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Latest News - December 2018
- Macaulay Culkin Is Google Home Alone In This Throwback Holiday Ad
- Razer Announces Turret Mouse And Keyboard For Xbox One FPS Gaming Glory, Preorders Now Open
- Tech Historian Flips Activision The Bird, Exposes Leisure Suit Larry Source Code On Twitch
- Former NASA Engineer Exacts Sweet Revenge On Package Thieves With Epic Glitter Fart Bomb
- Microsoft Unveils Windows Sandbox For Safely Running Untrusted Apps In Quarantined Space
- Facebook Appears To Be Promoting Scam Tech Gear Ads For Holiday Shopping Season
- Microsoft Is Sending Customers Emails With Hidden $10 Gift Cards, Check Your Inbox
- Facebook Broke Trust Again, Shared User Data With Amazon, Microsoft, And Netflix
- Fully Functional Apple Lisa 1 Computer Lands on eBay With $65,000 Asking Price
- Apple's 9.7-inch iPad Slashed To A Crazy Low $229 With Free Delivery By Christmas
- Google Home Hub Plus Two Home Minis For $129 Is Your Last Minute Hot Christmas Deal
- AT&T 5G Wireless Service Lights Up This Friday, $70/Month For 15GB
- Amazon Digital Day Kicks Off December 28 With Great Deals On Apps, Movies And eBooks
- Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2070 Xtreme Review: Overclocked, Custom Outputs
- JEDEC Updates High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Standard To 24GB Per Stack At Blistering 307GBps
- T-Mobile eSIM Support Launches For iPhone Prepaid Lines
- LG To Debut 65-Inch OLED TV That Rolls Up Like A Poster In 2019
- Macauly Caulkin Reviews Crappy Retro Home Alone Video Games For The Holidays
- Former Microsoft Edge Intern Claims Google Callously Broke Rival Web Browsers
- Nintendo Switch Crowned Fastest-Selling Game Console For This Generation
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All News for December 2018
Christmas movie fans will undoubtedly know the classic flick Home Alone starring Macaulay Culkin. Google has teamed up with Culkin to reprise his role as Kevin McAllister in modern times. Google calls the new holiday film it cooked up "Home Alone Again with Google Assistant."
The video has Kevin doing many of the...
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Razer today officially launched its new Razer Turret, which is a wireless mouse and keyboard combo specifically designed for the Xbox One platform. Microsoft first announced official mouse and keyboard support for its gaming consoles back in September, and Razer was listed as one of its early partners.
Razer has a...
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In case you missed it last night (and I suspect most people did), a person who dressed up like Leisure Suit Larry went on Twitch and read the entire source code for the game, which is impressive on several different levels. Not the least among them is that it took the guy nearly 12 hours to read the source code in its...
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It's Christmas time, which means that you likely have had dozens of packages appear on your doorstep over the past few months. In addition, you have likely sent Christmas packages to friends and families across the country, which will hopefully be sitting on their porch waiting when they arrive at home.
But there are...
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The web is a potentially dangerous place, we've known that for years and are reminded every time a family member brings over a laptop that needs 'fixing' (i.e., clean out the malware). Even savvy users have to be careful, though. To help watch your step, Microsoft is developing an application called Windows Sandbox...
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Buyer beware, it has come to our attention that there are several websites advertised on Facebook that are scamming people into paying for merchandise that they will never receive. These scams appear to have started to show up about a month ago on Facebook, and there have been hundreds of comments from people...
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You may have received a $10 store gift card from Microsoft and not even realized it. The company has been hiding them behind special links in emails during the holiday season, the same ones you may have sent to the trash bin without knowing there was anything more to the email than an advertisement to shop at the...
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Mark Zuckerberg may end up finding out the hard way that even Facebook, the largest social network on the planet, is not invincible. After being dogged by numerous security gaffes and privacy outrages, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal that caused the company to be put under a microscope, it's now come to...
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Apple is a computing and electronics behemoth today, but the company started off much more modestly. Some of its very early computers were handmade and are very rare and valuable today. Last summer, an Apple I computer went up for auction and was expected to bring at least $300,000. Another rare early Apple computer...
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If you put off Christmas shopping and still need to do some buying, you still have time if you get the lead out. Amazon has one of the best deals that we have seen so far going on the new 9.7-inch iPad with WiFi; it's an even better deal on some units than the sale from earlier this month.
Amazon is offering the...
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Have you still not found the perfect gift for the techie on your Christmas shopping list? Well, if your gift recipient is into the smart home scene -- or is looking to get started -- B&H Photo Video has a smokin' deal on a Google Home combo pack.
For starters, you'll get Google's newly released Home Hub, which...
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If you are itching to be one of the first on the block with 5G wireless connectivity, AT&T is getting ready to turn on its network in a few select cities. Unlike Verizon's 5G service, which is using proprietary technology -- at least initially -- AT&T says that its 5G network is "standards-based".
At the moment...
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It's a common practice to give money or gift cards too someone you aren't sure what to buy them for the holidays. This means that lots of people end up with cash lying around and the opportunity to buy themselves gifts right after Christmas. Amazon is making a play for that Christmas cash with a Digital Day sale that...
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Post launch, NVIDIA’s board partners ramped-up their custom GeForce RTX designs relatively quickly. It’s not uncommon for some of the larger, premiere partners to have custom cards ready on launch day, but with the GeForce GTX series, some of them had literally dozens of different cards at the ready...
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JEDEC announced an update to the the JESD235 memory standard that deals with the second generation of high bandwidth memory (HBM). This update brings two key feature enhancements to the standard. First, it raises the capacity limit for each device to 24GB, and it also raises the speed threshold to 307GB/s.
If you...
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T-Mobile announced that it has launched the app needed to bring support for eSIM activation to the iPhone XS, XS Max, and iPhone XR. For now, the eSIM app only supports activation for prepaid lines. The carrier is justifying the prepaid-only support for eSIMs by saying that the service aims at those wanting a secondary prepaid line on their
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Big screen televisions are fairly common now, and even though they have slimmed down considerably since the days of rear projection TVs, they can still take up a lot of space in the living room. LG is attempting to make them less of a dominating presence. How so? The company apparently has plans to launch a 65-inch...
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Do you ever find yourself wondering what Macauly Caulkin is up to these days? He rose to notoriety for playing the role of Kevin McCallister in the Christmas movie Home Alone and will forever be best known for that, and was also excellent in Uncle Buck, for which he doesn't get enough recognition. Fast forward to...
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. That seems to have been the case when Microsoft officially announced earlier this month that it would be abandoning its own EdgeHTML rendering engine used for the Edge browser in favor or Google's Chromium. At the time, Microsoft said that this move was an effort to "create better web...
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There was plenty of pre-launch skepticism regarding Nintendo's Switch console, a hybrid game system that can sit in a dock connected to a big screen television, or be played on the go like a mobile device. However, there's now little question that Nintendo made the right the decision. Lest there be any lingering...
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We are now in the middle of December and fast approaching a brand new year, and at long last the October 2018 Update for Windows 10 is finally widely available to the public. There is a catch, however. Only "advanced users" who have not already updated are likely to see the update, as it must be manually...
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If you thought that a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor paired with 10GB of RAM was the bee’s knees, then you'll definitely be bowled over by Lenovo's latest release. Just a few weeks ago, we were championing the release of the world's first flagship phones with 10GB of RAM onboard, and now Lenovo has announced the Z5...
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