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- Colorful B150 Motherboard Integrates Onboard GeForce GTX 1070
- Xbox One Anniversary Update Preview Brings Cortana Assistant And Improved Sharing
- Pebble Core 3G IoT Wearable Will Ship With Amazon Alexa Voice Support
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Packs Beefy 4000mAh Battery, AT&T Tosses In Free Gear S2 Smartwatch
- Intel Apollo Lake Processors To Target 2-in-1 Convertibles And Outperform Braswell By 30 Percent
- Fallout 4 Far Harbor Performance Issues On PS4 Can Be Fixed By Re-Downloading DLC
- After Demolishing Lee Sedol, Google DeepMind AI Targets World Number 1 Go Player
- Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest And Twitter Accounts Hacked Via LinkedIn Password Breach
- Verizon's 'Can You Hear Me Now' Guy Defects To Struggling Sprint
- Intel Announces Xeon E7 v4 Processors For Mission-Critical Computing And The Cloud
- Bose Knows Best Taking Its Premium Noise-Canceling Headphones And Buds Wireless
- NVIDIA CEO Huang No Longer Interested In Producing Tegra SoCs For Smartphones
- Facebook Kills Mobile Web Messaging To Force Users Onto Messenger App
- US Navy Augments Underwater Reality With ‘Iron Man’ Helmet-Mounted HUD For Divers
- Star Wars Battlefront 3 Fan Remake 'Galaxy In Turmoil' Approved For Release On Steam
- Windows 10 Nagware Hits Central African Republic, Potentially Putting Lives At Risk
- Windows 10 Usage Double During Six-Month Period, But Users Ignore Edge Browser
- Google's DeepMind Is Developing An AI Kill Switch To Prevent A Skynet Apocalypse
- Tony Fadell Leaves Google's Nest, Hands CEO Reins To Marwan Fawaz
- Facebook Dismisses Rumors That It Eavesdrops On Your Phone’s Mic To Target Ads
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All News for June 2016
Building your own computer can be an extremely satisfying experience, but that doesn't mean that anyone has to shrug off potential improvements that would make that experience even smoother, right? Have you ever wanted to, for example, make the motherboard and graphics card into a single unit? If you didn't, the folks...
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We first brought you news last week that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update would be coming to the Xbox One shortly in preview form. Well, Microsoft today not only officially announced that the update will land this summer for everyone, but that it will actually be available in preview form for Xbox Preview...
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Pebble Core backers on Kickstarter are getting a little something extra. They will be first to experience Amazon Alexa on Pebble’s infinitely hackable ultra-wearable when shipping begins in early 2017. The company claims to be bringing “Amazon’s acclaimed voice services to a fully-independent, 3G-connected wearable...
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Rumors of Samsung’s rugged Galaxy S7 Active have been making the rounds for months, but the South Korean electronics giant and AT&T today officially announced the follow-up to the Galaxy S6 Active. As its name implies, the Galaxy S7 Active uses the garden variety Galaxy S7 as a starting point, then throws everything...
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One of the fastest growing segments right now is the 2-in-1 detachable category. These systems offer the portability of a tablet with the full functionality of a laptop in a single form factor, and they're proving much more popular than standalone tablets. To ensure ongoing interest in 2-in-1 devices, Intel is...
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Once upon a time, the land of Far Harbor was shrouded in a patchy, low framerate fog? Bethesda recommends that users who have experienced performance issues with Fallout 4 Far Harbor re-download the DLC.
The issue was particularly prevalent with consoles, especially the PS4. The framerates would actually drop to...
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Wondering what's next for AlphaGo, the computer that bested South Korea's Lee Sedol, the world champion in the ancient Chinese board game Go? The artificial intelligence program developed from Google's DeepMind division will go up against Ke Jie, China's top Go grandmaster, sometime in March of next year.
This is...
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It doesn't matter who you are or how much money you make, if you don't practice good security habits on the web you're likely to get hacked. Case in point, Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire whiz kid and co-founder of Facebook, the most popular social media site on the planet, had his Twitter and Pinterest accounts...
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For nearly a decade, Verizon ran a series of ads featuring actor Paul Marcarelli delivering the tagline, "Can you hear me now?" It's still a phrase that's familiar to many people, but in case you haven't heard, it's 2016 and apparently "every network is great," or so says the former Verizon pitchman who's made the...
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Back in March, Intel launched its Xeon Processor E5 v4 family of products, based on the Broadwell-EP core. We had the chance to evaluate a dual Xeon E5-2697 v4-based system with a total of 36 cores (72 Threads) and detailed some of the changes and new features in Broadwell-EP. As powerful as that 36-core system was...
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If you mention the name Bose to a group of audiophiles, you’re sure to get a broad range of reactions. You’ll have those that swear by the brand, and those that see its products as the ultimate in marketing hype (and everyone in between). Whatever the case, Bose does put out some pretty impressive hardware and that is...
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It's been rumored for some time that NVIDIA had lost interest in the mobile phone business, and that's something company co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed during his company's presentation at Computex.
None of this is much of a surprise, as the company's Tegra SoC hasn't found itself inside of a...
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For some folks, Facebook's Messenger mobile app has felt like a stick in the mud. Prior to a couple of years ago, messaging people through Facebook was very easy - you could either load up the Facebook app, the Facebook website in a browser, or, if you were so inclined, use the dedicated Facebook Messenger app. Today...
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VR and AR companies might have a huge focus on gaming right now, but both technologies can be extremely useful in many other practical, real-world applications as well. The Navy underscored this recently with the unveiling of a new augmented reality heads-up display that doesn't look quite as sleek at consumer VR...
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Galaxy in Turmoil, the fan made remake of what would have been Battlefront III (had Electronic Arts not cancelled the project) might at one time seemed like a long shot to see the light of day, but now the odds may have tipped in its favor. That's because Valve has agreed to host the freebie release on its wildly...
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It's been quite the month for Windows 10, for both good and not so good reasons. On the plus side, the OS continues to grow in popularity; conversely, part of the reason might be due to the fact that the company has been outright nagging most of its customers to upgrade. But being asked to upgrade is one thing; it's...
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Microsoft still hopes to have Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices within its first 2-3 years. That's an attainable goal, though the challenge Microsoft faces is keeping the upgrade momentum going, particularly once the freebie period for Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 users ends this July. And momentum Windows 10...
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When Jeopardy game show champion Ken Jennings made light of the beating he took at the hand of IBM's Watson supercomputer, by noting "I for one welcome our new computer overlords," not many at the time took Ken's musing for much more than a light-hearted pat on the back for IBM's big data analytics and AI ambassador...
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We can’t say that we didn't see this one coming. There’s been trouble brewing in Alphabet’s Nest home automation division for months. The company has been dogged by reports of missed revenue targets, internal fighting amongst executives, and a less than stellar acquisition of security camera manufacturer Dropcam...
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It's been said time and again that if you're not paying for something, then you're the product. That's an oversimplification of how things work, but there's also some truth to the statement, especially in the social media world where services like Twitter and Facebook are free to use. Be that as it may, Facebook...
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Leaks sure have come a long way, haven't they? It used to be that sometimes, a leak would occur when someone in a privileged position spotted something of interest on some paper, while other times, we might have even been blessed to see a photo that someone managed to snap. But that's all old-school. Today, with huge...
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As we’ve seen in our recent review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, Pascal is kicking some serious butt and shows no signs of taking orders from anyone. Luckily, plenty of NVIDIA’s board partners have lined up to produce graphics cards based on Pascal and here we are today staring at Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 1080 G1...
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