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- Intel Core i9-7900X And Core i7-7740X CPU Review: Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X Debut
- Facebook To Combat Terrorism On Its Platform With Artificial Intelligence
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Leaks Galore With HTML5 Browser Benchmarks And 8GB RAM Emperor Edition
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday Windows Update To Be A Doozy With Record Setting 94 Security Fixes
- Samsung Launches Galaxy S8 And S8+ Bixby Early Access Program In U.S.
- Facebook Moderators’ Identities Mistakenly Exposed To Suspected Terrorists
- Samsung’s 65-inch Frame TV Is A Digital Work Of Art For Your Living Room
- Atari CEO Confirms New Gaming Console In Development Based On PC Technology
- Microsoft Modern Keyboard Adds Fingerprint Authentication For Windows Hello Logins
- Take-Two Crushes OpenIV GTA Modding Tool With Legal Ban Hammer
- Apple Hires Seasoned Sony Pictures TV Execs To Spearhead Original Programming Push
- AMD Naples Leak Confirms EPYC 7601 Server CPU With 32 Cores, 64 Threads, 3.2GHz Turbo Clock
- Google Could Face Record €1 Billion Fine In EU Antitrust Case
- Nintendo's Fils-Aime Acknowledges Switch Cloud Save Drama, Noncommittal On Virtual Console
- Wikileaks Exposes CIA Cherry Blossom Firmware Hack For WiFi Routers
- Amazon Buys Whole Foods For $13.7 Billion In Brilliant Bezos Game-Changing Retail Power Play
- Microsoft: Apple iPad Pro Owes Its Existence To Surface Pro
- Microsoft Surface Laptop And Surface Pro Deemed Glue-Filled Monstrosities With Zero Serviceability
- AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition With 16GB HBM2 Available For Preorder
- Intel Announces New Mesh Interconnect Architecture For Its Upcoming Xeon Scalable Processors
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All News for June 2017
Over the next few months, Intel will be releasing an array of new high-end desktop processors in the recently-announced Core X Series, based on the Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X micro-architectures. The first chips in the series to arrive in the lab are the 10-core Core i9-7900X and quad-core Core i7-7740X. We’ve got an...
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There have been almost six hundred terrorist attacks in 2017 alone. Facebook just released an outline of its latest methods to combat this threat by increasingly employing artificial intelligence and other high-tech techniques.
Monika Bickert, Facebook's Director of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman...
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Even though Samsung likely won’t officially unveil the Galaxy Note 8 until late August or early September, that isn’t stopping leaks from spilling the goods on the upcoming flagship smartphone. Today, we’ve got a wealth of information about the smartphone including supposed browser benchmarks of the beastly device and...
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Microsoft is treating its next Patch Tuesday like a level in Serious Sam where it emerges with guns blazing. Only in this case, instead of taking out extraterrestrials who are intent on destroying all of humanity, Microsoft's mission is to neutralize more bugs than ever before. More specifically, the Patch Tuesday for...
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Samsung's Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones are some of the best Android models available right now (read our review), but despite that, many of their users haven't been using them to their full potential. While Bixby Voice was revealed alongside the phone, it still hasn't made it to the United States in stable...
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Every job has its risk, however, very few of us expect to be on a terrorist’s hit list. It was recently revealed that the information of over 1,000 content moderators was leaked thanks to a security flaw. The profiles of six Facebook content moderators in particular were considered “high priority” risks.
Although...
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It is a tale as old as time- one person wants a large, high quality television, while the other desires a television that will blend seamlessly with their decor. Samsung just announced “The Frame”, a 65-inch 4K Ulta HD television that can be used to exhibit art when not playing television shows or movies.
Dave Das...
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Do not adjust your calendars, folks, we have not traveled back in time to the 1970s or 1980s. Be that as it may, Atari is working on a new game console. The website you might have seen is real, as are Atari's intentions to get back into the hardware business after a 24-year hiatus. Remember the Jaguar? That was the...
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Microsoft has quietly launched a new keyboard for desktop computers (or your docked notebook/convertible). Called the Modern Keyboard, the peripheral is an evolution of the existing Surface Keyboard with two key differences.
The first is the integration of biometric authentication. Microsoft has incorporated what...
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Take-Two clearly doesn't look at the modding scene with the same love as many of its peers. The Grand Theft Auto series has had a rich modding community for years, with its creative fans adding an incredible amount of content to Rockstar's most important series. Sometimes, even new mechanics are added. While most...
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Silicon Valley and Hollywood are joining forces. Apple just hired Sony Pictures Television presidents Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to help create new original programming. Apple’s most recent additions help to confirm that the corporation is taking serious steps to join the entertainment industry.
Apple’s...
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Things are definitely heating up in the processor market thanks to a newly reinvigorated AMD. Intel has dominated the performance and sales charts for years, but AMD has seized an opportunity to hit back at the chip giant with its Zen processor architecture. The first strike came with Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors...
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The Google/European Union saga continues and could potentially lead to heavy consequences for Google. The corporation could face fines above €1 billion, with some estimating a fine as high as $1.4 billion USD. Google could also be forced to change how it manages its services and operations in the EU.
The EU...
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We lauded the Nintendo Switch for its overall engaging game play and nifty hybrid design, and that remains true. However, we refrained from offering up an opinion on the console's online experience because at launch there really was not one to speak of. That is something Nintendo is working on, though in reading...
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WikiLeaks has published secret documents belonging to the United States government that reveal the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been building and maintaining cyber tools designed to compromise wireless routers. These tools are the work of the CIA's hacking unit called Engineering Development Group. Among them...
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Amazon is delving deeper into brick-and-mortar territory with a blockbuster acquisition. The company announced today that it is purchasing U.S. supermarket chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. Although final details of the transaction will be ironed out between the grocer’s shareholders, the Whole Foods branding will...
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It has been an interesting thing to witness Microsoft's transformation over the past several years. Give Steve Ballmer credit—he knew that Microsoft needed fresh blood and so he handed the reins Satya Nadella. Microsoft has been a different company ever since, one that innovates in the hardware space. Even Apple is following Microsoft's lead,
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We have said it before and it bears repeating—the majority of today's mobile devices are simply not built with do-it-yourself repairability in mind. Some products are worse than others when it comes to home repairs and upgrades. Two products that fall into that "worse than others" category both belong to Microsoft—its...
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AMD’s Vega graphics architecture is fast approaching a retail release, but unfortunately for gamers, the first available cards will be the professional workstation-targeted Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. If you’re in the market for such a card, preorders are now open from at least two retailers — one based in the U.S...
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Intel announced its family of Xeon Scalable Processors in early May, featuring the Skylake-SP microarchitecture. Those processors haven’t officially launched just yet, but today the chip giant is revealing one of the key technologies being leveraged in the Xeon Scalable Processor family. A new mesh interconnect...
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If you are a Canadian with a cell phone, we have some excellent news for you regrading regulations surrounding device unlocking. In this case, nearly everyone should be happy with the outcome; well with the exception of the executives at Canadian mobile carriers.
Canada's CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and...
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With the Chinese dominating the charts when it comes to the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the United States is looking to leverage its homegrown talent to usher in next-generation exascale computing. The Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is funding six of the country’s top chip firms...
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