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Latest News - February 2020
- LG V60 ThinQ Leaked Promo Image Touts 4 Cameras And Massive Battery
- Taika Waititi Trashes Apple's Janky MacBook Keyboards In Hilarious Oscar Win Interview
- Samsung Galaxy Home Mini Speaker, Galaxy Buds+ Earphones Detailed In Hands-On Videos
- G.Skill's 256GB Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600 Kit Is Itching To Feed 64-Core AMD Threadripper 3990X Beasts
- AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS 8-Core, 16-Thread Mobile CPU Leaked Benchmarks Spell Trouble For Intel
- Watch Samsung's Official Galaxy Z Flip Ad Ahead Of This Week's Launch
- Windows 10 Start Menu Ads For Edge Are An Antitrust Violation Waiting To Happen
- Cunning RobbinHood Ransomware Employs Gigabyte Hardware Driver To Hold Data Hostage
- AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core Beast Breaks 5.5GHz, Smokes Benchmark Record In Overclocking Battle
- Microsoft's Surface Duo Captured On Video In All Its Folding Dual Display Glory
- GeForce RTX T10-8 GPU And Intel CC150 CPU: The Hardware Powering GeForce NOW
- New Google Chrome Feature Will Safeguard Web Browser Against Insecure Downloads
- Motorola Dismisses Razr FoldBot Hinge Test Destruction, Shares Its Own 'Real' Flip Test
- This Windows 7 Bug Is Blocking Users From Shutting Down, But Here's The Fix
- AMD Ryzen-Powered Macs Spotted In macOS 10.15.4 Beta Hint At The End Of Intel Exclusivity
- Alleged AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 Arcturus GPU Accelerator Breaks Cover With 32GB HBM2
- Microsoft Chromium Edge 80 Browser Now Works On Surface Pro X, ARM64 Convertibles
- Microsoft PowerToys Is Getting This Highly Requested Keyboard Feature For Windows 10
- Watch The Motorola Razr Fold Repeatably Until Its Display Hinge Begs For Mercy
- New Android Bluetooth Flaw Allows Code Execution Without User Involvement, Patch Now
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All News for February 2020
An image has leaked that claims to be a promotional shot of the upcoming LG V60 ThinQ smartphone. The smartphone was expected to launch at MWC 2020, however, LG opted to skip the show altogether this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. The image is said to have come from a promotional video that was to be shown...
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After winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film "Jojo Rabbit," Taika Waititi threw some comedic shade at Apple's laptop keyboards, saying "they are impossible to write on" and makes him want to go back to using PCs. Incidentally, the film director, writer, and actor was not referring to the troubled...
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You have to love it when a retailer jumps the gun on an unreleased product. Such is the case with Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Buds+ wireless earphones. A retailer in Europe sold and shipped a set to a customer who also happens to be a technology journalist, who promptly uploaded an 11-minute unboxing video.
It's not...
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G.Skill's 256GB Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600 Kit Is Itching To Feed 64-Core AMD Threadripper 3990X Beasts
Last week, AMD officially launched its Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processors, which rocks 64 cores and a staggering 128 threads. Needless to say, the Threadripper 3990X is a benchmark monster and is especially adept at handling multi-threaded workloads. We've even seen it break some world performance records when...
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Anticipation is running high for AMD's recently announced Ryzen 4000 series of mobile processors to trickle into retail (by way of OEM laptops), and as we wait, leaked benchmarks may provide a glimpse of what kind of performance the new CPUs will offer. To wit, a 3DMark entry for a Ryzen 7 4800HS shows the mobile part...
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The Oscars took place last night, and during the broadcast, Samsung ran an ad for its yet unannounced Galaxy Z Flip smartphone. Nowhere in the ad does Samsung mention the name of the smartphone, but it does note that the device will be unveiled at its Unpacked event on February 11, which is tomorrow. The Samsung...
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Microsoft is company that produces numerous software apps across many popular platforms. From its Windows software, to apps for Android and iOS, to its Office family of products, to its Edge web browser, Microsoft reaches a broad segment of the consumer market when it comes to computing devices.
