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Latest News - December 2017
- Elon Musk Flaunts Pics Of Mars-Bound Tesla Roadster Aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket
- Goldman Sachs Reportedly Eyes Mid-2018 Launch For Cryptocurrency Trading Desk
- Amazon Acquires Smart Camera And Video Doorbell Company Blink
- Google Pixel 2 XL Woes Continue With Complaints Of Odd Buzzing Sound From Speakers
- Opera 50 To Bolster Defenses Against In-Browser Monero Cryptojacking
- PUBG's Second Xbox One Patch Addresses Serious Performance And Stability Issues
- Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition Review: Revisiting A Megatasking Beast
- Apple's Autonomous Vehicle Navigation User Interface Revealed In Patent Filing
- Civilization VI Arrives On iPad With Unheard Of $60 Price Tag
- Apple Slapped With Two Class Action Lawsuits For Throttling CPUs On Older iPhones
- Apple Tipped To Integrate EKG Heart Monitor Into Next Gen Apple Watch
- Eric Schmidt Steps Down From Alphabet Executive Chairman Role
- ZOTAC Launches AMP BOX Thunderbolt 3 Dual-Slot eGPU Enclosures
- 3GPP Approves First 5G Wireless Specifications For Next Gen Mobile Devices
- 2.5 Geeks Podcast 12/20/17: NVIDIA Titan V, Star Wars Jedi Challenges, Snapdragon 845 And Galaxy S9 Rumors, Personal Cloud And More
- G.Skill Launches Ripjaws DDR4-4000 32GB SO-DIMM Kit With Ultra-Low Timings
- Windows 10 Hello Face Authentication Defeated With A Simple Photo Printout
- Facebook Switches Tactics In Its Assault On Weaponized Fake News
- Snapdragon 835 Powered Windows 10 Ultraportables Expected To Rule Low-End PC Market
- Micron Readies GDDR6 At Speeds Up To 16Gbps For Next Gen GPUs In 1H 2018
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All News for December 2017
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk announced his plans to launch a Tesla Roadster into space on the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. Musk stated in a tweet, "Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it...
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With the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies booming, everyone is looking to make some money off the craze. One of the biggest players that is looking to get into the cryptocurrency craze is Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Word is that the company is looking to set up a trading desk for digital currency like Bitcoin...
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Amazon is making another big play for the smart home market, and is already well entrenched in millions of homes with its Echo family of AI smart speakers. Devices like the Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Show allow you to control a multitude of smart devices like thermostats, door locks and lights (among other things).
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It seems as though Google just can't catch a break with its Pixel 2 family of smartphones. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL launched two months ago and fresh out of the gate there were issues regarding audio, devices shipping without their Android operating system, and OLED burn-in. Now, we're learning of new issues...
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Everyone is flipping out over cryptocurrency after seeing Bitcoin continue to skyrocket in value (the recent dip notwithstanding). It seems everyone wants a piece of the action, including some website owners, who have started injecting digital coin mining code on webpages. When you visit one of these sits, it taps...
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), the highly popular battle royale shooter that has taken the gaming community by storm, only launched to Xbox One less than two weeks ago. Be that as it may, the developers have been busy cleaning up the code and tweaking the experience. The game's first patch for Xbox One...
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When we looked at Dell's Alienware Area-51 Threadripper Edition gaming desktop earlier this year, the machine was still technically in a pre-production state. Though we took you on a preliminary guided tour of the system, we felt it premature to look at it under our full-review lens. At that point we were still doing...
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Apple has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that provides some insight into how the company plans to tackle navigation. The patent explains how Apple intends to make autonomous driving more efficient by reducing the need to constantly remake detailed maps. It also...
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Apple iPad owners who are used to paying just a few dollars for non-free mobile games might be in for a bit of sticker shock if they plan on playing Sid Meier's Civilization VI on their tablet. The turn-based strategy title was developed by Firaxis Games and published to PC a year ago by 2K Games, and now Aspyr Media...
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It was only a matter of time before the lawsuits would start raining down after Apple admitted to throttling CPU performance on older iPhones. Apple confirmed the practice after users complained on reddit about degraded battery performance leading to slowdowns, which was later confirmed by analysis from Primate...
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There has been a lot of talk recently about Apple trying to move the Apple Watch from simply being a fashion wearable to a legitimate medical device with the integration of heart monitoring features. The KardiaBand heart EKG accessory is already available and FDA approved to allow at-risk people to accurately monitor...
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A surprise announcement has come out of Alphabet this week. Google's former CEO and most recently Executive Chairman of the Alphabet Board of Directors has announced that he is stepping down from his post. Schmidt will transition to a role as a technical advisor for the company, and Alphabet says that it expects a...
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Now that more systems are launching with Thunderbolt 3 ports, gaming hardware companies are releasing new product to take advantage of the high-speed connection. ZOTAC is the latest prominent hardware manufacturer to enter the fray with two new external GPU (eGPU) enclosures that can accommodate the latest flagship...
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Intel has taken time to congratulate all involved with the new 3GPP Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) Standard that was recently completed. The new standard is hailed as a “remarkable step forward for the industry.” With the NSA 5G NR standard complete, for the first item we have an internationally recognized...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast, we chat about our results with NVIDIA's monstrous Titan V and what could be coming next for consumers. We also talk about the Lenovo Star Wars Jedi Challenges in AR kit, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 in Samsung's Galaxy S9 rumor, storage advancements...
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For the past few months, we've seen Corsair and G.Skill jockey for position when it comes to releasing the "World's Fastest" memory kits. Just last week, Corsair upped the ante with a Vengeance 32GB DDR4-4000 SO-DIMM kit. Today, G.Skill counters with its own Ripjaws kit boasting ultra-low memory timings.
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If you're running an older version of Windows 10, and make heavy use of Windows Hello to login to your PC, you might want to consider moving to the latest build. Researchers from German security firm SYSS have discovered that the Windows Hello biometric authentication system can be defeated using a printed-out...
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Have you read about the morgue employee who fell asleep on the job and was accidentally cremated? Or what about Denzel Washington referring to former President Barack Obama as the "criminal-in-chief?" These things did not happen, nor did an NFL team declare bankruptcy over player's taking a knee in protest. These are...
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Intel is not the only one making bold moves these days. So are Microsoft and Qualcomm, two other tech giants that recently formed a partnership to deliver Windows 10 laptops and 2-in-1 devices powered by Snapdragon 835 SoCs. Unlike Microsoft's earlier foray into ARM territory with Surface RT, these devices will be...
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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming an increasingly more valuable resource in the computing arena. We've seen high-powered GPUs powering everything from gaming consoles, to high-end enthusiast PCs, to accelerators used for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, to products like...
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When it comes to business, playing it safe is not always the way to go. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich knows this as well as anyone, so in a memo sent to to employees, he said the "new normal for Intel" as the company approaches its 50th anniversary will be to "take more risks" as it continues to expand into new growth...
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Amazon has announced that users of the Fire TV devices can now surf the web on their TVs thanks to the addition of Firefox and Silk web browsers. The move is yet another way to give Fire TV users access to YouTube while Amazon and Google are still fighting it out in public. The YouTube app was pulled from the Fire TV...
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