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Latest News - May 2016
- Oculus And Samsung Announce Gear VR Headset Crests 1 Million Unit Sales Milestone
- Google Gboard Keyboard For iPhone Has Its Own Built-in Search Box
- Opera Browser Boasts Stingy Power Saver Mode, Extends Battery Life 50 Percent Compared To Chrome
- Pay What You Want: Ethical Hacker & Pentester Pro Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- NVIDIA And id Software Showcase Exclusive Gameplay Footage Of DOOM Running On Vulkan API
- Nintendo 2DS Handheld Console Sinks To $80 May 20th, Preloaded With Mario Kart 7
- Tesla Model S Owner Claims Vehicle Went Rogue Causing An Accident By Itself, Factory Says RTFM
- Micron GDDR5X Memory Now In Mass Production To Fuel GeForce GTX 1080
- Titanfall 2 To Deliver Mech-Infused Cross-Platform Destruction And Mayhem This Fall
- WhatsApp Desktop App With End-to-End Encryption Comes To OS X And Windows
- Dell Core i3 Laptop just $329, LG 32" Smart TV with $100 Gift Card and More
- Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14342 Simplifies Edge Extensions And Ditches Wi-Fi Sense
- Slack Messaging App Takes On Facebook Connect With Slack Sign In
- Android Continues Global Market Share Domination Trampling Windows Phone And iOS
- BioWare Delays Space Epic Mass Effect Andromeda Until Early 2017
- NVIDIA Fallout 4 Mod Contest Offers Up Custom Fallout 4 PC And $10,000 For Grand Prize
- Amazon Challenges YouTube With Video Direct, Showers Cash On Content Creators
- Watch Blue Origin’s Surreal Onboard View Of New Shepard Rocket Booster Landing
- Windows 10 UWP Games Finally Gain FreeSync, G-SYNC, Unlocked Frame Rates
- HTC Vive VR Kit Review: Experiences And Performance
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All News for May 2016
Much of the hype and attention in the virtual space is currently focused on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and understandably so—those two headsets are the big dogs in VR right now. However, they're not the only solutions. Remember Samsung's Gear VR headset? It's powered by Oculus and it's doing pretty...
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Google would like it if everyone used its search engine (and most people do), and what better way to boost search traffic than to make its most popular product even more accessible. That’s the idea with its latest application for iOS: Gboard. Gboard is an iPhone keyboard that puts the power of Google search right at...
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One of the key metrics when evaluation a laptop is battery life. For some people, it's the most important measurement, or at least right up there with overall performance. But what if you could dramatically improve performance just by using a specific web browser? Opera Software is testing a new power saving mode in a...
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If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to code, secure systems, or admnisister Linux servers, we’ve got a cool promo running in the HotHardware Shop that may lay the foundation. For a limited time, you can pay whatever you want for an Ethical Hacker & Pentester Pro Bundle that offers over 148 hours of training, rife with...
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Late last week, we provided you with some awesome footage of Doom running on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 using the Vulkan API. Granted, we were filming this footage using our own camera, so it’s not exactly clean, crisp and impeccably detailed. Well, the folks at NVIDIA and id Software want to make sure that...
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The Nintendo 2DS continues its ascent downwards with respect to pricing. The portable gaming console originally debuted October 12th, 2013 for $129.99, but had that price trimmed by $30 last August. Nintendo is making another pricing change today, taking the 2DS down to an even more palatable $79.99. At that price...
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When automobile accidents happen, the first thing anyone wants to do is assign blame. Who was driving? Who was texting instead of paying attention to the road? Who was speeding and blew through a stoplight? But how do you assess blame if no one was in the driver’s seat at the time of the accident?
Well, for one...
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Are you excited for NVIDIA's latest and greatest GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080? If so, imagine how the hard-working engineers at Micron feel, as their GDDR5X memory has become part of what makes NVIDIA's new Pascal-based cards perform at such a high level.
As NVIDIA's co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said at his...
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We learned this morning that Mass Effect: Andromeda is being delayed until 2017, but it looks as though Electronic Arts its right on track for a 2016 debut for Titanfall 2. The mech-infused game is scheduled to land during fiscal Q3 according to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, which means that it should blast onto B&M and...
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There's nothing wrong with showing up fashionably late to the party, and at long last, WhatsApp has decided to don the desktop with its presence. The wildly popular messaging application that's owned by Facebook announced the availability of its first desktop app for PCs running Windows 8 and higher and Macs running...
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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 Inspiron 15 3000 Series notebook, an LG 32LF595B 32" Smart TV, a Solove Titan Ultra-slim 20,000mAh Dual-USB Port external battery, and more. Full details for all of today’s...
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Microsoft continues to serve up fresh looks of future Windows 10 updates through its Insider Program, and for Windows Insiders who are subscribed to the Fast ring, there's a new build available, build 14342. Among other things, the newest build introduces updates for extensions in Microsoft's Edge browser.
Rather...
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Slack, the popular real-time messaging tool, is making it easy for users to register with and log into other services and applications. It's doing that through "Sign in with Slack," a feature that ties a person's Slack account to external services so they can use their same login information. Sounds familiar, doesn't...
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The latest global smartphone sales data is out from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, and things are looking decidedly rosy for market leader Android. Android’s growth is accelerating, with iOS and especially Windows Phone taking the brunt of its punches.
For the first quarter of 2016, Android showed remarkable gains in...
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Fans of the Mass Effect franchise are going to have to wait just a little bit longer for the fourth title in BioWare's third-person sci-fi shooter, Mass Effect: Andromeda, which the developer confirmed has been delayed until "early 2017." In the meantime, BioWare promises another update at the EA Play conference on...
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Late last month, Bethesda released the Creation Kit as a free download for those that want to take a stab at building Mods for Fallout 4. The Creation Kit isn’t just some second-rate tool that was tossed at gamers; instead, these are the same tools that the developers used to make Fallout 4 and its DLC content like...
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If you're a content creator tied to YouTube and are itchin' for a change, Amazon's brand-new 'Video Direct' service is probably worth checking out. Amazon Video Direct is going to be a viable competitor to YouTube, but offers a little more flexibility with how you manage your content. And, because Amazon is behind all...
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Reusability is the name of game with rockets from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Back in early April, the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket booster made its third suborbital flight (reaching a height of 339,138 feet) and successfully touched down on its landing pad at the end of the mission.
At the time, we were...
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Microsoft is angling to make Windows 10 “the” destination for gamers, as we’ve witnessed with increased crossover between PC and Xbox One gaming. The software giant is taking another step towards appeasing hardcore gamers by finally supporting a few features that have been missing from games purchased via the Windows...
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A few weeks back, we gave you our initial take on the retail-ready HTC Vive virtual reality kit. While we were able to explain the Vive’s specifications, setup, configuration, and give some opinions on the experience, at that point, we hadn’t had the kit long enough to form any solid, concrete opinions. We had experience with multiple versions...
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We always knew Pascal was going to be a big deal, but we couldn't have predicted that NVIDIA would come out of the gate with a pair of graphics cards that are each faster than a Titan X, one of which will be priced at $379 when it debuts later this month. Now consider this—as exciting as the GeForce GTX 1070 and...
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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 UltraSharp U2417HWi 24" Monitor, a 240GB PNY CS1311 2.5" SATA III SSD, a Dell Optiplex 9020 Micro Desktop, and much more. Full details for all of today’s deals are available...
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