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Latest News - July 2017
- Stealthy Fruitfly Mac Malware Undetected For Years Allowed Hackers Complete Control Of Infected Machines
- EU Antitrust Fine Stings Google Parent Company Alphabet Bottom Line With A 27 Percent Drop In Profits
- Walmart’s SNES Classic Pre-Order False Alarm Causes Mass Confusion But The Real Deal Is Coming Soon
- Ethereum Made A Mockery As Veritaseum Wallet Hack Loses $8.4 Million To Theft
- Western Digital Announces 'X4' Four Bits-Per-Cell 64-Layer 3D NAND For SSDs
- Android O Developer Preview 4 Released, Final Version ‘Coming Soon’
- AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper’s Massive And Amazingly Flashy Retail Packaging
- Microsoft To Sideline Venerable Paint App With Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- Samsung Galaxy S8 Active Images Leak Boasting Rugged Design And Massive Battery
- Intel’s Coffee Lake 6-Core Desktop Processor Family Details Allegedly Leaked
- Here's How To Fix Google Nexus 6P Bootloop Of Death Errors
- Intel’s 2.5GHz Core i9-7960X 16-Core, 32-Thread HEDT Processor Makes Geekbench Debut
- NVIDIA CEO Hands First Volta GPU Accelerators To 15 Top AI Researchers And Includes Autograph
- Intel Releases Critical Skylake And Kaby Lake HyperThreading Bug Fix
- Apple Slapped With Lawsuit By State Farm Insurance Over Alleged iPhone 4S Fire Destruction
- Motorola Moto Z2 Force Live Pics Leak, Phone Coming To All Major U.S. Carriers
- Mozilla Quantum Flow Engineers Mod Firefox Browser To Open 1700 Tabs In Mere Seconds
- Pokémon Go Fest Disaster Prompts Niantic To Refund Players With Pokécoins And Lugia
- Nintendo SNES Classic Pre-Orders Coming Soon To Retail Giant Target
- Razer Sets Sights On $5 Billion Dollar IPO And Is Also Developing Its First Smartphone
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All News for July 2017
For a long time, Apple's Mac line of computers were thought by some users to be immune to malware and viruses. Some of that was due to hackers and nefarious sorts aiming for the low hanging fruit of the much larger Windows user base. Things have changed with Macs growing in popularity over the years and there are many...
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About a month ago, Google was hit with a massive fine by the EU that totaled $2.7 billion. That fine was levied against Google for breaching EU antitrust law and was more than twice as much as the second largest penalty the EU ever handed out for such a violation. That previous record high fine was leveled against...
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If you pre-ordered an SNES Classic game console from Walmart last week, your order may have been cancelled. There have been a lot of rumors flying around out there about why exactly the orders were cancelled. According to comments over at Nowinstock, multiple pre-order buyers are confirming their orders were...
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With Ethereum (ETH) rising after recently dipping below the $200 mark, cryptocurrency thieves are back in action, once again stealing a throng of tokens. The most recent theft, which hit Veritaseum’s wallet, was valued at $8.4 million.
The wallet was hit over the weekend, and that’s when all hell broke loose...
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Western Digital today announced that it has successfully developed four bit-per-cell (also known as X4) 3D NAND built using 64-layer, BiCS3 technology. The company says that these chips can store 768 gigabits on a single chip (equivalent to 96GB), which is a 50% increase from 512 gigabit three bit-per-cell NAND (as...
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Android is the most popular operating system in the world, and any new release is met with much fanfare. That will certainly be the case with Android O, which is the latest in a long line of mobile operating systems from Google (and is still unnamed).
Google today announced that Android O Developer Preview 4 is now...
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper is so close, we can almost taste it. While gaming enthusiasts are no doubt excited to see early benchmarks of the HEDT processor (and get their hands on them), AMD itself is also getting hyped for the launch. That’s why AMD CEO Lisa Su took to Twitter this morning to give us a preview of the...
