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Brandon Hill - Wed, Dec 09, 2020
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers received a nice bonus over the summer when Microsoft officially added Project xCloud game streaming to the highly popular service. In its current iteration, xCloud game streaming allows you to play Xbox...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Dec 08, 2020
Ever since Apple took the "courageous" step of removing the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 family of smartphones, the company has been pushing wireless earbuds on its customers. The company started off with the first-generation AirPods...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Dec 07, 2020
We've already seen that Apple means business with its custom Arm-based M1 processors, which launched last month with new Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models. The M1 is a highly integrated SoC that includes an 8-core CPU (4...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Dec 05, 2020
Apple's M1-based (Apple Silicon) Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air spelled the end of Boot Camp, the company's solution for booting into Windows natively on its Intel-based hardware. At the same time, the big names in commercial virtualization options, VMWare and Parallels, are still...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Dec 05, 2020
Is your iPhone 11's display acting up? Specifically, is it not registering taps and swipes like it is supposed to? Though we here at HotHardware haven't noticed the issue internally since the iPhone 11 launched in 2019, you are not alone...
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Dave Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Thu, Dec 03, 2020
Earlier this week, Qualcomm announced its latest flagship SoC that will soon power an array of premium smartphones, branded the Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform. The Snapdragon 888 features a faster 8-core CPU complex that incorporates...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Dec 02, 2020
Apple's MacBook refreshes typically haven't been all that exciting. Year after year, the company tweaked its trouble prone butterfly keyboard design before throwing in the towel and reverting back to the beloved scissor switch mechanism...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Dec 02, 2020
In May of this year, Apple patched a silent but deadly exploit that went after iPhones using specially crafted wireless payloads. This exploit is a simple memory corruption attack that allows any malicious person to do whatever they want...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Dec 01, 2020
When it comes to development, if you want to make sure your program runs on all hardware with as many operating systems as possible, you need to do testing across all platforms. This can be an incredibly daunting task, but development can...
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Ben Funk - Fri, Nov 27, 2020
When Apple announced in June that it would start building Macs with processors based on its own silicon that runs the Arm64 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), that spelled the end for native Windows installations on Apple hardware. Boot...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 27, 2020
Now that you are stuffed with turkey and all the fixings, it is time to pivot into shedding whatever extra padding you might have accumulated over Thanksgiving (or maybe that's just me). A great place to start is with a good set of...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Nov 26, 2020
Apple announced its first M1-equipped Macs earlier this month, and we must admit that we were quite skeptical of the company's frustratingly vague performance claims during the virtual keynote. However, with devices in hand, the early...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Nov 23, 2020
In an investigation into the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department, four people have now been indicted for bribery associated with obtaining a concealed carry gun license. One of those four people indicted is Apple’s Chief Security...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Nov 20, 2020
The latest generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air represent a major departure from past models—they are the first ones to incorporate Apple's own custom M1 silicon, in place of the Intel x86 CPUs the company had been sourcing for the past...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 19, 2020
Apple is gambling on itself and its ability to design custom silicon for its entire range of Mac devices, as part of a two-year plan to transition away from x86 Intel CPUs. To get things started, Apple recently introduced a new MacBook...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Nov 18, 2020
It's time for Apple to face the music [again] when it comes to “throttlegate”, which came to a head nearly three years ago after it was determined that the company was throttling the performance of iPhones that had chemically aged past a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 18, 2020
As far as smartphone displays go, it gets no better than Apple's flagship iPhone 12 Pro Max, according to recent test results by an independent display testing lab. A series of varied display tests reveal that the 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 18, 2020
Apple is apparently getting into the holiday spirit by gifting smaller developers a reduced App Store commission rate. As part of its newly announced App Store Small Business Program, developers who earned less than $1 million in the last...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Nov 17, 2020
When Apple announced its M1 processor for its future Macs earlier this month, the company made some pretty bold claims. Apple threw out numbers left and right, in one breath saying that the Apple M1 was up to 3.5x faster than the processor...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Nov 15, 2020
The deals are starting to pour in even though Black Friday is still 12 days in the distance. But as we have seen over the last few years, retailers are pushing out bargains increasingly earlier to get a jump on what has become a sales...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Nov 13, 2020
Earlier this week, Apple dropped a bombshell on the computing world with its new M1 SoC, which is the first in a [likely] long line of custom, in-house Arm chips that will power the company's Macs. The M1 in its current form(s) is...
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Dave Altavilla, Brandon Hill - Tue, Nov 10, 2020
Apple is hitting the ground running today with the announcement of its very first custom Apple Silicon designed specifically for its MacBook line of laptops and Mac Mini desktops. Meet Apple M1, which is a new Arm-based SoC that Apple says...
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