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Latest News - January 2018
- Samsung SSD 860 Pro Review: Fast, Reliable SATA Solid State Storage
- KGI Analyst Claims Apple iPhone X Will Be Discontinued Rather Than Discounted This Fall
- Netflix Subscriber Surge Helps Triple Profits And Push NFLX Market Cap Over $100 Billion
- Linus Torvalds Blasts Intel's Spectre And Meltdown Patches As 'Garbage And Insane'
- Nokia 10 Snapdragon 845 Flagship Smartphone May House 5 Rear Cameras
- Intel Identifies Spectre And Meltdown Patch Reboot Bug Root Cause
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Fire Delayed Due To Government Shutdown
- Google Gboard Keyboard Makes Creating Reaction GIFs Easy As Pie
- Lenovo Launches 100e, 300e, 500e, ThinkPad 11e MIL-SPEC Windows Laptops And Chromebooks For Education
- DJI Mavic Air Drone Leaks Early With 4K60 Recording, Slots Between Spark And Mavic Pro
- Minecraft Tops 74 Million Active Players, 144 Million Copies Sold To Date
- Opera Brings Built-In Cryptojacking Anti-Mining Protection To Its Browsers
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai Likens Artificial Intelligence To A Fire That Must Be Properly Harnessed
- T-Mobile Smokes Rival Mobile Carriers In Speed According To OpenSignal Analysis
- HotHardware And Lenovo HOT Holiday Giveaway! Win An Ultrabook, Gaming PC, Or Star Wars AR Kit
- Amazon Go Futuristic Cashierless Grocery Store Opens To Public On Monday
- Intel Core i3-8300 And Core i5-8500 Quad And Six-Core Coffee Lake Processors Allegedly Arriving In February
- FCC Backtracks On Reducing Broadband Speed Standard, Admits Wireless Can't Replace Home Broadband
- Intel Ships New RealSense D400 Series 3D Cameras For Makers And Educators
- Apple HomePod Clears FCC Hurdle, Faces Tough Battle Against Amazon Echo And Google Home
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All News for January 2018
Bleeding-edge NVMe solid state drives are a hot commodity in the enthusiast space and the premium laptop market, but there are still billions of legacy SATA ports out there just waiting to be attached to fast, reliable solid sold state storage. To that end, Samsung is delivering some band new SATA-based solid state...
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Apple is all about the profit margin when it comes to its devices, and the iPhone X is no exception. The high-end smartphone hasn't sold as strongly as Apple wanted according to some reports, with some citing the high cost of entry. Shipment estimates for Q1 2018 were allegedly slashed in late December as demand...
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Netflix is riding a wave of popular shows directly to a boom in subscribers that has had a significant impact on its market capitalization. In the last quarter of 2017, Netflix had 2 million more customers sign up for the steaming service than Wall Street had predicted. The massive subscriber numbers go to show that...
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Intel has been taking heat for patches that it deployed for the Spectre and Meltdown chip flaws. Recently deployed patches have resulted in some systems being subjected to random rebooting. However, Linus Torvalds is blasting Intel for another consequence of its patching regimen. In Torvalds' words, the patches are...
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An image has leaked via Chinese website Baidu that shows what is allegedly a line art image of a coming Nokia smartphone. According to the leak, this smartphone has five cameras arrayed around the back of the smartphone. We can clearly see a series of smaller circles arrayed around the circumference of a larger circle...
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Intel has a pretty big Spectre/Meltdown problem on its hands. The company over the past few weeks has issued patches to help mitigate the processor vulnerabilities, but those patches have resulted in frequent reboots of both older (Broadwell, Haswell) and newer (Skylake, Kaby Lake) processors, and everything in...
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Space enthusiasts have been waiting for SpaceX to "light up" its Falcon Heavy rocket. Once operational, the Falcon Heavy will be the world's most powerful rocket, capable of putting 120,000 pounds of cargo into low earth orbit. However, the ongoing government shutdown has put on the brakes with regards to SpaceX's...
