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Latest News - June 2017
- Ask Alexa Who’s At The Door With Amazon Echo Smart Home Camera Control
- Google Presents VR180 Video Format And Camera That Shoots VR In High Fidelity Half 360-Degree View
- Gigabyte MZ31 AMD EPYC 7000 Motherboard Rocks 16 DIMM Slots, Tons Of Expansion And Dual 10Gb/s LAN
- HTC Appears To Be Building Google’s Pixel 2 Phones Powered By Snapdragon 835
- Valve Is Developing ‘Knuckles’ Controllers For Individual Finger Tracking In VR
- Nintendo Defends Switch Shortages As Not Intentional And Apologizes To Gamers
- Tesla Wants To Cruise Down Electric Avenue With Its Own Streaming Music Service
- Comcast Accused Of Severing Small Competitor’s Cable Lines To Bury Its Business
- NSA DoublePulsar Trojan Turns Infected PCs Into Monero Cryptocurrency Mining Zombies
- Razer Blade 2017 Review: Solid Gaming Performance In An Ultrabook Form Factor
- Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16226 Adds Integrated GPU Performance Tracking
- Affordable ASUS VivoBook S510 Packs Kaby Lake Processor Inside .7 Inch Thick 3 Pound Chassis With A 15-Inch Display
- Imagination Tech Up For Sale After Apple Disconnect, Possibly Ripe For Intel Acquisition
- Super Mario Bros. Recreated For HoloLens AR Lets Gamer Geek Stomp Goombas In The Real World
- WannaCry Ransomware Attack Invades Honda Factory Forcing Shutdown
- Ethereum Prices Plunge To $0.10 Before Rebounding Highlighting Cryptocurrency Volatility
- Lenovo’s Retro X300-Style ThinkPad Still In Development For Brand’s 25th Anniversary
- Intel Coffee Lake Hits SiSoft Sandra Benchmark Database With 6 Cores And 12 Threads, 4.2GHz Turbo Boost
- Sega Forever Ports Classic Games To iOS And Android With Cloud Save And Bluetooth Support
- Virgin Mobile Becomes An iPhone-Exclusive Carrier And Offers One Year Unlimited Service For $1
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All News for June 2017
Home security will be a little more convenient for Amazon Echo Show owners. According to a new blog post on the Amazon Alexa Development site, users will be able to view live video feeds from their smart home cameras on their Echo Show through the Smart Home Skill API. Soon you will be able to determine whether there...
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VidCon is rocking and rolling in Anaheim, California, and with it has come a number of announcements from Google. Google most notably just announced VR180 video format that will enable content creators to develop VR-friendly content. They also just revealed that they are working with manufacturers to bring new...
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We have already seen some impressive things from AMD's long awaited Zen microarchitecture in the form of Ryzen, and in the not-too-distant future Threadripper will carry the torch on the desktop. However, things are just getting started. Zen will really spread its wings in the server and data center market, boy-oh-boy...
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While nothing is yet official, there is some evidence to suggest that HTC will be building Google's forthcoming Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 handsets, which are due out later this year. That would not be shocking—HTC built Google's original Pixel and Pixel XL phones last year and the two have been partners in the hardware...
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Augmented and virtual reality is starting to take off now that we have computing hardware that is powerful enough to provide a compelling experience. However, interacting with a virtual environment can be a bit tricky if you don’t have the proper controllers to supplement your experience.
The Oculus Rift has its...
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Are you still having trouble finding a Nintendo Switch console in stock? Well, if it is any consolation, Nintendo is awfully sorry about the inconvenience, or so the console maker says. And in a recent interview with Arstechnica, Nintendo Senior Director of Corporate Communications Charlie Scibetta pushed back against...
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Elon Musk is quite the ambitious fellow. In addition to spearheading things like recreational space travel and, here on Earth, self-driving vehicle technology, it is being reported that Musk is exploring the streaming music business through Tesla, the electric vehicle company he co-founded and is still very much a...
