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Latest News - August 2018
- Microsoft's Next Major Windows 10 Update Lands In October
- 2019 Roush Stage 3 Mustang Packs 710 'Cars And Coffee' Destroying Horsepower
- AMD's Second-Gen Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core, 32-Thread Monster CPU Now Available
- Huawei Unveils AI Cube Alexa-Powered Smart Speaker With Built In 4G WiFi Router
- MSI Unwraps P65 Creator Core i7 Coffee Lake Notebook With GeForce GTX 1070 MaxQ GPU
- Huawei Launches 7nm Kirin 980 Octa-Core Arm Cortex-A76 SoC With Mali-G76 GPU
- Motorola One And One Power Are Notchy Mid-Range Phones Rocking Android One
- iOS 12 Beta Spams Users Into Submission With Incessant Update Popups
- Google Pixel 3 Leaks Showing Its Notch-Less 5.5-inch Face And Dual Selfie Cams
- Scientists Develop MagicScroll Touch Display Tablet That Rolls Up Like A Digital Scroll
- Garmin's Sleek New Vivosmart 4 Fitness Wearable Tracks Activity, Monitors Oxygen Saturation
- Microsoft Announces Office 365 Home And Personal Install Limits Will Be Lifted
- iPhone XS, Apple Watch Series 4 Images Leak From Cupertino Ahead Of September 12 Reveal
- Netgear Unleashes Orbi Voice WiFi Mesh Satellite Doubling As Alexa Smart Speaker, Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR700 Router
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Amps Its Lineage With 15-Inch 4K HDR Display, GTX 1050 Ti MaxQ GPU
- Lenovo Intros Yoga Book C390 Dual-Screen Laptop With E-Ink Tech And Its First Yoga Chromebook
- Lenovo Unveils Yoga C630 Snapdragon 850 Windows 10 PC With A 30% Performance Lift, 25-Hr Battery
- Sony Xperia XZ3 Rocks Gorgeous 6-inch OLED Display And Ships With Android 9 Pie
- Battlefield V With Ray-Tracing Currently Estimated At Sub-30fps In 4K, 60fps+ At 1080p On GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- GeForce RTX Q&A: Juicy Turing Details Explained With NVIDIA's Tom Petersen
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All News for August 2018
We now have a confirmed name and release month for the next major Windows 10 update, which has been testing under the codename "Redstone 5". Microsoft says that that Windows 10 October 2018 Update will land in... well, October. The naming convention shouldn’t come as much of a shock considering that the current public release is called the Windows
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The gang over at Roush has been taking the already potent Mustang GT and hopping it up for more performance and style for a long time. Roush has offered Mustangs in what it calls "Stages" referring to if they are all show and no go (Stage 1) or if they pack lots of additional "go" in the form of a supercharger under...
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Just over two weeks ago, HotHardware brought you reviews of both the Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and its more sedate sibling, the Ryzen Threadripper 2950X. The Threadripper 2950X is built on AMD's 12nm Pinnacle Ridge architecture and is in essence the replacement for the first-generation Threadripper 1950X.
Now, we can...
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There is a new smart speaker in town. Huawei just unveiled its AI Cube, a smart speaker and 4G router with Amazon's Alexa onboard. The AI Cube is meant to provide “seamless connectivity” in smart homes.
But don’t let the name fool you -- the Huawei AI Cube is a cylinder, not an actual cube. Its diameter measures...
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MSI is going after content creators and business professionals with the new P65 Creator notebook. While MSI is a name synonymous with PC gaming hardware, that doesn’t mean that the company can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
At its heart is an 8th generation Intel Core i7 processor (Coffee Lake-H) that supports...
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Watch out, Qualcomm; Huawei is knocking at your door. The Chinese tech giant has just announced its next-generation SoC that will power its upcoming flagship smartphone family in late 2018 and beyond. The Kirin 980 is the successor to the Kirin 970 and is the very first commercial 7nm chip that is being manufactured...
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Notched displays are sort of like Jason Vorhees, in that they keep on coming whether you want them to are not. There's no hiding from The Notch (cue the scary music). Even the budget smartphone market does not provide sanctuary from notched displays, as Motorola's new One and One Power phones make crystal...
