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Latest News - September 2018
- Why Some Of Your Nintendo Switch Games Don’t Support Cloud Saves
- Clinging To Windows 7? Microsoft Will Eventually Charge For Security Updates
- Hasbro Is Building Fortnite Nerf Blasters And A Monopoly Game, Do Not Pass Go!
- EA Is Fixing Its Nutty Battlefield V Profanity Filter That Censors Words Like ‘DLC’
- Fortnite For Android Surpasses 15 Million Downloads Despite Limited Rollout
- Vizio Says Its Smart TVs Will Now Inform You When They’re Spying On You
- Quick, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick Is Just $25 For Prime Members While This Deal Lasts
- Musk Says To Control AI Humans Need To Merge With It Over A High Bandwidth Brain-Machine Interface
- Razer Offers Hot $300 Discount On Its Gaming-Centric Razer Phone
- Microsoft's Surface Hardware Event Scheduled For October 2nd
- Huawei And UL Issue Joint Statement Over 3DMark Benchmark Cheating
- Alleged Razer Phone 2 Benchmarks Leak With Snapdragon 845 And 8GB RAM
- Nintendo Switch Online Service Debuts This Month With A Big Cloud Save Perk
- Samsung Announces Mid-Range Galaxy A6 And Galaxy Tab A 10.5 For Cost-Conscious Buyers
- Ford Teases Mustang-Inspired Mach 1 Electric Crossover With 300-Mile Range
- Apple Developing Web Portal To Handle Skyrocketing Influx Of Police Data Requests
- Hey BMW: BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant Is Proprietary In-Car AI
- Google Pixel 3 Event Confirmed For October 9, Here's What To Expect
- Huawei Accused Of Brazen Benchmark Cheating, Claims Everyone Else Is Doing It
- Amazon Launches Updated Fire HD 8 And Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablets
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All News for September 2018
Gamers have been looking forward to Nintendo's launch of the Switch Online service for over a year. While the big feature of the Switch Online service is the ability to play games online with other players, one very key feature of this service is online cloud saves. The reason that gamers want cloud saves so badly is...
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There are lots of computers out there that are still running Windows 7 even though Windows 10 has been out for a very long time and is now installed on 700 million devices globally. The reasons for staying on an old OS like Windows 7 are many and varied but some folks just feel their OS is working just fine and many...
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Epic Games struck gold with Fortnite, the incredibly popular battle royale shooter. Despite being a free-to-download title, Epic Game is raking in barrels of cash through in-game purchases. To keep the influx of cash flowing at a steady rate, Epic Games has teamed up with Hasbro to offer Fortnite-themed Nerf Blasters...
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One of the problems with multiplayer is that it only takes a small number of loud mouthed, racist jerks to ruin the experience for the community at large. In an effort to prevent this, Electronic Arts and DICE have implemented a profanity filter into Battlefield V, which is currently being tested in open beta ahead of...
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Epic Games is talking about the success of its limited launch of the Fortnite Android Beta. The initial Android rollout was a Samsung exclusive for a few days and then Epic began to issue invites to a subset of Android users on other devices. Epic Games says that interest for Fortnite on Android has been "extremely...
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Vizio is one of the more popular smart TV makers in the U.S. thanks in part to decent specs and low prices. However, the TV maker found itself in hot water with the FTC in early 2017 over the practice of collecting TV user viewing data without the express permission of the users. While this happened over a year ago...
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Streaming is increasingly becoming the way many people consume TV shows and movies today. One of the more budget-friendly, yet fully-featured streaming devices for folks who lack a smart TV that supports integrated streaming is the Amazon Fire TV Stick. That device is normally $39.99 making it decently affordable...
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A funny thing happened earlier this week. SpaceX founder Elon Musk went on Joe Rogan's podcast, drank a little whisky and puffed on a blunt rolled with weed and tobacco, and the Internet went bananas. Shares of Tesla, the electric vehicle company Musk co-founded and currently serves as CEO, fell afterwards. Musk...
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We must wonder if Razer has realized the err of its ways after announcing in the Razer Phone 2 was in the works at its investor's conference. Anytime fans know something refreshed is coming soon, they tend to avoid the current version as they wait for the new hotness to show up. Razer has come up with a method to...
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If you're a fan of Microsoft's Surface family of PC hardware, mark October 2nd on your digital calendar. That is when Microsoft will announce the latest round of updates for its hardware family.
We're likely to see across-the-board updates, with the exception of the Surface Go, which launched just a few months ago...
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Yesterday afternoon, we reported on Huawei's rather suspect "optimizations" when it comes to its smartphones running 3DMark. The company was caught red-handed cheating by AnandTech, and UL took the drastic move to delist benchmark results for the P20, P20 Pro, Nova 3 and Honor Play.
At the time, UL stated, "We found...
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Razer is best known for its PC gaming peripherals, especially its lineup of mice, but has expanded its portfolio over the years to include several different types of products. One of those is the Razer Phone, an Android phone built specifically for gaming. Razer recently confirmed its working on a Razer Phone 2, and a...
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The Nintendo Switch launched to much fanfare early last year and quickly became Nintendo's biggest hit since the original Wii. However, the hybrid console was not without its faults. For one, there was no way to transfer save games from console to console, which could be a major problem if you had to send your console...
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Flagship phones and tablets often bring the goods with the latest and greatest technologies available in the mobile market, and if you can afford one, that's great. However, not everyone wants or needs the fastest mobile device. For users with more modest needs, Samsung today introduced a pair of lower cost devices...
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Electric vehicles are growing in popularity, and it certainly helps that some of the newest designs carry the same aggressive looks and performance (at times) as their gas guzzling brethren. Some EVs are even ultra-sporty. That seems to be what Ford is after with an all-electric vehicle in the making, one that takes...
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Apple and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been at odds over the tight security on iPhone and iPad devices, and in particular the Cupertino company's unwillingness to build a back door into iOS for law enforcement officials to use. Be that as it may, Apple does cooperate with law enforcement, and is...
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BMW has announced that it is putting a new proprietary AI assistant into its cars that it calls the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant. This AI is proprietary and aims to enhance the BMW driving experience. The AI is always on and will respond to the voice prompt "Hey BMW" and can perform a range of functions for the...
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Google has finally stepped up and confirmed the official event date for the unveiling of the much leaked and rumored Pixel 3 smartphones. The invites sent out are asking journalists to attend an event on October 9 in New York. That event date confirmed a rumor that was going around late in August that pegged that...
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Just when we thought that smartphone manufacturers had ditched efforts to mislead reviewers and the public with "juiced" benchmark numbers, the latest actions by Huawei prove that the practice is still alive and well. This week, AnandTech discovered that Chinese OEM Huawei has been installing software on some of its...
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Amazon has rolled out a pair of new Fire tablets including Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 8 Kids units. The first of the new tablets is the Fire HD 8, and its main new feature is hands-free and always-ready access to Alexa previously only available on the Fire HD 10 tablet. The tablet offers up to ten hours of battery life per...
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iRobot has a new robotic vacuum that it will soon be selling to customers, and it brings a first for the Roomba family. The new Roomba i7+ is capable of emptying itself, saving homeowners from having to complete this step on their own (or rather, it just prolongs the inevitable).
The Roomba i7+ comes with what iRobot calls the Clean Base
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One way to encourage customers to make repeat purchases is by rewarding their loyalty. Most movie theaters have a points program in place, and so do many credit cards. It looks like Google will be joining the fray. There is evidence to suggest that Google is working on a Play Points loyalty program for users who make...
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