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Latest News - December 2018
- Microsoft Admits Manual Windows Updates Can Make You A Test Guinea Pig
- Amazon’s Sleek Echo Wall Clock Arrives For The Holidays With Alexa Smart Timers
- Gamers Can Now Buy Red Dead Gold With Real Cash But At What Cost
- Microsoft Is Giving Away These Hilariously Ugly Windows 95 Sweaters To Lucky Fans
- BMW And Porsche Unveil 450 kW EV Charger That Provides 60 Miles Of Range In 3 Minutes
- Facebook Confirms API Bug Exposed Photos Of 6.8 Million Users
- 3dfx Rampage GPU Performance Revealed 20 Years After Project's Demise
- Nintendo Is Ending Production Of NES Classic (Again) And SNES Classic
- Facebook Portal Smart Display Updated To Support Games And A Web Browser
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX Ray Tracing In Battlefield V Explored Pre And Post Patch
- Turn Your Amazon Fire TV Into A Genesis With Sega's New 25-Game Bundle
- HP Laptops With AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Picasso APUs Debut In Benchmarks Leak
- Grab A Surface Laptop 2 For $799 And More With Microsoft's Smokin' Holiday Deals
- Vitaminwater Contest Offers $100,000 To Ditch Your Smartphone For a Year
- Apple Readies Software Update To Thwart Qualcomm's Chinese iPhone Sales Ban
- 2.5 Geeks Talk AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 With Scott Wasson
- Razer SoftMiner Cryptocurrency Rewards Program Leads To Confusion For Gamers
- Microsoft Refutes Reports That It Is Covertly Harvesting Windows 10 Activity History Data
- Qualcomm Wants Apple iPhone XR And iPhone XS Added To Chinese Import Ban
- Samsung Galaxy S10 Tipped For February 20 Launch And Up To 1TB Internal Storage
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All News for December 2018
In a new post on its Windows Blog, Microsoft details its Windows Update mechanism, allowing us to peer inside the company process to see how those precious updates are rolled out. While some Windows updates have clearly not gone according to plan, the vast majority do, and given the complexity and reach of these...
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Amazon is intent on getting Alexa into just about every object in your home. While the voice assistant started embedded in smart speakers, it has since expanded into devices that are suited to the kitchen like microwaves and now wall clocks. Amazon has announced the availability of the Echo Wall Clock, and this device...
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Eureka! If you are tired of grinding to earn that Red Dead Online Cattleman Revolver or Arabian horse, you are in luck. Gamers can now purchase gold in Red Dead Online with real life currency. However, is this latest update truly beneficial to players? Many believe that the microtransactions are simply not worth...
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Microsoft is giving away a very special quasi-holiday ugly sweater to a handful of lucky fans on Twitter. The sweater has a sweet retro Windows 95 theme. Although wearing this sweater may not make you cool (or it might if your inner geek is inspired), its constant freezing is could keep you nice and chill...
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The move to electric vehicles seems inevitable, but we are slowly getting there as early adopters purchase vehicles like the Tesla Model 3, Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Bolt. However, there are three primary negatives that make the buying public skeptical of EVs at the moment: cost, range anxiety, and the widespread...
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Some people collect stamps, others collect vintage coins, and some companies collect your Facebook photos. Facebook recently announced that a bug allowed third-party apps to access the photos of nearly 6.8 million users. Facebook has apologized and promised to alert users whose photos may have been shared without...
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A new book titled "The Legacy of 3dfx" sheds some incite on 3dfx's experimental Rampage graphics card that never saw a public release. A few pictures released early from the book reveal the results of a few benchmark tests that show how pre-production models of the Rampage GPU performed.
3dfx Interactive closed...
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The fun Is coming to an end, folks. Nintendo's NES Classic and SNES Classic aren't long for this world according to comments made this week by Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé.
While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Fils-Aimé clearly indicated that production winding down on both the NES...
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Have you been eyeing the Facebook Portal or the larger Portal+? The latest updates for the smart displays may get consumers to bite in spite of mediocre reviews and lingering privacy concerns. Facebook recently added a web browser, news content, and a manual mode to the camera of the Facebook Portal and...
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The much anticipated, and sometimes controversial, next installment in the Battlefield franchise is here. There are many aspects to the game, like the World War II setting for example, which have gamers questioning whether or not we need yet another FPS set in the same era in history, especially in light of last...
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Retro gaming is plentiful nowadays, and retro gaming consoles like SNK's NeoGeo Mini, Nintendo's SNES Classic, and Sony's PlayStation Classic are selling extremely well. Sega is looking to undercut the competition in the retro gaming world, however, by working with Amazon to introduce its own bundle of retro games for...
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It looks as though Geekbench is providing us with some pretty good insight on incoming Ryzen 3000 Series processor from AMD. However, these aren't the 7nm Zen 2 monsters that we've been talking about in recent weeks. Instead, the leaks pertain to upcoming Picasso APUs that pair 12nm FinFET Raven Ridge CPU architecture...
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If you're in the market for a top-notch premium notebook, Microsoft is currently running a "12 Days. 12 Faves" promotion which is providing some rather enticing hardware discounts. One of the deals that immediately caught our eyes is on the Surface Laptop 2, which Microsoft introduced this past fall.
The Surface...
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Smartphones are everywhere today; go into any restaurant, school, business, or home, and you are guaranteed to see someone swiping away an app on their smartphone. With this in mind, Vitaminwater is running a contest that is challenging one chosen contestant to ditch all smartphones for an entire year. The company...
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Apple and Qualcomm aren't on friendly terms right now considering that the two firms are currently embroiled in a long-running legal battle over patents and royalties. Qualcomm claims that Apple owes billions in royalty payments, while Apple maintains that its devices don't infringe on Qualcomm patents. Qualcomm was...
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Be sure to tune in to our 2.5 Geeks Webcast tomorrow afternoon, as we will be having a detailed discussion with Scott Wasson of AMD. For those not in the know, Scott Wasson serves as Senior Manager for Product Management in AMD's Radeon Technologies Group.
Given his area of expertise, Scott will be discussing the...
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Cryptocurrency has been a hot topic in 2018, and Google claims that “What is bitcoin?” was one of its top questions this year. A lot of people (and companies) jumped on the cryptocurrency train, including Razer. The company is now offering users store credit in exchange for cryptocurrency mining. But is this program...
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Microsoft is looking to clear the air regarding a Windows 10 "feature" that was widely reported yesterday. Activity History is a feature that allows you to view a log of tasks that you have performed on all of your logged-in devices, and was first introduced with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update earlier this...
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The stakes in the ongoing legal drama between Apple and Qualcomm are getting higher. Earlier this week, a Chinese court sided with Qualcomm, imposing an import and sales ban on Apple products ranging from the iPhone 6s/iPhone 6s Plus on through to the iPhone X. The basis for the preliminary injunction was that Apple...
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We've seen lots of rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S10, which will be among the first smartphone to launch with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor (at least in the United States). Rumors have hinted that there would be multiple S10 versions with an entry-level S10 packing 4GB of RAM, an S10 Plus with 6GB of RAM, S10...
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The year is coming to an end (and what a year 2018 has been), which means that it's time for AMD to deliver a revamped version of its Radeon Software for its family of GPUs. We present to you Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition, which is a thorough evolution of the 2018 release with a number of new, and interesting...
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Remembering when texting messaging was generally capped, and it would cost extra to go over your monthly allotment? For the most part, cellphone plans come with unlimited texting these days, though residents in California may still have to pay a bit extra as a part of a proposed tax on text messaging. Say...
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