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- Microsoft Flight Simulator Steam Users Request Extended Refund Window For This Reason
- Read How Apple Engineers Covertly Helped The U.S. Government Build A Top Secret iPod
- Facebook Accounts Will Soon Be Mandatory For Oculus VR Headsets, Plus More Changes For Gamers
- Backblaze Q2 2020 Hard Drive Analysis Highlights Promising Boost In Overall Reliability
- Motorola Razr 5G Specs Leak Points To Larger Battery And 18W Fast Charging
- SK Hynix Gold P31 Is The First 128-Layer SSD And It's Smoking Fast For The Money
- AMD Launches A520 Budget Chipset For Zen 2 And Future Zen 3 Ryzen CPUs
- Researchers Developing 'Anti-Solar Panel' That Generates Power During Darkness Of Night
- Microsoft Announces Phaseout Plan For Internet Explorer 11 And Legacy Edge Browsers
- These Samsung Galaxy Phones And Tablets Will Receive Three Generations Of Android OS Updates
- Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G Review: Samsung's Most Powerful Phone Yet
- Apple Says Epic's App Store Wounds Are Self-Inflicted, Won't Make Exceptions For Fortnite
- Intel's 11th Gen Tiger Lake Mobility CPU Die Revealed At Hot Chips 2020
- Lenovo Announces Yoga 6 And Yoga 7i Convertibles Rocking AMD Ryzen 4000, Intel Tiger Lake CPUs
- NVIDIA's GeForce NOW Brings Fast-Paced, AAA PC Gaming To Chromebooks
- Apple Goes Nuclear, Threatens To Terminate Epic Games' Dev Accounts Over Fortnite Insubordination
- Intel Next-Gen Xe-HPG Discrete Gaming GPUs Tipped For TSMC 6nm Production Run
- Apple's Independent Repair Program Program Now Includes Macs
- Microsoft Reportedly Adding Multi-Device Logins For Xbox Live And Project xCloud
- Ghost Of Tsushima For PlayStation 4 Is Gaining These Free-To-Play Co-Op Modes
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All News for August 2020
When purchasing a game on Steam, customers have two hours to try it out and, if desired, request a refund. The policy is designed to protect gamers against being stuck with a game that does not run right on their hardware, or simply take a mulligan on a game they did not like. However, some customers have pointed out...
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Back in 2005, the incredibly popular iPhone didn't exist, and one of the biggest money-makers for Apple was the legendary iPod. The iPod was still in its early days and looked very clunky compared to the svelte iPod Touch that's still available today. One of the engineers working on the iPod project at Apple was a man...
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In what could be a dealbreaker for some VR gamers that own Oculus devices, Facebook announced today that beginning in October, it will remove provisions that allow users to have separate Oculus and Facebook accounts. Instead, first-time Oculus device users will be required to login with a Facebook account.
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Backblaze is one of the top-end personal and business data backup companies out there. Providing data backup to a plethora of people is no easy task, and it also a massive amount of hard drives. Quarterly, Backblaze reports on the drives they have in their systems and what they have newly deployed. This is a...
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The Motorola Razr was announced to much fanfare in late 2019, and officially launched to the public in early 2020. Given the speed at which companies iterate with smartphones, it should come as no surprise that Motorola is ready to deliver a specs bump for its high-dollar flagship folding smartphone.
The latest...
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Memory maker SK Hynix is over the moon at being the first to market with a consumer solid state drive (SSD) that uses 128-layer NAND flash memory chips, and while that is notable, the real treat here is the balance of speed and price. The company's new Gold P31 is both fast and relatively affordable, particularly in...
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Over the weekend we reported that the launch of the value priced A520 motherboards from AMD was coming soon. These boards are now finally out, boasting great options for I/O and bandwidth for all users and promising support for the future “Zen 3” architecture while also supporting current third-generation Ryzen...
