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Latest News - February 2020
- Hasbro Goes All-In With Halo Infinite: Needler And MA40 Nerf Blasters Drop This Year
- SpaceX Inks Deal With Space Adventures To Blast Private Citizens Into Orbit Using Crew Dragon
- ASUS Throws AMD Under The Bus For Radeon RX 5700 Temp Issues, Offers This Homegrown Fix
- Epic Games Store Makes Assassin's Creed Syndicate Free Starting This Week
- Google Stadia Game Streaming Support Expands To Galaxy S20 And These Android Smartphones
- AMD EPYC 7002 Enteprise CPUs Flex Zen 2 Muscle As Adoption Expands At Google Cloud
- Israeli Soldiers Tricked Into Installing Android Malware Via Hamas Honey Trap Scheme
- OnePlus 8 Pro: What We Know So Far About This Snapdragon 865 5G Flagship
- Samsung's Galaxy S20 Will Force 60Hz Refresh Rates In These Situations
- Qualcomm Announces 5nm, 7.5Gbps Snapdragon X60 Third-Gen 5G Modem-RF System
- Early Motorola Razr Screen Failure Casts More Doubt On Long-Term Durability
- MiSTer DIY: Accurately Simulating Retro Game Consoles With FPGAs
- Perilous Peripherals: What To Do When Your Insecure Device Firmware Deceives You
- Microsoft Edge Browser Roadmap Reveals Incoming Linux Support
- Beware Of LokiBot Malware Masquerading As This Popular Games Launcher
- Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 'Golden' Teaser Ads Are Now Appearing
- NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition Is Real And Spectacular
- This Wild TCL Slide-Out Display Prototype Smartphone Was Supposed To Debut At MWC
- Nintendo Switch Supplies Are Drying Up Globally Thanks To A Familiar Culprit
- Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 ‘Champ’ Folding Phone Rumored For Summer Launch With This Trick Feature
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All News for February 2020
Fans of the Halo video game franchise will appreciate what Hasbro has cooked up under a new partnership with 343 Industries. The partnership will see a new range of Nerf blasters that look like weapons used in the widely popular Halo franchise, and the upcoming game Halo Infinite expected the land this year for Xbox...
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A company called Space Adventures today announced that it has signed an agreement with SpaceX that will allow it to send private citizens into space aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The agreement will allow up to four individuals the opportunity to break the world altitude record for private citizen space flight and...
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ASUS has been catching heat over uncomfortably high temperatures observed by some users regarding its Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700 graphics cards. Potentially compounding the issue, AMD is investigating reports of black screen issues affecting its higher end Navi parts. Could the two issues be related? That's...
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The Epic Games Store wants gamers to come to its store and get familiar with the service that they buy more games in the future. In its latest bid to lure the gamers to its store, the store is offering free games (with no installation expiration), and this month two more free games have been added. Previously...
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When Google launched its Stadia game streaming service, support on Android devices was incredibly limited. Somewhat predictably, the service was initially limited to Google's first-party Pixel smartphones -- devices that it has full control over with respect to both hardware and software. Now, Google is ready to...
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AMD's share of the enterprise market has been growing steadily thanks to its Zen- and Zen 2-based EPYC 7001 and EPYC 7002 processors. The company's current EPYC 7002 processors are available in up to 64-core configurations, and has garnered the attention of big-name companies like Google and Twitter.
Google today...
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Imagine hitting it off with a love (or lust) interest, and then finding out the person who grabbed your attention never existed, at least not in the way you thought. Such a situation recently happened to hundreds of Israeli soldiers who fell prey to a "honey trap" campaign and contracted digital infections on their...
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Although the Samsung Galaxy S20 family might have kicked off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 festivities for 2020 flagship Android smartphones, it certainly won't be the last new device announced. One of the next smartphones to come down the pipeline will be the OnePlus 8 Pro.
In addition to the aforementioned...
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One of the key selling points of Samsung's recently announced Galaxy S20 family is the 120Hz refresh rate display. It's found on all three models, including the Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S20+, and the regular Galaxy S20. Interestingly, the high refresh rate is not enabled by default, and there are certain situations...
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Part of the migration into 5G territory involves upgraded hardware on the consumer side, and to date, there is a spattering of devices equipped with first generation and second generation 5G modems. That is not where the road ends, however. Taking the next step in the ongoing 5G revolution, Qualcomm announced a 5G...
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Folding screen smartphones are hard to get right at this early stage in the game. Samsung has proven this with the failure of its first-generation Galaxy Fold device, but it's back with a new folding smartphone called the Galaxy Z Flip, and it remains to be seen if that device is durable enough for the real world. The...
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Fully-assembled MiSTer FPGA DIY console It seems like it wasn't too long ago that we crowned the Raspberry Pi 4 as one of the best retro game consoles around. Indeed, the Raspberry Pi foundation's latest single-board computer still a low-cost DIY powerhouse. However, retro gamers are picky about one thing that haunts...
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Nearly every device on the market relies on firmware and many devices include multiple components with their own firmware. Manufacturers and developers have begun to focus on protecting system firmware from potential attackers, but peripheral firmware often receives very little attention. Security researchers at...
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Microsoft recently published a roadmap for its Edge browser to update fans on what it's working on when it comes to new features and updates for the browser. Microsoft says that it has added some new items to its list, including the ability to navigate PDF files via a table of contents, which is a feature that is now...
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It's all fun and games until a nasty bit of malware infiltrates your PC and wreaks havoc, right? To quote the late, great Bill Paxton, at that point it's "Game over man! Game over!" Fortunately, common sense computing habits are highly effective. Malware writers can be a clever, however, and security researchers are...
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Epic Games has been teasing fans about Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 2 set to kick off this week on February 20. Ahead of the official launch, many fans are wondering what exactly the new season will bring. Rumors have suggested that the theme for Season 2 will have something to do with gold and possibly King Midas, who...
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Earlier this morning, both NVIDIA and CD Projekt RED teased the existence of a Cyberpunk 2077 special edition graphics card. Well, NVIDIA didn’t waste any time giving us official details on the fresh hardware that is on the way.
NVIDIA says that the limited-edition card is officially called the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti...
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Smartphone manufacturers are looking for ways to differentiate their products, and the latest trend appears to be with folding displays as witnessed by the Huawei Mate X, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and Motorola Razr. But TCL is looking to put a slight twist on the flexible display movement with a slide-out screen.
As...
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Remember how difficult it was to get your hands on a Switch console when Nintendo initially released the system three years ago? The rabid demand prompted Nintendo to issue a statement saying the shortage was "definitely not intentional." That's all in the rear view mirror now, though the Coronavirus outbreak could...
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Samsung’s original Galaxy Fold did a belly flop prior to its initial release in 2019 due to its under-engineered display and hinge mechanism. Samsung delayed the official launch and went back to rework both the display and the hinge, and finally released the revised version in late September 2019.
While Samsung is...
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Deepfakes have risen in prominence in a few short years. What first started off in the deep, seedy underbelly of the internet for erotica purposes has burgeoned into a vast operation with tinkerers swapping faces of celebrities and politicians, or manipulating video and audio to actually “put words” into a person’s...
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Perhaps in a parallel universe, StarCraft: Ghost (not to be confused with StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty) released as originally planned, and spawned a series of sequels over the past decade and a half. In this universe, however, StarCraft: Ghost became vaporware, and then outright cancelled. Gone but not forgotten...
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