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- TikTok Data Breach Exposing 2B Records And Source Code May Not Have Happened After All
- Ransomware Gang Takes Second Largest School District In US To Class In Startling Cyber Attack
- NVIDIA Could Launch GeForce RTX 4080 With Two Distinct Memory Configs
- Forget The Energizer Bunny, Your Next Battery Could Be Made Of Crab Shells And Squid
- Intel Promises Arc A770 Will Launch Very Soon But Be Wary If You're Not Running Resizable BAR
- Laser Beam Breakthrough Holds Key To True Wireless Charging At Distances Of Nearly 100 Feet
- This Nifty Steam Deck Docking Station Makes It Easy To Add M.2 Storage To The Handheld Gaming PC
- Google Warns Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaw Is Affecting Chrome's Mojo, Patch ASAP
- Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Spotted By Hubble Is A Galactic Marvel That Is Mesmerizing Astronomers
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 6 And 4 Gen 1 Platforms To Supercharge Midrange Devices
- Windows 11 Is Winning Over Gamers On Steam But Can It Catch Windows 10?
- Sharkbot Malware Swims Back To Google Play To Bite New Victims, Delete These Apps Now
- Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K Leak Shows Intel’s Benchmark Monster At 5.2GHz
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Cinebench Run Breaks Cover Catching Intel's Raptor Lake
- This Is Allegedly The New Google Pixel 7 Pro Being Unboxed
- Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Friends And Family Plan Is A Killer Deal But There's A Caveat
- Apple's Far Out iPhone 14 Event: How To Watch And What To Expect
- Adobe Has A Plan To Supercharge Your Smartphone Camera Into A Pro Photography Tool
- Galactic Ice Giants Raining Diamonds? It's More Likely Than You Think
- Deal You Can't Refuse: Mafia Is Still Free To Claim On PC But Only If You Hurry
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All News for September 2022
Last week, Microsoft revealed a vulnerability in the TikTok Android app that threat actors potentially could have exploited to hijack TikTok user accounts with a single click. Fortunately, TikTok patched the vulnerability earlier this year before its disclosure. However, shortly after Microsoft publicly disclosed the...
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Ransomware attacks have been targeting school districts, hospitals, government organizations, businesses, and even hospitals in recent years. It's a rather nasty piece of work; it can cause loss of data, stolen data, more viruses, and even inaccessibility to systems necessary for operations. An entire town in Canada...
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Typically, when a graphics card launches with two memory configs, they're fundamentally the same, just with different memory densities. That's the case with the GTX 580 3GB, the RX 580 8GB, and the rare GTX 960 4GB. That's not the case with the two models of the RTX 3080, and it looks like the RTX 4080 could launch in...
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Scientists have found a surprising source for a sustainable battery electrolyte material – crab shells. This naturally abundant and renewable source, commonly discarded, can yield chitin, which is simple to turn into the chitosan electrolyte material. As our headline suggests, crab shells aren’t the only natural...
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Intel's Ryan Shrout and Tom "TAP" Petersen are on the trail again for the release of the Arc A770 and A750 GPUs. The pair were recently in Berlin, Germany, and spoke with German site PC Games Hardware (PCGH) as well as popular YouTube nitpickers Digital Foundry. There were a few interesting take-aways from the...
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New research uses infrared light to transmit wireless power to devices nearly 100 feet away. The new laser charging system is aimed at offering safe, cordless power for mobile devices and sensors.
Pretty much everyone has encountered a moment where their mobile device has run low on battery power and struggled...
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Accessory maker JSAUX has previously released a pair of reasonably popular docks for Valve's Steam Deck handheld, but it's not stopping there. Its latest release has all the usual ports and an extra trick up its sleeve. The new HB0604 docking station includes an M.2 slot for an extra chunk of super-fast storage to...
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It's been several days since Google began rolling out an important security update for its Chrome browser, but even so, there's no guarantee that it's been applied on your system yet. Given the acknowledgement that the patched flaw is one that is actively being exploited in the wild, you'd be well served to manually...
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A European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble telescope picture of the week captures a magnificent view of a dwarf irregular galaxy. The image showcases galactic marvel NGC 1156.
NGC 1156 is not like many other galaxies known to Hubble. While its thousands of brilliant stars conjure up thoughts of a spiral galaxy, it lacks...
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Today, Qualcomm is introducing the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Mobile Platforms. These SoCs follow the new naming conventions introduced with the company’s flagship 8-series starting with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Qualcomm has designed these 6-series and 4-series processors for the mid-tier and mass-volume...
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Windows 11 is gaining steam among gamers, or more specifically, is adding more Steam gamers to its ranks. That's according to Valve's latest Steam survey data, which contains a wealth of statistics for the digital distribution platform. The recently updated figures show that Windows 11 adoption on the platform grew by...
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A nasty bit of Android malware previously lurking on the Google Play Store has returned with additional capabilities. Known as SharkBot, the malware is designed to steal user login credentials, particularly credentials used to access financial applications. The malware has also been found to initiate money transfers...
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Reading that headline, you're probably already thinking: "5.2 GHz? Isn't that a lower speed than previous leaks?" Yes, it absolutely is, but there's a reason for it: the leaker is comparing the CPU directly against Intel's previous-generation Alder Lake Core i9-12900K at that same clock rate.
The tests come from a...
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The current expectation in the hardware enthusiast community is that AMD and Intel's next-generation flagship chips are going to be scant percentage points away from each other in the most common benchmarks. That's informed by a number of leaks, including the Geekbench comparison last week as well as this latest leak...
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A new smartphone unboxing video has recently surfaced on social media. The exciting thing about this particular video is that it appears to feature the new Google Pixel 7 Pro—a device which hasn’t yet been officially launched. Smartphone enthusiasts will have to wait until October, for Google’s Fall Event, before the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
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Well, it has been years in the making—Microsoft is finally offering a Friends and Family pack to their Xbox Game Pass service. At only €21.99 per month, it is a great value! Package deals like this, by volume, usually save a ton of money if you can find people to share the cost with. If you hadn't noticed though, that...
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Apple's Far Out event is just days away, with the tech giant's biggest event of the year expected to introduce a new iPhone, Apple Watch and Airpods.
On September 7, 2022, at 10 a.m. PT, Apple will reveal the new iPhone 14 lineup along with a few other updated devices. While the iPhone 13 was seen as an incremental...
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Smartphones have indisputably transformed the way we capture photos and videos of the world around us. We don’t even need to jump back to film’s heyday to make the point, either. Smartphones streamline the process over even standalone digital cameras through Internet connectivity, accessibility, and ease of use. These...
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"Diamond Rain" could be more prevalent on ice giants throughout the universe than previously thought. The new research has provided scientists with a more complete picture of how diamond rain forms on other planets. It could introduce a new way of fabricating nanodiamonds here on Earth.
In a previous experiment...
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We're a bit late on this one (apologies!), but in case you missed it, the original Mafia game is free to claim on Steam right now. That's the kind of offer that is too good to refuse, but the caveat is that time is running out—you only have until 1:00pm ET (10:00am PT) to add the classic game to your Steam library...
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Pricing on DDR5 memory has been a bit of a pain point for anyone assembling or buying a cutting edge PC based on Alder Lake, and soon Zen 4. Call it an early adoption tax, if you want. There's good news, though—while initially high, DDR5 prices have come down significantly since Alder Lake debuted, and will apparently...
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The age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first has been answered thanks to DALL-E, an art-generating artificial intelligence that has been showing up on social media everywhere. DALL-E, an amalgamation of Salvador Dali and WALL-E, has taken the internet by storm in the last year, and the trend is...
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