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- Ransomware Gang Leaks 1.67 Terabytes Of Files After Hacking Spider-Man 2 Dev Insomniac Games
- Google Settles 50-State Antitrust Lawsuit With Key App Store Changes And $700M Payment
- TomTom Taps Microsoft To Copilot Its AI-Powered Voice Assistant For Vehicles
- Grab These Sweet Apple Watch Series 9 Deals Quick Before The Sales Ban
- NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures A Spectacular Image Of Storms Brewing On Uranus
- Sony Patents A Creative Gaming Solution To Make Boss Battles On PS5 Less Frustrating
- Fortnite Patch Brings Epic Balance Changes, Faster Movement And Much More
- GeForce RTX 3050 With 6GB GDDR6 Launch And Affordable Pricing Details Breaks Cover
- Blue Origin Is Blasting Off To Space After A Yearlong Hiatus And You Can Watch Live
- ASRock And MSI Motherboards Get A 256GB Memory Boost, How Much RAM Do You Need?
- Why Apple Just Halted All Apple Watch Series 9 And Ultra 2 Sales
- Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot Into Selling A Tahoe For $1, 'No Takesies Backsies'
- Nothing Phone 2a Specs And Photos Leak Months Ahead Of MWC 2024 Unveil
- How To Switch Your Stadia Controller To Bluetooth Before Google's New Deadline
- A New Gaming Handheld With Rage Mode Is Coming To Battle The ROG Ally
- NASA Solves Yearlong Mystery Of Missing Tomatoes On ISS And Shares Saucy Photo
- Are Today's GPUs Too Heavy? Popular Repair Shop Details PCB Cracks In RTX 4090 Cards
- Nissan's Ariya Just Became The First EV To Trek 18K Miles From North To South Pole
- Why 2024 Could Be A Huge Year For Apple Beyond Launching New iPhones
- Next-Gen Xbox Game Console Specs Leak Reveals A Zen Surprise And Pricing Strategy
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All News for December 2023
Earlier this month, ransomware group Rhysida announced that it had breached Sony’s Insomniac Games, taken files, and was purportedly demanding a ransom of $2 million. It has been a week since then, and thus the deadline has passed to pay the ransom, so Rhysida has elected to publish the 1.67 terabytes of data it...
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A reckoning has come for mobile app stores. Apple is, by all accounts, going to be forced to open up app distribution on the iPhone thanks to Europe's Digital Markets Act, and Epic has bested Google in court to show that the Play Store is an illegal monopoly. In a separate case, Google was sued by numerous state...
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TomTom is teaming up with Microsoft to develop an AI assistant that will enable better interaction between customers and TomTom’s products. The company says this new AI assistant means that “drivers can converse naturally with their vehicle and ask the AI-powered assistant to navigate to a certain location, find...
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Time is ticking for anyone hoping to purchase an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 before the semi-voluntary sales ban takes effect. In case you missed it, the ITC has issued an import ban on those models due to a patent dispute over the Apple's blood oxygen sensor. Apple issue a statement saying it is preemptively...
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) set its sights on Uranus and captured a brilliant image of a storm brewing on the icy giant. Along with the storms, Webb also captured the planet’s rings, moons, and other atmospheric features.
In the 1980s, Voyager 2 could only image the distant planet as what NASA refers...
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There is nothing like the intense gratification that one gets when defeating an uber hard boss battle in a video game. Some players may only need a couple of repeated attempts, while others may stumble through dozens of frustrating trials before finally claiming victory. This skill gap means that not every experience...
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Gamers can look forward to several quality-of-life tweaks to Fortnite’s various game modes. Battle Royale, Fortnite Festival, Rocket Racing, and LEGO Fortnite will all be seeing improvements in several areas with the latest patch. This will be the final update that is scheduled for this year, with the next set of...
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Where there's smoke you'll usually find fire, and there is a whole heck of a lot of smoke signals pointing to NVIDIA getting ready to launch several more GeForce SKUs in the near future. Most of the upcoming GPUs are rumored to be part of a Super refresh for some of its GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. However...
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft has received a new launch date and time, and you can watch live. New Shepard is the space company’s reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the recognized boundary of space.
Mission NS-24 was initially scheduled to launch...
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DDR5-compatible desktop motherboards are about to support higher capacities thanks to new memory technologies, and ASRock and MSI are already showcasing their boards running with 256GB of RAM. The increased memory capacity is made possible thanks to Kingston's new Fury Renegade RAM sticks, each of which come with 64GB...
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Apple will stop all sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the US beginning later this week. The decision by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) is currently under review by the Biden Administration, which must decide by December 25, 2023 whether to veto the decision.
The ITC made its...
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ChatGPT and large language models, in general, are making their way into every facet of life, finding applications in education, research, content creation, and much more. Now, LLMs are being used for chatbots to replace humans, for answering common questions, but this solution may not be as simple as it seems. Folks...
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Nothing short of surprising, Carl Pei might have a Nothing phone to show the world during the next Mobile World Congress (MWC) in 2024. Small, but pertinent details have leaked about a mid-range device called the Nothing Phone 2a and it looks like it could be a winner. That is, if Pei and company can keep the price...
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Google is giving its Stadia Controllers a reprieve from becoming e-waste by extending the deadline for the ability to switch it to Bluetooth mode. The new deadline for owners of the controller is now December 2024, an extension of one year from the prior deadline of December 2023.
It’s a big deal as there are quite...
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Give credit to Valve for popularizing handheld gaming in the PC space, a realm that was mostly concentrated on Nintendo's various portable consoles (Switch, Game Boy, etc) before the Steam Deck arrived. Almost overnight, PC gaming handhelds became a viable category. It's still early, with the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG...
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A mystery involving missing tomatoes onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been solved. The yearlong tomato conundrum began after NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost track of two tomatoes grown in space while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS).
According to NASA, the XROOTS...
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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 is currently the most powerful consumer GPU on the market. Class-leading power, however, often comes with some drawbacks. First, the GeForce RTX 4090's $1,599 MSRP is steep by any measure. Secondly, the GeForce RTX has a hefty 450W TDP, which has resulted in issues with its 12VHPWR...
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A Scottish couple has completed a 10-month long journey from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an EV (electric vehicle). The husband and wife veteran adventurers wanted to prove that a mostly-stock EV—in this case, a Nissan Ariya e-4Force—was more than up to the arduous 18,000-plus mile task.
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The iPhone is by far Apple’s most popular product, but the Cupertino giant will look to make 2024 a banner year for other devices, too. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is going to focus on AirPods, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Meanwhile, the iPhone will remain mostly the same as the prior...
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It's already been three years (just over) since Microsoft and Sony launched their respective modern-generation game consoles, the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5, respectively—both debuted in November 2020. Notwithstanding a mid-gen refresh, it will still be a few years before we see another major iteration from...
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With the holidays upon us, a game could be a great gift for someone, or for yourself, looking to get away from it all for the holiday break. With this in mind, Gift of Games (GOG) has spun up its winter sale, netting up to 90% off on up to 6000 titles through January 4th. We have pulled out a few of these stellar...
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The holiday shopping season is nearly over, but there are still many great deals for the audiophiles out there if you know where to look. We are here to help though, and have pulled together an array of deals on earbuds from popular brands like Beats, Bose and others...
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