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Latest News - March 2018
- Apple Face ID TrueDepth 3D Camera System Allegedly Has 2-Year Lead Over Android Competitors
- Intel Struts Hades Canyon NUC Motherboard With 8th Gen Core And Radeon Vega Graphics
- Police: Onboard Video Shows Self-Driving Uber Volvo Likely Not At Fault For Killing Pedestrian
- Fortnite Game Streamer Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins Claims To Make $500K Per Month
- PUBG Mobile Launches In U.S. On iOS And Android To Much Fraggin' Fanfare
- Ataribox Becomes The Atari VCS, Available With Modern And Retro Controllers At The Ready
- Microsoft Introduces DirectX Raytracing Bringing Photorealistic, Movie-Quality 3D To Games
- Uber Suspends Autonomous Vehicle Trials After Pedestrian Is Struck And Killed In Arizona
- NVIDIA RTX Technology To Usher In Real-Time Ray Tracing Holy Grail Of Gaming Graphics
- Nimbus Data 100TB ExaDrive DC100 Smashes Enterprise SSD Storage Boundaries
- US Navy Launches USS Colorado Attack Sub That Sailors Can Guide With A Microsoft Xbox Controller
- HTC Vive Drops To $499, Vive Pro VR Headset Preorders Open At $799 Without Controllers Or Base Stations
- Apple Watch And iPhone Devices Are Accidentally Sending Emergency SOS Alerts, Here's How To Avoid Embarrassment
- Google's Latest Pixel 2 XL Promo Offers $200 Cash Back And Free Charger
- Apple Is Reportedly Developing MicroLED Displays For Apple Watch
- Ethereum Nosedives As SEC Opens Investigations On Dozens Of ICOs Built On The Blockchain
- Original PlayStation 3 Owners Could Be Entitled To A $65 Check From Sony
- ASUS X470 2nd Gen Ryzen Motherboard Layouts And Specs Break Cover In Leak
- World's Largest Jet Engine, GE Aviation GE9X, Makes Debut Flight Touting 100K Pounds Of Thrust
- Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica For Exploiting Data Of 50 Million Users In Trump Campaign Efforts
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All News for March 2018
Although we doubt that there are many iPhone X owners out there that actually like the notch cutout from the top of the display, most have just learned to embrace it. The reason for the notch is due to the TrueDepth camera system that powers the Face ID facial recognition system.
Face ID is capable of powering rather...
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Do you remember the Hades Canyon model NUC (Next Unit of Computing) that Intel introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year? Now two months later Intel is giving us a tantalizing peek into the system's guts, and specifically of the tiny motherboard that houses the device's 8th Generation...
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Uber and the autonomous driving sector at large are under close scrutiny after one of the ride sharing service's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian on Sunday. However, the police chief of Tempe, Arizona, the place where the fatal accident occurred, says a preliminary investigation into the matter reveals...
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At some point most gamers have probably heard someone (normally a parent) say that you can't make a living playing video games. That most certainly isn't true anymore. You can make an incredible amount of money playing games, but it's challenging work and there is intense competition in this sort of profession...
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Last Friday mobile gamers got a surprise when PUBG Mobile launched in Canada. At the time the game launched in The Great White North, the only way for U.S. gamers to partake in the fun was to change their region and download the game. PUBG Mobile has now officially landed in the U.S. and the game is available on both...
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What was once known as the Ataribox has a new name: Atari VCS. The new gaming console from Atari is based on PC hardware -- specifically, an AMD APU that has integrated Radeon graphics.
The Atari VCS, or Video Computer System, harkens back to the Atari 2600, and is available with faux woodgrain trim (if you really...
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Microsoft says that 3D gaming today is a lie. While the techniques game designers use can make games on your screen look like they're 3D, the rasterization process used ultimately only operates in two dimensions with 3D primitives mapped onto it via transformation matrices.
Things are changing with the introduction...
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We have some sad news to report in the world of autonomous vehicles. It was reported that earlier this morning, an Uber self-driving vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. Tempe is one of several cities where Uber's autonomous vehicle trials are taking place, with the others being Pittsburgh, San...
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NVIDIA has been dabbling in real-time ray tracing for over a decade, and as made acquisitions in the space to leverage the technology. Now, the company is introducing NVIDIA RTX, which is its latest effort to deliver real-time ray tracing to game developers and content creators for implementation in actual game...
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We like big SSDs and we cannot lie! Luckily for us Nimbus Data is satisfying our lust for all things SSD with a positively massive new offering: the company's new ExaDrive DC100 offers a mind-blowing 100TB of storage space. To put that in perspective, Samsung just began sampling its 30TB PM1643 Serial Attached SCSI...
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The United States Navy commissioned its newest fast attack submarine, the USS Colorado, over the weekend during a ceremony at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. As one one would expect, the USS Colorado is a marvel of undersea technology and design. What you probably did not expect, however...
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If you have been holding off buying a virtual reality headset in anticipating of newer, higher resolution models coming out, HTC has some good news. The company announced today that it is accepting pre-orders for its Vive Pro head mounted display (HMD). It's priced at $799, the same as what the original Vive debuted...
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Sometimes even the best laid plans can go awry. Apple is learning this after rolling out an Emergency SOS feature to Apple Watch and iPhone device owners through WatchOS 4 and iOS 11, respectively. While the feature is implemented with good intentions and could potentially even save a life, it is also resulting in...
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There are plenty of reasons to consider the Pixel 2 XL as your next smartphone, not the least of which is the handset's excellent camera performance. However, if you are looking for added incentive, Google is providing it right now in the form of a $200 statement credit when you take advantage of Google Store...
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A new report is making the rounds that suggests Apple has accomplished a notable first and a break from its traditional method for obtaining displays. According to the report, Apple is developing its own device displays for the very first time, whereas in the past it sourced screens for its devices directly from...
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Ethereum has taken a swift kick to the blockchain after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has "dozens" of investigations open in the cryptocurrency space associated with ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). The announcement of the investigations was made by an agency official on March 15. The...
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When Sony released its PlayStation 3 way back in 2006, it came with a large and very impressive feature list. While Sega introduced the internet to consoles with its Dreamcast in 1999, Sony brought none other than Linux to consoles with its PS3. At the time, the capability felt exciting, and in many ways, completely...
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AMD Ryzen fans looking forward to getting hands on a Second Gen Ryzen chip and needing a new motherboard to strap it onto will have a trio of slick new mainboards from ASUS apparently, and those boards have had their specs leaked rather extensively. The three new Ryzen boards are AMD X470-series chipset models...
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GE has announced that it has a new jet engine that has lifted off for the first time. The maiden flight of the GE9X jet engine happened on March 13 and it was hung under the wing of GE Aviation's 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California for the flight. One glance at the images and you can see just how massive the...
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Facebook has suspended Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, while it investigates claims that it did not delete personal data of Facebook users like it was supposed to. The analytics firm worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort...
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We haven't even finished out the first quarter of 2018 yet, but the Galaxy S9 family has been launched and the first developer preview of Android P has been released. There are sure to be a slew of Android flagships launched this year, and one of the most highly anticipated models will no doubt be the next-generation...
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With critical vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre having been disclosed to the public, it's clearer than ever that more eyeballs are needed when it comes to making sure that our software and hardware is secure. Not long after Intel suffered the bulk of fallout from Meltdown and Spectre, the company bolstered its...
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