There's a new Fallout game coming -- and it's unlike any title Bethesda or Black Isle ever built.
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Maybe you'll be able to find your optimal ear temperature if there is such a thing.
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Google's Pixel family of devices hasn't sold very many units compared with Apple or Samsung, but Google is reportedly charging ahead with plans for a Pixel 3.
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Buy something else. Possibly anything else.
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Intel has unveiled a new tier of Optane storage -- one designed to bridge the gap between volatile and non-volatile memory and create a new class of "Persistent" memory in the process.
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We're enthralled by the idea of cars that can whisk us anywhere without us lifting a finger, but in the meantime some of the early efforts are making what seems like a rookie mistake and plowing into parked vehicles. We look at why.
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In some cases, the support reps who were let go spent their final weeks of employment training the new unpaid volunteers.
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You probably haven't encountered any robots from these firms, but it's only a matter of time.
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LG thinks it has a way to reduce the nausea many experience when gaming in VR, thanks to the use of AI to slash photon latency and frame times.
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There's some interesting construction projects taking place around the world, including five coming online in 2018.
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AMD is sourcing 7nm from TSMC and GlobalFoundries because it expects to have more need for 7nm volume than GF can supply.
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A team of engineers from MIT have developed a new compression wrap that tells you precisely how tight it is with the aid of color-changing fibers.
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It is not uncommon that you might need to reboot your router because of some error or bug, but it's not often that you need to reboot it in the name of national security.
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New tech and new laws are combining to make hearing augmentation easier to get, as well as more affordable. We tested the Nuheara IQBuds Boost, one of the first examples of this new class of hybrid listening and hearing devices called hearables, on an extended road trip to Africa and back.
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The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't just kick off a short-term apocalyptic winter -- it may have turned the planet's thermostat up dramatically for a hundred thousand years.
The post Dinosaur-Killing Impact May Have Superheated Earth’s Atmosphere for 100,000 Years appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Facebook is reportedly going to start building its own hardware for content monitoring and real-time filtering.
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Anyone still smarting over Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet has a reason to perk up. There's some evidence that the planetoid didn't form through the standard process and may instead be the remains of up to a billion comets, smashed together.
The post Pluto Might Have Formed as a Giant Comet, Not a Planet appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Now more compelling as a compact SUV, the 2018 Chevy Equinox can go 600 highway miles between fill-ups on diesel. Key safety features are reserved for the Premium version, but no there's still adaptive cruise control.
The post 2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel SUV Review: 42 MPG Highway Cruiser appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Samsung has a great new idea for advertising its televisions: Make end-users think they're actually broken!
The post Samsung Will Turn Off Millions of Displays at Once as Part of an Ad Campaign appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Each year phone manufacturers push smartphone camera limits further. We took a couple of the best phones on a wildlife safari in Africa to see how well they'd make out handling such a tough photographic challenge.
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According to security researcher Ryan Stevenson, T-Mobile wasn't taking account security very seriously.
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Valve's Steam Link app will allow for game streaming -- but Apple is refusing to approve the app. So far, the feature is Android-only.
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If you're using an Intel 600p SSD or Pro 6000p, Microsoft has patched the issue that kept these SSDs from using the April 2018 update.
The post Microsoft Fixes Issues With Windows 10 Update on Intel, Toshiba SSDs appeared first on ExtremeTech.
According to sources inside the company, discussions are focused on unloading the entire firm along with its patent portfolio.
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Pornhub says its new VPNhub service is designed to keep your online activity safe from prying eyes and censorship.
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The PlayStation 5 isn't arriving for three years according to Sony, despite earlier rumors of a 2018 release.
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There are 13 and 15-inch variants, and each is available as a regular laptop and a "Spin" version with a 360-degree hinge. These might be just what the premium midrange needs.
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Apple is likely TSMC's first 7nm customer and the company's expected A12 SoCs are now rumored to be in full production.
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Is your current laptop a bit long in the tooth? Now's the perfect time to upgrade! For a limited time, you can pick up a refurbished 12.5-inch hybrid Dell Latitude 12 5289 laptop from the PCMag shop with a $500+ discount with today's coupon in play.
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Just because you've got an older or low-end PC doesn't mean you can't enjoy gaming. There are thousands of back titles in the PC catalog. Here are some of our favorites.
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The experiment targeted two of HIV's nine genes that are key to the proliferation of the virus.
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The Massive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra Stable Neutral Particles (which goes by the inaccurate but much simpler nickname MATHUSLA) will look for particles the LHC misses because they're too stable.
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Elon Musk is promising a firmware update to fix brake issues with the Model 3, surprising those of us who didn't know brakes were controlled by firmware.
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According to sources who spoke to Politico, Trump uses at least two iPhone devices provided by the White House IT staff. However, they are not swapped regularly like in the Obama era.
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It has a bigger screen with smaller bezels, a faster CPU, and improved GPU performance courtesy of Nvidia Max-Q technology.
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From laboratory experiments, the team estimates that a circuit can still function even if 50 percent of it is damaged or destroyed.
