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- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Beast CPU Performance Previewed, Ships Nov 25 At $749
- AT&T Traps Mobile Share Value Customers With 15GB 'Bonus' And $10 Rate Hike
- Elon Musk To Reveal Blade Runner Inspired 'Cybertruck' Tesla Electric Pickup November 21st
- Target Previews Huge Black Friday Deals On Roku TVs, Nintendo Switch Games, Phones, And More
- NTSB Investigation Into Fatal Autonomous Uber Accident Finds Guidance Software Flaws
- NVIDIA Claims MLPerf AI Benchmark Dominance, Unveils Tiny Jetson Xavier NX AI Edge Supercomputer
- Microsoft Brad Smith Warns AI Could Be Weaponized Against Humanity
- Xiaomi Is Launching A 108MP Phone Camera Outside China, Will Samsung Be Next?
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X, 3970X Zen 2 CPUs Listed Early Online
- Alienware m15 R2 Review: Beautiful OLED, Beastly Performance
- Google Updates Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max With Ultrasound User Presence Detection
- Red Dead Redemption 2 Still Crashing After Applying Day-1 Patch? Rockstar Offers Advice
- Intel Claims Of Cascade Lake-AP Performance Edge Over AMD Zen 2 EPYC Face Backlash
- Ford Uncorks Terrifying Electric Mustang Lithium With 900 Horsepower, 6-Speed Manual
- Facebook Admits Numerous Devs Had Improper Access To User Data In Groups
- AT&T Hit With $60M FTC Fine Over Shady Unlimited Data Throttling Scheme
- Chrome OS 78 Gains Virtual Desks, Simpler Printing, Click To Call
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Players Exploit Assault Rifle, Shotgun Quirks For Max Carnage
- Fortnite Stealthily Adds Harpoon Gun For Dealing Damage And Catching Fish
- Sound Blaster X3 Review: Portable Super X-Fi Audio For PCs And Consoles
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All News for November 2019
AMD made quite the impression when it launched its third-generation Ryzen desktop processors over the summer. Available in up to 12-core/24-thread configurations with excellent single- and multi-core performance, relatively low TDPs, and attractive pricing, AMD definitely has a winner on its hands. However, the “true”...
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The mobile phone industry is right next to the cable industry with seemingly endless schemes to charge customers more money. Common practices across the entire mobile industry include charges for exceeding arbitrary data caps and seemingly endless attempts to push grandfathered customers to more expensive plans. AT&T...
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Elon Musk has been teasing the release of a Tesla pickup truck for over two years. According to a tweet by Musk this morning, the so-called "Cybertruck" will be first shown to the public on November 21st.
According to Musk, this will be a pickup like no one has ever seen before, and it will look like something...
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October has come and gone, and we are now nearly a week into November, the month known for family, turkey dinner, and fist fights over toys and electronics on Black Friday. Target is talking up its Black Friday deals and giving shoppers plenty of time to figure out if they want to fight the crowds for some bargains...
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A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report outlines findings in its investigation into a fatal accident with an Uber autonomous vehicle and a pedestrian. As part of its investigation, the NTSB disclosed that Uber's vehicles had been involved in 37 crashes over the prior 18 months. With the investigation...
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NVIDIA is flexing its muscle once again when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) inference workloads, and this time around, the company is claiming benchmark supremacy in MLPerf Inference 0.5. AI performance is becoming increasingly more important for usage scenarios like image recognition, voice recognition and...
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Will artificial intelligence be humanity’s savior or downfall? Many people have begun to evaluate the potential consequences of AI as it becomes more integrated into our everyday lives. Microsoft president Brad Smith recently warned that AI could be a “formidable weapon” with “unintended consequences” if human beings...
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On Tuesday, Xiaomi unveiled the world's first smartphone with a 108-megapixel rear camera sensor, the Mi CC9 Pro. Unfortunately, that handset is only bound for China, so users in other parts of the world would have to miss out on all those megapixels. Or so it seemed. Now a day later, Xiaomi has unveiled a version of...
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We reported yesterday that AMD is rumored to announce its third-generation, Zen 2-based Ryzen Threadripper 3000 processor on November 7th. Although the official launch of the processors likely won't arrive for another few weeks, we're expected to learn specs and some performance details tomorrow.
With that said...
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Alienware may just be the most well-known gaming desktop and notebook brand on the planet. The company's gray alien logo graces everything from proper, upgradeable desktops like the Aurora R9 to the huge desktop-replacement Area-51m notebook complete with actual desktop hardware. What we have on hand today isn't quite...
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One of the advantages Google's Nest Hub Max has over the regular Nest Hub is a built-in camera, to go along with its 10-inch touchscreen display. This can be used to detect and recognize when a person is using the device. Since the smaller Nest Hub does not have a camera, Google had to figure out a way to detect a...
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PC players waited a little over a year for Red Dead Redemption 2 to migrate over from consoles to their platform of choice, and yesterday that wait came to an end. Rockstar's western-themed hit is now available on PC. Unfortunately, for all of the graphical and technical enhancements the PC port brought with it, some...
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Update 11/6/19:
Since publishing this article, Intel has gone back and updated its blog post on Medium to clarify a few points raised by Kennedy. The most significant one is adding benchmark data from an updated version of GROMACS (2019.4), as that version is better optimized to leverage processors based on AMD's Zen...
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We all know that the Ford Mustang is the quintessential pony car with an abundance of power, tail-happy handling, and a penchant for mowing down pedestrians at Cars and Coffee events. If the newly launched 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500's 760 horsepower isn't enough for you, then this one-off Mustang Lithium will surely...
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Facebook continues to be unable to keep data on its users safe from developers who shouldn't have access to that information. The social network notes that since April of 2018, it has been reviewing the ways that developers can use Facebook to share data with outside companies. Since that time, it has removed or...
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AT&T is finally facing the music with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its "Unlimited Data" practices – to the tune of $60 million -- 8 years after it first fleeced customers. The problem lies in the fact that AT&T marketed its smartphone plans as having unlimited data, but instead began to throttle customer's...
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Google has announced that it has made some updates to Chrome OS 78 that will bring new features and capabilities to Chromebooks. Google notes that the latest version of Chrome OS in particular adds new tools to help users keep their desktop organized. The updated Chrome OS also makes phone calls easier and brings...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been on the market since late last month. That has given avid gamers enough time to play the game and figure out the in and outs of what works... and what doesn't. So far, there is a list of weird quirks that have surfaced about the game. One of those quirks deals with the recoil of...
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Starting with Fortnite Chapter 2, developer Epic Games has kept mum on patch notes, breaking from tradition in the previous chapter. That means players are on their own to discover what is new. Fortnite is hugely popular, though, so secrets get revealed rather quickly. The latest one is the inclusion of a Harpoon...
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Creative Labs has been on something of a roll in 2019. The company has diversified into all kinds of gaming products from keyboards and mice to headsets and speakers. At the same time, Creative never lost track of its PC audio roots, and its flagship Sound BlasterX AE-9 delivered the goods with its high-end...
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NVIDIA isn't just a company that is known for its gaming products like the GeForce RTX Series; it has quickly made a name for itself with enterprise hardware and solutions to accelerate artificial intelligence operations. Today, NVIDIA announced a new partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS) that will...
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It's bad enough we have to worry about sharks with frickin' laser beams attached, but now we have to be vigilant against the threat lasers present to smart home speakers and other devices with digital assistants. How so? Security researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and at the University of...
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