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By their design, solar power panels do their clean work during the day, catching rays of light from the sun and converting it into electricity. It is a clean, renewable energy source, and it can save on electricity bills, too. But have you heard of an anti-solar panel? It does not return energy back to the sun, but...
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Internet Explorer long ago ruled that roost amongst web browsers and played a pivotal role in how many websites were designed for years. Internet Explorer's dominance faded, however, with the arrival of Google Chrome. And by the time Internet Explorer 11 rolled out in 2013, Microsoft had become an also-ran in the...
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It is always nice when smartphone manufacturers commit to supporting their handsets with software updates for a long time because let's face it, these pocket-sized computers are expensive. As in, north of grand, in some cases. As it applies to this, Samsung announced it will support select Galaxy phones for three...
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Samsung announced its latest flagship, large-format smartphones -- the brand-new Galaxy Note 20 5G and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G -- at this month's Galaxy Unpacked Event, along with a host of additional wearable and tablet products. As is typically the case when Samsung updates its premiere line of devices, the new...
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There are many layers to the onion that represents the fractured relationship between Apple and Epic Games. Sure, Epic has problems with Google as well, but Apple seems to be the primary target of its venom over the past week. The most recent shots were fired yesterday, when Epic announced that Apple had given it...
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It won't be long before Intel formally launches its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs. In the meantime, the company has been sharing more information about Tiger Lake, first during its Architecture Day 2020 event last week, and more recently at the Hot Chips symposium. One of the things to spill out of the latter is a...
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Lenovo has announced it will be updating some of its Yoga notebooks this fall. Last year's Yoga C640 and Yoga C740 get new names to match Lenovo's latest product branding. The C640 becomes the Yoga 6 while the C740 becomes the Yoga 7i 14-inch and 15-inch. Along with the new name, the machines also get new hardware and...
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NVIDIA has announced that its game streaming service GeForce NOW is finally adding support for Google ChromeOS devices. Users on affordable and lower power Chromebook laptops can now play high-end video games using the streaming service, joining in with their PC, Mac, Android, and SHIELD counterparts.
To get...
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The bitter war between Apple and Epic Games has just entered a new phase. Epic has just revealed that Apple has given the company an ultimatum, which boils down to "get Fortnite in compliance" or face our ultimate wrath.
In this case, Epic claims that if Fortnite doesn't shape up by August 28th, Apple will...
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In recent weeks, Intel has been sharing some additional details about its discrete GPU plans, especially during its Architecture Day 2020 event last week. From a consumer standpoint, one of the more interesting revelations is the slotting of a high-end Xe-HPG GPU optimized for gaming into the lineup, which is...
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In August of 2019, we reported that Apple had finally adjusted some of the draconian rules and regulations to allow independent repair shops to get their hands on genuine Apple parts for iPhones. Only a year later, Apple is now affording the opportunity to get genuine parts for Mac computers.
Originally, when the...
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Microsoft has some big changes coming to its gaming platforms over the next few months, with the big launch of course being Xbox Series X. Although it hasn't been promoted nearly as much, Project xCloud streaming is almost as important, it not more important to the future of gaming at Microsoft.
In an effort to...
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A multiplayer co-op mode is headed to Ghost of Tsushima for the PlayStation 4 (PS4), Darren Bridges, senior game designer for Sucker Punch Productions, announced in a blog post on Monday. It will be offered as a free download sometime this fall, with the promise of the expansion being an "entirely new experience" that...
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New renderings have leaked a smartphone that is expected to bring a lower price point to the new Samsung Galaxy S20 line. The new smartphone is called the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G, FE reportedly stands for "Fan Edition." Along with the renders also come some details of the smartphone.
One thing that's clear from...
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With all the new games on the horizon, NVIDIA has to keep up with their drivers for game support. As such, NVIDIA today is releasing ‘Game Ready Driver’ version 452.06 for supporting several new games, optimal game settings, and G-SYNC compatible gaming monitors.
Over the course of the next few months, new games are...
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