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- Intel Launches Lakefield 3D Stacked Hybrid Core i3 And Core i5 Chips To Challenge Arm
- Update: Samsung Galaxy A51 Falls To $269 As Mid-Range Phone Price War Heats Up
- PlayStation 5 Engineer Claims Your TV Could Be Limiting Factor In Next-Gen Game Performance
- Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 Rumored With 120Hz 7.7-inch Primary Display And More
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ampere Production Heatsink Leaked Sans Cooling Shroud
- FCC Proposes Record $225 Million Fine For Telemarketer's Dastardly Robocall Campaign
- Cox Bones Entire Neighborhoods With Slower Internet Speeds To Punish Data Hogs
- Google Fi Users Are Reporting A Strange Issue When Sending Long Text Messages
- US Department Of Homeland Security Warns About SMBGhost Wormable Windows Exploit
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 And Next-Gen Galaxy Buds Tipped In Galaxy Wearable App
- Dell XPS 17 9700 Review: The 17-Inch Laptop Gold Standard
- Nintendo Confirms 140,000 Additional User Accounts Breached During Recent Hack
- Unannounced Samsung 870 QVO 8TB Consumer SSD Appears For Preorder On Amazon
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ampere Leaked Specs Allege Up To 24GB GDDR6X With 384-Bit Interface
- Microsoft Makes It Easier To Redeem Free Games And Subscriptions On Xbox One With This Feature
- These Lenovo Laptops Are Having Issues With The Windows 10 May 2020 Update
- Apple's Shift From Intel To Its Own Arm-Based Processors For Macs To Be Announced This Month
- Apple's New Ice Lake Infused MacBook Air On Sale For Just $899 With These Deals
- Sony’s Big PlayStation 5 ‘Future Of Gaming’ Event Rescheduled For June 11
- Elon Musk Declares Next-Gen Starship Rocket Is Now SpaceX's Top Priority
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All News for June 2020
Today is the official launch date of a rather special Intel processor: Lakefield. We heard the first rumblings about Lakefield back at CES 2019, and Intel would go on to detail its Foveros 3D chip packaging, Sunny Cove high performance core along with four Tremont efficiency cores (all built on 10nm process tech), and...
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Competition in the mid-range smartphone market is starting to heat up, and we’re seeing not only all-new competitors enter the fray, but discounted pricing on previous “flagship” models that are incredibly enticing. Samsung introduced its latest offering to the mid-range market in the United States with the Galaxy A51...
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Next generation game consoles will bring significant upgrades in power and capabilities over their predecessors, potentially paving the way for a true generational leap in gaming. But is there a bottleneck in the equation? If there is, it will not be the storage, which is getting a long overdue bump to a solid state...
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Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy Fold 2 in August, which is fast approaching. The first-generation Galaxy Fold was probably more notable for its display failures, which required a retreat and rethink concerning the hinge mechanism and other critical design changes (for the sake of reliability).
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Another leaked photo of a supposed heatsink design for NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card has surfaced, suggesting that the previously leaked photo was the real deal. Not only that, it is looking increasingly likely that what we saw just a few short days ago is what will end up shipping to consumers, as...
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The FCC is pushing for a record fine against a telemarketer that made approximately 1 billion spoofed robocalls in less than five months to consumers in the United States. Many of the Americans who received the spoofed robocalls were on the national Do Not Call List. The FCC has proposed a record $225 million fine...
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Broadband internet access is something that we all take for granted these days. Long gone are the times when we used to “dial-in” to the internet using 28Kbps or 56Kbps modems and wait hours to download a 10MB file. Now, we’ve got access to fat internet pipes, with ISPs like Google Fiber and Cox Communications...
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Some Google Fi users are facing a strange problem where long texts sent using the service in English are being received in Chinese. The issue has been reported by multiple Fi users and seems unrelated to the phone or cellular carrier the texts are received on. One of the first reports of the issue surfaced about 18...
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The cybersecurity advisory unit of U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning to Windows computer users about code for a "wormable" bug that was published online last week. The exploit is known as SMBGhost and takes advantage of an issue in Windows' server message block or SMB. SMB is a component of...
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The next round of Galaxy Buds look like something Jack would trade the family cow for, in hopes that they contain magic abilities. They look like beans, is what we are saying. Bean-shaped earbuds were rumored to be the design Samsung would roll with, and it seems that will indeed be the case, according to an image...
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Dell’s premium XPS family of notebooks is growing, literally. The company recently announced the all-new XPS 17, and as the name implies, this new Dell laptop features a spacious – and gorgeous – 17-inch display. It also features the updated design language introduced with the company’s redesigned XPS 13 9380, and the...
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Towards the end of April, Nintendo issued a notice saying login details for as many as 160,000 Nintendo accounts had been compromised as a result of a data breach. In actuality, the number of affected accounts is nearly twice as high—Nintendo this week provided an update on the matter, saying it has identified an...
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A couple of unannounced Samsung SSDs have shown up on Amazon’s website; one of which seems like a pretty mundane release, and one of which that packs quite a punch with respect to storage space. The two SSDs are from Samsung’s QVO family of SATA III SSDs which prioritize capacity and [relatively] low cost over...
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It is only Tuesday and it has already been a wild week, in regards to GPU leaks and rumors. First there was an actual photo of a supposed GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, then a user on Reddit concocted some official looking (but not actually official) renders, including the image above. Now there is chatter of NVIDIA...
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Any gamers who purchased a new console in recent years knows that they often come with bundled games that require you to type in lengthy codes to redeem. Not only do those codes take a long time to type in using an on-screen keyboard, but it's also frustratingly easy to mistype them and have to start all over...
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It has been nearly two weeks since Microsoft released the May 2020 Update for Windows 10 the general public, and on my main desktop, I still get a message saying it is not yet available. That is fine by me, because I'd rather Microsoft work the post-release kinks out first. It seems more of them come light by the day...
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Is it finally happening? After years and year of speculation and rumors, it looks as though we'll finally hear about Apple's official plans to make the transition to Arm CPU architecture for its Mac desktops and laptops later this month at WWDC 2020. This comes after we heard earlier this year that Apple's...
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Apple is notorious for high prices and rare [big] discounts on its notebooks, such as the MacBook Air. When discounts are seen on Apple hardware, Apple fans typically rejoice, and anyone considering upgrading should catch this deal which is available at both Amazon and B&H.
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Sony had originally planned to discuss “The Future of Gaming” on the PlayStation 4 on June 4th, but widespread demonstrations and unrest resulting from the death of George Floyd postponed those plans. Before the June 4th event was scheduled to take place, Sony released the following statement:
While we understand...
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For many months, the most important thing that SpaceX has been working on has been its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Crew Dragon capsule. CEO Elon Musk is now pushing employees by stating that the Starship rocket is now the company's top priority. Musk sent out a company-wide email on Saturday urging employees to...
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If you're currently running a PC with a Kaby Lake-G processor onboard, we've got some bad news for you. It appears that both Intel and AMD have missed the mark when it comes to graphics driver support. If you recall, Kaby Lake-G was a rather breakthrough (and unexpected) product developed together by two fierce rivals...
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The main draw of using WhatsApp is enhanced privacy through end-to-end encryption, followed by its popularity—more than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use the instant messaging service. This also makes privacy and security lapses all the more glaring, when they are found. And according to a security who...
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