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Latest News - January 2018
- Elon Musk's 'Boring' Flamethrower Coming To Borderlands 3 If You Can't Swing The Real Deal
- Apple Reportedly Developing Three New Macs With Custom ARM Co-Processors
- Trump Administration Reportedly Considering Nationalized 5G Network To Combat Foreign Attacks
- ATM 'Jackpotting' Delivers Quick Cash Paydays For Hackers Warns US Secret Service
- Coincheck Crypto Exchange Issuing $400M In Refunds To Customers Hit By NEM Hot Wallet Hack
- NVIDIA Selects Aquantia For 10GbE Connectivity On DRIVE PX Pegasus Autonomous Vehicle Platform
- Strava Fitness Tracker Heat Map Under Fire For Exposing US Soldier Geo-Locations
- Apple iPhone X Production Volume Allegedly Slashed In Half For Q1 2018
- Intel Alerted Chinese Firms To Spectre-Meltdown Before The US Government But Did It Even Matter?
- Microsoft Releases Windows Update To Disable Intel's Flawed Spectre Mitigation
- Flawed Malwarebytes Update Knocks Users Offline Flagging All Traffic As Malicious, Here's The Fix
- Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9 Plus Rear Cameras And Fingerprint Sensor Shown In New Photo Leak
- Google Clips Auto-Shooting AI Camera Goes On Sale, Now Waitlisted
- Microsoft To Give Windows 10 A ‘Modern’ Overhaul With Light Weight Polaris Windows Core
- Bill Gates Reasons That AI Stealing Human Jobs Might Not Be A Bad Thing
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Maiden Launch Set For February 6 With Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Onboard
- Blizzard Is Now Policing Toxic Overwatch Players On YouTube
- Foundry Giant TSMC Breaks Ground On 5nm Chip Fab With 2020 Production Target
- Coincheck Hot Wallet Cryptocurrency Hack Largest On Record: $530M In NEM Stolen
- Epic Games Shutters Paragon And Offers Refunds To Focus Hugely Successful Fortnite
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All News for January 2018
Say what you want about Elon Musk, but the dude has a sense of humor. Either that, or Musk knows something about some sort of flammable C.H.U.D. creatures thanks to the folks at The Boring Company. Musk tweeted that The Boring Company flamethrower is real and that it is for sale.
You can order one up while supplies...
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Apple is allegedly far along in development on a trio of upcoming Mac computers that will feature custom ARM co-processors. These new ARM chips will work in conjunction with the Intel processors that already power the machines according to the new report, and these Macs will include two new MacBook models along with...
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Security officials in the Trump administration are reportedly thinking about building a national, centralized 5G wireless network within the next several years. If that should happen, it would be an unprecedented move and sure to spark a debate, both within the White House and across the nation. The reason, however...
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ATMs can be a blessing and a curse to financial institutions. On the one hand, they can process financial transactions quickly, allowing the machines to serve more people over a span of time than a human teller. However, ATMs are often the target of hackers, many using skimmers to obtain debit card numbers for later...
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A cryptocurrency exchange in Japan is ponying up hundreds of millions of dollars out of its own pocket to compensate customers who had their NEM tokens stolen last week. The theft is believed to be the largest ever in the cryptocurrency community, with hackers plundering 523 million NEM coins worth anywhere from $400...
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Aquantia is announcing some rather big news with one of the hottest companies in tech these days. Aquantia has made a name for itself by delivering gigabit network controllers for use in enthusiast motherboards and gaming notebooks, along with multi-gigabit solutions for network switches. However, its newest...
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Last November, Strava Labs launched a Global Heat Map for its fitness tracking app, which works in conjunction with fitness devices such as the Fitbit. It is billed as being the "largest, riches, and most beautiful dataset of its kind," but it's also proving a little too revealing for some military personnel. In can...
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The iPhone X might not be selling anywhere near the level Apple had anticipated. Multiple analysts have recently cut their sales forecast based on lower than expected demand, and now there is a report in Japan claiming Apple is telling suppliers that it slashing its iPhone X orders in half to 20 million units, for the...
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Intel is in hot water after a report from The Wall Street Journal surfaced yesterday that claims that Intel announced to a handful of customers, including several Chinese companies, that its chips were susceptible to Meltdown and Spectre security flaws. Those two flaws affected chip technologies from Intel, AMD, and...
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The two most worrisome vulnerabilities in computers to have surfaced in recent months are Spectre and Meltdown, which were first first disclosed earlier this month. These flaws collectively affect processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM. The problem for some people, including Linus Torvalds, was that Intel's initial...
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Companies like Malwarebytes constantly need to keep up on top of the latest security threats, and roll out related updates as quickly as possible. But sometimes, those updates might come in a little too hot and heavy, and Malwarebytes is finding that out the hard way.
If you're a Malwarebytes user, you may already...
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Late last week, we were greeted with an image showing the front of both the upcoming Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. The leak confirmed that the design theme for both smartphones is rather evolutionary compared to 2017's Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+.
Now, reliable gadget leaker Evan Blass has leaked the rear of the devices --...
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Google officially unveiled the Clips wearable camera back in October at the same time it also rolled out the high-end $999 Pixelbook and Pixel Buds earphones. If you have been waiting to get your hands on that AI-powered Clips camera and didn’t order in the early moments of availability, you will be out of luck for at...
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Microsoft is set to launch a new version of Windows 10 that will ditch all legacy features and components that can be eliminated. The modernized version of Windows 10 will be built on Windows Core OS (WCOS) and is code-named Polaris. The new OS will be aimed specifically at traditional form factor devices like...
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Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, knows a thing or two about predictions. After all, he correctly surmised the explosive growth of personal computers and helped shaped the landscape with Windows. He also made some observations about the Internet before it became a mainstream thing, and those mostly...
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We finally have an official launch date, and if all goes according to plan, Falcon Heavy will [hopefully] blast off from the LC-39A launchpad on February 6th, 2018. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed the exciting news earlier today via Twitter.
The first launch of Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years. SpaceX had...
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As the popularity of online gaming increases, so too does the number of nefarious players that prefer to be vitriolic and dampen everyone else's fun. Fortunately, when this happens to a game as popular as Overwatch, which is run by a company that cares a lot about everyone's experience with the game, the situation isn't as bad as it could
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TSMC has broken ground on a new 5nm fab that will be used to produce the world's first 5-nanometer chips starting in 2020. TSMC builds chips for numerous manufacturers, including NVIDIA, Qualcomm and many others. The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 mobile chips coming this year are built on the TSMC 7nm technology. With...
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A cryptocurrency exchange in Asia called Coincheck has announced that it was the victim of a massive hack that saw hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen in what is the largest heist of its kind in history. Coincheck doesn't call the heist a hack, it says that the coins were sent illicitly...
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You could see this coming from a mile away, but development studio Epic Games has decided to pull the plug on Paragon, its moderately successful multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) title and focus on Fortite, its hugely successful battle royale game. To soften the blow, Epic Games said it will be issuing full...
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It appears that Google's DoubleClick ad network has become the latest target of relentless miners looking to make an extra buck with the Monero cryptocurrency. The revelation comes after TrendMicro observed that the number of active Coinhive miner detections tripled around January 24th. After doing some detective...
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If you have been looking forward to getting an Apple-branded smart speaker in your home, the HomePod is now up for pre-order. HomePod will sell for $349, making it much more expensive than the competing products on the market already. As of this writing the ship date for from the device is listed as February...
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