Pro, which is assembled in the United States) are manufactured in China. The relatively low cost of labor, coupled with premium pricing for devices like the iPhone, has allowed Apple to become one of the most profitable...
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When SpaceX wants to do something, you best believe it's going to be huge. Its latest task? Trying to convince the Federal Communications Commission to let it launch over 4,400 internet-beaming satellites into orbit. To put that into perspective, that's more satellites than the total number in use today.
As it...
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When services are provided for free, it's important to evaluate whether or not there's a major caveat that comes along with it. According to an investigation by CBS News, the free "PC Health" checkup provided by Office Depot carries a big one: you could be encouraged to shell out money to fix a nonexistent...
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The takeaways from two separate keynotes from Apple and Microsoft last month couldn’t have been any more different. Microsoft unveiled the 28-inch Surface Studio all-in-one and wowed those in the tech community with its articulating display and Surface Dial input accessory. Apple, on the other hand, drew scorn for its...
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Microsoft has taught Cortana a new skill just in time for the holiday shopping season. It's the ability to create and manage lists, something most of use do throughout the year and especially during the holiday months. After all, there are grocery items to buy for the big feast and presents to pick up for the kids...
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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 deal on Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Intel Core i5-5200U based laptop, up to 94% off Online Courses, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available below. For more Black Friday deals...
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Qualcomm is opening up a "vulnerability awards program," otherwise known as a bug bounty, in hopes that white hat hackers will root out security flaws in its Snapdragon family of processors, LTE modems, and related technologies, the company announced today. While rewarding security researchers for hunting bugs isn't...
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OK, ASUS is just showing off now! The company’s Republic of Gamers division just announced the GX800 gaming laptop which exudes excess at every corner. Just look at this beast: it weighs in at a massive 12.6 pounds, while its liquid-cooling module adds another 10.4 pounds to the mix.
Complementing its immense girth...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation made a big deal out of Apple's unwillingness to help it crack a locked iPhone 5c handset that was used by a terrorist in the deadly San Bernardino shooting, but it turns out it rarely needs assistance. Nine of out ten times, the FBI is successful in its attempts to unlock a secured...
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Do you hear that noise? It's the sound of the holiday shopping season getting underway and if you want to get a head start on the madness, you can treat yourself (or someone else) to a discounted Amazon Prime membership this Friday, November 18. The one day discount starts at 12:00 AM (Eastern) and ends at 11:59 PM...
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We hate to break it to you, but your PC is not as secure as you think. That remains true even if you lock your computer with a password. Should you leave your system unattended, it would be possible for someone to hack into it in less than a minute using a $5 Raspberry Pi device. The culprit doesn't even need advanced...
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For the past ten years, Google has made it possible to traverse and explore our planet using Google Earth. Since debuting a decade ago, Google Earth has racked up over 2 billion downloads, making it possible for people to visit places they may never have an opportunity to see in real life. Well, now Google is upping...
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