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Latest News - May 2018
- SCUF Vantage PS4 Controller Offers Xbox One Elite-Style Customizations
- Intel Accelerates Graphics Driver Releases As Its Discrete GPU Ambitions Grow
- HTC's U12+ Flagship Phone Officially Announced With Dual Cameras And Translucent Chassis
- FBI Widely Overstated How Many Times It Was Locked Out Of Encrypted Cellular Devices
- TSMC Kicks Off 7nm A12 Chip Production For Incoming 2018 iPhones
- Fortnite 4.2 Update Adds Jetpacks For Quick Aerial Escapes
- Police Deploy Amazon Rekognition Facial Recognition Tech Sparking Privacy Rights Outrage
- Epic Games Celebrates Unreal’s 20th Anniversary By Making The Gaming Classic Free On Steam
- HTC U12 Plus Official Photos, Specs, And Pricing Leaked On Official Website
- Google Staring Down Barrel Of $4.3 Billion UK iPhone Privacy Suit
- Sony Confirms PS4 Entering Final Phase Of Its Lifecycle, PS5 Rumored To Rock AMD Ryzen Processor
- ARM Details Project Trillium Machine Learning Processor To Drive AI To the Edge
- Siri Teases Brand New Voice And Updated HomePod For Apple WWDC
- Comcast Launches xFi Pods Delivering Cheap And Easy Mesh Wi-Fi Networking For Whole Home Coverage
- Alleged 8-Core Intel Coffee Lake Processor Leaks Again Via SiSoft Database
- Sony's New 10-inch DPT-CP1 Digital Paper Tablet Proves It's Not Cheap Being Green
- Intel And Microsoft Disclose Latest Spectre-Style CPU Flaw, Official Fix Could Slow Some PCs
- Razer Unleashes Blade 15 Gaming Laptop With Coffee Lake-H, GTX 1070 And New Razer Core X
- Micron And Intel Announce Shipment Of Industry First Quad-Level Cell (QLC) NAND Solid State Drives
- Epic Funds Massive $100 Million Prize Pool For Fortnite eSports Tournaments
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All News for May 2018
If you want to spark an intense debate among friends (and don't care about keeping them as such), just bring up any number of controversial political topics. Or if you really want to get in a heated exchange, talk about the merits of controller design and declare your allegiance to either Sony's DualShock 4 controller...
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One of the keys to success is developing good habits. Intel, the most successful semiconductor company on the planet, knows a thing or two about this, though up to this point the company hasn't been all that successful in its attempts to crack the discrete graphics market. That might change with the arrival of Arctic...
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At this point it feels like we already know most of what there is to know about HTC's new flagship smartphone. However, specs and pricing are now official, as HTC has gone formally introduced the U12+, and is currently accepting pre-orders for both carrier-specific and unlocked models starting at $799, or $34 per...
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The FBI has quoted statistics to the public and Congress that claimed investigators had been locked out of encrypted devices like smartphones nearly 7,800 times. It is now being reported that the actual number is much smaller in the area of between 1,000 and 2,000 incidents. The report claims that over a time frame of...
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People claiming to be familiar with TSMC's operations are saying that the company has kicked off production of the next generation processors for the new iPhone models that will land later this year. The processor is expected to be called the A12 and it will reportedly use a 7nm design. This new design will be more...
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Epic Games has gone official with all the details of the V4.2 content update and it brings something that fans have been clamoring for: jetpacks. Jetpacks are part of a new item type coming to Battle Royale called Backpacks, not to be confused with Back Bling. Backpacks are gameplay items that can’t be purchased as cosmetics.
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While we may all know Amazon for fast, two-day shipping on millions of products, Prime Video, and a host of other offline and online services, police departments are looking to the tech giant for a different reason. According to emails that were obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) via a freedom of...
