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Latest News - June 2016
- Amazon’s Powerful Alexa Artificial Intelligence Engine Has Learned 1000 Skills
- Dell Inspiron 15 i7-6500U Laptop Under $650, Bundled Gift Card With Dell P2415Q 4K Monitor And More
- Intel CEO Krzanich Gets Cold Feet, Cancels Previously Scheduled Donald Trump Fundraiser
- Google's Horn Honking Algorithm Instills Robo Road Rage In Its Self-Driving Cars
- Microsoft HoloLens Now Capable Of Augmenting Your Reality With Outlook Mail And Calendar Apps
- SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Bats For Both Teams With USB-A And USB-C Connectors
- Motorola Bundles Moto X Pure 64GB With Moto 360 Sport For $399
- Samsung Unveils Gear Fit2 Fitness Tracker And Gear IconX Premium Smart Earbuds
- Minecraft Hits Milestone As Mojang Confirms 100 Million Copies Sold To Date
- HP Elite X3 Windows 10 Mobile Phone Breaks Cover At Computex With Fingerprint Reader
- Roccat Suora Mechanical Keyboard Goes Frameless For A Unique Gaming Experience
- Google's Project Magenta Machine-Learning AI Just Produced Its First Song With TensorFlow
- Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet Gains An Aluminum Enclosure, 64GB Storage Option
- Dell Latitude 13 7370 Review: A Sleek Business-Class Ultrabook
- Dell Optiplex 3020 Micro Desktop Now $389, Under $400 Acer B276HK 27” 4K Monitor And More
- Elon Musk Claims That One AI Company In Particular Gives Him Skynet-Tinged Nightmares
- Google Makes It Easier To Locate A Lost Android Phone Using The My Account Feature
- Valve Celebrates Selling 500,000 Steam Controllers By Discounting Them To $35
- Microsoft Sends Out Xbox One Invites For Windows 10 Anniversary Update Preview
- Facebook Unveils DeepText Learning Engine With ‘Near-Human’ Language Comprehension
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All News for June 2016
We’re not sure that many people expected great things to come from Amazon’s Echo speaker when it was announced back in late 2014. After all, a voice-activated speaker seemed like a superfluous gadget in our increasingly crowded digital lives. However, Echo, which is powered by the Alexa engine, has become one of...
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The weekend is almost here, but before we go, we’ve got some HOT deals to share with you from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on a Dell Inspiron 15 (5559) laptop with Skylake, a Vilros Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate Starter Kit, and Acer Aspire E5 15.6" laptop, and more. Full details for...
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It looks like Intel CEO Brian Krzanich wants to “Make America Great Again”, but can't quite get the ball rolling. Krzanich was planning to hold a fundraiser for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States, on Thursday night at his house in Atherton, California. The event, which...
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Part of being a safe driver is knowing when to use a car horn and to what degree. It's a skill that's lost on many drivers, who instead use the horn as an outlet for their frustration at other motorists rather than a warning signal that something bad is about to happen. Google's determined to teach its fleet of...
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When the topic of virtual reality, augmented reality or mixed reality comes up, one of the first things people think of is gaming. And that's fair, considering the high profile releases of headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. However, there are applications outside the realm of gaming that hold some exciting...
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SanDisk just revealed the Ultra Dual Drive USB Type-C flash drive at Computex 2016 that features a new retractable design, faster speeds and higher capacity. The flash drive thoughtfully includes one reversible USB Type-C connector and one standard USB (Type-A) connector. This allows consumers to free up space on...
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Every so often there comes around a deal that has us doing a double take, and the latest promotion for an unlocked Moto X Pure smartphone and Moto 360 smartwatch bundle is one of those times. If you follow our instructions, you can score both for a penny shy of $400, which amounts to a savings of right around...
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Now you can work out and fit right into Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 prediction because sci-fi has, as is often the case, become reality. Samsung just unveiled the Gear Fit2 Fitness Tracker and Gear IconX Premium Smart Earbuds. The Gear IconX is a cordless fitness earbud that can still track fitness information and...
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Give Microsoft credit, it didn't ruin Minecraft when it purchased Mojang for $2.5 billion nearly two years ago. At the time of purchase, Xbox boss Phil Spencer noted that Minecraft was "one of the most popular franchises of all time." It had sold over 54 million copies, and now two short years later, sales have almost...
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Hewlett-Packard officially announced its monstrous Elite X3 phablet back in February, well ahead of expected summer launch date. That long gap between announcement and release was both a curse and blessing — eager Windows Phone fans that wanted to get their hands on the device had to wait months to purchase it, but it...
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Are you looking for the perfect accessory to set off your epic new gaming rig? Perhaps you plunked down some serious coin on a 10-core Intel Core i7-6950X processor and have a couple of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 cards thrown in for good measure. But what about a nice gaming keyboard to go along with your fancy new...
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Google continues to make advances in all of its artificial intelligence endeavors, and the most recent fruits of its labors comes from Project Magenta. Magenta comes to use from the Google Brain team and was tasked with actually creating music using a trained neural network.
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Amazon’s Fire lineup of tablets have for the most part offered a lot of features while skewing towards the value side with regards to pricing. This has led to devices that while durable, don’t exactly exude a sense of being “premium” tablets. Amazon is changing that today with the introduction of new aluminum...
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CES is a distant memory now, but we’re still seeing new products arrive that were announced in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year. One of those is the Dell Latitude 13 7000 series, the latest in the company's line of business laptops. The 13-inch ultrabook landed several awards at CES for its sleek design 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 Optiplex 3020 Micro Intel Core i3-4160T based SFF PC, an Acer B276HK 27" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) IPS LED-backlit Monitor, a Acer B276HK ymjdprz 27" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x...
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It's been no secret that Tesla's Elon Musk is worried about advanced artificial intelligence getting into the wrong hands. He's even put his money where his mouth is with those concerns, and last year founded OpenAI, an organization with no competitive nature that aims to make sure AI benefits all of mankind.
Being...
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We're careless creatures, there's no denying that. It's why we lose our car keys, forget concert tickets at home, and misplace our smartphones. Google can't help you with the first two, but if you happen to lose your Android device, or even worse it ends up stolen, don't panic, the search giant launched a new feature...
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Valve went out on a bit of a limb when it decided to design its own gamepad, but gamers have spoken and apparently they dig the the somewhat funky design. Otherwise, it's hard to imagine that Valve could sell over 500,000 of them, as it claims to have done in a blog post outlining some of the recent changes it's...
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In Microsoft's ongoing quest to unify devices from different categories to a single platform, it's working on an update to the Xbox One that will prepare it for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The Xbox One update isn't live yet, but Microsoft is currently sending out invites to select Preview members to sign up for...
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Facebook just unveiled DeepText, a deep learning-based engine that can understand with near-human accuracy the textual content of several thousands posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. The idea is that understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help the company improve people's...
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As we reported previously, Google is looking to have more control over its future Nexus smartphones. In the past, Google has farmed out the design and manufacturing of its Nexus devices to third-party OEMs, and has installed a bone stock version of Android. While that approach is nice for those that want a no frills...
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If you head over to Apple's website, the Cupertino outfit will happily sell you a 27-inch Thunderbolt display for $999, at least until its inventory runs out. Word on the web is that it's nearly out of stock and Apple doesn't plan to replenish them. Instead, Apple will launch a new version of its Thunderbolt monitor...
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