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- World Backup Day Deals: 3TB WD My Passport Hard Drive For $109, $64 SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD And More
- Verizon Wants Its Pound Of Flesh From Your Full Price Smartphone Purchase, Will Charge $20 Upgrade Fee
- AT&T May Snub Google For Cyanogen Powered Phone With More Control Of Services And Bloat
- Intel Embraces 3D NAND And NVMe For New Class Of SAS-Killing Dual-Port Enterprise SSDs
- Intel Xeon Processor E5 v4 Family Debut: Dual E5-2697 v4 With 72 Threads Tested
- Alexa-Fueled Amazon Tap Portable Speaker Faces The Music At $129
- Microsoft Puts Windows Phone On Back Burner To Focus On HoloLens And Xbox One
- FBI's Newfound iPhone Unlocking Prowess To Be Used In Arkansas Murder Case
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Windows Ink Support And ’Hello' Biometrics To Apps
- Amazon Empowers Late Night Canoodling With Red Bull, Trojan And Doritos Dash Buttons
- Tiny VoCore Mini Linux Computer On Sale In The HotHardware Shop
- Oculus Rift Teardown Reveals Virtually Respectable Repairability And Fancy Pants Lenses
- Strange Bedfellows: Microsoft And Canonical Bring Ubuntu Linux Bash To Windows 10
- Dell Inspiron 7559 Gaming Laptop Under $700, GTX 980 Graphics Card For $400 And More
- Killer Instinct Goes Cross Platform In Free-to-Play Windows 10 Debut
- Microsoft Boldly Boasts Windows 10 Now Running On 270 Million PCs Worldwide
- Bethesda Cranks Up Fallout 4 Survival Difficulty With 1.5 Beta
- AT&T Raises U-verse Data Caps And Reintroduces Unlimited Data For Extra $30 Per Month
- Amazon Bans Shoddy USB-C Cables, Validates Google Engineer's Costly Crusade
- Apple Inks MLB Deal To Supply Team Dugouts With 12.9-inch iPad Pros
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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 a 3TB WD My Passport Portable External Hard Drive, Acronis True Image 2016, a SanDisk Ultra II 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal SSD, and more. Full details for all of today’s deals are...
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It seems as though the era of nickel and diming customers has no end in sight, and the folks at Verizon are taking this practice to a new level. We’ve all become accustomed to paying an upgrade fee (usually begrudgingly so) when buying a new device through our wireless carrier, either through a new two-year contract...
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For a handful of reasons, AT&T would like to make a dent - even if it's a tiny one - in the Android-dominated smartphone market. It wants to accomplish this feat even if it means having to use an Android alternative that's actually based on Android. That's where CyanogenMod comes in, a mobile OS that's skyrocketed in...
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Over the past few years, we’ve seen some pretty amazing advancements in the solid state drive (SSD) space thanks technology like 3D NAND and the NVMe interface. Intel also is banking on the use of 3D NAND to further put pressure on entrenched HDD storage. Over the next four years, Intel expects that the density and...
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Intel is officially launching a brand new series of Xeon processors today, the Xeon Processor E5 v4. Unlike mainstream desktop products, which feature Intel’s latest core technologies like the Skylake-based Core i7-6700K, mission-critical, big-iron parts like the Xeon E5 v4 series are more complex and go through much...
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At the beginning of the month, Amazon announced that it was expanding its family of Alexa-enabled products with the Echo Dot, a $90 hockey puck-shaped device that brings the power of Alexa to your existing speakers, and Amazon Tap, a portable version of Echo. The latter is now available to purchase for $130 with free...
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If you have a sneaky suspicion that Microsoft isn't putting as much effort into its Windows Phone plans as perhaps it could be, the first day of its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco would have done nothing to change to your mind. Microsoft talked about Windows 10 and all sorts of related technologies, but...