However, the...
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Security researchers at Sophos have been investigating a pair of ransomware attacks where the attackers used legitimate, digitally signed hardware driver to delete security products from targeted computers. Once the security products were deleted from the target machines, the destructive file encryption portion of the...
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AMD is claiming multi-core superiority in the high-end desktop (HEDT) space with its newly minted Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, a monster of a CPU with 64 cores and 128 threads clocked at 2.9GHz to 4.3GHz. What's the fun in sticking with stock settings, though? Overclockers have begun experimenting with the new chip, and...
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Microsoft doesn't have a good track record in the smartphone realm, with its failed Windows Phone platform and hardware that didn't get people excited as an alternative to Android and iOS. Microsoft eventually threw in the towel and ended development of its Windows Phone OS, but it's certainly not done in the...
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It may have taken a few years, but at long last, NVIDIA last week launched its GeForce NOW game streaming service to the public at large. Somewhat similar to Google Stadia, GeForce NOW is a cloud-based game streaming service. NVIDIA has been mum on the specific hardware specifications that power GeForce NOW, though a...
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Malware is a major problem and spreads easily through insecure downloads over the web. As such, Google's Chrome browser will begin to block "mixed content downloads" in order to guarantee that HTTPS (SSL secured) pages are only able to download secure files. Google's plan will be rolled out over various upcoming...
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Motorola has its new Razr smartphone in the hands of various testers. One of the test scenarios that we saw recently had the smartphone loaded into a custom-made testing machine called FoldBot that folded and unfolded the phone repeatedly to see how long the device could last before the hinge or screen broke. The...
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Some Windows 7 users have been hit with a strange bug this week that prevents them from shutting their computer down. When the user attempts to perform a shutdown or a reboot using traditional Start menu methods, they are greeted with a message that reads "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." It's...
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Could Apple be ready to break free of Intel exclusivity for its Macs? It's certainly seems possible thanks to references that were found in Apple’s latest macOS 10.15.4 beta.
As you know, all modern Macs for well over a decade have used Intel Core processors. For example, the latest 16-inch MacBook Pros use...
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It looks as though AMD might be readying a new Radeon Instinct accelerator, one that would finally feature an Arcturus GPU. The latest leak is essentially a continuation of a rumor we have been hearing about since 2018, that being the impending launch of the Radeon Instinct MI100 accelerator with an Arcturus GPU...
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Microsoft officially launched the new, stable version of the Chromium-infused Edge browser to the public three weeks ago. At the time, Edge was relegated to only x86 devices despite the fact that the company publicly launched its ARM64-powered Surface Pro X around the same time. That meant that early adopters of the...
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At the risk of burying the lede (just a tad), does anybody remember those old Power Wheels commercials? They went "Pow-pow Power Wheels, pow-pow Power Wheels, Power Wheels power makes it go!" It's what comes to mind whenever I see an update for Microsoft's PowerToys utility for Windows 10, and I just don't want to be...
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We’ve been hearing a lot about the Motorola Razr over the past few months, from its announcement, to its launch delays, to some early impressions on its durability. Those initial thoughts on durability were posted earlier this week, and some questioned whether the hinge would be able to stand up to the abuse of daily...
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Android users need to apply the latest round of security updates to their devices as one of them is meant to address a critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth subsystem. The flaw is known as CVE-2020-0022, and when exploited, it could allow arbitrary code to be run on the device with the elevated privileges of the...
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The Coronavirus has caused havoc around the world for over a month, infecting its victims with flu-like systems. Since the coronavirus was initially identified in late December, it has gone on to kill 638 people worldwide (this is up from 362 just this past Monday). Likewise, there are 31,526 total confirmed cases...
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Good news folks, the era of DDR5 memory is upon us, let's all celebrate! Well, sort of—you may want to buy the cheap champagne instead of the good stuff. Micron announced it is mass producing the world's first low power DDR5 DRAM (LPDDR5), which will find its way into high-end smartphones starting with Xiaomi's Mi...
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