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- AMD Extends Polaris Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 And Radeon RX 460
- Minecraft Oculus Rift VR Support Coming To Windows 10 Platform In August
- Samsung Mobile Profits Swell Following Strong Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Sales
- Yahoo Launches Redesigned Desktop Messenger App With Disaster-Averting Unsend Feature
- Microsoft Faces Fresh Lawsuits Thanks To Overzealous Windows 10 Upgrade Campaign
- Last Day To Save On Dell XPS 8900 Core i7 Win7 Desktop, Just $28 For 128GB Tiny Flash Drive And More
- Forget Nintendo and Sega, Retro-Bit Crams Capcom, Data East, Jaleco And Other Arcade Classics Into Mini Console
- Alienware Aurora R5 Review: Small Stature, Big Performance
- Amazon Alexa And August Home Let You Lock Your Front Door With Simple Voice Commands
- NVIDIA’s Pascal-Based Mobile Quadro GPU Makes An Appearance At SIGGRAPH 2016
- Western Digital Ups Its SSD Game With BiCS3 256Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND
- Microsoft Forces Cortana Always On In Windows 10 Anniversary Update
- Apple Confirms Over 1 Billion iPhones Have Been Sold Globally To Date
- 95% Off A Comprehensive Coding Bundle In The HotHardware Shop
- Google Play Family Library Allows Cross Platform App, Book And Music Sharing Between Six Accounts
- Americans Expect And Welcome Artificial Human Augmentation, But Not Brain Chip Implants
- Trump Calls For Russian Cyber-Espionage To Recover Clinton’s 30,000 Deleted Personal Emails
- Tesla Gigafactory Opens For Business, Ramping Battery Production For Model 3 Launch
- ASUS Strix Radeon R9 Fury And The State Of DirectX 12 Performance
- Microsoft Promises Software Fix For Surface Pro 3’s Voracious Battery Drain
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All News for July 2016
Although we were made privy to some details on AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460 graphics cards earlier this month, the company today is officially announcing its newest, mainstream members of the Polaris family.
Of the two new cards introduced, the RX 470 is the most closely aligned with the...
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Microsoft and Mojang today are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the launch of Minecraft on the Windows 10 platform. Since that time, Mojang has pushed out 15 major updates for the game and has crushed over 6,000 bugs for what has become a worldwide smash hit.
So to celebrate its first birthday on Windows 10...
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Samsung is raking in the dough, partly thanks to strong Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge sales. Revenue for this past quarter was 50.94 trillion KRW or $45 billion, an 2.4 trillion KRW increase from last year. Operating profits were also eight times what they were last year.
343.3 million smartphones were shipped worldwide...
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Have you ever sent a message that you immediately regretted even writing? If so, Yahoo has your back. Its revamped Messenger app is now available for Windows and Mac desktops.
Austin Showmaker, Senior Director of Product Management stated, “With Messenger’s desktop notifications, you can multitask at your computer...
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Don’t get us wrong, Windows 10 is a great operating system and clearly a step above its Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 predecessors. Sure, there have been some questions about privacy and Microsoft has made some questionable decisions regarding features, but for the most part, Windows 10 is a solid release.
However...
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Last Day To Save On Dell XPS 8900 Core i7 Win7 Desktop, Just $28 For 128GB Tiny Flash Drive And More
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 XPS 8900 Intel Core i7-6700 based desktop system, a Logitech Z333 40W RMS 2.1-channel Multimedia Speaker System, a Vilros Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit, and more. Full...
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Park the DeLorean and save your pricey plutonium, you don't need a time machine to relive those epic gaming moments from yesteryear. There's been a sudden resurgence in classic gaming as of late, first with Nintendo announcing a mini NES console pre-loaded with 30 games then with Sega unveiling a mini Genesis system...
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The Alienware brand is as venerable a name as any in the gaming space. As Alienware celebrates over twenty years in business, its computers have become instantly recognizable thanks to distinctive, out-of-this-world styling, and science-fiction references. Dell purchased Alienware in 2006 to complement its own competing line of XPS-branded...
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Is there anything that Alexa can’t do? The Alexa-powered Echo first launched nearly two years ago and it has grown from a seemingly tame voice-activated “smart” speaker to a home automation hub that features over 1400 “Skills”. And the Echo family itself has grown to include the Echo Tap and Echo Dot.
Today, August...
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If you're into graphics technology, you've probably run out of rags at this point to wipe up your drool with. NVIDIA kicked things off by introducing Pascal with its bodacious GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and it's only slightly less impressive sibling, the GeForce GTX 1070, followed by a new Titan X card. And over...
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Western Digital, a major player in the storage industry, announced this week that it has completed development of its next generation 3D NAND technology called BiCS3. Limited production is already underway in Japan with initial output expected later this year. If everything goes to plan, volume production will begin...
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Cortana, the voice-controlled personal digital assistant that helps you find things on your PC and the web, is getting a promotion from an on-call employee to full-time status. That's to stay you won't be able to turn Cortana off once Microsoft rolls out its Anniversary Update for Windows 10, which is scheduled to...
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Apple sold roughly 7 million less iPhone devices last quarter than it did in the same quarter a year ago, but that didn't stop it from reaching a significant milestone. During an employee meeting in Cupertino on Wednesday morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the sale of the one billionth iPhone, an impressive feat no...
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Learning to code is a great way to land a job with killer salary or kick-start a lucrative freelance carrer. Should you be contemplating the move, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that may be right for you. We’ve got a Complete Front-End to Back-End Coding e-learning bundle on sale for 95% off the...
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Google Play is trying to become more family-friendly. Most families have multiple devices in their households and it can be frustrating attempting to share media between family members. Google just released Google Play Family Library which allows up to six family members to share purchases on Google Play.
Customers...
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Americans have incredibly varied opinions about technologies that could potentially enhance human health, wellness and abilities. The Pew Research Center surveyed Americas regarding gene editing that would reduce the risk of illnesses in babies, computer implantations that would improve a person’s ability to...
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The 2016 U.S. Presidential primary season is turning out to be one of the most colorful and contentious political battles in modern history. It’s also an election cycle that has been filled with plenty of [often comedic and sometimes cringe-worthy] twists and turns, including the recent dumping of emails from the...
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Tesla Motors is working feverishly to finish constructing its $5 billion, 3,200 acre "Gigafactory" located outside Sparks, Nevada (near Reno). It's already semi-operational with 1,000 construction workers toiling away seven days a week in two shifts. The factory, which is two years ahead of schedule, will help meet...
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DirectX 12 is gaining momentum with both game developers, hardware manufacturers and, as a result, now gamers as well. The Windows 10 enabled low-level API is being adopted in more and more titles, with both legacy and cutting-edge game engines now taking advantage of its benefits. Using an ASUS STRIX Radeon R9 Fury...
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Microsoft has a problem on its hands when it comes to Surface Pro 3 tablets, which have been in circulation for roughly two years. Customers have reported that battery life on some of these tablets has been inexplicably deteriorating in recent months, with no apparent fix in sight.
The Microsoft Community forums...
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Windows 10 continues to gain ground on Windows 7 in the race for market share dominance. Though the gap between the two is still rather large, Windows 10 has managed to find its way onto more than 19 percent of the world's PCs, according to the latest data from Net Market Share. That's up from 11.85 percent at the...
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Welcome back for another installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On the agenda today, we have deals on a Dell Optiplex 9020 Micro Intel Core i7-4785T based SFF system, a Razer Orochi Wireless Mouse, a Lenovo Flex3 Intel Core i5-6200U based notebook with touch, and more. Full details for all...
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