News
Latest News - July 2017
- Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X CPU Overclocks To 6GHz On LN2, Grabs HWBOT Record
- Here Are Amazon's Hottest Prime Day Deals Available Starting Tonight
- Elon Musk Tweets Pictures Of First Production Tesla Model 3 EV
- Facebook And Google Join Internet-Wide Day Of Action Battle To Protect Net Neutrality
- Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Keyboard Attachment Brings Full QWERTY To The Console
- Google X Startup Dandelion To Bring Geothermal Heating And Cooling Tech To Homes
- WWE Leak Unmasks Smackdown Of Personal Data For Over 3 Million Wrestling Fans
- IBM's Legendary Model F Buckling Spring Keyboard Reinvented, Now Available To Order
- Motorola Moto G5S Plus To Debut With Larger Display, Premium Chassis And Dual Cameras
- Overwatch’s Doomfist Is A Bad Guy Boss Man You’ll Love To Hate
- Petya Ransomware Author Janus Cybercrime Solutions Releases Master Decryption Key
- Google Readying A Touch-Enabled Chrome OS Build For Chromebooks And Other Devices
- Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Build 16237 Brings Fixes For High DPI Scaling
- NVIDIA White Paper Projects MCM-GPU Future Will Outrun Moore's Law
- Tesla To Build World's Largest Lithium-Ion Battery For Australian Power Grid
- Say What? Researchers Develop First Battery-Free Mobile Phone
- Qualcomm Files Lawsuit Seeking Apple iPhone US Import Ban
- CopyCat Malware Infiltrated 14 Million Android Devices In 2016
- Ethereum And Bitcoin Energy Consumption Surpasses Entire Countries' Power Budgets
- Stingy Apple Bug Bounty Payouts Sends Researchers To Lucrative Gray Market Hacking
News Archive
-
Search 2025
-
Search 2024
-
Search 2023
-
Search 2022
-
Search 2021
-
Search 2020
-
Search 2019
-
Search 2018
-
Search 2017
-
Search 2016
All News for July 2017
Intel has the enthusiast segment in its crosshairs with the new Core i9 series, and the 7900X is currently its most potent offering. Priced at $999, the Core i9-7900X features 10 cores and will have to hold down the fort until its faster (and more expensive) 12-, 14-, 16- and 18-core siblings arrive later this...
Read more...
If you are an Amazon Prime member, here is a reminder that Amazon's annual Prime Day sales bonanza kicks off tonight and runs through all of tomorrow. During that 30-hour shopping period, there will be a constant barrage of marked down items, including tens of thousands of so-called "Lightning Deals," with new ones...
Read more...
Here it is, the first production Tesla Model 3 EV to roll off the assembly line. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted earlier this week that the first Model 3 would roll be completed on Friday, and he took to Twitter once again early this morning to post two images of the pint-sized EV.
Not surprisingly, the Model 3 looks...
Read more...
You might think that an agency such as the Federal Communications Commission would exist for no other reason than to protect consumers, but that hasn't proven to be the case at all when it comes to our online rights. You might be tired of hearing about net neutrality - and we couldn't even blame you - but now more...
Read more...
Typing can be rather inconvenient with the Nintendo Switch, however, Cyber Gadget has a solution to this annoying problem. The company plans to release a keyboard attachment that connects directly to the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers.
The Joy-Con controllers snap into place on either side of the keyboard. The...
Read more...
Backyards are not only a fun place to hang out, but could also potentially be a functional part of one’s household. Dandelion, a new start-up created by Google X’s secretive lab, plans to to offer home geothermal and cooling systems. Homeowners would be able to tap into the ground’s energy to heat and cool their...
Read more...
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has received a black eye for an embarrassing data leak that could have (and should have) been avoided. It was not, however, and as a result personally identifiable information and other private details belonging to over 3 million WWE fans was sitting online unprotected and visible...
Read more...
