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Latest News - January 2016
- Facebook Interrupts Periscope’s Regular Broadcasting With Its Own Live Streaming Offering
- Free 15GB Microsoft OneDrive Storage Tier Ends Today, Here’s How To Save It
- Google Treads Further Into ‘Big Cable’ Territory With Bundled Google Fiber Phone Service
- Google Project Skybender Will Broadcast 5G Internet Via Solar Drones
- Official Samsung Galaxy S7 And S7 Edge Renders Leak Ahead Of Global Debut
- NSA Chief Hacker Explains How To Harden Defenses Against His Elite Attack Dogs
- Apple Reportedly Has Hundreds Of Workers Dedicated To Virtual Reality Projects
- Here's How To Add Friends Using Snapchat's New Profile URL Feature
- CybertronPC Creates ‘Luxury PC Experience’ With Enthusiast Desktops And Laptops
- Two And A Half Geeks Webcast 1/29/16: Netgear Nighthawk X8, Intel Compute Stick, Mechanical Keyboards, and More
- Microsoft Beats Earnings On Strong Cloud And Surface Sales But Phones Crater
- Elon Musk’s ‘Greatest Adventure’ Begins This September With Unveiling Of Mars-Bound Spacecraft
- Legendary Apple A-Series And AMD K8 Chip Designer Jim Keller Joins Tesla Motors
- Dell XPS 13 Core i7 QHD+ Touch Ultrabook $999, 80% Off ZeroLemon SolarJuice Power Bank And More
- Amazon Tipped To Debut Streaming Music Spotify Killer This Fall
- Nintendo’s Next Gen Handheld Gaming Console To Reportedly Launch By Year’s End
- EA May Have Inadvertently Revealed Xbox One Sales, Roughly 19 Million To Date
- Apple iPhone To Finally Gain Wireless Charging Capabilities Next Year, Report Suggests
- Amazon Records Best Ever Profit During Q4, Still Fails To Impress Wall Street
- FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Pokes Hornet’s Nest As Cable Industry Torches Cable Box Proposal
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All News for January 2016
The guys and gals at Facebook are looking to disrupt the live streaming scene with a live video option baked into the world's largest social network. It's a feature that's already proven popular with Twitter and Periscope, but what's different about Facebook's implementation is that the video feed doesn't disappear...
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In November, Microsoft kicked OneDrive users in the gut when it announced that it was neutering its existing OneDrive storage options. Microsoft killed its unlimited storage option, executed the 100GB and 200GB storage tiers (replacing them with a lone 50GB tier) and announced that it would rollback the free 15GB tier...
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Google is looking to round out its Google Fiber service, and well-entrenched cable companies like Time Warner Cable and Comcast, which often have virtual monopolies in various markets across the United States, should have even more reason for concern. According to a new report, the search giant will launch Google...
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This past fall, we reported on a development with Google's Project Loon, which aims to deliver Internet via balloons to underserved countries. At some point in 2016, a bunch of balloons will take flight over Indonesia, and once that happens, it could very well spearhead what could become a common sight in...
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We’ve heard plenty about the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, but we haven’t seen much with regards to official images of the unreleased smartphones. Well, you can always count on Evan Blass to spoil the fun for manufacturers, as the serial leaker has provided some high quality renders of Samsung’s upcoming flagships.
As you...
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If you think that the likes of the NSA needs to rely on zero-day exploits to get their job done, you apparently have things completely wrong. At the USENIX Enigma security conference in San Francisco this week, the NSA's chief of Tailored Access Operations, Rob Joyce said that it's his team's sheer talent makes its...
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There's little doubt that Apple has a bit of an interest in virtual reality, but there hasn't been much proof up to this point that the Cupertino company has been planning to take that interest one step further. Well, according to Financial Times, Apple is indeed en route to deliver a VR product to market, and has...
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Snapchat, the popular mobile app that allows you to send and receive timed photos, videos, and text messages, just added a potentially game changing feature—URL profile sharing. That's right, this simple feature addition could turn out to be huge for a social app that has big aspirations of generating billions of...