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It’s hard to believe it, but the original Unreal is 20 years old today… yes, twenty years old. The game was originally released on May 22nd, 1998 by GT Interactive and was of course the first to use the famed Unreal engine. If you’re getting on up there in age, you can likely recall fanboys proclaiming their love for...
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We have been seeing leaks of HTC's upcoming flagship U12+ smartphone for several weeks now, including what looked to be official press renders and a comprehensive set of specifications. Lest there be any doubt about the legitimacy of previously leaked information, HTC did curious folks a solid by posting all the juicy...
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Google is at the center of another privacy lawsuit, this latest one filed in the UK on behalf of around 4.4 million iPhone owners who may have had their browsing data improperly collected. Should Google lose the legal battle, it could be on the hook for 3.2 billion pounds, or roughly $4.29 billion, the company...
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The Sony PlayStation 4 is getting a little long in the tooth. What was once state of the art (for a gaming console) back in 2013 is now headed towards the end of its current lifecycle. That last statement actually comes directly from Sony PlayStation chief John Kodera.
Kodera made the comments during Sony's Corporate...
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After taking a measured, wait-and-see approach to machine learning, Arm is ready to jump into the fold full throttle. Today, the company is following up on its Project Trillium announcement from back in February with new details surrounding its machine learning processor, also known as the neural-network processing...
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We are now just two weeks shy of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which means that new product and service announcements from the Cupertino company are right around the corner. So, what can we expect out of WWDC? Some users posed that question to Siri, and surprisingly the digital assistant...
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Mesh routers are all the rage these days, as they allow users to ensure that their whole home is blanketed in Wi-Fi while maintaining peak speeds throughout. Comcast is getting in on the action with the official nationwide launch of its xFi Pods, which are rebranded Plume Wi-Fi extenders with its own special firmware...
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If all goes to plan (*revised* plan, that is), Intel will finally start shipping its 10-nanometer processors in volume early next year, delivering its much anticipated Cannon Lake lineup to the masses. In the meantime, Intel is extracting as much performance out of Coffee Lake as possible, and rumor has it there are...
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Kermit the Frog famously sang "It's not easy being green", and he should have added that it's not cheap either. Sony has added a new 10-inch model to its Digital Paper line and this thing is essentially a sheet of paper that never runs out. The idea is to help reduce the amount of ink and paper you use, which could be...
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Computer users around the world are still reeling from the Spectre flaws that affected many modern ARM and x86-64 CPUs, and earlier this month we learned that there was another Spectre-style vulnerability that could affect processors from Intel, AMD and ARM. Intel and Microsoft have now stepped up and officially...
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Razer has some hot new gaming goodness on tap today, and fans of Razer Blade series gaming laptops will especially be pleased by the new 15.6-inch addition to the family.
The new Razer Blade has a standard 15.6-inch display with a Full HD (1920x1080) resolution with a 144Hz refresh rate and 100 percent sRGB color...
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Intel and Micron have just jointly announced shipment of the first quad-level cell (QLC) NAND-based SSD in the industry: the Micron 5210 ION, which is aimed directly at read-intensive cloud workloads. Intel-Micron say that the new QLC NAND has 33 percent greater bit density than TLC NAND, which gives it the ability to...
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Listen up, Fortnite fans! Fortnite players could potentially rake in some serious dough this year, as Epic Games just announced that it will be providing $100 million to fund competitive prize pools.
Epic Games’ promise is due to the overwhelmingly positive response it has received from Fortnite players since the...
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Facebook is teaming up with Qualcomm in an effort to bring its gigabit wireless internet project to the masses. The Terragraph Project is a 60GHz multi-node, millimeter-wavelength wireless system the two tech giants hope to have operating on a trial basis by mid-2019.
Terragraph makes use of the 802.11ay WLAN...
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It seems as though game developers (and gamers) simply can't get enough of the “Greatest Generation”; the brave soldiers that fought during World War II. The official Twitter account for the Battlefield franchise posted a new teaser trailer for Battlefield V which all but confirms that the game will be set during...
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