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Latest News - February 2017
- T-Mobile ONE Adds HD Video And 4G Hotspot As CEO Legere Mocks Verizon Unlimited
- Intel Optane SSD Specs Out In The Wild With Impressive Random IOPs Throughput And Super Low Latency
- Magic Leap CEO Says Leaked Hardware Prototype Isn’t Its Augmented Reality Wearable
- Elon Musk Wants Humans To Embrace Cybernetic Borg Implants Or Face Unstoppable AI Takeover
- Nike Files Patent For Game-Changing Wireless Team Sports Tracking System That Measures Player Performance In Real Time
- Malware Infected Campus Soda Machines And Light Bulbs DDoS A University's Network Into Submission
- Google Maps Gets Social With ‘Lists’ Feature For Saving And Sharing Favorite Places
- Apple Joins Wireless Power Consortium As Qi-Compatible iPhone 8 Rumors Persist
- Qualcomm’s 802.11ax Chips Usher In Next Generation Wi-Fi With 1.8 Gbps Peak Speeds
- AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Score Surfaces In SANDRA Benchmarks Taking On Intel Kaby Lake
- Razer Blade 14-inch Gaming Notebook Gains Intel Kaby Lake, 4K UHD Display Option, Thunderbolt 3
- Irony: Verizon Announces Unlimited Data Plan That Its Customers Supposedly Didn’t Need
- Samsung’s Larger Version Of Its Next 6.2-Inch Galaxy Phone To Be Branded Galaxy S8+
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Fake News Is ‘Killing People’s Minds’
- Google Drive Cloud Storage Service Employs Hash Matching To Detect Pirated Content
- AMD’s 8-Core Ryzen 7 1700X Allegedly Delivers Core i7-6900K Performance At A Bargain $389 Price
- Entire AMD Ryzen Processor Family Detailed With 65W And 95W TDP, Cores And Thread Counts
- Intel Claims Cannonlake Core i7-8000 Series 15 Percent Faster Than Kaby Lake, Launches 2H 2017 [Updated]
- Android Instant Tethering Officially Live For Google Pixel And Nexus Phones
- Amazon Rekognition AI Tech Uses Machine Vision To Guess Your Age, But Hey It’s Just A Number
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All News for February 2017
Yesterday, Verizon announced its return to unlimited 4G LTE data plans with Verizon Unlimited. At a cost of $80 per month, Verizon Unlimited provides unlimited data, text and talk (even to Mexico and Canada) along with 10GB of Mobile Hotspot.
However, T-Mobile CEO John Legere just can’t sit back and let Verizon hog...
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If there's one downside to following the rapid progression of technology, it's that we're often stuck waiting for the next best thing to arrive. That couldn't be any more true than it is with memory and storage technologies. The number of times we've talked about "breakthroughs" in memory are too numerous to count, so...
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The “leaked” photo of Magic Leap’s prototype “PEQ0” may just be all smoke and mirrors. Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims that the leaked photo is of a test rig they use in their office, not its rumored AR product.
Abovitz tweeted that the photo demonstrated a “R&D test rig where we collect room/space data for our...
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Is Elon Musk secretly working on a race of Dr. Whovian Cybermen? The magnate recently argued at the World Government Summit in Dubai that human beings would need to merge at least slightly with robots in order to keep up in an increasingly AI-dominated world. Musk fears that humans will become irrelevant if they do...
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While college basketball teams around the country are gearing up for conference tournaments, which then lead into March Madness, the folks at Nike are working on technology that would make it easier for teams to keep track of athletes’ performance metrics in real-time, record stats and make informed decisions about...
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A full-blown Skynet situation might be the thing of science fiction (we hope, anyway), but that doesn't mean bizarre things involving machines can't happen. As proof of this, Verizon teased an entry in its upcoming 2017 Data Breach Digest that describes a recent DDoS attack on an unnamed university involving vending...
