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June 3, 2016

Digital Storm mounts a GeForce GTX 1080 on the back of a 34-inch curved display The hottest new graphics card on the market is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. It blows every other graphics card out of the water without carrying a ridiculous price or power requirements. So what did performance PC manufacturer Digital Storm decide to do? They attached one to the back of a 34-inch curved display, because who needs a desktop case to worry about, right? Read More 6 awesome new Android apps you should check out The most soul-crushing Boy Scout merit badges How I used lies about a cartoon to prove history is meaningless on the internet What if the Xbox One Scorpio is actually the Xbox Two? Last week, we reported on the supposed hardware refresh of the Xbox One. This console, code named " Scorpio," is said to be vastly superior to the current Xbox One. It will support 4K content as well as virtual reality gaming via the Oculus Rift. Read More No Man's Sky August delay confirmed following death threats Last week a rumor started to spread online that the highly-anticipated adventure survival game No Man's Sky was going to suffer a launch delay. The June 21 release date was being covered up in GameStop stores with coming soon stickers, and Sony along with developer Hello Games weren't saying anything. Read More Benjen "Coldhands" Stark on Game of Thrones is unique to the show This week's installment of Game of Thrones might have seemed subdued considering the other bombs season six has been dropping on our gold crowns not-yet-turned to gold shrouds. After last week's reveal that Hodor's name came from a causal time loop, this week's ending shot was something more expected: Danearys dragon recapping. Read More

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'Minecraft' tops 100 million sales The Minecraft juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. Today, developer Mojang announced that the block-building phenomenon has passed 100 million sales across all platforms, including PC, Mac, consoles and mobile. [Read more...] Twitter's first 360-degree videos will come from the NBA finals The likes of Facebook and YouTube have been doing 360-degree videos for some time now. During the NBA Finals that begin tonight, Twitter will also offer the more immersive views for the first time. [Read more...] Augmented reality hardware is still way ahead of its software Augmented reality -- using a device's camera to overlay information on the real world -- is a concept that's been around for years. [Read more...] Pebble adds Alexa's voice controls to its upcoming Core wearable Pebble announced its 3G-enabled Core device just last week, and even though the gadget won't ship until 2017, the company is already adding features. [Read more...] Volkswagen ponders a luxury Uber rival with Porsche cars Last week, the Volkswagen group dumped $300 million into Gett, a taxi hailing-cum-ride sharing app that's big outside of the US. [Read more...] 'The Division' is being turned into a movie Despite its quirks, Ubisoft's The Division is already a cross-platform success with more than 9.5 million registered players generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. [Read more...] A combination standing desk / PC is the ultimate all-in-one Standing desks are the latest trend in office furniture and for good reason; sitting for hours a day can be pretty bad for your health. [Read more...] Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Editor's Pick: HP Offers Versatile PC Gaming Machines for Grown-Ups

HP Offers Versatile PC Gaming Machines for Grown-Ups

Richard Adhikari Jun 2, 2016 3:11 PM PT
	HP last week introduced several new additions to its Omen by HP gaming hardware line: 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch laptops, a desktop PC and a 32- inch Quad HD4 display. The laptops will be available next month with a starting price of $900; the desktop and display will be available in August at HP online and at select retailers, with pricing as yet undisclosed. [More...]

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Voyager Offers a Mostly Smooth-Sailing Linux Adventure Voyager Live 16.04 is a Linux distro that could be an ideal choice for everyday computing tasks -- but first it has to step away from its branding with Xubuntu. The once-per-year release of Voyager Live, which hit servers last month, is an Xubuntu-based distribution showcasing the Xfce 4.12.2 desktop environment. It will receive three years of security updates. [More...]

Rights Advocates Blast EU and Tech Firms' Hate Speech Code Digital rights and free speech advocates are up in arms over Tuesday's announcement of an agreement between the European Commission and four leading U.S. social media firms -- Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft -- on a Code of Conduct designed to crack down on hate speech. The companies have agreed to adopt a system that allows users to flag illegal hate speech and incitement to violence. [More...]

No Man's Sky: Life After Launch Persistence. It's what permeates the fabric of upcoming sci-fi odyssey No Man's Sky, and it's what will see the game well past its launch this summer. While eager to set out into a digital space that's populated with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique planets, most gamers have expressed patience as developers march toward the release. [More...]

Pay TV Firms Eke Out Tiny Gains in Customer Satisfaction After two years of declining customer satisfaction, the telecommunications sector has halted the slide, according to the ACSI Telecommunications Report 2016, released Wednesday. There was a 1.9 percent gain -- to 70.1 on a 100-point scale -- in satisfaction with pay TV services, Internet service providers, fixed-line telephone services, wireless phone services and mobile phone makers. [More...]

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