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- Epic Stands With Ukraine, Donates 14 Days Of Fortnite Proceeds In Humanitarian Support
- Thinking Of Updating Your iPhone To iOS 15.4? Battery Life Degradation Says Think Again
- This Secret Wall In Elden Ring Only Opens After 50 Hits, What Was FromSoftware Thinking?
- Humble Bundle Stand With Ukraine Pulls In Over $5M For Charity, Get Your Game On In Support
- Android 13 Dev Preview 2 Is Available Now For These Pixels, What’s New And How Install It
- Hacker Shows How Gas Pumps Are Security Swiss Cheese And Easy Targets For Thieves
- NASA Space Telescope's First Images Exceed Expectations In Thrilling Success
- Apple M1 Ultra's GPU Gets Destroyed By A GeForce RTX 3090 In Benchmark Battle
- Strange Intel ARK DG2MB Database Entry Hints At A Motherboard With A Preinstalled GPU
- Biostar's Racing Z690GTA-V8 Overdrive Twin Turbo PC Mod Is A Jaw Dropper
- Security Report Finds Android Trojans A Growing Menace In The Google Play Store
- Apple Made An Estimated $6.6B By Skimping On Bundled iPhone Accessories
- Steam Deck Scalpers Are Charging Outrageous Prices On Ebay Because Of Course
- Surprise! Hogwarts Legacy Inspired By Harry Potter Is Also Headed To The Nintendo Switch
- Rare 1976 Apple Computer Check Signed By Steve Jobs And Wozniak Sells For $164K At Auction
- Scientists Propose An Icy Origin At Edge Of The Solar System For Mysterious Dwarf Planet Ceres
- Samsung Galaxy A53 Vs iPhone SE 3: Sorry Apple Fans, It's Not Even Close
- 2.5 Geeks: Ryzen 6000 Zen 3+ Deep Dive With AMD's Robert Hallock
- No, Elden Ring (Probably) Isn't Vulnerable To The Same Old RCE Bugs
- Oops! Microsoft Defender Freaks Sys Admins Out By Flagging Office Update As Ransomware
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All News for March 2022
There has been a massive outpouring of support for Ukraine lately. Unfortunately, the people of war-torn areas are often devastated, and displaced from their homes and belongings, with limited to no access to basic services, not to mention the potential for much worse outcomes. Many organizations and companies have...
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Last week Apple released its latest iOS update and many iPhone users noticing decreased battery life. The update, iOS 15.4, aimed to fix some known issues while adding a few new features to Apple devices.
Apple included a feature in iOS 15.4, which gives users the ability to unlock their phones while wearing a face...
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Anyone who has played much of the game "Souls" at all will be familiar with taunting messages from other players that say "Hidden passage ahead" or "Secret path ahead." There's usually a second message right behind it that says "liar ahead," or in recent mega-hit Elden Ring, "dastard ahead."
Most of these messages...
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War is a terrible thing, and while wade in too far into the darkness that's happening in Ukraine, we know that the people of that country need help, plain and simple. Sure, it is easy to be an armchair war analyst. We see them on social media all the time, but being one does not really help people. What if there was...
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Android 13 Dev Preview 2 is now available, and is bringing with it new color themes, improved privacy and security, and more. If you are a developer, or someone who likes to tinker with new software, you can download the preview build now.
Google announced last month its release of Android 13 for developers, and...
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As gas prices continue to rise, some shadowy figures are looking for "alternative" method to acquire fuel, whether legal or not. One such method, specifically hacking a gas pump, has led to the recent theft of 400 gallons of fuel at a High Point gas station in North Carolina. However, this is not the only incidence of...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has hit a critical milestone in its mirror alignment and NASA says it is performing at or above expectations. The highly touted space telescope captured an image last week that excited its operators here on Earth.
JWST completed the critical milestone in its mirror alignment of...
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Apple's M1 Ultra processor, created by mating a pair of M1 Max chips on a single package to create a 20-core behemoth, is undeniably an impressive technical achievement and one of the world's fastest processors. Despite sipping power comparatively, it competes with Intel and AMD's best in single-threaded performance...
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Most people don't know this, but Intel's ARK product information database has both a publicly-accessible consumer-facing version as well as a private, internal version that requires users to sign an NDA before viewing it. That's because it contains information on all kinds of new, upcoming, and unreleased...
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Um, excuse me Biostar, but when did you become a case mod fanatic? Because holy high octane, your Racing Z690GTA-V8 Overdrive creation is easily one of the coolest PC mods I've ever seen. You don't even have to be into V8 muscle cars (or cars in general) to appreciate this one, the level of detail and craftsman ship...
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It seems like just about every week there is some new malware threat to mobile users, especially for those who use Android. What if we told you that many of those new threats are not actually new at all?
According to Dr. Web, an anti-malware software provider and security research organization, there was a...
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In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, Apple no longer bundles earbuds and chargers with its iPhone devices, a decision it made in late 2020 with the launch of the iPhone 12. Also in doing so, Apple may have saved billions of dollars in the past year and a half, through a combination of reduced shipping costs...
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Scalpers have been making out like gangbusters during the silicon shortage by selling things like graphics cards and game consoles at high markups on eBay. You can add Valve's recently released Steam Deck to the pile. That's not a new develop, but now that Steam Decks are out in the wild, scalpers are cashing in with...
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The highly anticipated Hogwarts Legacy video game seems to be making its way to the Nintendo Switch. If you live with a bunch of Muggles, you may want to practice your Repello Muggletum charm to keep them away from your Switch console once the game releases later this year.
During the most recent State of Play PS5...
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Well, the auction for this decades old check endorsed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has come to end with a final bid of $163,923 (including buyer fees). That's quite the jump from the high bid of $89,568 at the time we wrote this article yesterday, when there was less than seven hours to go. It's also well...
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A recent research paper suggests that dwarf planet Ceres may have originated at the icy edges of the solar system. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is vastly different than its rocky neighbors.
Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet that exists in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and...
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Apple and Samsung both rolled out mid-range refreshes to their respective smartphone lineups over the past couple weeks, the iPhone SE and Galaxy A53/A33, respectively. Looking strictly at MSRPs (and ignoring any promotions), the cost of entry is similar across the board. This raises the question, is there a better a...
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We recently had the opportunity to go live with AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, to chat about the Ryzen 6000 series mobile processors and the intricacies of the laptop market. Our discussion, complete with some new revelations regarding the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, is posted below.
If you liked this...
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Gamers likely recall back in January when a serious remote code execution (RCE) security exploit was revealed in the game Dark Souls III. This bug allowed malicious players to run arbitrary code on other players in the same session, which is particularly galling considering the way Dark Souls allows players to...
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System administrators were in for a surprise when Windows Defender flagged a recent Microsoft Office Update as malware. That was, fortunately, a false positive, but when you manage hundreds or thousands of endpoints and they all start getting flagged, you might as well give a sysadmin a heart attack.
On March 16th...
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If you're reading this, you probably don't need us to explain that CPUs are very good at doing one thing after another, while GPUs are very good at doing a whole lot of the same thing at once. They're radically different design paradigms, and a computer usually performs best, at least currently, when it has both...
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There was quite a bit of intrigue surrounding AMD's 4700S Desktop Kit when it first popped up, in part because it arrived with nary any fanfare. Speculation was and remains that it's the repurposed guts from parts intended for the PlayStation 5, but which didn't make the cut for whatever reason. Well, start the...
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