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Latest News - April 2022
- NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 Series Restocked And Reloaded Campaign Is Great News For Gamers
- Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 Laptop Review: Svelte Stunner
- Court Records Reveal T-Mobile Paid RaidForums Hackers In A Failed Attempt To Stop Data Leaks
- Intel Arc A350 Early Benchmarks Show Big Gaming Gains By Disabling Dynamic Tuning
- Ethereum 2.0 Merger Delayed Yet Again Right As GPU Prices Start To Fall
- CD Projekt Red Indefinitely Delays Next-Gen Witcher 3 Release For PS5 And Xbox Series X
- XCOM 2 Turn Based Strategy Game Is Normally $60 But Is Free On PC Right Now
- Google's Secretly Testing An App To Help iPhone Users Ditch iOS And Switch To Android
- Here’s Why Apple Device Vulnerabilities Just Skyrocketed A Startling 467 Percent
- Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $41B And Threatens To Dump Stock If Rejected
- $2.9M NFT Tweet Investor Tries To Flip It For A Big Payday, Feels The Burn For Just $10K
- Amazon Sellers Hit With A 5 Percent Fuel And Inflation Fee But It's Buyers Who Will Pay
- Astrophysicists Spot A Supermassive Object From The Cosmic Dawn That's Never Been Seen Before
- 2.5 Geeks: What's Up With Ryzen 7 5800X3D? ASUS Zephyrus M16, Galaxy Book2 And More
- Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU Might Turbo To 5.8GHz And Flex 68MB Of Game Cache
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU Review: The King Of PC Gaming
- US DOJ Seizes RaidForums, A Hugely Popular Hacking Site Started By A 14 Year Old
- Zelda Breath Of The Wild 2 Demo Looks So Good It Sparks Nintendo Switch 2 Speculation
- AMD Is Looking To Make A Big Splash With DDR5 Overclocking On Its Zen 4 Platform
- Facebook Is Getting Roasted On Twitter For Its Greedy 47 Percent Meta Tax On Virtual Sales
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All News for April 2022
Tell your mother, tell your father, tell your friends and everyone you know, the the Great Graphics Card Shortage of 2020-2022 is finally over! Okay, that's being a tad dramatic, and not wholly accurate. However, the situation is definitely improving, to the point where NVIDIA and its hardware partners have kicked off...
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Samsung made a splash recently as one of the first laptop manufacturers with a Spring refresh powered by Intel's new Alder Lake-P 12th Gen Core processors for mainstream thin and light laptops. Targeted at a class of machines Intel calls the "Performance Thin And Light" category, these 12th Gen Core chips drop into a 28 Watt power envelope,...
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Yesterday, we reported on Operation TOURNIQUET, a year-long coordinated effort by law enforcement agencies from seven different countries that culminated in the seizure of the hacking site RaidForums and the arrest of its founder and administrator, Diogo Santos Coelho. RaidForums functioned as the hub for the trade of...
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The laptop versions of Intel's Arc GPUs, at least the littlest ones, officially launched on March 30th. We haven't seen and evidence of laptops containing the cards on store shelves in our areas, but some enterprising folks in South Korea have discovered that local models of the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro can be...
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Say it with us—"Le sigh!" That's about the only reaction we can muster to news that Ethereum's much-anticipated shift to a proof-of-work model, and with it a long-overdue ease on GPU mining, is delayed...again. Prior to this latest delay, the full transition to Ethereum 2.0 was supposed to take place this June. Not...
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As you see Geralt wandering through the lands, you can "toss a coin to your Witcher!" So the song goes, but Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 owners need not apply. Apparently, the popular RPG is not coming to those platforms in enhanced form, at least not yet.
CD Projekt Red, the developers behind The Witcher games...
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Early this month the Epic Games Store was serving up Total War: Warhammer, normally a $60 game, for free. Now just a couple of weeks later, there's another $60 game up for grabs if you claim it in time. That would be XCOM 2, a turn-based strategy game developed by Fireaxis Games and published by 2K Games in...
