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- PS4 Update 5.50 Beta Brings Parental Controls To Limit Kids' Playtime
- Amazon Prime Exclusive Phone Discount Program To Ditch Lockscreen Offers And Ads
- G.SKILL Trident Z RGB Reigns As World's Fastest DDR4 Memory Kit At 4700MHz
- US Department Of Justice Charges Two Men In $50,000 ATM Jackpotting Scheme
- NYPD Dispatches 36,000 iPhone 7 Units To Manhattan Cops Replacing Unloved Windows Phones
- End Of An Era: Best Buy Stores To Reportedly Cease CD Sales This Summer
- Freshly Leaked Galaxy S9 And S9 Plus Images Show Samsung's Flyin' Purple iPhone Eater
- Dell Bolsters PowerEdge Family With AMD EPYC 7000 Series Processors
- Huawei Mate 10 Preorders Kickoff In The US With $150 Bonus Offer
- T-Mobile Warns Customers Of SIM Card Scam That Could Drain Your Bank Account
- Google Activates Pixel Visual Core For Pixel 2 HDR+ Photos In Third-Party Apps
- Bitcoin Free Fall Continues As Dominant Cryptocurrency Drops Below $7,000
- PUBG's Latest Anti-Cheat Controls Go Live Tonight, 1 Million Players Banned In January
- SpaceX Will Attempt Falcon Heavy Triple Booster Landing Following Tomorrow's Historic Launch
- LG Retreats From Chinese Smartphone Market After Heavy Losses
- Intel Vaunt Smart Glasses Use Retina Projection Tech, Won't Make You Look Like A Dork
- Broadcom Eyes $120B Purchase Offer That Qualcomm May Find Hard To Refuse
- Apple’s 2018 iPhones Could Exclusively Use Intel Modems Freezing Out Qualcomm
- Apple Music Could Eclipse Spotify In US Subscribers By Year’s End
- Apple iPhone X Owners Vent Over Bug That Prevents Incoming Calls From Being Answered
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All News for February 2018
Sony has announced that PlayStation 4 gamers on the beta channel have a new software update to try out. The update brings the PS4 to software version 5.50 and is codenamed KEIJI. Gamers who are registered for the beta program will receive an email that tells them how to download the new software and get started with...
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Back in June 2016, Amazon introduced its "Prime Exclusive" phone program, which offers Prime subscribers attractive smartphones with budget pricing. The catch, however, is that you have to put up with lockscreen offers and ads to take advantage of the favorable pricing.
For example, the fourth generation Moto X has a...
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It seems as though every few weeks we get a claim of the "world's fastest memory" coming from component manufacturers. Recently, there's been a battle between G.SKILL and Corsair, with the former firing off the latest salvo with the Trident Z RGB DDR4 memory kit.
G.SKILL claims that the memory kit runs at a dizzying...
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Hitting a jackpot on a slot machine is usually a cause for celebration, at least for the person receiving the windfall of cash. Jackpotting an ATM, however, is highly illegal and can land a person in prison. Case in point, the United States Department of Justice announced it has arrested and charged two men, Alex...
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It's out with the old and in with the new (sort of new, anyway) for police officers at Patrol Borough Manhattan South, a large area spanning Wall Street to 59th Street. Over the weekend, the officers assembled at an old police academy in Gramercy Park to pick up their newly issued iPhone 7 handsets, as the department...
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In what can be considered a sign of the times, Best Buy has reportedly told music supplies that it is phasing out sales of physical CDs. Interestingly enough, the electronics chain will continue to carry vinyl records, a music medium that predates CDs but has seen a resurgence in recent years. Best Buy will...
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Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones are set for their global debut on later this month, but we already known quite a bit about the devices. In fact, we know most of the hardware specs (including the innovative rear camera system) and have seen leaked images of the smartphone. Our favorite gadget...