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Next to Minesweeper and Facebook, Microsoft's nifty little Paint utility might go down as the one of the all-time great time wasters while toiling away at work. While the clock goes tick-tock, one way to pass the time is to doodle on your desktop using Paint, and there is actually some very good artwork that has been...
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The Galaxy Note 8 might be the most highly anticipated new smartphone from Samsung, but the newest version of a popular Galaxy model is also about to make its debut. We’re talking of course about the Galaxy S8 Active, which is the beefier, more shock-resistant version of the gorgeous (and delicate) Galaxy...
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Barring a surprise launch from Intel (and we are not ruling that out), Coffee Lake will represent the last hurrah for processors built on a 14-nanometer manufacturing process, at least from the Santa Clara outfit. After that we are looking at Cannon Lake, the first desktop processor architecture from Intel to be built...
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You may have found yourself cursing the smartphone gods if you picked up a Nexus 6P handset only to have it eventually develop an annoying habit of endlessly rebooting. Known as the Bootloop of Death, users tried in vain to find a solution, but no amount of flashing, re-flashing, and wiping affected handsets seemed to cure whatever was ailing
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The enthusiast processor core wars are starting to heat up, and Intel fired the first shot with its Core X-Series. Currently, the most potent processor from this family is the Core i9-7900X, which is a 10-core part with a base clock of 3.3GHz. However, it will soon be followed by the Core i9-7920X, Core i9-7940X, Core...
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Remember that feeling you would get when trick-or-treating at Halloween and scoring a full-size candy bar from a generous neighbor? It was like hitting the mother load or finding gold at the end of the rainbow. As you get older, it takes more than a Snickers to get excited, but we imagine that same feeling emanated...
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About a month ago we talked about a critical HyperThreading flaw that had been found in Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors. As we noted at that time, the flaw is very hard to trigger and is limited in scope. In fact, many people running processors affected by the flaw probably never noticed any stability issues...
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Fire-prone batteries are nothing new when it come to electronics. Roughly a decade ago, Sony-manufactured batteries were under the microscope for defects. More recently, Samsung found itself forced to issue multiple recalls on its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to defective batteries causing fires. In that case, Samsung...
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We don’t have much longer to wait before the Moto Z2 Force makes its official debut. In fact, the launch is just a couple days away, as Lenovo/Motorola will show off the Moto Z2 Force, Moto X4 and Moto G5S at its #hellomotoworld event.
But since nothing in the tech space can remain a secret for too long these days...
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How many tabs do you currently have open on your web browser? One? Ten? How about 1691 tabs? Mozilla Quantum Flow Engineer Dietrich Ayala recently demonstrated that Firefox 55 is able to load 1691 tabs in a mere fifteen seconds.
Ayala kept track of the wall-clock measurements of start-up time and memory use for...
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To say that the hype surrounding Pokémon Go has subsided since last summer would be an understatement, as it's rare nowadays to hear something all that buzz-worthy about the game. But despite that, the game still has an enormous amount of fans, proven by the fact that 20,000 people in Chicago took part in the...
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Nintendo is hyping up the impending release of its Super NES Classic Edition console, though this is the kind of thing that sells itself these days. Nostalgic gamers and scalpers looking to make a quick buck have already depleted Walmart of its initial inventory of pre-order units, and you can bet that other retailers...
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Razer may be well known in the gaming enthusiast community for its gaming notebooks and PC accessories, but the company is looking to branch beyond the PC business. According to a recent report, Razer is looking to get into the red-hot smartphone business.
While smartphones can be incredibly lucrative for...
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At some point between now and the end of the year, Intel will launch its eighth-generation Core processors, built around the Coffee Lake microarchitecture. It'll come at an interesting time, since it'll really be the first time in all of Core's lifetime that AMD has been truly competitive.
It'll also be interesting...
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If there is one thing you can count on in life, it is that a Nintendo console will sell out almost immediately. The SNES Classic Edition was available for pre-order last night at Walmart, but has already sold out.
The SNES Class Edition was announced this past June and was quickly available for pre-order in the...
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