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Latest News - May 2020
- Huawei In Crisis Mode As TSMC Stops Chip Orders Following US Intervention
- OnePlus 6T Hits Low $300 With This Smoking Hot Offer For Budget Phone Shoppers
- Microsoft Admits It Was Wrong About Open Source As It Preps Windows Subsystem For Linux 2
- Microsoft’s Arm-Powered Surface Pro X Gets Huge $400 Price Cut With These Hot Deals
- Intel Xe Gen 12 Desktop Graphics Card Leaks With 1.5GHz GPU Clock
- MediaTek Unleashes Dimensity 820 5G SoC For Premium Mid-Range Smartphones
- GPD Win Max Handheld Intel-Powered Gaming PC Smashes Indiegogo Funding Goal
- Borderlands 3's Third DLC Campaign Announcement Coming This Week With Brand New Setting
- US DOJ Likely To File Historic Antitrust Suit Against Google For Anti-Competitive Search And Advertising Dominance
- Supercomputers Across The EU Are Being Targeted By Hackers To Mine Cryptocurrency
- Google Search Trends Underscore A Cheating Problem As AP Exams Go Online Due To COVID-19
- Is Doom Eternal's Stealthy New Anti-Cheat Software A Security Exploit Waiting To Happen?
- AMD Ryzen 4000 Zen 3 Desktop CPUs Rumored To Deliver 20% IPC Lift But Is That Reality?
- Latest Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake-U CPU Leak Shows Big Clock Speed Jump Over Ice Lake
- Half-Life: Alyx Is Coming To Linux Along With Modding Tools, Vulcan Support And More
- Here’s How To Setup A Group Call On Facebook’s Messenger Rooms Zoom Competitor
- Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Deal Drops Price To Low $999 With Free Alcantara Type Cover
- OnePlus 8 Pro Infrared Cameras Have X-Ray Vision Mode, See What It Can Do
- Konami's Highly Anticipated TurboGrafx-16 Mini Game Console Gets New Release Date
- US Video Game Sales Hit Record High During Q1 2020 Thanks To COVID-19
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All News for May 2020
Tensions between the United States government and China have proven a burden for Huawei, which at one point had aspirations of selling its products on domestic soil in stores like Best Buy and wireless outlets like AT&T. Those plans were crushed, and the challenges keep mounting. The latest development has the US...
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Anyone in the market for a new smartphone who doesn't mind a device that's a few years old should check out the deal B&H has going on the OnePlus 6T smartphone for the T-Mobile network. The mirror black smartphone has 128 GB of storage and is unlocked. The normal purchase price for the device is $549.99.
The sale...
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As an organization, Microsoft no longer likens Linux to a deadly disease, as was the sentiment put out there by former CEO Steve Ballmer nearly a decade ago. Microsoft is now embracing Linux, or at least welcoming it into the fold, as the company readies its second iteration of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) in...
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The Surface Pro X is a bit of an odd duck in Microsoft’s hardware family. While it looks much like its siblings with a large LCD display, kickstand, optional keyboard and Windows 10 support, the Surface Pro X is powered by an Arm processor instead of an x86-64 processor from Intel.
The Surface Pro usually starts at...
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Like everyone else, we have so many questions about Intel's foray into the discrete GPU space. When will we see a consumer graphics card, and when it arrives, how will it compare to what AMD and NVIDIA have to offer? What about specifications and pricing? Will it be good mining? Just kidding about that last one, but...
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Qualcomm isn't the only game in town when it comes to SoCs for Android smartphones, but its chips are definitely the most visible and most widely used. However, MediaTek has been looking to change that dynamic with the release of SoCs like the Dimensity 1000 and Dimensity 1000+. Now, the company is taking on Qualcomm...
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Handheld gaming has been around for decades, though it is Nintendo that has reaped most of the rewards. That is true even today with its hybrid Switch and mobile-only Switch Lite consoles. Can GPD capture the same success in the PC space? Probably not, though it is making one hell of an effort with its handheld Win...
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Borderlands 3 is getting a third campaign add-on along with additional content to be revealed during The Borderlands Show Episode 7 on May 21. The third add-on campaign will officially land this summer, and it will allow players to expand the game's popular shooting and looting gameplay into a new setting that...
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Most people are very familiar with Google’s various services, especially their popular search engine. However, is Google using its ubiquity to intentionally hamper their competition? It was recently reported that the United States Department of Justice and a group of state attorneys general are likely planning to sue...
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A number of supercomputers across Europe have been targeted by malware that focuses on mining for cryptocurrency (Monero). The malware has forced supercomputers in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland to be shutdown as operators investigate the security incidents. The high-performance computing center in Spain was also...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply affected our education system in ways many are still trying to fully understand and cope with. Both lessons and exams must now be delivered and regulated online. This includes Advancement Placement (AP) exams which have traditionally been administered in-person to high school students...
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Doom Eternal has been an incredibly popular game since it launched earlier this year, but something new was added to help stop cheaters in multiplayer mode on the PC. An update added Denuvo Anti-Cheat software on May 14, and some players are outraged. Denuvo parent company Irdeto wrote in a blog post that the...
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Rumor has it that AMD's next round of Ryzen processors will have a bigger than expected bump in IPC (instructions per clock) performance. Built on a new architecture, Zen 3 will see a die shrink and, most likely, some notable performance optimizations, power efficiency gains, and upgraded features. But all eyes will...
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When it comes to unreleased hardware, we can always count on Twitter benchmark sleuths to uncovers prototype hardware making the rounds. In this latest instance, Rogame has discovered additional references to an unreleased Tiger Lake-U processor due later this year.
For those that need a refresher course, Intel's...
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Gamers all around the world were extremely excited when Half-Life: Alyx was announced. After many years, fans were able to get back into the Half-Life universe. The game has been updated recently to include Steam Workshop support along with a beta release of community development tools. One of the best things about...
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Video calls have become all the rage over the last few months and Zoom remains one of the most popular choices for group video chat. However, recent security issues have caused many to look for alternatives. Facebook recently launched “Messenger Rooms”, a video chat service for up to 50 users and it just became widely...
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Microsoft's line of Surface devices has proven very popular over the last few years, combining extreme portability with the performance needed for most daily computing tasks. The only real downside to Surface devices, such as the Surface Pro 7, is the price. However, anyone who thinks the Surface Pro 7 might fit the...
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The OnePlus 8 Pro is a fantastic smartphone from top to bottom, with its 120Hz OLED display, fast Snapdragon 865 processor paired with 12GB of RAM, great build quality and ergonomics, and exceptional camera performance. Oh, and it can see through plastic objects as well. That's right, the OnePlus 8 Pro boasts a bit of...
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The TurboGrafx-16 is making a comeback in miniaturized form, as is vogue for game consoles of yesteryear, and had it not been for disruptions caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, it would already be here. Alas, Konami announced in early March that it would not be releasing the mini console on March 19 as originally...
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In what might come as a shocker to you (well, not really), the U.S. video game market set a record high for sales during the first quarter of 2020. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the reasoning was behind the increase; we can look no further than the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic that has been...
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Many Facebook app users are likely familiar with Giphy, as the API for the animated GIF service is integrated with the website. Facebook says that 50% of Giphy's traffic comes from the Facebook family of apps, with half of that traffic from Instagram alone. For those unfamiliar with Giphy, it's described as a leader...
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It’s here folks; the Epic Games Store has just kicked off its month-long Mega Sale which brings with it healthy discounts on some of your favorite games. Games at the store are available with up to a 75 percent discount off their regular asking price which is impressive by itself.
However, the Epic Games Store is...
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