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A prosecutor in Arkansas will get an assist from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a murder trial where key pieces of evidence may be contained in a pair of Apple devices. Having just recently thwarted the security on an iPhone 5c that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters, the FBI has agreed to help...
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Microsoft had plenty to say about Windows 10 during its Build Conference on Wednesday. One of them is that its latest OS is now installed on more than 270 million active devices, an adoption rate that outpaces Windows 7 in the same time frame by 145 percent. That's impressive, but 270 million installs is far from the...
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When the moment is right, will you be ready? Well, Amazon sure hopes so, which is why the e-tail giant is greatly expanding its lineup of Dash Buttons that are meant to make reordering household items dead simple (while also keeping you firmly entrenched in the Amazon ecosystem). According to Amazon, orders placed...
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If you’ve been looking for an ultra-affordable way to experiment with an ultra-tiny, open-source mini-PC, we’ve got just the thing. The VoCore Mini Linux Computer is currently 13% off in the HotHardware Shop and available for under 40 dollars...
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Even though some may cringe at the thought of the highly anticipated, $600 Oculus Rift being dissected instead of enjoyed, you have to hand it to the folks over at iFixit for giving this season’s hottest tech gadget the teardown treatment. Today, we’re give some insight into how relatively easy it is to repair the...
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Earlier this week, we reported on a sleek, low-end tablet running Ubuntu Linux — a world first according to Canonical. But while that was definitely exciting news in the Linux world, today’s announcement from Microsoft and Canonical is quite Earth-shattering. The two companies announced today that they have partnered...
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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 a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Intel Core i5-6300HQ-based laptop with discrete NVIDIA graphics, a MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GD5 OCV1, a Poweradd Apollo2 Solar Panel 10000mAh External Battery...
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At the start of March, Microsoft surprised the world by announcing that it'd be bringing all future Xbox One games it publishes to Windows 10. Even more exciting is the fact that Microsoft has extended the ability to any Xbox One developer that wants to take advantage of the company's Universal Windows Platform. With...
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There’s no question that Windows 10 is a fine operating system, and in many ways a huge improvement over Windows 7 and Windows 8.x that came before it. Throw in the fact that Microsoft has made Windows 10 a free upgrade for those aforementioned operating systems (at least for the next four months) and it shouldn’t...
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Looking for an added challenge in Fallout 4? Well it just so happens that Bethesda is answering the call with an overhauled Survival Mode that's now available to test on Windows PCs via Steam. It's currently available in beta form (a release to consoles will come next month), which you can access by logging into...
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While it might have been difficult to imagine 15 years ago, so much of our daily lives are now dependent on the Internet. This has led to a surge in data hogging products and services, like high-definition and even 4K video streams, massive game downloads, and so forth. Data caps are inherently at odds with this...
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Google engineer Benson Leung fought the good fight against crappy USB Type-C cables that were being sold on Amazon and paid a dear price for it—his Chromebook Pixel, which he fried from testing USB Type-C cables. As a result of his efforts, Amazon has now dropped the ban hammer on USB Type-C cables that aren't up to...
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One of the biggest signings in Major League Baseball this year isn't a pitcher with a wicked fast ball or a slugger who specializes in smashing the ball over the fence, but Apple and it's 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet. Taking a page from Microsoft with its NFL deal, Apple inked a multi-year agreement to supply every MLB...
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Microsoft’s Tay chatbot made quite the splash last week when it was set loose on an unsuspecting Twitter audience, only to have her AI brain filled with bouts of racism, Nazi sympathizing, and a penchant for propositioning her followers for kinky sex. Microsoft took Tay offline roughly a day after her debut, and...
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Sony first announced its Ultra 4K streaming service earlier this year, and we’re now learning that it will launch early next month — April 4th to be specific. However, this won’t be an all-you-can-eat buffet as you might expect with streaming 4K content from Amazon or Netflix. Instead, you’ll be purchasing titles at a hefty $30 each and will
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