Google's inability to form a coherent messaging strategy is legendary at this point, and it doesn't look like things are getting any better if a new rumor is accurate. According
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After the collapse of THQ in 2013, the fate of well-loved franchises like Darksiders was in peril. The company's intellectual properties scattered to the winds, devs moved to other endeavors, and fans were heartbroken. But all these years later, Darksiders is back from the dead.
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The newly auctioned moon fragments came to Earth aboard the Soviet Luna 16 return rocket, the first automated probe to return a sample from the lunar surface.
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In China, electric vehicles constantly report their exact real-time position -- and a great deal of additional information besides -- to the Chinese government.
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South Korean prosecutors charged nine people with IP theft against Samsung, in a failed bid to steal OLED technology for a Chinese manufacturer.
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Microsoft has signed a major deal with the US military to provide HoloLens devices for both training and eventually, live combat.
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Old models return. New cars get faster and safer. More SUVs, more pickups, a few more sedans. Even Tesla has a booth.
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There are rumors that AMD, not Intel, might get the nod for the next version of Microsoft's Surface.
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Sennheiser has issued a patch for the software, but it doesn't seem to grasp the gravity of the screw-up.
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You've probably heard of some of these companies, but others are new players in space exploration.
The post NASA Reveals 9 Commercial Partners for Lunar Missions appeared first on ExtremeTech.
A new study from MIT seeks to reveal the processes at work that produce microscopic craters and holes in materials.
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Could this herald a new era in low-cost exploration of the solar system?
The post NASA’s Mars Cubesat Mission Was a Smashing Success, Too appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Intel has released a new driver update with support for Microsoft's new Windows 10 1809 Universal Windows Driver standard.
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TSMC is poised to overtake Intel in overall silicon manufacturing, but how much of an impact on Intel is that actually likely to have?
The post Does It Matter If TSMC Dethrones Intel and Takes the Semiconductor Lead? appeared first on ExtremeTech.
With 3-axis stabilization, you can swing the Osmo Pocket every which way and still get passably smooth footage at 4K resolution.
The post DJI Announces Super-Tiny Osmo Pocket 3-Axis Stabilized Camera appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The World Wide Web only delivered on a small portion of the original vision of Tim Berners-Lee or Hypertext creator Ted Nelson. Berner's Lee is aiming to fix that with his Solid project and startup Inrupt.
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Overall GPU sales slumped sharply in Q3 2018, despite the launch of Nvidia's RTX GPU family.
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We've long believed that mitochondrial DNA is only passed down by mothers. A team of researchers from the US, China, and Taiwan has identified several families where that isn't true.
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Intel's CPU shortage could ease in Q1 as additional 14nm production comes online. The impact of the ongoing US-China trade dispute could still throw a wrench into overall product sales, however.
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The deals we saw this Black Friday and Cyber Monday were outstanding, but the festivities haven't finished completely. There are still some really solid deals kicking around, and we've rounded them up below. Most interestingly? The 15.6-inch HP Pavilion 15 with a quad-core CPU and a GTX 1050 Ti graphics card is still just $599.
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In a recent hearing on Capitol Hill, Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) discussed the issue of loot boxes with FTC commissioners.
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Google's Smart Compose feature doesn't try to predict the gender of the person you're emailing, because the company hasn't figured out how to actually predict it with complete accuracy. Smart move.
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Amazon unveiled its first custom-built silicon today, and a new type of cloud instance designed around it. Meet Graviton, the company's first CPU.
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How much would it cost to use sulfur aerosols to reflect additional sunlight back into space? Not that much.
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The price might not sound so crazy if the data in your phone is extremely important, and it's not like you have a lot of options.
The post DriveSavers Offers Phone Unlocking and Data Recovery for $3,900 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The PlayStation Classic is a bare-bones recreation of an early 1990s console gaming experience and not much more.
The post Review Roundup: The PlayStation Classic Is Acceptable, Uninspiring appeared first on ExtremeTech.
According to a now-deleted post on BGR, Google will let users join Fi with phones like the iPhone and Samsung devices.
The post Google Project Fi Is Opening Up to iPhones, Samsung, and More appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The scale of the breach is still under investigation, but things aren't looking good.
