الجمعة، 30 نوفمبر 2018

Google Rumored to Shut Down Hangouts in 2020


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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Fury of Disappointment: Darksiders III

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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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3 Minuscule Moon Rocks Just Sold for $855,000 at Auction


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 Log Precise Location Data With the Government


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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9 Charged With Selling Samsung’s Bendable Screen Technology


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 Wins $480M Contract to Provide HoloLens to US Military


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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Best Cars of the 2018 LA Auto Show


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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Microsoft’s Next Surface Might Tap AMD Hardware

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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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الخميس، 29 نوفمبر 2018

Sennheiser Software Flaw Leaves Users Open to Hacking


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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NASA Reveals 9 Commercial Partners for Lunar Missions

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You've probably heard of some of these companies, but others are new players in space exploration.

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MIT Studies Micro-Impacts at 100 Million Frames Per Second


A new study from MIT seeks to reveal the processes at work that produce microscopic craters and holes in materials.

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NASA’s Mars Cubesat Mission Was a Smashing Success, Too


Could this herald a new era in low-cost exploration of the solar system?

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Intel Adds Support for Universal Windows Drivers With Latest Graphics Release

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Intel has released a new driver update with support for Microsoft's new Windows 10 1809 Universal Windows Driver standard.

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Does It Matter If TSMC Dethrones Intel and Takes the Semiconductor Lead?

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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?

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DJI Announces Super-Tiny Osmo Pocket 3-Axis Stabilized Camera


With 3-axis stabilization, you can swing the Osmo Pocket every which way and still get passably smooth footage at 4K resolution.

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Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Project: Can It Save the Web?


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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GPU Shipments Fall 16 Percent as Crypto Sputters Out


Overall GPU sales slumped sharply in Q3 2018, despite the launch of Nvidia's RTX GPU family.

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You Can Inherit Mitochondrial DNA From Your Father After All


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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الأربعاء، 28 نوفمبر 2018

Intel CPU Shortage Could Ease in Q1 2019

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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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ET Deals: Cyber Monday Best $600 1080p HP Gaming Laptop Still Live

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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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Loot Boxes in Games Draw FTC’s Attention

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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 Removes Gendered Pronouns From Gmail’s Smart Compose Feature

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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 Launches ARM-Based Custom Graviton CPU

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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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Scientists Model Costs of Geoengineering Effort to Dim the Sun


How much would it cost to use sulfur aerosols to reflect additional sunlight back into space? Not that much.

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DriveSavers Offers Phone Unlocking and Data Recovery for $3,900


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.

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Review Roundup: The PlayStation Classic Is Acceptable, Uninspiring

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The PlayStation Classic is a bare-bones recreation of an early 1990s console gaming experience and not much more.

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الثلاثاء، 27 نوفمبر 2018

Google Project Fi Is Opening Up to iPhones, Samsung, and More


According to a now-deleted post on BGR, Google will let users join Fi with phones like the iPhone and Samsung devices.

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Rogue Developer Uses Popular Open Source Project to Steal Bitcoins


The scale of the breach is still under investigation, but things aren't looking good.

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Here’s What’s Next for NASA’s InSight Mars Lander

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InSight has to do several months of prep work before most of its instruments will be ready to relay data back to Earth.

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Hands On With the Google Pixel Slate

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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 Per-Core L3 Cache on 7nm Epyc CPUs

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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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Intel’s Comet Lake-S Rumored to Pack 10 Cores, Debut on 14nm

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Rumors suggest Intel could be planning a new 10-core CPU, built on the 14nm process node.

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Microsoft Windows 1809 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, File Associations

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Microsoft's Windows 10 1809 update is still causing headaches for some users, including broken functionality in the most basic parts of Windows.

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Longest Time-Lapse Shot From Space for ISS 20th Anniversary


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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Waste Virginia: Fallout 76 Nuked From Orbit By Reviewers

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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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الاثنين، 26 نوفمبر 2018

NASA’s InSight Successfully Lands on Mars


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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Chinese Scientist Reportedly Creates Genetically Engineered Babies Immune to HIV

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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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LG Patents Smartphone With 16 Cameras, Because Sure, Why Not

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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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2019 Toyota RAV4 Review: Why It Will Hit 500,000 Sales Per Year in No Time


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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25 Best Android Tips to Make Your Phone More Useful

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Make your Android phone all it can be with these tips and tricks.

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الأحد، 25 نوفمبر 2018

ET Cyber Monday Deals: $600 GTX 1050 Ti Gaming Laptop, $300 50-inch Vizio 4K HDTV, Google Home Mini

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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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الخميس، 22 نوفمبر 2018

ET Best Black Friday Deals: Sonos Subwoofer, Ring Doorbells, Dell PCs

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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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ET Deals: Get Eight Steam Games with Humble Jumbo Bundle 12

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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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الأربعاء، 21 نوفمبر 2018

ET Deals: $200 off the Galaxy Note 9, HP GTX 1060 Six-Core Gaming Laptop for $800

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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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Google Patents Wheeled VR Shoes


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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NASA May Sell Tickets to Space Tourists


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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NASA Explains How It Will Track InSight’s Mars Landing Next Week

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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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How Air Quality and the AQI Are Measured

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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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SpaceX Renames In-Development ‘BFR’ to ‘Starship’


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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Report: Samsung Planning 10th Anniversary Galaxy With 6.7-inch Screen, 5G


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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