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Latest News - April 2020
- The Technology Behind Google And Apple's COVID-19 Contact Tracing Partnership
- EVGA Goes For The Knock-Out With Custom GeForce RTX 2080 Super KO & 2070 Super KO Cards
- Intel's Comet Lake-S Processors Might Require Heavy Duty Cooling To Hit 5GHz And Up
- Free Google Meet Video Conferencing Offer Extended Following Surge In Work-At-Home Demand
- AMD Radeon Pro W5500 Review: Navi Pro Graphics For Less
- Amazon Builds Its Own COVID-19 Testing Lab After Complaints Of Inadequate Workplace Safety Measures
- How COVID-19 Is Making Our Global Internet Infrastructure Harder, Better, Faster
- xHelper 'Unkillable' Malware Survives Factory Reset, Still Infecting Android Phones
- Google Pixel 5 Might Ditch Qualcomm For Custom Samsung 5nm Exynos SoC
- Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons Meets Inevitable Chinese Censorship Buzzsaw
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Has A New Alpha Inbound That Includes Fan-Favorite Airbus A320
- Microsoft Teams Video Calls Grew 1,000 Percent In March Fueled By COVID-19
- Apple iOS 14 Clips Could Enable App Previews Without Full Installation
- Limited Edition GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Cards Are Commanding Crazy Prices On Ebay
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 3 Launches With New Maps, Playlists And More
- Alleged Google Pixel 4a Retail Packaging Leaks, Snapdragon 730 With 6GB RAM Expected
- The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Caused A Webcam Shortage, And Street Prices Are Soaring
- Here's How To Get Amazon Music Unlimited Free For Three Months
- Windows Insider Preview Build 19603 Brings Improved Linux Integration To File Explorer
- AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop Zen 3 CPUs Using Advanced 7nm Node Tipped For Fall Launch
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All News for April 2020
It’s interesting that it is taking the COVID-19 pandemic for Apple and Google to work together extensively, but here we are. Despite all the previous bad blood between the two companies, they are coming together for the common good with a series of application programming interfaces (APIs) that will allow the discrete...
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EVGA is no stranger to NVIDIA GPU hardware, and the company is expanding its graphics card lineup with the addition to two new entries: the GeForce RTX 2070 Super KO and the GeForce RTX 2080 Super KO. These two models follow the introduction of the GeForce RTX 2060 Super KO that launched back at CES 2020 (which seems...
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Based on all the leaks and rumors, we are presumably getting close to the launch of Intel's 10th generation Comet Lake-S desktop processors. Intel already launched mobile versions (Comet Lake-Y and Comet Lake-Y), and now we are just waiting for the desktop versions, which will be offered with up to 10 cores and 20...
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to pound the United States and world, people are still working and learning from home. Google has offered its G Suite for nearly a decade now, and part of that suite is a service called Google Meet, which is a video conferencing solution. Google offered Meet at no cost when people...
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AMD is further fleshing out its professional workstation graphics cards line-up, with an additional Navi-based offering that targets a more affordable price point. The Radeon Pro W5500 we will be showing you here offers essentially the same feature set as its more powerful cousin, the Radeon Pro W5700, but it's outfitted with a scaled down...
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When it comes to testing for COVID-19/coronavirus and helping to stop the spread of the virus, Amazon is now taking matters into its own hands. This comes after Amazon took fire last month for terminating Chris Smalls. Smalls had organized a warehouse worker strike in Staten Island, New York over what he considered to...
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Daft Punk was not singing about the Internet when "Hardware, Better, Faster, Stronger" released in 2001, when most Americans didn't even have Internet access (let alone broadband speeds). Now nearly two decades later, it's a fitting jingle in light of the Coronavirus outbreak and the eventual impact it will have on...
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We've discussed the rather nasty xHelper malware on a number of occasions here at HotHardware, and it's a rather insidious trojan. XHelper first started making the rounds via the Google Play Store roughly a year ago, and by October 2019, over 45,000 Android devices had fallen victim to its tainted tentacles. As of...
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Nearly half a year has passed since Google launched its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones, and the Pixel 4a and Pixel 4a XL are right around the corner. Is it too early to start talking about the Pixel 5? Of course not! And as it pertains to Google's next flagship smartphone series, there is chatter that the next round of...
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Nintendo has another hit on its hands with Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Switch. The game is proving a fun distraction from real world events, notably the Coronavirus pandemic, though it has been unofficially banned from China's e-commerce platforms after a Hong Kong activist used the game as a means of...
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The developers behind Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 issued another development update that landed on April 9, including some new information on the currently postponed deliverables. By mid-April, the Partnership Series update will be released, while the Episode 8 IFR will be released in late April or early May. The...
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Microsoft has offered its latest work from home trend report that looks at how much time people are spending using Microsoft Teams each day. Microsoft reports that it reached a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes in a single day, which is a 200 percent increase from the 900 million meeting minutes recorded...
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Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is still a few months away – and it will be in an online-only format for the first time ever – but that isn’t stopping a steady drip of information from coming out early on iOS 14. iOS 14 is the next iteration of the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads (iPadOS...
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This may come as a surprise, but there is actually something more valuable than a box of toilet paper and hand sanitizer right now. Over on eBay, NVIDIA's "extremely rare" GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition graphics card is fetching prices in the range of $5,000. One that sold yesterday reached $5,200, and...
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fans should be excited to hear that Season 3 for the game is now available. The new season includes new maps, new playlists, and brings updates for the free-to-play Warzone mode that has proven very popular. The three new maps include Aniyah Incursion, Talsik Backlot, and Hovee Sawmill;...
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There have been many signs pointing to the impending release of the Pixel 4a. From the discontinuation of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, to a massive price drop for the Pixel 3a — the smartphones will soon be upon us.
Now, new evidence is surfacing in the form of images of the alleged retail box for the Pixel 4a...
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It’s not just toilet paper, paper towels, and other household goods that are hard to come by these days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even certain tech items are becoming incredibly scare as people hunker down in their homes and begin conducting virtual meetings with coworkers. One particular PC accessory that has...
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One way to pass the time while you are hunkered down in your abode is to kick back and fire up a playlist of your favorite jams. Or get up and shake your rump—dancing is good exercise, after all. Either way, Amazon is making it cheap and easy to do by offering its Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service free for...
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Microsoft has pushed a new Insider Preview of Windows 10 to the Fast ring, which brings it up to Build 19603. There are a number of changes that have been incorporated into this latest build, but the headlining feature is new File Explorer integration for the Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka WSL.
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The pace of progress is swift these days over at AMD. Since launching its first generation Zen architecture three years ago, there have been two more iterations, Zen+ and Zen 2, with Zen 3 on track to release this year. AMD has not yet announced an official launch date, but the word out of the rumor mill is that Zen 3...
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Future smartphones coming out of LG are going to look a little different than current ones. The South Korean electronics maker shared a bit about a new design language it plans to implement on its upcoming flagship phones, which includes a better looking camera arrangement on the rear and a more strategic...
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One of the most exciting things that Microsoft has been working on in recent times is its Windows 10X operating system and the new devices it was expected to bring with its launch. A report is going around that Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay has been informing some of his team this week that Microsoft...
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