The post Rogue Developer Uses Popular Open Source Project to Steal Bitcoins appeared first on ExtremeTech.
InSight has to do several months of prep work before most of its instruments will be ready to relay data back to Earth.
The post Here’s What’s Next for NASA’s InSight Mars Lander appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Google is the latest company to jump into the hot market for convertible computers with its Pixel Slate. We've been using an early version for the last week, and have found both a lot to like and a few wrinkles.
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AMD may have doubled the per-core L3 cache on its 7nm Rome server CPUs, along with various architectural changes and improvements.
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Rumors suggest Intel could be planning a new 10-core CPU, built on the 14nm process node.
The post Intel’s Comet Lake-S Rumored to Pack 10 Cores, Debut on 14nm appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Microsoft's Windows 10 1809 update is still causing headaches for some users, including broken functionality in the most basic parts of Windows.
The post Microsoft Windows 1809 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, File Associations appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The ESA has put together a fantastic 15-minute video of Earth from the ISS, but the actual length of time shown is much greater. In fact, this is the longest timelapse video ever shot in space.
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Reviews of Fallout 76 have blasted the game as a badly programmed train wreck. Reviewer consensus is that the few gems of genuine fun are buried under bad UI, poor combat, and frustrating mechanics.
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NASA reports that InSight's automated landing sequence performed perfectly and the probe is conducting systems checks in preparation for science operations.
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Teams around the world have experimented with CRISPR-based gene editing techniques in human embryos, but no one has allowed those embryos to become living, breathing people -- until now.
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Some phones pack as many as four rear-facing camera sensors, but LG has plans for several times that. In a recent patent filing, LG shows off a concept for a phone with 16 of them.
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The sales leader among compact SUVs is likely to soar past a half-million sales by 2020 and extend its dominance as the best-selling vehicle in America that isn't designed for a gun rack. It's that good.
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Make your Android phone all it can be with these tips and tricks.
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The Cyber Monday deals have already begun to roll out, and there's plenty of new bargains to be found. We'll be updating this post throughout the day, so be sure to check back in a few hours.
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Happy Thanksgiving, ExtremeTech readers! Online retailers cannot wait to start bringing in the big bucks, so the wait for Black Friday is essentially over. There are incredible deals available right now all over the net, and we’ve put together a categorized list of all of the best discounts.Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains…Featured DealsIn and…
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Want something to play over the holiday? Check out the Humble Jumbo Bundle 12 with eight games from six different publishers. Put up just $10, and you'll unlock more than $120 worth of Steam games and other goodies.
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Whether you're looking for a new unlocked smartphone, a sweet gaming laptop, or a low-cost console bundle, there's no need to hesitate on your purchase since killer Black Friday deals have already begun going live.
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Some have suggested building elaborate VR treadmills that let you walk around without going anyplace. Google has just patented something different: motorized VR shoes.
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Advocates for the space tourism move say that it could be an important source of funding for the agency, as well as a way to become more relevant to the American public.
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inSight should touch down on Mars within one week, and NASA has detailed how it'll monitor the landing from 91 million miles away on Earth.
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Air quality crises come and go, but at one time or another, you'll probably run into a situation where your phone or your weather forecast will start warning you about outdoor activity. We dig into how is it measured, and what a high AQI really means.
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CEO Elon Musk casually announced the change on Twitter, as he is wont to do. The BFR is now simply known as Starship.
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According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Samsung has four versions of the Galaxy S10 in the works, including one called "Beyond X" that will sport a massive 6.7-inch display, six cameras, and 5G support.
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Valve has announced it won't manufacture any more Steam Link hardware, and stock is almost out. In place of the hardware, Valve says it's focusing on the Steam Link apps.
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AMD's RX 570 and RX 580 have gotten some very tasty price cuts for the holidays.
The post PSA: Headed into Black Friday, AMD’s Midrange GPU Prices are Really, Really Good appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Problems with AMD systems and HTC's new wireless adapter are so bad, HTC is offering refunds to Ryzen owners.
The post HTC Acknowledges Vive Wireless Isn’t Working With AMD Hardware, Offers Refunds appeared first on ExtremeTech.
According to a Google executive, the company is considering shutting down its Google News portal in Europe if the latest copyright changes, known as the "link tax," go into effect.
