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Latest News - February 2022
- Google Claims Forcing 2FA On 150M User Accounts Led To 50 Percent Fewer Hijacks
- MSI MEG Z690 Godlike Motherboard For Alder Lake Is Available To Mere Mortals For $2,099
- Microsoft Finally Figured Out A Way To Protect Office From Malware Macros
- Windows 11 Adoption Among Gamers Continues To Swell As Windows 10 Loses More Steam
- Itch.io Game Store Warns NFTs Are A Money Stealing Scam And Destroy The Planet
- Sony Xperia 5 iii Review: Petite Android Phone With Camera Chops
- Wordle Running On Game Boy Looks Like It Was Made For The Popular Handheld
- This Mars Surface Photo Has People Freaking Out With Claims Of Alien Life
- Watch SpaceX's Out-Of-Control Falcon 9 Booster Live On A Lunar Collision Course
- Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 Is Headed To The Metaverse, When And How To Watch
- Religious Leaders Pen Letter To Zuckerberg Extolling The Evils Of Instagram For Kids
- NVIDIA Calls Off Arm Deal As Softbank Preps For Biggest IPO In Semiconductor History
- CISA Urgently Warns To Patch This Active Security Flaw In Windows 11, 10 And Windows Server
- Intel's MCM Design Patent Could Be A Sneak Peek At Future Arc Gaming GPUs
- NVIDIA's Monstrous GH100 Hopper GPU Might Pack More Than 140 Billion Transistors
- SSD Storage Deals Bring Sweet Savings Up To 43 Percent Off Crucial, SK Hynix, WD And More
- Microsoft Claims Hololens Is Doing Great Actually And Is Critical To Its Metaverse Plan
- Google Accused Of Rigging Search Results In Hefty $2.4B Lawsuit
- Biden Praises $52B House Bill To Supercharge Chip Manufacturing In The US
- This ASUS ROG Keycap Is The GPU Bling Your Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Needs
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All News for February 2022
Back in May of last year, we reported on a new campaign by Google to increase user account security through a number of methods. As part of this campaign, Google announced its plans to drive people to use two-factor authentication (2FA), saying that users whose accounts are appropriately configured would begin to be...
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You don't actually need to be a god (or like a god) to own MSI's new flagship motherboard, the MEG Z690 Godlike (the same that appeared in a photo shoot two months ago), but you will have summon a large bag of cash. Going all out on this bad boy will set you back a cool $2,099. However, that's really a bundle price...
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Since their beginning, macros in Office applications have been both a blessing and a curse for users and system administrators alike. The feature causes significant security woes due to many methods of exploitation in the macro system. Now Microsoft has stated that its popular productivity suite is getting extra...
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The number of gamers on Steam who are running Windows 11 has grown quite a bit in the past two months, according to the latest Steam hardware and software survey. At this rate, it is conceivable Windows 11 will overtake Windows 10 for the top spot by the end of the year, though it will be interesting to see what...
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As the world of NFTs grows in popularity, there are still some who have not bought into the latest craze. Indie game marketplace Itch.io is one of them, and asks you reevaluate your life if you think NFTs are a good thing.
It seems more and more people are buying into the concept of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But...
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For a few years now, Sony’s been making premium, feature-rich, media-centric, flagship smartphones that incorporate technologies from its Alpha cameras, and target die-hard Sony customers. This niche strategy appears to be working for the company, as it continues to bring new handsets to market. In 2021, Sony...
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The original Game Boy ranks Nintendo's second-most popular piece of gaming hardware to date, behind only the Nintendo DS. There have been nearly 119 million units sold of the ridiculous popular handheld, and over half a billion software unit sales. We have to think that both numbers could have been even higher had...
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Do aliens, specifically humanoid beings, live on Mars? While many people would answer this question with a definitive no, others are hopeful that life forms will be found on the Red Planet. Some claim that an image of the Martian surface clearly depicts a humanoid life form.
The rumors of alien life appear to have...
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The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in 2015 is on a collision course with the Moon. You can watch live later today as it makes its closest pass of the Earth on its way to eventually crashing into our Moon.
NASA recently announced that the International Space Station (ISS) has been funded...
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There will be plenty of places to watch Samsung's next big Galaxy Unpacked event live as it unfolds, including several streaming locations across places like Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube (to name just a few of many). In addition, you can watch Samsung its next-generation flagship smartphone (presumably the Galaxy...
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Many people argue that social media is bad for a child’s mental and emotional development. However, how does social media impact a child’s spiritual growth? A group of over 70 religious leaders have written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to entirely abandon its plans for an Instagram Kids...
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NVIDIA is officially out of the running to acquire Arm from Softbank for $40 billion, which would have been the largest chip deal ever. Faced with mounting regulatory challenges, NVIDIA and Softbank agreed to terminate the pending transaction, and the latter will now pivot to prepping for a public offering that could...
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We reported a week ago on a security vulnerability in Windows that multiple publicly available exploits can leverage to gain elevated privileges. We advised readers to apply the patch for this vulnerability as soon as possible, and now the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is ordering federal...
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Here's a processor primer for novices: classical computing workloads are largely "serial", meaning they go through problems A, to, B, to C, in a series. CPUs have historically been designed through the years to be better and better at this kind of workload. More and more, though, we're also doing parallel work, which...
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In case you haven't been following high-performance computing (HPC) news, NVIDIA is sort of ruling the roost lately. Its massively-parallel processing engines like GV100 and GA100 are the fastest chips around for computing many types of crunchy math operations, big data analytics, AI etc. They achieve that supreme...
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Are you looking to upgrade your storage? A solid state drive is definitely the way to go, especially for a high-powered PC that might be used for gaming or content creation. There are a plethora of options to choose from too, and one of the most compelling right now is a 1TB Crucial P5 Plus SSD (shown above) that's...
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Last week, we wrote about a report that Microsoft recently ditched its plans for the device that would have launched as the HoloLens 3, according to three insiders. However, the claim of these insiders goes against Microsoft’s official messaging regarding HoloLens.
Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s spokesperson, without...
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary (as of 2006), the definition of the word Google means "to search." The popular search engine has been synonymous with web-based information searching for years. This also includes finding deals on consumer products, but with how things have been going lately for Alphabet's...
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President Biden commends the COMPETES Act that just passed the House of Representatives as a necessary step to begin weaning America off its dependence on China for chip manufacturing. The act passed the House in a 222-210 vote along party lines, and must now be reconciled with a similar bill passed by the Senate last...
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Have you been striking out on finding a graphics card that's both in stock and selling for anywhere remotely close to MSRP? Join the club. While frustrating, the key to GPU bliss can be found if you're willing to shift your focus to your keyboard for a miniature replica. No, the ASUS ROG TouchStone keycap won't run...
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In the world of competitive DRAM overclocking, G.Skill is very much an active participant, often bragging about setting frequency records. The company has not done that yet for its latest achievement, perhaps because it's on the verge of having one of its Trident Z5 DDR5 memory kits hit 10,000 MT/s. There's not far to...
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A group of astronomers and astrophysicists have reported that they have found evidence of an isolated stellar-mass black hole for the first time ever. The black hole was detected with the help of the Hubble Telescope, and is estimated to be 7.1 times the mass of our sun.
As everyone awaits the James Webb Space...
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