Early reviews are rolling in for Apple's latest smartphone. After months of hype, how does the iPhone X stack-up?
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A new organic memristor design from an international team of scientists could finally make these components commercially viable.
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Astronomers track asteroids and comets in space near Earth, and some are unfathomably far away in the outer solar system. However, scientists may have spotted the first such object from someplace even more distant--another solar system.
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Nintendo's Switch is blowing the doors off every distributor in town. Nintendo now expects the console to sell more units than the Wii U in its first year of operation.
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AMD stock has taken a hammering in recent days, but the justifications provided for it aren't very good.
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GameStop's new PowerPass program gives gamers the option to play as many used games as they want and keep two per year, at $60 per six months ($120 per year).
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Keeping systems secure is difficult. It's even harder when you lose USB drives containing all of your critical infrastructure data and you didn't bother to encrypt them in the first place.
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NASA has just detected a planet with an entirely new type of weather. On Kepler-13Ab, it snows metal.
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Performance, style, comfort, and handling make the the SQ5 and Q5 the most desirable compact SUV you can buy. Too bad some key safety tech is only on the costliest trim line, as an option.
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If you've snagged an Xbox One on the cheap, or you're excited about enjoying the Xbox One X in 4K, consider investing in some accessories to improve your experience. From game streaming to online multiplayer to game storage, there's something here to enhance nearly every aspect of your console.
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Cameras, accessories, and software help pro photographers work smarter. (They're already working harder.) Here's the latest and greatest from the biggest North American photo show.
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Best Buy is charging its customers $100 more to buy an iPhone and claiming this constitutes a benefit.
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According to Krause, the way Apple manages the camera app on iOS opens the door for apps to spy on users and upload footage to the internet.
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For a limited time, you can pick up this manufacturer refurbished dual-core 13.3-inch Dell Latitude laptop on eBay at a 27% discount. And since it's under warranty with Dell until July 13, 2018, you can rest easy knowing that your purchase is covered.
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If you buy an iPhone X, you'd best not break it. Repairing anything but the screen will cost $549 if you don't have AppleCare+.
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Verizon will now be happy to take more of your money every month to do away with video throttling.
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Backups are vitally important, but they aren't perfect. Multiple drives can fail in a short period of time, software can bug out, and mistakes happen. And if you accidentally delete something on your camera's SD card, you'll definitely want a way to get those photos back. As such, it's worth picking up Prosoft Data Rescue to have at the ready.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Elon Musk offered to help the battered US island restore its electrical grid. This week, Tesla took its first step towards making good on that promise, helping return power to the Hospital del Niño.
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AMD announced its new Ryzen Mobile APUs today, kicking off what’s arguably its most important refresh of 2017. Over the past decade, laptops have accounted for a steadily growing percentage of the total PC market. At the same time, however, AMD was forced to fight a defensive rear-guard action with a CPU design that was…
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Nostalgia has a way of reviving the dead -- in this case, the popular Intellimouse design that Microsoft brought to market nearly 20 years ago.
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A British supersonic car currently under development has its first public test drive at Cornwall airport in Newquay, south-west England. The Bloodhound reached a speed of around 200mph on the 1.7-mile runway. The team behind the vehicle say it is part fighter jet, part Formula One car and part spaceship. The goal is for it to reach a speed of 1,000mph on a run in South Africa next year
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Microsoft thinks it has a way to prevent ransomware from extorting money from Windows 10 users, and it's called Controlled Folder Access.
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PCI Express 4.0 has hit version 1.0 and been released to manufacturers. If previous patterns hold true, we could see motherboards within a year -- though this will depend on Intel and AMD and how quickly they leap for the new standard.
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The hits keep on coming for Apple -- Bloomberg reports that the company relaxed its Face ID requirements to help manufacturers build the iPhone X's components. Apple denies the allegation.
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13 original Xbox games are now compatible with the Xbox One, while several Xbox 360 games have been upgraded to add new enhancements when running on the Xbox One X.
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The Kinect is finally finished. Microsoft's Project Natal found some use outside of gaming, but not much within it.
