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- Son Of Spectre: Intel Discloses Foreshadow Exploit Of Secure Enclave In Skylake And Kaby Lake CPUs
- Amiga Enthusiast Gets Quake Running On Killer NIC PowerPC CPU Core
- Sprint And LG To Deliver 5G Smartphone During First Half Of 2019
- Microsoft Outs Stealthy Translucent Phantom Black Xbox One Wireless Controller
- Google Chrome Canary Adds 'Lazy Loading' For Lightning Quick Page Rendering
- Monster Hunter: World PC Game Sales Halted In China Possibly For Being Too Violent
- Bitcoin And Ethereum Values Plummet As Cryptocurrency Boom Goes Bust
- Apple's Much-Hyped Group FaceTime Feature Won't Ship Initially With iOS 12
- 2018 OLED iPhones Will Reportedly Offer 512GB Storage And Apple Pencil Support
- NVIDIA Teases GeForce RTX Turing GPU Ahead Of Next Week's Gamescom Unveil
- Android 9 Pie Reportedly Breaks Pixel XL Fast Charging Support
- DisplayMate Gifts Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Best Ever Display Rating
- Smoking Xbox One X GameStop Deal Saves Up To $300 With Trade
- NVIDIA Turing Debuts With Quadro RTX: 16 TFLOP Real-Time Ray Tracing Beasts For Graphics Pros
- Google Accused Of Tracking Your Location Data Even If You Opt Out
- Bethesda Hints At Elder Scrolls: Legends PS4 Boycott Over Sony Cross-Play Ban
- Samsung's Galaxy S10 Won't Have 5G, Foldable Galaxy X Is A High Priority
- Android Apps Ripe For Malware Mayhem Due To Rubbish External Storage Policies
- Alleged Apple A12 Bionic iPhone Chip Torches Geekbench With Smokin' Multi-Core Performance
- Google Reportedly Prepping Chromebook 'Campfire' Function For Windows 10 Dual Boot
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All News for August 2018
If you thought Spectre and Meltdown were bad, there are new exploits that have the potential to seriously compromise modern Intel processors. The latest class of exploits are called Foreshadow, and were was disclosed today by Intel via a blog post.
The exploit involves Intel's Software Guard Extensions, which is...
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The Amiga community remains one of the most passionate and inventive we have ever seen, even now, decades after Commodore’s demise. A couple of weeks back, we featured just a few recent projects that were designed to breathe new life into aging Amiga systems, or at the very least ensure they remain repairable for the...
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We’ve already heard straight from Samsung that the Galaxy S10 will not be its first 5G smartphone when it launches early next year. Motorola, on the other hand, will bring 5G functionality to the Moto Z3 courtesy of the 5G Moto Mod in early 2019. Is anyone else willing to step up to the 5G plate when it comes to...
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Sony unveiled a special edition PS4 to celebrate the sale of 500 million consoles since the PS4 launched. The cool part about that special edition PS4 is that it was housed in a translucent blue chassis that let you see a bit of what’s inside and came with a matching controller. Microsoft is now getting in on the...
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Google is looking to deliver another speed boost to Google Chrome in the near future, and it's doing so by changing the way that a webpage is loaded in the browser. Google calls this new method for speeding our browsing experience "lazy page loading".
Although it might sound like an oxymoron, lazy loading is...
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Monster Hunter: World is racking up rave reviews across the web but, unfortunately for gamers in China, regulators have taken issue with the title and forced Tencent to stop selling it for PC. As of right now, the game is no longer available on WeGame, throwing a wrench in Tencent's plans to take on Steam in the...
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If you've invested heavily in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum over the past year, you probably need a stiff drink right about now. The cryptocurrency "boom" is no more, and values are heading south, much to the chagrin of crypto miners that thought mining with off-the-shelf [and custom] hardware would bring...
