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Latest News - March 2020
- Amazon Is Discounting Roku And Fire TV Sticks Just In Time For COVID-19 Quarantines
- Google Is Bringing Better Security To Android But It Comes At The Expense Of This Feature
- Big Tech And U.S. Government Look For Ways To Use Smartphone Location Data To Fight Coronavirus
- Sony PlayStation 5 Rocks AMD Zen 2 And RDNA 2 Muscle, 5.5GB/Sec SSD, And 16GB GDDR6
- Half-Life: Alyx Is Free With HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite VR Headset, Here's Where To Order
- Working From Home Guide: Top Tips For Maximum Productivity
- NVIDIA GeForce NOW Popularity Grows Despite Big Game Publisher Defections
- Facebook's Anti-Spam System Went Haywire Flagging Harmless Posts From Legit Sources
- Apple Launches New iPad Pro With A12Z Bionic Chip, Trick Keyboard Cover And LiDAR Scanner
- Apple's New, Cheaper MacBook Air Gets Intel Ice Lake Boost, Doubles Storage, And Adds Magic Keyboard
- Hospital That 3D Printed Critical Respirator Valves For COVID-19 Patients Now Faces Potential Lawsuit
- AMD Ryzen Embedded Maker Board Looks Like Sweet Raspberry Pi Competition
- Google Translate Launches Real-Time Language Transcription Functionality
- Apple iOS 14 Code Hints At A Key 3D Hardware Feature Headed To The iPhone 12 Pro
- Amazon Sellers Panic As Fulfillment By Amazon Shipments Are Blocked During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Tesla Model Y Long Range EV Deliveries Commence Well Ahead Of Schedule
- Samsung 512GB eUFS 3.1 Storage With 3X Performance Boost Enters Production For Smartphones
- TikTok Mods Censored Users They Considered Ugly, Poor Or Old In A Twisted Effort To Expand Platform
- Nintendo Switch Online Is Down At The Worst Possible Time
- Sony's PlayStation 5 Gets Its Big Reveal Tomorrow, Here's How To Watch
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All News for March 2020
With the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading like wildfire across the glove, many people are turning to leisure activities in their downtime. While many people are simply working from home, others are left with not much to do at all and have found solace in playing video games or binge-watching their favorite television...
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Google is answering the call to make Android more secure and less likely to contract a malware infection, at least for users who opt into the company's Advanced Protection Program. This is primarily intended for journalists, activists, business leaders, political campaign teams, and other individuals and organizations...
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The government is urging people to keep their distance from others to help slow and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The government is currently in talks with Facebook and Google along with a range of other technology companies and health experts to determine how they may be able to use location data gathered...
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Sony was the first out of the gate to reveal details on its next-generation game console: the PlayStation 5. Sony first told us about the PlayStation 5 in April 2019 and confirmed that the console would be powered by an AMD Zen 2-based processor, Navi GPU, and that it would have an ultra-fast SSD for storage. It was...
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HTC is giving gamers interested in virtual reality an added incentive to order its newly available Cosmos Elite VR headset. Anyone who buys a Cosmos Elite will get the much-anticipated Half-Life: Alyx VR title for free. That includes both new purchases and everyone who had previously placed a pre-order for the...
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Managing Editor Marco Chiappetta's home office is pretty sweet You don't need us to tell you that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is dominating the news and sits at the forefront of just about everybody's mind. Across the nation, state governments are closing schools, local governments are banning folks from gathering, and leagues are canceling...
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When it comes to NVIDIA's GeForce NOW, everything seemed to be going along swimmingly when the game streaming service was in beta. Gamers were able to enjoy games from a wide range of publishers across multiple platforms. Then GeForce NOW exited beta and all hell broke loose.
Activision-Blizzard, Bethesda, and 2K...
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For a period of time yesterday, Facebook was on the fritz, blocking content that did not run afoul of any rules, including posts on the coronavirus. However, those were not the only ones. As our own Marco Chiappetta noted, some of his boxing friends had posts blocked about Roger Mayweather's death, while others had...
