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- Microsoft Chooses Team Iron Man In Civil War, Enlists Stark Industries To Build Custom Xbox One
- Tinder Social Shows All Your Friends You're Just A Horn Dog
- HP Chromebook 13 Rocks Skylake Power, QHD+ Display And Brushed Aluminum Chassis
- Apple Employee Found Dead With 'Head Wound' In Cupertino Campus Conference Room
- Complete C# Coding Bootcamp On Sale In The HotHardware Shop
- Comcast Escapes FCC Wrath With 1TB Data Caps, Taunts Users With $50 Unlimited Data Money Grab
- Microsoft’s Naggy Windows 10 Upgrade Prompt Interrupts Meteorologist’s Weathercast
- Fallout 4 Mods And Creation Kit Arrive On PC, PlayStation 4 Support Won't Arrive Until June
- Dell PowerEdge T20 Intel Xeon E3 Server $369, 1-Year Sony PS Plus $40 And More
- Google, Ford, Uber, Volvo Form Pact To Spur Self-Driving Car Adoption
- Microsoft Remains Committed To Windows 10 Mobile Despite Cratering Lumia Sales
- Google Launches MODE Swappable Watch Bands For Android Wear Devices
- Ironically, Sony Meets Thief’s End As Multiple Copies Of Uncharted 4 Are Stolen
- Waze Navigation Exploit Allows Hackers To Sniff Your Digital Tailpipe While Driving
- Nintendo NX Gaming Console Global Launch Confirmed For March 2017
- Microsoft Offers A Free Lumia 950 With Purchase Of A Lumia 950 XL
- Apple Reports First Ever YoY iPhone Sales Decline And First Revenue Decline In 13 Years
- Intel CEO Envisions IoT, Data Centers, 5G Wireless As Antidote For Sagging PC Sales
- HTC One S9 Mid-Range Smartphone Brings 2GHz Helio X10 SoC And 5-inch 1080p Display
- Seagate Ships 10 Terabyte Helium Enterprise Hard Drive In Volume
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All News for April 2016
We’ve seen a number of special edition Xbox One consoles since its initial introduction over two years ago. However, Microsoft France has gone “Full Marvel” by enlisting the help of Tony Stark (better known as Iron Man) to design its latest Xbox One.
The newest Xbox One is emblazoned with Stark Industries logos and...
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Tinder, a popular mobile app that purports to help "meet interesting people nearby," is testing a new feature called Tinder Social. The concept behind Tinder Social is to bring together groups of friends and it works the same way as finding dates—swipe and match with other groups that are also headed out to do something interesting. That's
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Hewlett-Packard is fully committed to Google’s Chrome OS, and that dedication to the platform extends to today’s announcement of the Chromebook 13. The Chromebook 13 is quite the looker with sleek styling, premium materials (like a brushed aluminum chassis that measures just 12.9mm thick) and sixth generation Intel...
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Authorities are calling the death of a male employee at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California an "isolated incident." Beyond that, public details surrounding the incident are scarce—officers responded to a call yesterday morning to the discovery a body in a conference room with what appeared to be a gunshot...
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If you’re interested in bolstering you coding skills with some C#, we’ve got a sale running on the HotHardware Shop that’ll be of interest. We’ve got a Complete C# Coding Bootcamp, with 11 Courses and 89+ Hours of Training, on sale for only $69. That’s a discount of roughly 90%...
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Comcast has sparked the ire of customers across the country with its restrictive broadband data caps. Earlier this week, we reported that during the first half of 2015, Comcast received 863 complaints about its data caps. However, for the second half of the year, those complaints skyrocketed to nearly 8,000 as it...
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If you’re a Windows 7 or Windows 8 user that hasn’t yet upgraded to Windows 10, it stands to reason that you’ve been bombarded at some point to upgrade. Microsoft is really pushing its free upgrade to Windows 10 and is trying every trick in the book to get users to take advantage of its latest and greatest operating...
