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Latest News - April 2015
- GIGABYTE Rolls Out H97/Z97 Motherboard BIOS Updates To Support Intel Broadwell CPUs
- 83-Year-Old Man Hit With $24,000 Charge Instead Of Usual $51/Month AT&T Dial-Up Bill
- 2016 Brings 14nm ‘Zen’ Mobile And Desktop Processor Onslaught From AMD
- Google Opens Chromium Dev Channel To Android Platform
- Watch Tesla’s 691hp Model S P85D Going Head-to-Head Against Dodge’s 707hp Charger Hellcat
- Windows 10 Build 10074 Brings Aero Glass, New Sounds, And Cortana Updates
- Microsoft Turns Your Windows 10 Phone Into Full-Fledged Desktop PC With Continuum
- Ditching My iPhone For The Samsung Galaxy S6
- Google’s Project Fi App Lands In Play Store For Nexus 6 Owners, Invites Still MIA
- Tag Heuer’s $1400 Android Wear Smartwatch Arrives In November, Lasts 40 Hours Per Charge
- President Obama Hopes To Lift Impoverished D.C. Children With Free E-Books
- Limited Apple Watch Supply And Shipping Delays Reportedly Caused By Defective Taptic Engine
- Transistors Only Three Atoms Thick? Cornell Researchers "Eureka!" Captured in Nature Journal
- Google Thwarts Phishing Attacks With ‘Password Alert’ Extension For Chrome
- Microsoft's Project Spartan Internet Explorer Replacement Becomes 'Microsoft Edge'
- Popular Realtek-Based Wireless Routers Vulnerable To Hacking Due To Flawed Firmware
- 'Just Cause 3' Gameplay Trailer Delivers The Beautiful Explosions You've Always Wanted
- Windows 10 Truly Goes Universal, Can Run Ported Android And iOS Apps
- Save On The Newest Apple Macbook Pro With Retina Display, Epson All-In-One Printers And More
- Cablevision Strikes Deal To Resell Hulu Plus To Its Optimum Broadband Customers
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All News for April 2015
GIGABYTE has just announced that it's rolled out EFI updates to its entire range of Z97/H97 motherboards to add support for Intel's upcoming 5th-gen Core processors, "Broadwell". To grab the update, simply hit up GIGABYTE's support page and search for your motherboard model. You may also be able to update if you...
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This story is mind-boggling for so many reasons. A $24,000 charge from AT&T? Someone actually pays $51 a month for dial-up access? People actually still use AOL? We must be living in some bizzaro world when things like this are still taking place, but let’s first start from the beginning with 83-year-old Los Angeles...
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Holy 14nm, Batman! If the slides that have been appearing online are real, it looks like AMD will soon announce a new lineup of CPUs based on 14nm technology. The leaked roadmap slides appear to show AMD’s plans for both mobile and desktop processors in 2016.
On the mobility side of things, AMD appears to have...
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Developers have a new tool for testing their websites on Chrome for Android, thanks to a Dev channel Google just released. Google has long made the Dev channel available to ChromeOS, Linux, Mac and Windows. Now, Android is part of the crew.
The Dev channel ends up being a two-way street. Google gets your direct feedback on its pre-release
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Motor Trend's Jonny Lieberman narrates an interesting 17-minute video on YouTube that pits the world's quickest sedan against the world's fastest sedan, those two being the Tesla Model S P85D and Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, respectively, both 2015 variants. Before getting to the results, it's important to understand...
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A mere week after Microsoft rolled out build 10061 of its Windows 10 Preview comes a brand-new one: 10074. This build is a bit special in that it's the first in a while to be delivered to those on the "Slow" ring - so if you're currently running an earlier Windows 10 build, you should expect the 10074 update to come...
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Microsoft is bringing togetherness to the forefront with Windows 10. Microsoft promoted unity with the universal apps, which allows developers to create rich applications using the same codebase across tablet, smartphone, and PC form-factors. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant took things a step further...