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Apple is in the homestretch of testing iOS 12 in beta form before it receives a final coat of polish and rolls out to the public. Unfortunately for developers who are doing the actual testing, iOS 12 seems to be stumbling at the finish line. Specifically, beta testers report that iOS 12 keeps nagging them to update...
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Unless previous leaks got things grossly wrong, Google is going to release two Pixel 3 models, one with a display notch and one without it. We have seen plenty of leaked photos of the Pixel 3 XL, which is the one that will have a notch (presumably), but now there is a new batch of photos that show the regular Pixel in...
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Back in ancient times, before the Internet was a thing and touchscreen devices dominated the landscape, people read newspapers made from wood pulp (and other ingredients). You could roll it up and tuck it under your arm. Touchscreen tablets don't afford the same level of convenience, but that might change. Researchers...
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Garmin has announced a new wearable that has some very cool tracking capabilities called the vivosmart 4. The device is very slim, and the coolest feature of the wearable is that it has a wrist-based pulse oximeter. A pulse oximeter is a medical device that can track oxygen saturation or the amount of oxygen that is...
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It's not uncommon for people to work with multiple electronic devices these days. You might have a laptop for work, a laptop for personal use, a desktop at home, and a tablet for yourself and several devices for other family members. Lots of devices are common, and this posed a problem for some people when it came to...
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Apple is always worried about its suppliers leaking images and parts for its upcoming products, but in recent years, many of the most critical leaks have come from within. We saw this last year when nearly every detail/feature concerning the 2017 iPhone X were spoiled by a HomePod firmware leak.
This time around...
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Netgear has announced a new product called the Orbi Voice Smart Speaker and WiFi Mesh Satellite with Built-in Amazon Alexa. That is a very long name to describe a product that can play music for you and answer questions thanks to Amazon Alexa integration. The device is also a mesh hotspot to extend your WiFi network...
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Lenovo is expanding its ThinkPad X1 family with the arrival of an even larger form-factor. Today, the company has announced the ThinkPad X1 Extreme, which touts a 15.6-inch display (a family first) and discrete graphics (also a first).
Starting with that 15.6-inch display; it's a 4K HDR panel with Dolby Vision...
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Lenovo today introduced a bunch of new devices at IFA 2018, including several laptop products that it's adding to its Yoga family. Among them is the Yoga Book C930. Lenovo is pitching the Yoga Book C930 as the world's first dual display laptop with E Ink support, which opens up new use case scenarios for end...
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Back in early June, Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 850 Mobile Platform, which will form the basis for second-generation "Always Connected" Windows 10 PCs. As expected, Lenovo is the first out of the gate with a new 2-in-1 convertible based on Snapdragon 850, which shouldn't come as a surprise given that it was part...
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When it comes to flagship smartphones, Sony doesn't often get mentioned in the same breath with the likes of Samsung and Apple, or even Huawei and Xiaomi. However, that doesn't mean that the company is no longer putting out quality hardware. In fact, the company's new Xperia XZ3 shows that it can still build a...
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We are on the cusp of the era of real-time ray tracing in games. It effectively begins once NVIDIA starts shipping its GeForce RTX series cards based on the company's Turing GPU architecture, with dedicated Tensor and RT cores underneath the hood, but what kind of performance can we realistically expect? That depends...
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Yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Petersen (TAP), NVIDIA's Director of Technical Marketing and a Distinguished Engineer. Given that NVIDIA's next-generation graphics cards are on everyone's mind these days, it should come as no surprise that we went straight into exploring the Turing...
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Browse any enthusiast forum that deals with overclocking and you'll encounter complaints over Intel's choice of thermal interface material (TIM) on its 8th generation Core processor family. The consensus is that it's not very good, and that Intel should return to using solder. Well, it looks like that is happening...
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Using a strong password is the accepted standard for securing accounts, but in some instances, it's simply not enough. That is where two factor authentication (2FA) comes into play. If you want to use 2FA to protect your Google account, you can—Google is now selling 2FA Titan security key bundles to the public at $50...
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