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Dell EMC announced on Tuesday three new PowerEdge rack servers feature single-core and dual-core AMD Eypc 7000 series processors underneath the hood. The new PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R7415, and PowerEdge R7425 are billed as being highly scalable and intended to address high-performance computing (HPC) workloads...
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Huawei is having a hard time breaking into the U.S. smartphone market -- at least when it comes to partnering with wireless carriers. It had a deal set up with AT&T to directly offer smartphones made by the Chinese company. That deal fell apart after AT&T was pressured by the U.S. government to not sell the devices...
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If you are a T-Mobile customer and you received a weird text recently that seemed a bit sketchy, it turns out that text from T-Mobile was legitimate. The text warned customers that the third-place wireless carrier had identified an industry-wide phone number port-out scam. In the message, T-Mobile called on customers...
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We've known since the Google Pixel 2 smartphone launched that it had a dedicated imaging chip lurking inside that allows the camera to take HDR+ quality pictures when using the main photo app. Since the smartphone launched, that image processor has been just out of reach for third-party apps, but Google has finally...
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It looks as though it isn't just the Dow Jones that is having a crappy day in the financial world. Bitcoin, which was trading at close to $20,000 in late 2017, has come crashing down to earth in the past few weeks. Just last week, there panic coursed through the market which caused the cryptocurrency to drop below...
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It's inevitable that popular online games seem to bring out the worst in people. Gamers must endure foul-mouthed tweens/teenagers that lob annoying insults and throngs of loathsome players that look to quickly rise through the ranks using as many tricks and cheats as possible. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is...
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All eyes will be on Cape Canaveral early Tuesday afternoon when SpaceX will attempt to launch its long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket. The company's existing Falcon 9 rocket is pretty much a known quantity at this point, and had a stellar record in 2017. However, strapping together what are essentially three Falcon 9...
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LG is coming off its biggest year ever, in terms of overall revenue—it generated 64.1 trillion South Korean Won (around $55.4 billion U.S. currency) during all of 2017 and across all of its divisions, a 10.9 percent jump from the previous year. It also generated its highest profit since 2009, coming out ahead 2.47...
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Intel is stepping into the wearable market in a big way this year with its upcoming Vaunt smart glasses. Now, we know what you're thinking -- you're probably getting visions of "glassholes" walking around with dorky-looking Google Glass. However, Vaunt bucks that trend with styling that looks remarkably close to...
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Even though Qualcomm has never said the company is up for sale, it has been receiving buyout offers from Broadcom, an aggressive suitor that has already dangled an unsolicited bid of $100 billion. That offer was unanimously rejected by Qualcomm's board of directors last November on the basis that it undervalued the...
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Apple's ongoing rift with Qualcomm could see the company turn to other manufacturers to supply high-speed LTE modems for its iPhone products. It was rumored in December of last year that Apple was considering MediaTek as a possible partner, potentially splitting LTE modem orders between Intel and MediaTek, and now...
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The top dog in the streaming music business in the United States is Spotify, which boasts more paid subscribers than any of its rivals. However, that could change by the end of the year. Apple Music is on pace to overtake Spotify in paid subscriber numbers in the US by the end of the year, as Apple has been able to...
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The Apple iPhone X has been criticized since its launch for things ranging from its high price of entry to the notch atop the screen to the various issues owners have faced with such a high-end device. iPhone X owners are now complaining of another issue that makes it difficult to answer incoming phone calls. Reports...
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Just as the U.S. Navy looks to scrap its incredibly powerful railgun, the Chinese Navy have apparently installed a railgun of their own onto one of warships. A leaked image appears to give us our first glimpse at this immensely powerful weapon, but no real details are known about the Chinese weapon at this...
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With iOS 11.3 beta now out for people to dig around in, there are folks doing just that, looking for what Apple has in store for the future. One of the things that has been discovered, while digging around inside the beta OS, is evidence that Apple is working on a single sign-on service for the web. This was evidenced...
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