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Relationships. Some go the distance. Others are of a more mercurial nature, such as the one between me and my iPhone. As much as I loved my iPhone, I've always found iOS to be somewhat immature and not quite serious (a problem that plagues most Apple-produced software), which probably explains why my eye has wandered towards Android phones...
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Google's plan to disrupt the wireless world is one step closer to fruition with its Project Fi now available to download from Google Play. Project Fi, in case you missed our previous coverage, is a new wireless service offered by Google exclusive to Nexus 6 owners. Through Project Fi, Google turns itself into a Mobile...
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In the hunt for the connected wrist, Tag Heuer has set early autumn for the introduction of their first product offering in the smartwatch space, an Android Wear device whose bow will serve to make the company the biggest Swiss entrant into the burgeoning market.
The Tag Heuer smartwatch will last approximately 40...
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The White House is putting into motion a plan to increase educational opportunities for low-income children. During a visit to a public library in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, President Barack Obama talked about the plan, which involves working with publishers and libraries to give low-income...
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Apple has been having a tough time meeting demand for its recently launched Apple Watch wearables, as it was reported earlier this week that only 20 percent of the nearly 2 million smartwatches ordered during launch weekend have been delivered. Now we may know why -- there's a defect in one of the key...
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Three atoms thick. According to a paper published this week in the science journal Nature by a group of researchers from Cornell University, that is the breadth of the transistors that can now be produced using an experimental — and highly conductive — material called transition metal dichalcogenide (also called a...
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Google has been making life easier for Android users by allowing simple functions normally carried out on a handset to be conducted from your desktop’s (or notebook’s) web browser. Today, however, Google’s efforts are aimed more squarely at improving security for its users.
The web giant has introduced a new Chrome...
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At its ongoing Build conference, Microsoft has given us the long-awaited final name for its Project Spartan Web browser: Microsoft Edge. It's simple, and it might seem familiar: EdgeHTML is the name of the rendering engine the browser will be using. I don't think Edge has as much "zing" as Spartan does, but, it could...
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A serious flaw has been discovered in the software component of some routers that feature a Realtek chipset. In particular, routers that utilize a Realtek RTL81XXX chipset and also use the 1.3 SDK (or older, potentially), are vulnerable to an exploit that could see executable code run as root.
Because it's not...
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Five years after Just Cause 2 rocked the fictional island of Panau, Square Enix and Avalanche Studios are ramping up to the launch of Just Cause 3. Your cool-under-ridiculous-pressure hero Rico Rodriguez is back, but he’s bringing the hurt to a new dictator, on a new island. And by the looks of the explosion-filled...
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When Microsoft told us that Windows 10 would run universal apps, we got the gist of what it meant. Developers would be able to create apps that ran on desktop, tablet, and smartphone version of Windows 10 with the same codebase. It makes for a streamlined app creation process for developers and gives Windows Phone...
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Welcome back for the latest installment of HOT deals, direct from our friends at TechBargains. On tap for you all today, we have deals on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro MF840LL/A 13.3" laptop, a Lenovo Y50 Core i7-4720HQ based gaming laptop with NVIDIA graphics, a Samsung 55” UN55HU7250 4K Curved Ultra HD 120 Hz Smart...
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Cable companies are faced with a decision as more and more TV viewers cut the cord in favor of streaming -- evolve or become extinct. Only one of those options is enticing, and so Cablevision has gone and inked a deal with Hulu to apparently resell its Hulu Plus subscription service to its Optimum customers. As such...
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The rocky relationship between Cyanogen and OnePlus appears to have ended. Not that it's any real big surprise -- the two weren't always on the same page when it came to software and logistics. For example, OnePlus had promised OnePlus One handset owners a Cyanogen OS update by a specific date, and when it didn't happen, Cyanogen explained
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LG officially lifted the veil on their G4 flagship Android phone this week and the buzz has been fairly strong in anticipation for how it measures up versus stiff competition from Samsung and Apple. LG's display prowess is well known, along with their ability to pack a ton of screen real estate into a smaller frame...
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