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Latest News - January 2018
- Facebook Asks Users To Rate Trustworthiness Of News Outlets So It Can Take Out The Trash
- NVIDIA Tells Retailers To Sell To Gamers, Not Cryptominers As GPU Shortage Causes Extreme Price Gouging
- These Malicious Google Chrome And Firefox Extensions Are Near Impossible To Manually Remove
- Intel Coffee Lake H Core i9, Core i7 And Xeon Mobile Processor Specs Leak
- Google Pushes Fix For Wi-Fi Slowing Bug Plaguing Chromecast And Google Home
- Google's Fuchsia OS That Could Eventually Displace Android Captured On Video
- Amazon Hikes Prime Monthly Membership Fee To $12.99
- Apple Backpedals After Initially Rejecting Wehe iOS App That Scans For Net Neutrality Violations
- OnePlus Says 40,000 Customers Exposed To Credit Card Security Breach
- Dark Caracal Global Malware Espionage Campaign Targets Thousands Of Android Users
- PUBG Devs To Ban 100,000 Cheaters In A Glorious Single Wave, Blue Zone Tweaks Inbound
- 2.5 Geeks 1/19/18: Intel-AMD Hybrid Chip BENCHMARKS, CES 2018, KILLER Gaming Rigs, Crypto-Coin Madness And More!
- AMD Hit With Lawsuit Over Deafening Silence On Spectre And Meltdown CPU Exploits
- LG Patent Shows Folding Device That Can Morph From Smartphone To Tablet
- U.S. Video Game Industry Soars To $36 Billion In Revenue For 2017
- Amazon Presents Shortlist For $5 Billion Second HQ, Did Your City Make The List?
- Microsoft's AI Bot Channels Its Inner Picasso By Drawing What You Tell It To
- WhatsApp Business App Launches With Messaging Statistics And Smart Tools
- Google AutoML Lets You Train AI Without Needing To Write Complicated Code
- YouTube Pulls Tide Pod Challenge Videos As Viral Craze Turns Dangerous
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All News for January 2018
Facebook made an announcement about a week ago noting it was ready to make some big changes in how it handles the News Feed. These changes were welcome by most users, but the social network isn't stopping there. Facebook is now calling on users to help it ensure that the news you see in your feed is from quality...
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There are many examples today of how PC gaming is flourishing better than ever. You only have to look towards the eSports market to understand how alive and well the ecosystem is. Games like PUBG are being played by the millions, and naturally, that's making many more want to explore the PC gaming world and the...
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Isn't it nice when malware authors make it easy to remove their dirty code? Sometimes all you have to do is open the Control Panel and uninstall the offending program, just like any other application. And for browsers, simply nuke the extension that is causing trouble. Unfortunately, some recent browser extensions for...
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Intel apparently has some additional Coffee Lake processors incoming that are destined for laptop machines and mobile workstations, at least according to a recent leak on the interwebs. Intel's Coffee Lake-H processors range from the quad-core Core i5-8300H on up to the hexa-core Core i9-8950HK on the consumer side...
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Over the past few weeks, complaints have been pouring into Google's support communities and reddit concerning Google Home and Chromecast devices flooding home Wi-Fi networks with packets of data, causing their internet speeds to slow to crawl. Thankfully, Google has responded late this week with a fix to address these...
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When it comes to operating systems for smartphones, tablets, and notebooks we all know what Google has to offer. We have Android for tablets and smartphones and then you have Chrome OS for notebooks and desktops. We also know that Google is working on another operating system that might be the replacement for both...
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If you're a subscriber to Amazon's popular Prime membership service, we've got some good news and bad news for you. The good news is that if you pay the yearly $99 rate for Amazon Prime, your out-of-pocket costs aren’t going to change one iota. However, if you pay the monthly rate, your costs are about to jump.
The monthly price for Amazon
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After blocking an app in the App Store that was designed to alert iOS users of net neutrality violations, Apple took a second look at the application, called Wehe, and decided it was acceptable after all. However, the developer of the app, Dave Choffnes, is still unclear on why exactly Apple chose to banish Wehe from...
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OnePlus is currently in the midst of investigating a credit card payment processing breach on its website, and we're now learning the full scope of the vulnerability. As promised, and adhering to its commitment to providing full disclose, OnePlus says that anyone that entered their credit card details (card numbers...
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Well this is disturbing—researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and mobile security company Lookout have discovered a cyber-espionage campaign that has been operational since 2012 and is aimed at Android users. The campaign, dubbed Dark Caracal, has infected thousands of Android devices in more than 20...
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took the gaming industry by storm with its addicting battle royal game play, attracting gamers in droves. Unfortunately, there have been some annoying issues, both on the performance side (bugs have been a constant problem) and in terms of cheaters ruining the fun for everyone else. The...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks, we talk about the first benchmarks with the Intel/AMD hybrid Core i7-8705G in Dell's XPS 15 2-in-1, we cover some more highlights from CES 2018 including some killer gaming rigs from Maingear, Xidax, and Origin PC, what to make of all the crypto-currency...
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AMD is facing a class action lawsuit related to recently disclosed chip vulnerabilities that have companies scrambling to release security patches. Those patches can potentially hamper performance, though the ire of the lawsuit against AMD is that it initially kept quiet about its chips being susceptible to both...
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LG has a new patent that is making the rounds that shows a device with a dual purpose. The patent describes the device as a "mobile phone with a flexible display which can be folded in half." The original filing for the patent was in July of 2017, and the patent was just published on January 12, 2018.
There are two...
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The NPD Group has published a few new reports that look into the performance of the video game industry in the U.S. for 2017. It was a good year for gaming hardware and software makers with significant growth: total revenue in the industry hit $36 billion for the year. That $36 billion number represents growth of 18%...
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Amazon is scouting locations for its second North American headquarters (HQ2), and today, the company narrowed down the finalists to 20 metropolitan areas. A total of 238 communities submitted proposals to be in the running for the honor to host what would be a huge investment from Amazon.
Amazon says that it will...
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We all know that Microsoft has made some incredible advances in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years. However, the software giant is taking things to the next level with new AI that was developed using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Put simply, Microsoft calls the AI a “drawing...
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WhatsApp has launched a new app for Android users that is called WhatsApp Business. The free app is designed to allow small businesses to more easily connect with their customers. WhatsApp also figures that the new app will make it more convenient for the 1.3 billion people around the world that currently use WhatsApp...
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Have you wanted to dabble with artificial intelligence but felt overwhelmed by the complexity of it all? Well, good news—Google is rolling out what it calls Cloud AutoML, a suite of machine learning products designed to help developers with limited machine learning experience and expertise to train high quality image...
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It's all fun and games on the Internet until some idiot dreams up the Tide Pod challenge, followed by more idiots partaking in this idiotic viral phenomenon. The challenge, in case you haven't come across it on social media, is to stick the detergent capsule into your mouth and chew it, munch it, and ultimately eat...
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Apple has faced a number of embarrassing security mishaps over the past few months, with most of them affecting macOS. However, iOS is not immune to annoying glitches as witnessed by the latest chaiOS bug. Software developer Abraham Masri first discovered the exploit, which affects iOS devices, and can cause them to...
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AMD announced several new products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, including updates to it processor lineup. Among the new products on tap from AMD is a 2nd generation Ryzen line of chips based on the company's 12-nanometer Zen+ architecture. One of those processors, the Ryzen 5 2600...
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