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Latest News - March 2018
- Intel Releases Spectre-Meltdown Patches For 5 Years Of CPUs, Hardware Fixes Coming For 8th Gen Core, Some Xeons
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Second-Gen Ryzen Processor Storms Geekbench Database
- Google Maps API Now Open To Developers For More Immersive Real-World Games
- Logitech G560 Speakers And G513 Mechanical Keyboard Adopt Lightsync RGB Tech
- Google To Drop The Banhammer On Cryptocurrency Ads As Bitcoin Crashes Towards $8,000
- SteamVR Will Auto-Scale Your VR Resolution Based On GPU Muscle
- France To Sue Google And Apple Alleging Abusive App Store Business Practices
- Intel SSD DC P4510 NVMe PCIe Review: Blistering 3GB/s Transfers, With Low Latency
- Samsung To Offer Same-Day Repair Service For Galaxy Smartphones
- Galaxy S9+ Versus Pixel 2 XL Camera Shoot-Out, Crowning A New Image Quality King?
- Amazon And Twitch Will Now Give Prime Subscriber Free Games Every Month
- AMD Envisions Athlon 64 Glory Days As Ryzen Claws Marketshare From Intel
- Microsoft Report Details Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Epidemic, 644,000 Unique PCs Affected Monthly
- New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Packs 1.4GHz Processor, 802.11ac, And GbE
- Stephen Hawking, World-Renowned Physicist, Cosmologist And Author, Passes Away At Age 76
- Microsoft Expands Spectre And Meltdown Patches To Windows 7 And Windows 8.1
- Microsoft Points Finger At Sony For Leaving PS4 Out Of Fortnite Cross-Play Fragging Party
- AMD Processors And Chipsets Reportedly Riddled With New Ryzenfall, Chimera And Fallout Security Flaws (Updated)
- Firefox 59 Quantum Beta The Fastest Yet With Improved Privacy And Android Assist
- Fitbit Bills $200 Versa As Lightest Metal Smartwatch In The US Boasting 4+ Days Battery Life
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All News for March 2018
It appears that the Spectre-Meltdown nightmare for Intel and its customers is finally nearing resolution. The chip giant has been working overtime to develop and distribute microcode updates for its processors to combat these...
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AMD is set to releases its second generation Ryzen processors in mid-April, which will bring to the table faster clocks, performance optimizations, and presumably better power efficiency. As to the performance of the new parts, we have...
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Google has announced that it is launching some new Google Maps APIs that will be a big deal for mobile game developers and studios. Google is now offering a way that will allow game developers to build real-world games using Google Maps...
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Logitech has added a pair of new computer gaming peripherals to the mix of products in the "G" line. The new devices include the G560 PC Gaming Speaker and the G513 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. The most interesting of the new peripherals is...
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Google is taking a stand against advertisements on the internet that promote cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency exchanges/wallets/trading advice and/or initial coin offerings (ICO). The tech giant says that it will no longer serve ads...
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Valve has announced a rather significant update to the SteamVR Beta that will be a boon to owners of both current and future virtual reality headsets. The SteamVR runtime has been upgraded with a new auto-resolution scaling routine that is...
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Authorities in France are set to file a lawsuit against two of the biggest tech firms in the world: U.S.-based Google and Apple. The suit was announced by France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire. The minister said that he had been made...
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Intel has released a dizzying array of solid state storage products over the last few weeks. We recently took a look at a pair of Intel Optane SSD 800P series drives for enthusiast desktop and mobile systems and also tinkered with the...
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Nobody is perfect, and sometimes accidents happen. This is especially true with smartphones, which are seemingly held in front of our faces 24-7-365. With that constant usage comes a continual threat of doing some serious damage to your...
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Mobile device makers have made a concerted effort to improve camera performance on each new generation of smartphone. While there is still a gap between a handset and a Digital SLR (DSLR), today's phones are capable of taking excellent...
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Amazon is adding yet another perk to its Prime membership program that is now about so much more than just free two-day shipping on millions of items. Leveraging the online retail giant's acquisition of Twitch from three and a half years...
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It has been a banner year for AMD, as it the company has finally become truly competitive against Intel with its Zen-powered processors across the desktop, notebook and server sectors. AMD is marking this achievement as it celebrates the...
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Microsoft Report Details Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Epidemic, 644,000 Unique PCs Affected Monthly
It seems that everyone and their uncle is mining cryptocurrency these days. That is a topic in and of itself, but what's disturbing is even if you are not knowingly mining virtual coins, you might still be mining...for someone else...
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An updated version of the Raspberry Pi Model B has launched, and this new "Plus" version offers a number of upgrades. The official name is the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and it is on sale now for the same $35 price as the previous version of...
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When many think of the brightest minds in science to have ever lived, one name that springs forward is Stephen Hawking. The world-renowned author and physicist has passed away at age 76 in his Cambridge home in the early hours of Wednesday...
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Today is Patch Tuesday, which means that Microsoft is pushing out a slew updates for its wide portfolio of software products. First and foremost, the company is issuing another round of updates to address the Spectre and Meltdown processor...
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As we reported yesterday, Fortnite cross-play is gaining a pretty large audience. Not only will Fortnite eventually have cross platform support for PC, Mac and Xbox One, but also on mobile platforms (iOS and Android). The lone hold, of...
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Given the industry-wide panic that was unleashed following the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities (with Intel taking the brunt of the heat), many are on edge about the potential for similar exploits to be...
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Mozilla has announced the launch of Firefox 59, which is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new release builds on Firefox Quantum and is a significant update for fans of the browser. Among the performance enhancements of...
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Fitbit is taking another stab at the smartwatch market after its first attempt with the Ionic fell short of expectations. The new Fitbit Versa introduces a much better looking design (subjectively speaking) with rounded corners instead of...
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Everyone is looking to make a buck with cryptocurrency these days, and unfortunately it has gotten to the point where even unrelated apps and websites are prone to using your device's resources for mining, often without the user's consent...
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Corsair is getting ready to announce a super tower computer that is capable of swallowing two system configurations. Called the Obsidian Series 1000D, Corsair is appropriately billing the new chassis as a "super tower" enclosure, a...
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