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If you can't resist a good GIF, then why not make your own? There are different ways of doing that, and one of the easiest is to download Google's custom Gboard keyboard app. With a recent update to the iOS version, it's even easier to make your own GIF with Gboard, as Google has moved the the GIF creation button to...
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School is in session, and Lenovo hopes to be the dean of academics. The company just announced its biggest lineup of education laptops and convertibles ever, including both Windows notebooks and Chrome OS Chromebooks, with prices starting as low as $219. These new offerings bring vary feature-sets to the table, such...
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Powerhouse Chinese drone manufacturer DJI is scheduled to announce the latest addition its drone family tomorrow. However, nothing can be kept a secret these days, which means that we're being blessed 24 hours early with images and specs of the new Mavic Air.
Rather than being a spec-bump of the existing Mavic Pro...
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Microsoft may have seemed bonkers to shell out a staggering $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang, the developer behind Minecraft, around three and a half years ago, but on hindsight it's looking like a smart play. Minecraft continues to grow in popularity, hitting all-time highs in pretty much every important metric. For...
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Makers of the Opera browser are fighting back against the recent trend of hijacking people's browsers with cryptocurrency mining scripts. The Scandinavian browser maker became the first to implement built-in protections against such scripts in the desktop version of Opera, and now the company has turned its attention...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai was recently interviewed, and the conversation covered many topics in the tech world. One of the areas that was touched upon was artificial intelligence (AI) and what the future will hold for the technology. In that regard, Pichai likens AI to fire.
Pichai said in the interview, "AI is one...
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Mobile networks are not all created equal, despite the fact that if you look at coverage maps they often boast nearly identical coverage in many areas. Each year OpenSignal issues a report that looks at all the mobile carriers in the U.S. and compares the speed and performance offered to help consumers look through...
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The holiday season may be winding down, but we want to keep you all in the holiday spirit just a little longer, so we hooked up with our friends at Lenovo for another HOT Holiday Giveaway! This time around we have not one, but three awesome prizes -- a gorgeous, yet powerful ultrabook, a small form factor gaming PC...
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Just over a year ago, Amazon first announced its concept for a cashierless grocery store, called Amazon Go. The stores have been up and running around Amazon's Seattle, Washington headquarters, but only for Amazon employees while the company worked out the bugs. However, Amazon announced that the general public will...
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To say that 2017 was an interesting year for CPUs would be a gross understatement. With Ryzen, AMD delivered its most impressive processor family in a decade, and soon after, Intel unveiled its high-end Core X series. That was then followed by another Intel launch: the mainstream-targeted 8th generation "Coffee Lake"...
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The FCC has been catching heat in its current form for making changes to existing regulations governing broadband internet access. The big change the FCC made was to eliminate the net neutrality rules that forced ISPs to treat all traffic equally, no matter the service or application. Another place where the FCC was...
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Intel has announced that it has begun shipping a pair of new RealSense D400 Depth Cameras. The new cameras are from the next-gen Intel RealSense D400 family and include the D415 and the D435. Intel claims that the cameras have 3D capabilities that make them ideal for OEM prototype development or as an end-user-ready...
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When Apple first announced its HomePod smart speaker in June of last year, the company said it would be available to purchase starting in December, initially in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Well, December has come and gone and we are not into early 2018, which is the new launch time frame...
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Snapchat isn’t having any of it, when it comes to employees leaking confidential data. The parent company of the popular app, Snap Inc., has laid down the law with a new company-wide memo that tells employees that it could seek jail time against them and that they could be personally financially liable if they leak...
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Fans of Amazon's Alexa digital assistant tend to take advantage of it the more convenient it is to utilize, so it's been a bit frustrating for Android users who've had very few good options (if any at all) up to this point. Actually, things are still not perfect, but at least we're getting somewhere with a recent...
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