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If you’re PC gamers looking to “Get your Mod on” in Fallout 4, the time is now. Bethesda this week announced that an open beta is now available that adds Mod support for its popular title. Bethesda said that Mod support would come in April and thankfully, the company stuck to its word.
For those that want to take a...
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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 PowerEdge T20 server, an ASUS F556UA 15.6" 1080p Core i5-6200U based notebook, a Sony PlayStation Plus 1 Year Membership Subscription, and more. Full details for all of...
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Where autonomous driving is concerned, two things are certain: it's going to be a big part of our future, and companies like Google want that future to get here as soon as possible. Last month, we reported on Google's proposal to the government which highlighted reasons why the allowance of autonomous vehicles on our...
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When it comes to smartphone operating systems, there’s Android and iOS — and then, there’s everybody else. BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile are both in the low single digits (or lower) and have failed to gain any significant traction in the marketplace in recent years.
Despite the fact that Windows...
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One of the neat things about Android Wear is that manufacturers have stepped to the plate with different physical designs to suit a variety of style preferences. Android Wear smartwatch owners also have access to a host of watch faces. However, if there's a downside, it's that swapping out wristbands hasn't been as...
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There's already been a fair amount of drama surrounding Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, a PlayStation 4 exclusive and the fourth and final installment in the Uncharted series starring Nathan Drake that's seen numerous delays. At long last, it was finally set to launch on May 10, 2016, though an untold number of copies...
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If you’re a Waze user, listen up! A new exploit has been found that could make it easy for hackers to track your location whenever you’re using the popular Google-owned navigation app. The exploit uses an HTTPS proxy to carry out a “man-in-the-middle” attack to track Waze users in real-time.
Researchers at...
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Nintendo's been working on a mysterious new game console codenamed NX, one that's been the topic of various speculation and rumors over the past year. As if any additional intrigue was needed, Nintendo revealed in its quarter financial report it will launch next year and that it will be a "brand-new concept." Let the...
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The market hasn't shown a ton of interest in Microsoft's Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL handsets so the Redmond outfit is making an offer it hopes customers will have a tougher time refusing. If you purchase an unlocked Lumia 950 XL smartphone from the Microsoft Store, Microsoft will throw in an unlocked Lumia 950 handset...
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All good things must come to an end, and for Apple, that means its enviable winning streak when it comes to its quarterly earnings. Apple today reported its fiscal Q2 2016 results and it represented the first time that the company has witnessed a year-over-year sales decline for its popular iPhones. Apple sold 51.2...
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One week ago, Intel took the drastic step of laying off 12,000 employees, representing 11 percent of the company’s workforce by mid-2017. While we are always saddened to hear about such wide-scale layoffs in the tech industry, the writing has been on the wall as PC sales have been on a downward trajectory for...
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We were pleasantly surprised by HTC’s latest entry into the flagship Android smartphone market: the HTC 10. That smartphone packs a Snapdragon 820 processor, 5.2-inch QHD display, and a chiseled exterior design. Now the Taiwanese device maker is turning its attention to the mid-range market with the new HTC One...
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Seagate first revealed its 10TB enterprise-class hard drives to us back in January, and at the time, the storage monsters were being sampled at Alibaba and Huawei. Now, those same drives, which Seagate claims are the “highest capacity drives available worldwide,” have entered regular production and are currently...
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Hackers Out, Offer For Sale Private Info Of Over 1 Million Users Of Beautiful People Dating Web Site
It's beginning to look a lot like no website on Earth can be trusted with our important data, as attackers are attracted to any service that has a huge number of users. They're even attracted to websites that seek out attractiveness, apparently, as BeautifulPeople.com has had its mammoth user database stolen. Are you...
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Someone posted a list to Pastebin containing compromised account credentials belonging to a relatively small number of Spotify users. The list, which is few hundred names deep, contains usernames, passwords, emails, account type, and other details, seemingly suggesting the site has been hacked.
The accounts appear...
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