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- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review: Lenovo's 7th Gen Flagship Impresses
- Here’s Why IFTTT Cautions Nest Users Not To Migrate Their Accounts To Google
- Canon Accidentally Leaks Its EOS M6 Mark II And EOS 90D DSLR Cameras
- Cyberpunk 2077 Looks Amazing In These New Screenshots Released At Gamescom 2019
- NVIDIA's New Game Ready Driver Delivers Up To 23% FPS Boost In Apex Legends, Ultra-Low Latency Mode
- AMD EPYC 7002 Rome Servers Plot Intel Xeon Overthrow Breaking 11 Performance World Records
- HP Reveals Omen X 27 240Hz Display And Its First AMD Ryzen Gaming Laptop
- Dell's OptiPlex 7070 Ultra Zero-Footprint Modular Desktop Scoffs At Apple's $1000 Pro Display Stand
- Porsche's 600HP Taycan Performance EV Amps Apple Music Integration To The Next Level
- Dead By Daylight And Stranger Things Crossover Lets You Play As A Demogorgon
- Report Shows Wireless Carriers Are Cheaping Out And Throttling Your Video Streams Whenever They Want
- Trump Concedes Tariffs Put Apple At Disadvantage To Samsung Following Tim Cook Chat
- Google Yanks Tool Wireless Carriers Use To Improve Network Coverage Over Privacy Concerns
- World Of Warcraft Devs Confirm Herod Realm Massive Overcrowding Is A Real Concern
- Alienware Aurora R9, G5 Desktops And 55-inch OLED Monitor Lead Dell's Killer PC Gaming Onslaught
- NVIDIA Shows Off Modern Warfare And A Slew Of Other New Games In Blazing Ray Traced Glory
- Microsoft Releases New Cumulative Updates And Major Fixes For Legacy Windows 10 Versions
- Amazon 'Brushing' Is The Latest Trend In Generating Fake Positive Product Reviews
- Mega-Hit Minecraft Looks Amazing With Ray Tracing Makeover On NVIDIA RTX
- HyperX Fury DDR4 RGB Modules Deliver 3466MHz Speeds For AMD Zen 2 And Intel Platforms
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All News for August 2019
New year, new ThinkPad X1 Carbon—it's easy to think that yearly laptop iterations would be mundane. However, we're here talking about one of our most heavily-awarded line of laptops here at HotHardware, so expectations run high. Last year's Lenovo flagship really impressed us, with power under the hood...
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If you own a Nest device, IFTTT has a word of warning: do not migrate your Nest account over to Google unless you are fine with irreversibly disconnecting IFTTT and other 'Works with Nest' integrations. The reason is because Google is discontinuing the Works with Nest program, but still allowing functionality with...
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It appears as though Canon is getting ready to launch a couple of new cameras. Canon Australia posted a pair of promotional videos to YouTube, one depicting an unreleased EOS 90D APS-C DSLR and the other showing an EOS M6 Mark II mirrorless APS-C camera, which also is not yet available, nor has it been officially...
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Anticipation for the eventual launch of Cyberpunk 2077 seemingly grows by the day. A new batch of screenshots from CD Projekt RED at Gamescom further adds to the excitement for what is described as an "ambitious RGP for mature audiences," set to release in about eight months (barring any delays, of course).
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NVIDIA is promising a big performance improvement along with new features in its new Gamescom Game Ready Driver, which was released this morning. Probably the most exciting benefit for gamers comes in the performance uplift, which specifically targets Apex Legends, Battlefield V, Forza Horizon 4, Strange Brigade, and...
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Gigabyte is rolling out the big guns in the server sector, with a new family of products built around AMD's mighty EPYC 7002 "Rome" processors. As we have already seen on the desktop, the underlying Zen 2 CPU architecture is stout. Data centers are where companies like AMD enjoy higher margins, though, and AMD is off...
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HP is in Germany at Gamescom 2019, and at the show, it has unveiled several new gaming computers, displays, and other items. One of the most interesting of the gaming displays is the HP Omen X 27 gaming monitor. The screen has a native screen resolution of 2560x1440 at 240 Hz, and its thin bezels are designed to allow...