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You've got questions about GPUs and video cards. We've got answers. Now updated for the Holidays 2018.
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NASA has chosen the landing zone for its next mission to Mars, with the hope of gathering rock and soil samples there and returning them to Earth for eventual analysis.
The post NASA Selects Ancient Crater Lake as Landing Site for Future Mars Rover appeared first on ExtremeTech.
It would have been the third launch for this particular rocket, a feat never before attempted. In the end, SpaceX decided it needed more time to prepare.
The post SpaceX Delays Launch of Twice-Reused Rocket for Additional Inspections appeared first on ExtremeTech.
We're less than a week away from Black Friday proper, and a load of sweet discounts are already live. Snag a Surface Go, a home security system, an Xbox One X, a PSVR, and much more at a substantial discount.
The post ET Deals: First Discount on the Surface Go Tablet, 50-inch 4K TV for under $330 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
In everyday life, we rely on government-issued documents to establish our identity. But on the web, we hand that power over to private, for-profit corporations that don't even think of us as customers. We look at whether self-sovereign identities might let us take control of who we are on the internet.
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Intel CPUs take a fairly heavy hit with the Linux 4.2 kernel, thanks to security measures to protect against Spectre / Meltdown attacks. The new changes impact a larger range of tests than were hit by the patches earlier this year.
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Fallout 4 suffered from feeling like two different games smashed together. In FO76, the problem is much worse.
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Microsoft got caught testing the idea of putting ads into the Windows 10 Email client. Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea.
The post Microsoft Frantically Downplays Plan to Put Ads in Windows Email App appeared first on ExtremeTech.
From our limited observation time, astronomers have determined ‘Oumuamua is a small cigar-shaped object, but we didn't know exactly how small until now.
The post Alien Object ‘Oumuamua May Be Smaller Than We Thought appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Want to expand your comic book horizons? Right now, you can pick up more than $750 worth of multi-format digital comics from the folks at Top Cow.
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According to Fils-Aimé, the classic consoles were intended as a limited-run — one-off devices that do not dictate Nintendo's strategy going forward.
The post Nintendo: Don’t Expect an N64 Classic Edition appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Nvidia's stock price has been hammered since last night when the company announced it would ship no midrange GeForce cards in Q4 to let the channel work through inventory.
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Today, most games you purchase on disc have big patches to download and online features to set up, so why not do away with the discs entirely? Microsoft is reportedly planning to do just that.
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Safety is no option with the 2020 Corolla. Corolla and Honda Civic may luxe-shame luxury barges with less baked-in safety at 2X-3X the price.
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Facebook, other social media companies, and Silicon Valley more generally have been lying through their teeth about the design of their own products and the role they play in modern life.
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GOES-17 launched in March of this year, and it sent back a few images shortly after that. Now, it's finally reached its final destination over the Pacific Ocean, and it's beaming back some stunning images and lots of atmospheric data.
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AMD's new RX 590 is a clear victor over the GTX 1060 but costs significantly more than last year's RX 580.
The post AMD’s New RX 590 Unambiguously Beats the GTX 1060 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The team managed to create so-called "DeepMasterPrints" that can fool a sensor without a sample of the real user's fingerprints.
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Hynix has demonstrated the first 16Gb DDR5-5200 DIMMs with commercialization planned for 2020.
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If you'd like a nice high-res monitor that won't devastate your bank account, today's sale on the 27-inch Dell UltraSharp U2717D is hard to pass by. With a 1440p resolution, in-plane switching, and support for loads of connections, this display is a solid purchase at just 300 bucks.
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You need only look at recent phone launches to see that screen notches are very in right now. If one is good, then maybe two would be even better?
The post Sharp Announces the Aquos R2 With 2 Screen Notches appeared first on ExtremeTech.
The team operating the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) managed to heat the reactor's internal plasma to 100 million degrees Celsius (212 million Fahrenheit).
The post Chinese Fusion Reactor Gets 6 Times Hotter Than the Sun appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Does anyone actually need this?
The post Questionable ‘PC Classic’ Console Promises Major 80s, 90s Games appeared first on ExtremeTech.
In the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to get a single package with both Command & Conquer and the followup Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Best of all, EA promises no microtransactions. Yes, you're right to be shocked.
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