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While perhaps not as significant as running water, Google Maps is one of the greatest modern day amenities that is easy to take for granted. Perhaps that is because it is mostly a solo experience—whether looking up directions or zooming down into Street View, it's something you do by yourself. That isn't changing...
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It looks as though Apple may have just confirmed one of the biggest rumors concerning the upcoming iPhone 8 flagship that will launch this fall. The company this week popped up as a member of the Wireless Power Consortium — the group behind the Qi wireless standard. More than 200 companies belong to the consortium...
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Just when you've gone and upgraded your home network to 802.11ac (Wireless-AC) territory, Qualcomm comes out today and starts talking about a fancy new standard, 802.11ax. More specifically, Qualcomm unveiled what it says is the first end-to-end 802.11ax portfolio with new system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for network...
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The leaks surrounding AMD's not-yet-released Ryzen processor family are coming in fast and furious, with only weeks to go before launch. In just the past week alone we've seen what is supposed to be AMD's full Ryzen lineup spanning 17 SKUs, along with core/thread counts and TDP ratings for each chip. In some cases...
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Razer is back at it again, updating another member of its popular gaming laptop family. Today, we present to you the new Razer Blade 14-inch gaming laptop which is powered by Intel’s new seventh generation Kaby Lake processors.
More specifically, the laptop features Intel’s Core i7-7700HQ quad-core processor that...
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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Verizon has been working behind the scenes on a new unlimited data plan for its customers, and it just unwrapped the goodies this afternoon. Called Verizon Unlimited, customers are given “unlimited” 4G LTE data, talk and text for $80 per month (when you use...
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It looks as though we have received just about as close as we’ll likely get to confirmation of the official name for Samsung’s next Galaxy “S” flagship. Notorious gadget leaker Evan Blass over the weekend tweeted that the larger-than-life smartphone will be called the Galaxy S8+.
Last year’s Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7...
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The term "fake news" has been floating around a lot over the past year, largely fueled by events surrounding the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Following Donald Trump's November victory, the world at large began to wonder if heavily biased or outright made-up new stories were causing real ill effects in the general...
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You might want to think twice before sharing pirated material through Google Drive. It was recently confirmed that Google Drive warns users when the material they are sharing might violate its terms of service. Previous statements from Google representatives have confirmed that the corporation likely uses hash...
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Excitement for AMD's next-generation Ryzen series of processors seems to have reached a fever pitch. For the first time in far too long, we have the prospect of an AMD processor that's not only competitive with Intel's latest and greatest, but perhaps potentially a better value in some cases, too.
Following-up on...
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Separating fact from fiction prior to a product's release is no easy task. We bring that disclaimer up because there is yet another Ryzen leak making the rounds, one that details an extensive lineup of 17 processors. It is really a continuation of a previous leak supposedly outing AMD's top-to-bottom retail launch...
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If you already own a fast 6th Generation Intel Core processor, otherwise known as Skylake, you might not be all that compelled to build a system around Intel's 7th Generation Kaby Lake line. Kaby Lake could be thought of as sort of a stop-gap solution, or midlife kicker product to fill the void created by Cannonlake's...
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We first brought you news about Google's Instant Tethering feature last month, and it now looks as though it's officially rolling out to Pixel and Nexus smartphones. More specifically, Instant Tethering is available on the Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P and Nexus 6.
In order to enable the functionality, you...
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You don't need to look very far to see examples of how machine- and deep-learning could enrich our lives. You might be surprised, given how often we hear about deep-learning nowadays, that most companies have only been utilizing the technology to a notable degree for the past couple of years - including Amazon...
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Magic Leap’s mythical mixed reality hardware was just recently spotted in a leaked photo. The photo comes just a week before an important board meeting that could make or break the mysterious company’s future.
First off, who is Magic Leap? The Florida-based company is purportedly developing head-mounted augmented...
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Our men and women in blue have one of the toughest and oftentimes thankless jobs in the world. It is a dangerous world out there and while police officers have taken on the mission of serving and protecting the public, they have to watch their own behinds as well. To help with that, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has...
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