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Latest News - October 2019
- Microsoft Issues Yet Another Windows 10 1903 Cumulative Update For Start Menu Woes
- Intel’s Discrete Xe DG1 Graphics Card Powered On For First Time
- Google Talks First Party Games And Future Prospects For Stadia Streaming Service
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 Teardown Reveals Modular Design And Magnetic Personality
- Ubisoft Delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters And More
- Micron Makes A Splash In Storage With Edgy New SSDs And FWDNXT Acquisition
- Official Fix For Samsung Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Scanner Bug Begins Staggered Rollout
- Intel Tremont CPU Microarchitecture: Power Efficient, High-Performance x86
- Ford Teases Mustang-Inspired 300-Mile Crossover EV For November 17th Unveil
- Yet Another Google Play Store App Adware Campaign Ensnared Millions Of Android Users
- Google Pixel 4 XL Teardown Reveals Intricate Soli Hardware, Average Repairability
- AT&T Still Battling Weeks-Long Voicemail Outage And Customer Outrage With No End In Sight
- Google Explains Pixel 4 90Hz Refresh Rate Oddities, Says Software Update Coming
- NVIDIA’s New SHIELD TV Pro And Dongle Already On Sale At Best Buy If You’re Lucky
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super Rumored For November 22nd Launch
- Samsung Debuts Exynos 990 7nm EUV SoC And Exynos 5G Modem Bound For Galaxy S11
- 2.5 Geeks: LG G8X, XPS 13, Pixel 4 vs Note 10, Wireless HDMI, Killer Gaming PC Giveaway!
- OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Lands As T-Mobile Exclusive
- NVIDIA Targets Minecraft RTX 1080p/60FPS With GeForce RTX 2060
- Huawei Mate X Folding Android Flagship Launches Next Month With Monster Price Tag
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All News for October 2019
If there's been one constant when it comes to Windows 10 1903 (May 2019 Update) over the past few months, it's been Microsoft's inability to tackle lingering problems with the Start menu. The company has issued a number of cumulative updates for the operating system that have broken the Start menu, fixed it, then...
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For the first time since it began developing discrete GPUs for the modern era, Intel has powered on a DG1 graphics card it built from the ground up, Intel CEO Bob Swan told investors during a conference call. He dubbed it "an important milestone," and he's not wrong, given all that is at stake with Intel's venture...
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The launch of Stadia is right around the corner, and ahead of that launch Google VP and head of Stadia Games & Entertainment Jade Raymond is talking about the strategy for the game streaming service. Raymond says that her task at Google is to build out all the exclusive content for Stadia, and the company intends to...
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When Microsoft unveiled its Surface Laptop 3 at an event earlier this month, the company made it a point to discuss that unlike competition from Apple, it was aiming for easy, user-performed component upgrades. It’s one thing to make that claim, but how does the Surface Laptop 3 fare in actual real-world...
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Ubisoft has not had the year it hoped for, and gamers are about to suffer dearly for it. Today Ubisoft issued updates for its financial targets and game release schedule for fiscal 2019-2020.
As a result of it dreadful financial performance, Ubisoft is delaying some highly anticipated games. Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and
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Micron on Thursday made a series of storage announcements, including the introduction of two new solid state drive lines, the 7300 SSD and 5300 SSD. The 7300 SSD line is designed to bring NVMe levels of performance to "the masses" in the datacenter realm, while the 5300 SSD line represents the industry's first...
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It was discovered recently that a cheap screen protector was all that was needed to defeat the in-display fingerprint reader included on the Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone family. Samsung has now announced that it is rolling out a fix for the device, at least initially, as a South Korea exclusive (its home...
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Late last year, at its Architecture Day event, Intel revealed a new, low-power microarchitecture, codenamed Tremont, that would power and array of processors and SoCs targeting products across the client, data center, 5G networking, and Internet of Things markets. While Intel did disclose the codename and show-off a...
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Ford isn’t a stranger to electric vehicles; after all, the company did make available an electric version of its Focus compact hatchback. However, the company hasn’t been as aggressive with its electrification efforts aside for some hybrids here and there. That will change, however, with an all-new electric crossover...
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Adware is rampant in app stores. Google, Apple, and others frequently take down malicious apps, but it can be difficult to determine who published these apps in the first place. ESET researchers recently discovered not only a year-long adware campaign, but the developer behind it.
ESET researchers found a total of...
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We are planning to post a full review of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL very soon. In the meantime, a thorough teardown of the larger handset has emerged, revealing how Google went about designing its latest flagship from an engineering standpoint. It also reveals a special radar chip related to Project Soli, which is...
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If you are an AT&T customer that has been experiencing annoying problems with your voicemail lately, you’re not alone. The second-place U.S. wireless carrier says that it has identified an issue with its voicemail system that is preventing customers from retrieving their messages. This problem could range from being a...
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Google has issued a statement explaining what situations warrant the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL automatically downgrading the display's native 90Hz refresh to 60Hz. The statement follows reports of the newest Pixel phones switching to the lower refresh rate when the brightness level is below 75 percent, which will be...
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If you’re itchin’ to get your hands on NVIDIA’s brand-new SHIELD TV Pro or SHIELD TV, and don’t want to wait until the end of the month when they officially launch, you might have a chance to score one early from Best Buy. NVIDIA has already started shipping the new 4K media streamers to Best Buy locations around the...
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It's incredibly tough to keep a secret from the Internet at large. Just ask NVIDIA, which is getting ready to launch Super variants of its GeForce GTX 1660 and GeForce GTX 1650. As it pertains to the latter, rumor has it NVIDIA will formally introduce the GeForce GTX 1650 Super to public on November 22, roughly a...
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Samsung Electronics recently held its Tech Day 2019, and at the event, it rolled out a pair of new silicon products. The smartphone maker says that both are tailored for future mobile devices that will make intensive use of video and AI along with supporting 5G communications. One of the products is the Exynos 990...
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On this episode of HotHardware's 2.5 Geeks Marco, Dave, Brittany and Chris chat about the interesting, new LG G8X ThingQ with dual screen option, Dell’s sweet XPS 13 with Intel Ice Lake, lag-free wireless HDMI from the Nyrius Aries Pro, our Pixel 4 versus Galaxy Note 10 camera shootout, and details of our totally...
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T-Mobile has some good news for fans of the OnePlus line of smartphones. The OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren is coming to the United States as a T-Mobile exclusive and will take advantage of the carrier’s 5G network.
T-Mobile promises that its 5G network will cover 200 million people around the nation this year, and the rollout of the 5G network
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A few months ago, NVIDIA dropped a bombshell on us with the revelation that it's working with Microsoft on a real-time ray traced version of the widely popular game Minecraft. Leveraging the dedicated hardware included on Turing-based graphics cards like the GeForce RTX series, NVIDIA is promising some rather dramatic...
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Huawei first announced its gorgeous Mate X folding Android flagship back in late February, and it has been withheld from release since that time. A lot has happened in the past eight months, including Huawei getting the stiff-arm from the U.S. government. This has resulted in component delays and Huawei being banned...
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Way back in 2012, we wrote about a company called Hyperstealth Biotechnology and its efforts to develop an invisibility cloak. At the time, the company claimed to have a material to provide that kind of seemingly magical type of camouflage to soldiers. We were skeptical, but now seven years later, the Hyperstealth is...
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Many tech companies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI). These kinds of programs and products can be rather expensive, but there are a few that are more accessible to the public and small companies. Google’s Coral AI board has just come out of beta and has been released on a wider scale.
Coral is...
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