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Dell has just unveiled a rather intriguing new desktop that is incredibly modular in design. Meet the OptiPlex 7070 Ultra, which manages to house a fully functioning PC within its display stand in a zero-footprint design. Dell is billing this hybrid all-in-one as the "world's most flexible commercial desktop".
So...
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Porsche and Apple have announced a team-up that will bring integrated Apple Music streaming to the fast and cool Porsche Taycan EV sports car. The Taycan is the first fully electric Porsche and is set to launch in September, and it will have a touchscreen display in its dash as part of the Porsche Advanced...
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One of the most popular shows that Netflix has ever made, and it's made some good ones, is Stranger Things. The main bad guy in Season 1 was the Demogorgon, and Netflix has teamed up with the devs behind the video game Dead By Daylight to give gamers the chance to play as the monster.
If you get tired of playing as...
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Report Shows Wireless Carriers Are Cheaping Out And Throttling Your Video Streams Whenever They Want
We all know that wireless carriers throttle data. After all, throttling has been commonplace ever since carriers moved from their "buckets" of data in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB sizes, for example. Once carriers started fully embracing unlimited data, they started implementing policies where they would throttle data once...
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The current United States-China trade war has had a major effect on several technology and telecommunication companies. Apple is one of the corporations that as borne the brunt of the trade war. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently met with President Trump and warned that the new tariffs made it difficult to compete with...
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Erring on the side of caution, Google has reportedly turned off a service it had been offering to wireless carriers to analyze network activity. Wireless carriers are miffed because the tool proved useful in deciding where network coverage was lacking, and in turn helped them decide where to invest in network...
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On Friday a Community manager for Blizzard made an announcement that fans looking forward to playing World of Warcraft Classic won't want to hear. The community manager warned that based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is shaping up to be massively overpopulated. The manager said that if all existing...
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With Gamescom 2019 now underway, Dell is delivering the PC gaming goods with a bevy of new products including desktop PCs and high-end gaming monitors. Leading the way is the new enthusiast-class Alienware Aurora R9 gaming desktop.
The Aurora R9 brings the new Legend industrial design to the desktop sector, having...
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Real-time ray tracing is headed to more games. That includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the upcoming title slated for an October 25, 2019 release. In partnership with Activision and Infinity Ward, NVIDIA says the PC version of Modern Warfare will deliver the most immersive and photo-realistic experience, due to the...
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Patch Tuesday was less than a week ago, but Microsoft is already pushing a wide range of Cumulative Updates for older version of Windows 10. The updates were first pushed out on August 17th, and covers Windows 10 Versions 1809 (October 2018 Update), 1709 (Fall Creators Update), 1703 (Creators Update), 1607...
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Various singers have been belting out "The Best Things in Life Are Free" since the late 1920s, but be wary of hidden strings attached and scams. Take it from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), which is warning of a new scam called "brushing" that entails free goods in Amazon boxes landing on your doorstep. Your...
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One of the most popular games ever made is getting a big-time facelift. At Gamescom, NVIDIA announced it has been working with Mojang and Microsoft to bring real-time ray tracing to Minecraft, the world's best selling video game, transforming colorful, block-filled worlds into richer landscapes with realistic lighting...
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HyperX is kicking it up a notch with a new family of Fury DDR4 RGB memory modules that are supported on both the latest Intel and AMD Zen 2 CPU platforms. HyperX boasts Plug N Play functionality with automatic overclocking and XMP-ready profiles for optimizing the memory performance on Intel systems.
The Fury DDR4...
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SpaceX excited fans and upset scientists at the same time when it launched the first Falcon Heavy rocket over a year ago. The launch itself was spectacular as the company used the Falcon Heavy launch to push Elon Musk's own Tesla Roadster into space with a stuffed SpaceX spacesuit behind the wheel that was dubbed...
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Tesla arguably kicked off the electric vehicle revolution with the original Roadster, and really kicked things into high gear with the release of the Model S. The success of the Model S, and later the Model X has encouraged other automakers both large and small to dabble in the EV realm. The latest boutique...
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