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Google’s motto previously was “Don’t be evil” but it seems as though Comcast might need to take up that slogan soon. Telecom Cable, a small ISP in Texas, is claiming that Comcast resorted to outright sabotage to cripple its business in 2015.
According to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in Harris County, Texas, Telecom Cable...
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Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ethereum are big business these days. While Bitcoin has received the lion’s share of the attention since its introduction in 2009, Ethereum is poised to overtake it in market cap in the near term.
With all of the momentum in the cryptocurrency mining market — and the hardware that...
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The slim, sleek Razer Blade gaming laptop we'll be looking at here is an interesting beast that does its best to perform a balancing act of sorts. The gaming laptop arena is a landscape full of compromises. Gamers generally crave the most powerful technologies on the market, but until we can cram 8K displays...
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The Windows 10 Creators Update had a number of features that were introduced primarily to cater to gamers. The upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will continue to add new gaming features, and a new one has been revealed in Build 16226.
The Windows 10 Task Manager has been updated to include GPU resource...
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ASUS today announced a rather premium thin and light laptop for folks on a budget. It is the VivoBook S510, and with a starting price of just $699, you can view it as a thin and light system for the rest of us. By that we mean it is much more affordable than most premium looking thin and light systems, which can...
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It has been a rough few months for Imagination Technologies, the British-based semiconductor company that was founded over three decades ago as VideoLogic. Shares of the company recently tumbled after it was announced by Apple, by far the company's biggest customer, that it planned to design its own mobile GPU cores...
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If you are of a certain age, hearing the theme music for Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 will send you into an instant state of nostalgia. Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. was an iconic masterpiece in gaming history and still delights players to this day. So, imagine our surprise to see the game’s first level recreated for a...
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It seemed for a moment that the WannaCry ransomware that wreaked havoc at hospitals across Europe had been neutralized, but apparently it is still causing disruptions. The latest report comes from Honda Motor Co., which said on Wednesday that it had to shut down one of its factories in Japan after discovering that...
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It took only a few seconds for the price of Ethereum, one of the hottest cryptocurrencies out there next to Bitcoin, to plummet from $319 all the way down to $0.10 on the GDAX cryptocurrency exchange on Wednesday. Following an investigation to ensure no foul play had taken place, it was determined that "multi-million...
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IBM’s ThinkPad notebooks first went on sale in 1992, and quickly became a staple for business travelers and well-heeled consumers that wanted a high-end, high quality mobile device. There were some hits and misses along the way — and some quirky side treks, like the ThinkPad 701c — but the line has survived for nearly...
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We’re just getting our heads wrapped about Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X (aka, the Core X-Series), and here we are staring at Coffee Lake. Coffee Lake represents the fourth and latest major iteration of Intel’s 14nm process, which started with Broadwell in 2014. Coffee Lake processors are set to debut in 2018, and will...
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There is no question that gamers not only like to take advantage of the latest, fastest, and ultra-realistic 4K games, but sometimes we all would just like to kick back and enjoy games from a “simpler” time. Sega is looking to get in on the action with some of its own retro gaming goodness, and its method of...
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Earlier this month, Sprint unveiled a promotion that offered one year of unlimited service for free if you switched from a competing wireless carrier. It now looks as though Sprint’s prepaid arm, Virgin Mobile USA, is offering a similar promotion; although the prepaid service will cost you $1 for a full year of...
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If you’ve noticed any of the reviews of the OnePlus 5 that were posted on the internet yesterday, a common theme that was presented was the device’s incredible speed. There’s no question that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 is responsible for part of the performance perks, but many also attributed the up to 8GB of RAM for...
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Computer security has always been somewhat of a hot topic, though it has intensified in recent weeks in the wake of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak. In response, Microsoft has issued a series of updates to Windows, including legacy versions no longer supported such as Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsoft...
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