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Apple was expected to bolster its FaceTime feature with support for groups with the release of iOS 12. If you were looking forward to that, we have some bad news to share. Support for FaceTime group chats has been removed from the latest iOS 12 beta (version 7), with a note from Apple saying it will not ship with the...
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We are fast approaching the next round of iPhones, as Apple typically announces new devices in September, followed by availability in October. That means the rumors, leaks, and speculation are heating up. Leading up to the launch event, at least one analyst believes Apple will announce an upgraded iPhone X model with...
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Last night, NVIDIA dropped its first Turing GPU bombshell on us with the launch of the Quadro RTX 5000, RTX 6000, and RTX 8000. While those are no doubt impressive GPUs with plenty of horsepower to back them up, gamers aren't prepared to plop down $2,300 to $10,000 for a graphics card.
With this in mind, NVIDIA...
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One thing you do not expect when updating the software on your smartphone is to lose critical abilities, but it appears that is exactly what is happening for some first generation Pixel XL owners. Over at Google's Issue Tracker site, Pixel XL owners report a bug in the final version of Android 9 Pie that is preventing...
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Samsung has done very well historically with DisplayMate ratings, with the Galaxy S8 receiving its highest ever rating at the time it launched. Earlier this year, the Galaxy S9 was crowned the best smartphone display in the world.
DisplayMate's test report for the Galaxy Note 9 shows that the smartphone's display...
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If your game console is feeling a bit old and you have your eyes on a new Xbox One X, this might be the best time ever to take that old console hardware down to your local GameStop and trade it in. GameStop has a deal going right now that could see you walking away with an Xbox One X for a scant $200.
The Xbox One...
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We been hearing a lot about NVIDA's next-generation GPU architecture since late last year, and today NVIDIA is announcing the first products based on Turing. NVIDIA is targeting the professional graphics market first with the new Quadro RTX 8000, RTX 6000 and RTX 5000 GPUs.
Turing GPU architecture replaces Pascal...
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Does Google track your location? A study by the Associated Press and Princeton University discovered that some Google services store your location regardless of your privacy settings. It is believed that over 2 million Android users are affected by this issue.
Google claims that if users turn off their “Location...
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Bethesda has its arm pulled back and is about to throat punch Sony over cross-play. Sony is the lone roadblock standing in the way of gamers everywhere playing together no matter what system they are running. In a more recent announcement, Bethesda's Fallout 76 won't have cross-play thanks to Sony.
Bethesda's other...
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U.S.-based wireless carriers are expected to start lighting up their first 5G wireless networks in late 2018 through early 2019, and enthusiasts that like to be on the bleeding edge are no doubt looking forward to the arrival of 5G smartphones. However, if you were expecting for Samsung's next Galaxy S iteration to...
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When it comes to Android smartphones, one of the biggest advantages that they have over iOS-based iPhones is the ability to access external storage in addition to their onboard storage allotment. Take the Galaxy Note 9 for example; it is available with up to 512GB of internal storage and can also access up to 512GB of...
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Time and again, we have seen Apple do more with less when it comes to its custom mobile processors for iPhone and iPad devices. The company's hardware products often trail the competition in specs, but lead or otherwise offer performance parity to the competition. A new leak suggests that will again be the case when...
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There is evidence to suggest that Google may add a dual booting ability to Chrome OS to allow users to load Windows 10 onto Chromebooks, just as can be done on Apple's MacBook systems through Boot Camp. Called "Campfire," the dual boot feature appears to be in development for a public release, and not just limited to...
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Content creators who might not have pockets deep enough to invest in the fastest professional graphics cards on the planet now have a new, relatively affordable alternative to get the job done. AMD unveiled its newest Vega card, the Radeon Pro WX 8200, and it is available to pre-order right now for less than a grand...
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Smart speakers are growing in popularity, but in addition to providing a level of convenience to home consumers, they can potentially act as another point of entry for hackers and cyber criminals. To demonstrate this, researchers Wu Huiyu and Qian Wenxiang demonstrated at DefCon 2018 a technique for hacking Amazon's...
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