Facebook has filed for a patent describing precisely the kind of phone microphone spying system people have accused it of using for years. It just claims it won't *use* the patent.
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A floating robotic head called CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) will soon be buzzing around the ISS.
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DC Comics has teamed up with the folks at GraphicAudio to deliver a bevy of the best comic book stories in dramatized audiobook format. And with this week's Humble Audiobook Bundle, you pick up 22 audiobooks for just $15. Better yet, you can get a taste for only a dollar.
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Shenmue III's minimum system specs have been posted, and the storage requirement is a real doozy. If it's not the first game to break the 100GB barrier, it's one of the first.
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Fujitsu and Riken are prepping a new leap ahead for exascale computing in Japan -- and the system should be ready by 2021.
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The Nintendo Classic is back on sale as of today. If you missed out in 2016, now's your chance.
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Investing in a VPN is a smart choice right now, but the options are vast. To help narrow things down a bit, we've rounded up five of our very favorite consumer services.
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Reports indicate Sets is on hold and won't ship this year as many had hoped.
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Google might be planning to enter the console wars with a new device of its own design.
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The increasingly capability and popularity of smartphone cameras is echoed in our staff's personal camera choices, but high-end DSLRs continue to hold their own.
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Telescopes around the world turned to watch as our visitor rocketed off into oblivion, and scientists eventually decided it was an asteroid. However, some new data calls that assessment into question. ‘Oumuamua may have been a comet after all.
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With its upcoming Rift Core 2.0 update, Oculus Rift will only officially support Windows 10. Windows 7 and 8.1 support isn't being taken out immediately, but they're no longer seeing any new features, either.
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WPA3 has been formally released today, with support for new authentication schemes, better personal security settings, and new operating modes for IoT devices and devices without screens.
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AMD is sending care packages to developers packed with Ryzen and Radeon goodies to encourage platform development.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has suffered numerous setbacks and delays, but it continues to inch ever closer to launch.
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Charter has announced that it will bring gigabit service to millions more homes this year, including four million over the summer.
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Micron has been targeted by corporate thieves looking to steal data, and it may face retaliatory lawsuits in China for its efforts against the thieves.
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A new security report indicates issues with Hyper-Threading can leak cryptographic information in certain cases, but evidence points against this being a Spectre or Meltdown-class failure.
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With the support of NASA, the researchers have simultaneously published six studies that explain how we will search exoplanets for signs of life using current and near-future technologies.
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Samsung claims HBM2 demand is so phenomenal, it could double production without manufacturing enough. That's not actually great news, depending on how you look at the situation.
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The Drake Equation has been used to estimate how many intelligent civilizations exist among the stars, but a new study mutates the equation in an unexpected manner. The authors conclude we're alone. Although, their arguments are a bit suspect.
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Adobe is in an arms race with itself, now that it's harnessing AI both to help image manipulations look natural and create tools to detect image fakery.
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At $1,300 more than a Civic, the Insight is a no-brainer: 50 mpg, a nicer interior, and no space lost to the hybrid battery. Honda's two-motor electrical system is a class act.
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Intel's higher-end six-core mobile chips offer compelling advantages above its quad-core desktop products.
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Keyboard and mouse support could be inbound for the Xbox One.
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Micron announced it's begun mass production of GDDR6, the next-generation memory standard for video cards that's expected to take over for GDDR5 in the larger market.
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The Nokia 3.1 is a step down from devices like the Nokia 6.1, but that phone is $100 more expensive.
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Forza Horizon 4 isn't set to come out for four more months, but the developers accidentally pushed it out to some fans over the weekend. Of course, downloaders have harvested a partial list of cars from the game files.
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It's been charged that Intel's integrated model is holding it back in the wider market. But are the claims true?
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AMD's latest teaser video is an obvious shot across Intel's bow.
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Qualcomm is working on the Snapdragon 1000 -- a new SoC designed to take on the laptop market in the 6W - 12W space.
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Nvidia may delay its next-generation GPU introduction to clear inventory on older Pascal cards it overproduced to meet vanishing cryptocurrency demand.
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Apple has announced a repair program for its MacBook Pro keyboards that can become clogged by a single grain of dust -- but make sure you read the fine print before leaning on the "free" repair.
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As long as you've got an ARCore device, you can find out how big something is just by pointing your phone at it.
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Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer has confirmed VR won't come to the Xbox One X or Xbox One, despite previous comments from Microsoft on the matter.
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The cost of building new chips keeps rising every node -- so much so that by 3nm, there might be precious few companies that can afford new chips at all.
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World of Warcraft is free to all inactive players through June 24. If you haven't seen the world of Azeroth lately, it's a good time to take a trip back.
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Internet service providers, black hats, government entities, and advertising companies alike are doing their best to compromise your security. So if you want to protect yourself, you're going to need a wide range of tools. And right now, Humble is offering up a load of services on the cheap.
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Make your Android phone all it can be with these tips and tricks.
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The Sleepbuds can block out the world and lull you to sleep with gentle white noise. However, that's all they do.
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The team proved they can hunt through the data faster than ever before by spotting almost 80 potential exoplanets. One of them may be the brightest planet Kepler has detected yet.
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The dust storm raging on Mars shows no signs of abating. In fact, it's still growing in size. NASA says the storm is now a "global" event that completely encircles the planet.
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Samsung has been hit with a $400M fine for failing to license a critical FinFET patent -- and that damage could balloon up to $1.2B at the judge's discretion.
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A programmer has built a new version of Diablo, built on reconstructed source code and capable of running on modern operating systems -- including Linux.
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Microsoft is killing support for certain old PCs running Windows 7 18 months ahead of schedule and hoping customers don't notice.
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The PC industry has continued to be stuck in the doldrums throughout 2018, but the pain of the industry's contraction over the past six years hasn't been felt equally by all vendors.
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If you're in need of a license for Windows 10 or Microsoft Office, but don't want to pay retail prices, you won't want to miss today's deal from Goodoffer24. Not only are the base prices significantly lower than the MSRP, but you can also save an additional 15 Percent off CD keys when you apply coupon code "Goextech15" at checkout.
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New research suggests there may be higher concentration of organic molecules on Ceres than originally believed. Where'd they come from? That's a major question.
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Happy birthday Epyc! AMD's latest high-end server CPU is one today.
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EksoVest helps Ford workers do more overhead assembly tasks without repetitive strain injuries. A typical worker does the same task 4,600 times a day.
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