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CybertronPC, a company that has had the pulse of the PC community for nearly two decades, is unleashing a new line of enthusiast PCs under the CybertronPC Luxury Experience (CLX) label, which was inspired by ancient Egypt. The CLX family consists of three desktop computers and two notebooks that put performance at the...
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Join us for another episode of HotHardware's Two And A Half Geeks webcast where Marco, Paul and Dave discuss cool stuff in tech like Netgear's Nighthawk X8 AC WiFi router, Intel's new Compute Sticks with Windows 10, a gaggle of great mechanical keyboards, the Core m-based ASUS ZenBook UX305CA and some interesting new...
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Since Satya Nadella stepped into the role of Microsoft CEO, the company's outlook has been a lot more positive than it had been in recent years. As the company's latest financials highlight, the company's killing it where cloud services are concerned, and as we've reported a few times over the past year, its latest...
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On Earth, Elon Musk is conquering the electric car market with Tesla Motors. In Earth’s orbit, the Musk-helmed SpaceX is revolutionizing commercial spaceflight and aiming to send U.S. astronauts into space with its Falcon rockets and Dragon crew capsules now that the Space Shuttle has been mothballed.
But this is...
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We knew that Jim Keller would eventually return to the tech scene after a brief hiatus. Back in mid-September, Keller left his post at AMD, where he served as AMD’s chief architect for CPU cores. He has now moved on to the “green” pastures of Tesla Motors, where he will be instrumental in advancing the electric...
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It’s just about time to close out another week, but before we go, we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals to share with you all. On tap for you today, we have deals on a Dell XPS 13 Intel Core i7-5500U based ultrabook with touch, a ZeroLemon SolarJuice 20000mAh Solar Power Bank, a Lenovo H30-50 Intel Core i7-4790 based...
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Several companies have tried to topple Spotify in the streaming music space, including bigwigs Microsoft (Groove, formerly Xbox Music) and Apple (Apple Music), yet it remains one of the most popular options out there. But lest Spotify rest on its laurels, there's another big name reportedly crashing the...
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Nintendo hasn't been real forthcoming with details about its next-generation console codenamed "NX," but in lieu of official information, there's been plenty of rumors and speculation. One of the latest bit of speculative news to hit the web is that Nintendo is on target to launch its NX handheld by the end of the...
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Microsoft doesn’t have any intention of revealing Xbox One sales numbers, as the company has decided to keep those figures under lock and key (Microsoft last gave an update in November 2014, when it had sold a total of 10 million Xbox One consoles). On the other hand, Sony has been trumpeting its PlayStation 4 sales...
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If you look back at Apple's product launches, you'll notice that each new generation of a particular device boasts a standout feature or two that gets touted above all the rest—3D Touch, bigger displays, and Siri are a few examples. Looking ahead to 2017, and presumably the iPhone 8, wireless charging could be one of...
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Investors weren't as pumped as Amazon about its fourth quarter performance in which the online commerce giant collected $35.7 billion. That's a healthy jump of 22 percent form the $29.3 billion it registered in the same quarter a year prior and, once all the bills were paid, it left Amazon with a record Q4 profit of...
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It’s hard to believe that anyone in the United States expects the cable industry to react quickly to anything; be it customer complaints, innovation, or even something as simple as showing up on time for a scheduled service appointments. However, if you threaten a steady revenue stream for America’s cable giants...
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Sometimes a video comes along that is so majestic that it defies explanation. Such was the case when David Hasselhoff kung fu kicked his way through the music video for True Survivor. And here we are again, this time with actor Paul Rudd gearing up to go against the great Steven Hawking in a game of Quantum Chess. I...
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T-Mobile has been relatively quiet about its Binge On unlimited video streaming service ever since CEO John Legere stuck his foot in his mouth by dropping the F-bomb on the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Now that the dust has settled on that unsavory incident, T-Mobile is back at it again with some changes to...
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