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Google is looking to make moving from an iPhone to an Android device less of a headache with a "Switch To Android" app. But if you are wanting to make the move using this new app, you may have to wait a bit longer.
Anyone who has ever made the leap from an iPhone to an Android device knows that it can be a chore...
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Cybercriminals are constantly on the hunt for vulnerabilities to exploit, and over the past six months it seems they've been ramping up their efforts to find weaknesses within Apple's ecosystem. According to a recent security report, the discovery of Apple device vulnerabilities surged a rather shocking 467% from the...
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Could Twitter eventually one day go private? It may if Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has anything to do with it. Elon Musk has offered to purchase Twitter for over $41 billion USD and threatens to sell his stock if his offer is rejected.
Musk has offered to purchase 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash...
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Just over a year ago, a non-fungible token (NFT) of Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey's very first tweet sold for a staggering $2.9 million. It went to Sina Estavi, a crypto investor who proudly lists on his profile he is the "owner of the first ever tweet," and who recently had intentions of selling it...
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2022 has so far been a record year for inflation and gas prices. This has impacted everyone, including Amazon sellers. Amazon recently hit its sellers with a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge, which will likely hurt consumers as the added cost gets passed along.
The surcharge is particularly aimed at those who use...
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Hubble has provided the imagery necessary to identify a black hole that is growing at a breakneck speed in the early universe. Astronomers believe that it could be the "missing link" between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes.
Until recently, a supermassive black hole, known as...
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What was AMD thinking with its 3D V-Cache equipped Ryzen 7 5800X3D? A deep dive look at the svelte ASUS Zephyrus M16 Alder Lake-powered gaming laptop, the gorgeous Alienware 34" AW3423DW QD-OLED gaming monitor, and Samsung's Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 is next on the bench...
Show Notes:
05:03 - Show Start
09:14 - AMD's...
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I distinctly remember when AMD and Intel were racing to 1GHz (yes, I'm old), and in the years to follow, they both continued to push for higher clocks. The focus would later shift to things like multi-core designs, better branch prediction, and more recently piling on as much cache as possible, but chasing higher...
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AMD has been working on its 3D chiplet technology for quite some time now, but it was back at Computex last year that the company initially showed off its 3D V-Cache in a consumer processor, targeted squarely at gamers. Though the chip AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su held up on stage was somewhat different than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D we’ll be showing...
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It’s likely that some of your information has appeared on RaidForums at some point during the site’s seven year run. RaidForums was a popular hacking site where users shared data collected from breaches, leaks, and scrapes. According to the US Department of Justice, the databases on offer on RaidForums contained...
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People really, really want a more powerful Nintendo system. Everyone loves the Switch, but there's no denying that it's basically a second-generation NVIDIA Shield tablet with a Nintendo nameplate on it. Developers have done truly amazing things with the hardware, but there are limits to what you can accomplish with a...
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While the conventional wisdom has been that overclocked memory offers minimal performance gains, that's just not the case. Faster memory, whether it increases clock rate, reduces latency, or both, can have a significant effect on system performance. It's most noticeable in apps like video encoding and compression, as...
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Exciting news for metaverse creators! Creations inside Horizon Worlds, the Metaverse anchor platform of the Facebook parent company Meta, is currently testing monetization. That is great news, except it seems like the creators are hearing "Taxman" by the Beatles resounding through their headsets.
"Creator...
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We're roughly half way into April and you know what that means—it's time to patch Windows with this month's Patch Tuesday update (KB5012599 for Windows 10 and KB5012592 for Windows 11), which is doled out on the second Tuesday of every month. This particular one happens to be cram-packed with fixes for over 100...
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It's been a little over a year since we reviewed the 2020 Mac mini with Apple's M1 silicon inside, and so it's high time for a discount, don't you think? Amazon thinks so, and has marked down the potent little system to match its lowest price ever.
You can find the M1 Mac mini (2020) on Amazon for $569.99 right...
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