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As far as Apple is concerned, your next computer is not a computer, it is a high-tech tablet, and specifically the new iPad Pro. Powered by an also-new 8-core A12Z Bionic system-on-chip (SoC), Apple claims its latest iPad Pro is "faster and more powerful than most Windows PC laptops." Does the bold claim stack up?...
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Apple's New, Cheaper MacBook Air Gets Intel Ice Lake Boost, Doubles Storage, And Adds Magic Keyboard
Apple has refreshed its popular 13-inch MacBook Air entry-level laptop, and there's a lot to like about this new model. Apple has seemingly addressed nearly every complaint about the previous generation with some very useful upgrades.
For starters, Apple has tossed the unreliable and hated (by nearly everyone)...
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The coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic may have started in China, but it has spread to most of the world at this point. One of the hardest-hit countries in the world is Italy. Italian healthcare providers are fighting a company that is putting profit ahead of saving lives. A hospital in Brescia in northern Italy was in...
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Taiwanese firm DFI has just unveiled its latest single board computer (SBC), and it looks to pack quite a punch thanks to its chosen processor. The DFI GHF51 compares favorably to the Raspberry Pi 4 in size, but instead of an ARM-based processor, it includes an AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 Series APU.
DFI says that the...
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Google has announced that starting today, the Google Translate Android app can transcribe foreign language speech as it's happening in real-time. That means you can launch the app as someone is talking or audio is playing back on a computer and translate it immediately. Google says the feature will be rolling out over...
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Pro might separate themselves from the regular iPhone 12 by incorporating a 3D time of flight (ToF) sensor into the mix. There will likely be other differences between the Pro models and regular model, but if a breakdown of Apple's iOS 14 code is any indication, the ToF...
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As we reported earlier this week, Amazon is struggling to keep up with demand on its website as Americans are stuck at home in the wake of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. With many local grocery stores and shops running out of essential items (toilet paper, paper towels, and other household staples, etc.) Amazon...
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Tesla announced that deliveries of its highly anticipated Model Y crossover have begun. Initially, only the higher-end Model Y is available, with the standard range version expected to enter production in early 2021. The Model Y deliveries occurring at the moment are for the Long Range and Performance versions of the...
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Samsung on Tuesday announced it has started mass producing the industry's first 512-gigabyte (GB) embedded Universal Flash Storage 3.1 (eUFS 3.1). It will find its way into future flagship smartphones, bringing with it much faster sequential write speeds, along with better random read and write performance compared to...
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TikTok has taken the social media scene by storm with short-form videos from everyday users and celebrities alike. It's mostly lighthearted and fun, but there is also an ugly side to social media, and I'm not talking about the aesthetic appeal of users who participate. That is what TikTok is doing, quite literally, in...
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Given that much of the world is on lockdown (in one way or another) due to the coronavirus, the sheer number of people working (and learning) from home is putting a strain on ISPs and online services. One such service that is apparently straining under the pressure is Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo Switch Online is used by many Switch
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Microsoft may have beaten Sony to the punch in revealing finer grain details about its upcoming Xbox Series X console, but how its next-gen gaming system compares to the PlayStation 5 is still an open-ended question. Perhaps we will get more clarification tomorrow. That is when Sony will host its own "deep dive" into...
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It's been a while since Motorola has released a "true" flagship device with the specs, cameras, and build quality to match top rivals from Samsung and Apple. But the company is looking to answer the call from enthusiasts with the Edge Plus.
Thankfully, reliable gadget leaker Evan Blass has given us the best look...
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Details have surfaced about the rumored iPhone 9 (or iPhone SE 2 depending on who you talk to) that indicates Apple is working on a Plus version of the smartphone. The rumored Plus version would bring a larger screen to the mix, giving people more space than what has been reported in the supply chain for the smaller...
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