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One of the big questions in science is not just "why are we here?' It's, "why is anything here?" Scientists at CERN have been looking into this one over the last several years, and there's still no good answer.
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AMD turned in its best quarterly results in years last night, landing solidly back in black -- no matter how you dice up the numbers.
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Microsoft may have pushed backwards compatibility off the front burner when it pivoted away from "always on" functionality, but it never gave up on the idea. Xbox 360 and Xbox game lovers can reap some of the rewards of that dedication, starting today.
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Director Wray calls this a "huge, huge problem," but it's not one that's going away anytime soon.
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The iPhone X has captured a lot of mind share over the past month, but Steve Wozniak is not onboard. Not at first, anyway.
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Are you absolutely sick of your current cell provider? Now's a perfect time to dump your massive mobile bill, and make the switch to FreedomPop. For a limited time, you can get an activated three-in-one SIM for just a single cent, and it even comes with free voice minutes, text messages, and bonus LTE data.
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AMD's upcoming Raven Ridge APUs should give the company much better performance than anything it saw from Carrizo or Bristol Ridge -- but will it match Intel's latest Core family?
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A major lawsuit claims Newegg, ASI Corp, engaged in fraudulent transactions and built a major Ponzi scheme, defrauding four South Korean banks in the process.
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Voltron, this is not. "Epic" robot duel last week was staged, shot over three days to get usable footage.
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Google Pixel 2 may have a serious problem with OLED burn-in. This is a separate issue from the reports of poor color reproduction that made the rounds last week; there's burn-in damage (not image retention) on multiple devices, some of which haven't even been used for one cumulative day.
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Today, Dell is offering up a substantial discount on the Inspiron 15 5000 laptop. If you're in need of a powerful 15.6-inch device, this is the perfect time to buy. With an HD display, a Kaby Lake CPU, and a fast SSD, this laptop offers a complete computing experience wherever you go.
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Microsoft is integrating its own cheat-detection system into Windows at the OS level. Will it make more of a difference than other anti-cheating systems have to-date?
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Most travelers prefer to keep expensive electronics like laptops in their carry-on bags, but you may soon be forbidden to check a laptop or similar piece of electronics.
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Cryptocurrency mining is exploding across the web and rapidly spreading beyond the Pirate Bay.
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Tim Cook declined to provide a timeline on when we might see a new Mac mini. That's somewhat problematic, because Intel's newer mobile chips would significantly improve the platform's performance, power consumption, video, and gaming capabilities.
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Curious about the nitty gritty of blockchain? Considering building an app that uses blockchain in an interesting way? Today's course bundle from SkillWise is a slam-dunk. You'll get four courses on the intricacies of the Ethereum platform, so you'll be able to hit the ground running when it comes time for implementation.
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If you or a loved one are among the tens of millions of PS4 owners, consider grabbing one or more of these accessories to make the gaming experience even better.
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Amazon successfully test-fired its RE-4 yesterday, in a major milestone for the cutting-edge engine.
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Intel is bringing its AVX-512 instruction set to desktop CPUs with its upcoming Cannon Lake CPUs, but AVX-512 is a good deal more complex than previous SIMD sets, and its capabilities are distributed across a wider range of products.
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he new OS version isn't a radical change from the previous Creators Update, but it does introduce some new features and improvements to Edge, OneDrive, GPU monitoring--and, apparently, up to 30GB of install data that it leaves behind.
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When a phone costs $850, you certainly should not tolerate a bad screen, but is that what Google is offering?
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Apple has supposedly slashed its iPhone 8 production not even six weeks after launching the device. If true, this doesn't bode well for the company's quarterly results.
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Scientists have long wondered if shadowy crevasses on the lunar surface could be entrances to caverns that could serve as a home for future colonists. New data from Japanese and US researchers indicates such caverns do exist.
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USB-C sells a dream of uniting every cable standard and protocol over a single cable, but so far the fairy tale hasn't stood up to cold reality.
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Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced Cassini's detection of some wild and unexpected particles in Saturn's atmosphere.
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