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All News for March 2023

When the Ryzen 7 5800X3D came out and allowed AMD users to instantly upgrade an aging AM4 machine with a CPU competitive against Intel's latest and greatest, a whole lot of people snatched them up, including your author here. It's a great CPU for PC gamers, with enough cores to handle background tasks while gaming... Read more...
You probably know Gigabyte most as a motherboard vendor, but it has a whole server arm known relatively recently as "Giga Computing." As part of an announcement for new Ryzen-based server systems, Giga Computing put out a press release that includes the following text: It starts out innocently enough; AMD did... Read more...
At the recent China Flash Memory Summit (CFMS 2023), a Samsung exec set out his vision for NAND Flash memory. During the speech on the theme of the “Re-evolution of Flash Memory and Towards a New Era,” Kyungryun Kim, VP of Samsung and GM of the NAND Product Planning Group, predicted 1-Petabyte (PB) SSDs will be... Read more...
Google used to offer Nexus-branded Android phones, but now Nexus means mobile malware. Chatter about the Nexus banking botnet began appearing on hacking forums in January 2023, but security researchers from Cleafy now believe this Android malware's origins stretch back to the middle of 2022. It's already very capable... Read more...
What once was gaming's biggest yearly event has been called off once again this year. E3 has been canceled amid waning interest in attending the event among the industry's biggest companies. As was the case for most events during the recent COVID pandemic, E3 was forced to cancel its coveted event during the years... Read more...
A new video creator for Google Photos on ChromeOS is coming to your Chromebook as we speak. Designed for ease of use, this new video tool can quickly create movies from scratch or from preset themes. Google has announced that its Google Photos video creation and editing features are finally getting a new look... Read more...
According to a leaked internal memo, Google Assistant appears to be taking a backseat to the company's newest superstar Bard. Google launched Bard, a ChatGPT competitor, to the public last week. The memo to Google employees on Wednesday was sent from Vice President and Lead of Google Assistant's business unit... Read more...
There's something oddly ironic about an automaker selling booze but if there's one thing we've learned about Elon Musk over the years, it's that he's willing to don his honey badger hat and buck convention. Hence you can head over to his Tesla storefront and order yourself a mini case of beer, each of which comes in a... Read more...
Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications group, has plans to literally launch a 4G network on the moon to help with future human lunar expansion. One thing's for sure: the monthly data rates will be astronomical. According to CNBC, Nokia has booked a ride on a SpaceX rocket in the coming months to launch the initial... Read more...
Remember when it was nearly impossible to score an Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 game console? It took a couple of years but they're both finally easy to come by without paying a greedy scalper tax. There are also tantalizing bundles available, including preorders for the Xbox Series X with Diablo IV and a... Read more...
We're at the end of a quarter, and you know what that means: investor meetings. Intel held a Data Center and AI Investor Webinar today, and along with the usual boring money talk, revealed a few key details about its upcoming Xeon products. Those include the E-core-only Sierra Forest and Clearwater Forest CPUs as well... Read more...
A new rumor was published on Twitter detailing the potential release date and memory specifications for NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 4050 graphics card. The GPU could come as early as June of this year, and possibly launch before the RTX 4060. However, the rumor also suggests the RTX 4050 will come with less VRAM than the... Read more...
App developer Steve Moser has discovered hidden code within Netflix's app that points to the streaming service broadening its reach in gaming. The popular streaming service has been getting its feet wet in the gaming industry since it added games to its platform that are playable on iPhones, iPads, and Android devices... Read more...
AMD graphics card partner PowerColor has launched some swappable backplates. These so-called Devil Skins are exclusively applicable to the latest Radeon RX 7900 Red Devil series graphics cards from PowerColor. There are just two Devil Skins available at launch, we don’t know if there will be more, but they are... Read more...
It's fair to say the The Last of Part I on PC is disappointing a lot of games. One only need look at the 'Most Negative' rating on Steam out of more than 9,000 user reviews. What's been deemed by many as a shoddy port has left PC gamers frustrated with a litany of issues, including long shader compile times, game... Read more...
The hardest part about navigating leaks and rumors is determining how reliable and/or feasible they might be, which entails weighing the source and balancing the information with common sense. It's an inexact science to be sure. We bring this up because a fresh leak pertaining to NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070... Read more...
Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360: As Configured - $1699.99 The Samsung Galaxy Book3 Pro 360 delivers a premium convertible computing experience with dazzling 120Hz AMOLED display. Brilliant OLED Display Strong Battery Life Very Responsive Performance Immersive Dolby Atmos Audio Massive Trackpad Full 10-Key NumPad Included... Read more...
The European Space Agency (ESA) shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that has NASA and others stumped on how to give it one tidy label. It seems the luminous object located about 390 million light years from Earth is a bit too complex to be placed in a single box. Scientists like to be able to... Read more...
It's taking a minute or two, but the next generation of solid state drives leveraging the PCI Express 5.0 bus are starting to materialize. Adding to the modest but growing pile is the Galax HOF (Hall of Fame) Extreme 50. This is Galax's first foray into PCIe 5.0 storage territory, and it enters the scene with a... Read more...
Opinions on the internet can be misleading. You may have heard a near-universal cheer for the forthcoming federal ban of video-sharing app TikTok. Well, put away the champagne and poppers. The so-called "ban TikTok bill" is a lot more insidious than one may realize.  TikTok is an insanely-popular video sharing site... Read more...
New reports suggest that Microsoft’s making a new version of Windows, creatively called Windows 12. It could be coming in under a year from now, featuring several new standout features that should separate it from Windows 11. Some of these new features will reportedly include a new UI re-design that will copy UI... Read more...
Nintendo has finally finished work on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and for the announcement, it has released a gameplay video narrated by none other than series steward Eiji Aonuma himself—at least, in the Japanese version. The English version is narrated by an interpreter, but either way, the video... Read more...
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