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While Google Glass utterly failed as a consumer device, its second life as an industrial tool makes sense. And eventually, full-bore augmented reality will be small and cheap enough to be implemented in glasses that don't look different from what's commonplace now.
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Sony's new CEO wants to overhaul the company's focus and it's not clear what that means for its gaming future.
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The attack likely infected around 100 targets, which isn't a huge number compared with most malware campaigns. However, these were all highly targeted infiltrations to gather intelligence on political opponents.
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The web has significantly changed the way we convey and how we handle ordinary errands. We send messages, we share records, we pay bills and we buy products by entering our own points of interest online without the slightest hesitation.
Have you at any point stopped to consider what amount of individual data you have shared on the web? Or then again the end result for that data? We’re looking at managing an account data, contacts, addresses, online networking posts, and even your IP address and the destinations that you’ve gone to are altogether stored carefully.
Companies disclose to you that they gather this kind of data so they can serve you better, offer you more focused on and significant interchanges, all to give you a superior customer experience. Yet, is that what they truly utilize the data for?
This is the issue that has been asked and replied by the EU, and why on 25th May 2018 another European security control called GDPR will be authorized and for all time change the way you gather, store and utilize customer data.
GDPR will be actualized in all neighborhood security laws over the whole EU and EEA locale. It will apply to all companies pitching to and storing individual data about natives in Europe, including companies on different mainlands. It gives natives of the EU and EEA with more prominent control over their own data and affirmations that their data is by and large safely ensured crosswise over Europe.
As indicated by the GDPR order, individual data is any data identified with a man, for example, a name, a photo, an email address, bank points of interest, reports on person to person communication sites, area subtle elements, therapeutic data, or a PC IP address.
In a B2B setting, everything is about people associating and offering data to and about each other. Customers in B2B markets are clearly companies, yet the connections that handle the business topics are individuals – or people.
Under the GDPR, people have:
The right to access – this implies people have the right to ask for access to their own data and to ask how their data is utilized by the organization after it has been accumulated. The organization must give a duplicate of the individual data, gratis and in electronic arrangement if asked.
The right to be forgotten – if purchasers are not any more customers, or if they pull back their assent from an organization to utilize their own data, at that point they have the right to have their data erased.
The right to data portability – Individuals have a right to exchange their data starting with one specialist co-op then onto the next. Also, it must occur in a usually utilized and machine-comprehensible organization.
The right to be informed – this covers any social occasion of data by companies, and people must be informed before data is accumulated. Purchasers need to pick in for their data to be accumulated, and assent must be uninhibitedly given as opposed to inferred.
The right to have data remedied – this guarantees people can have their data refreshed if it is outdated or fragmented or erroneous.
The right to be notified – If there has been a data rupture which bargains a person’s close to home data, the individual has a right to be informed inside 72 hours of first having turned out to be mindful of the break.
The right to confine preparing – Individuals can ask for that their data isn’t utilized for handling. Their record can stay set up, however not be utilized.
The right to object – this incorporates the right of people to stop the handling of their data for coordinate showcasing. There are no exclusions to this run, and any handling must stop when the demand is gotten. What’s more, this right should be clarified to people at the very beginning of any correspondence.
The GDPR is the EU’s method for giving people, prospects, customers, contractors and representatives more control over their data and less energy to the associations that gather and utilize such data for money related pick up.
This new data security control puts the buyer in the driver’s seat, and the undertaking of agreeing to this direction falls upon businesses and associations.
To put it plainly, the GDPR applies to all businesses and associations set up in the EU, paying little mind to whether the data preparing happens in the EU or not. Indeed, even non-EU built up associations will be liable to GDPR. If your business offers merchandise or potentially administrations to nationals in the EU, at that point it’s liable to GDPR.
It's surprisingly hard to keep up with all the versions of the Model 3 when you consider you can't buy any of them right now.
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Here's how to uninstall AMD GPU drivers -- and a discussion of whether third-party driver software brings anything useful to the equation.
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Chevy unveils the first four-cylinder gasoline engine in a current full-size pickup. The 307 hp handily tops the V6 it may eventually replace.
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When Treyarch decided to remove COD Black Ops 4's campaign in favor of a Battle Royale mode, were they thumbing their noses at gamers -- or just giving them what they really want?
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When Google talks about the Selfish Ledger, it asks us to think of ourselves as the temporary custodian of the data rather than the owner.
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There are questions about whether or not Google faked its AI demo earlier this month -- and Google isn't answering them.
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Now that most sites have moved to HTTPS, Google is looking to change the way those warnings appear to emphasize sites that are still lagging behind.
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At current levels, de Vries estimates Bitcoin mining uses at least 2.6GW of power per year, and that number could grow to as much as 7.7GW by the end of the year.
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Simply snap them into a frame, add your sample, and wait for the results.
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Close your eyes and repeat, loudly: "I DON'T WANNA GROW UP..."
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Instead of simply focusing on x86 cores, or even developing a line of specialized many-core accelerators like Xeon Phi, the company has said it would bring a Xeon CPU to market with an FPGA integrated directly into the die.
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