Mechanical keyboards are wildly popular among computing enthusiasts and gamers currently. However, hardcore and old school geeks alike will argue that the venerable IBM Model F, circa 1981 and sporting keys that must be forced down on internal buckling springs, was the best mechanical keyboard ever made. It was a key...
Read more...
Motorola has a big event scheduled for July 25th, and the Lenovo-backed company is set to unleash a number of new smartphones for the consumer market. Although we’ve seen numerous leaks concerning upcoming Motorola smartphones, there’s one that we haven’t heard much about: the Moto G5S Plus.
Well-placed sources...
Read more...
Overwatch is finally getting a bonafide villain. Blizzard just announced that “Doomfist” will soon join the games universe, and he is an offensive character with a difficulty rating of three stars
Doomfist's mechanical arm means that his abilities mostly revolve around punching opponents and slamming them into the...
Read more...
Here's something you don't see too often: a ransomware creator unearthing the master decryption key for public consumption. That's exactly what we're seeing from Petya's original developer, allowing those affected by certain versions of Petya to recover their data, and developers the ability to create decrypters to...
Read more...
Google did not have touch input in mind when it developed Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system that would serve as the foundation for its Chromebook initiative. Instead, Google was preoccupied with the cloud. Nevertheless, Google's hardware partners came out with touch-capable Chromebooks anyway, and now the...
Read more...
Things are progressing nicely with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which has now progressed to Insider Preview Build 16237. There aren’t any major additions to this newest build of the Fall Creators Update, but there are plenty of changes along the way in this build.
Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to...
Read more...
It's not too often we get the feeling that some of the technology that we regularly use is reaching its upper-limit, but there comes a time when new ideas need to be pushed forth in order to continue advancements. Take hard drives, for example. It almost seemed impossible to create multi-terabyte drives until PMR...
Read more...
Elon Musk does nothing in halves. The Tesla CEO recently promised to deliver the world’s largest lithium-ion battery to South Australia. He has also promised to build the battery in “100 days or it's free”.
The 100-megawatt (129 megawatt hour) battery will be “three times more powerful” than any other system and...
Read more...
“Can you hear me now? Good.” These days, it’s uncommon for us to leave our houses without our smartphones. They’ve become an indispensable tool that we use to communicate, conduct business and “veg out” in our downtime. About the only thing worse than venturing out into the world without our smartphone by our side is...
Read more...
The ongoing dispute between semiconductor maker Qualcomm and electronics giant Apple over patent infringement claims has reached a boiling point. With the two firms unable to reach any sort of agreement, Qualcomm has asked U.S. trade regulators to ban iPhone imports along with other unnamed products, and to stop the sale of that have already
Read more...
Imitation may not be the sincerest or safest form of flattery. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. researchers just revealed that CopyCat Android malware infected 14 million devices worldwide in 2016, and eight million of these infected devices were also rooted.
How was this malware so successful? According to...
Read more...
If you’ve been keeping up with the cryptocurrency market at all over the past few years, then you’ll recognize Bitcoin as the posterchild for the digital currency movement. However, in recent months, Ethereum has been surging in popularity as more miners have discovered the relative ease in which money can be made...
Read more...
Many technology companies have in place bug bounty programs that reward security researchers who submit discovered vulnerabilities in the products and services they offer. It is a win-win proposition in which technology companies are alerted to potentially crippling security holes, and hackers are compensated for...
Read more...
Halo 5: Guardians was noticeably absent from the list of existing Xbox One games that Microsoft announced at E3 would receive a 4K upgrade for its upcoming Xbox One X console. If you were miffed at the apparent snub, we have good news—developer 343 Industries has now confirmed that a 4K patch is coming the fifth main entry in the Halo franchise,
Read more...
Samsung is on the verge of becoming the most profitable technology company on the planet, a distinction that currently belongs to Apple. The South Korean electronics juggernaut tipped the media and investors that it expects to post a record operating profit of 14 trillion won (around $12.1 billion) for the quarter...
Read more...
