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Latest News - March 2022
- 2.5 Geeks: Hot Tech Announcements From February And MWC Livestream
- Windows 11 Insider Build Tests Major Security Upgrade And Controversial Credit Card Feature
- Qualcomm Thumbs Up Samsung's LPDDR5X DRAM For Next-Gen Snapdragon Phones
- Apple Confirms March Launch Event Date And Time: What To Expect
- Polestar O2 Electric Roadster Deploys A Tracking Drone To Record Your Driving Skills
- Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake vPro Arrives With AI Enhanced Security For SMBs And Enterprise
- Intel Starts Fusing Off AVX-512 In Alder Lake Silicon To Thwart BIOS Workarounds
- NASA Offers To Fly Your Name Around The Moon On Its Artemis 1 Rocket For Free
- Pioneer Just Made A New Optical Disc Drive For PCs And Yes It's 2022
- Epic Games Tries To Strike A Chord With Music Fans In Surprise Bandcamp Acquisition
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Raid Prep Guide, Deeper Into Darkness
- PlayStation 5 Restock Is Headed To Amazon, What You Need To Know
- Ukraine Urges Microsoft And Sony To Pull PlayStation And Xbox Support From Russia
- DisplayPort 2.0 Ultra High Bit Rate Cable Certification Aims To Avoid The HDMI 2.1 Debacle
- TeaBot Malware Taints Google Play Store Again, Now Targets US In This QR Scanner App
- Intel, AMD, Arm And Other Semiconductor Giants Back A Universal Chiplet Interconnect Standard
- Elden Ring Streamer Beats A Boss Using A Nintendo Ring Fit, No Sweat
- Playing Elden Ring On A PlayStation 5 Or PC? Download This Patch Now
- Apple Halts Product Sales To Russia As More Brands Take A Stand
- MediaTek Dimensity 8000 SoCs Promise Flagship Performance For Cheaper 5G Android Phones
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All News for March 2022
Join us as we recap the hottest headlines, reviews and unveilings from the past couple of weeks! Intel's Dragon Canyon NUC 12 Extreme, Ryzen 6000 mobile, the Alienware x14 with Alder Lake, the RedMagic 7 gaming phone, MWC unveilings like Qualcomm WiFi-7, Snapdragon-powered ThinkPads and more...
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While Microsoft already released Windows 11 back in October and has since been rolling it out to eligible devices, the “Windows as a service” model means that, like Windows 10, Windows 11 will continue to receive relatively frequent updates with substantial changes and new features. These updates first appear in...
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Certain components tend to hog the limelight when a flagship phone emerges. You know the ones—the SoC (processor and GPU), camera arrangement, storage, and of course the display. What about memory? That matters too, though it's usually the capacity that gets talked about the most. Samsung wants to talk performance...
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In a rare Twitter post from Apple, the Cupertino company announced it is holding a special event next week. Apple's senior vice president of marketing, Greg Joswiak, also confirmed the upcoming event with the clever caption, "Peek performance" (get it?). There's also a countdown timer on Apple's website to its...
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The Polestar O2 is an electric roadster concept that is designed with no roof, no noise, no fumes, and of course a drone. Wait, what? Yep, a cinematic drone housed in the rear of the vehicle will make recording those epic road trips easier than ever before.
When one thinks about electric vehicles, the first name...
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Intel today has extended its vPro platform into its 12th Gen mobile and desktop CPU lineup based on Alder Lake, and with the expansion comes some new features and additional segmentation for different size businesses and enterprise clients. As it pertains to the latter, Intel added a couple of new tiers, including...
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Ever since the advent of the Multi-Media eXtensions, better known as "MMX," Intel has had a long history of tacking on instruction set extensions to add additional capabilities to its x86-family of CPUs. There have been many other instructions for other purposes, but arguably the most important additions to the ISA...
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NASA's Artemis 1 mission is nearing launch, and you can hitch a ride for free a trip around the Moon. Well, your name can at least.
The Artemis program looks to return human boots back to the surface of the Moon, and eventually even further into space. Future missions will include the first person of color and...
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I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to stick one into. Pioneer, like the honey badger, doesn't give two flips and has released a new 5.25-inch optical disc drive...
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What happens when you combine a major video game developer and publisher with an indie music platform? We do not know yet, but we are about to find out. It was recently announced that Epic Games is acquiring Bandcamp.
Bandcamp is an online record store and music community whose purpose is to allow music fans to...
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Each new Destiny 2 expansion brings with it a raid and The Witch Queen is no exception. These activities can be challenging and therefore require a bit of planning. Here is everything we know about the Destiny 2: The Witch Queen raid and what you can do to prepare for it.
What Is A Raid?
First, what are Destiny...
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You would think that after nearly a year and a half on the market, finding a PlayStation 5 console in stock would be rather easy. And in normal times, it probably would be. The problem is, these times are anything but normal and all the newfangled hardware for gamers—PS5, Xbox Series X, PC graphics cards—remains...
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Over the past week, Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, has been corresponding with tech companies, calling for them to halt operations in Russia and provide aid to Ukraine. Elon Musk responded directly to Fedorov on Twitter, announcing that Starlink internet...
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You may recall that HDMI 2.1 offers improved transfer rates and extra features (like variable-refresh-rate support) over previous versions of the format. If you're properly informed, you may also recall that all of those features, including the improved transfer rate, are completely optional.
The HDMI Administrator...
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It wouldn't be a typical day in tech space without something security-related going down. Like many types of malware, this one hides in plain sight, and if you have the affected app or apps installed, you should remove them immediately. The app in question is a functioning QR Code Scanner. Fitting, considering the US...
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When it comes to the future of processor design, the writing is on the wall: chiplets are here to stay and will drive modular designs from the likes of Intel, AMD, Arm, and others. In fact, those same companies, along with other heavy hitters in the tech industry, are throwing their collective weight behind an...
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FromSoftware's latest game, Elden Ring, may not wear the "Souls" moniker, but it's certainly a spiritual sequel to that storied series (with more than a little bit of Sekiro sprinkled in for taste.) The "Soulsborne" series is notorious for its difficulty, arising in part from its relatively deep mechanics that require...
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It took a minute, but the annoying save bug in Elden Ring that was driving some PlayStation 5 players bonkers has been patched out with the latest 1.02.2 update. Bandai Namco shared the good news on Twitter, saying the patch is available now. It's a relatively small update, and a most welcome one that also brings with...
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As the international community continues to deliver more sanctions against Russia, Apple has decided to stop sales in the country as well. In a statement, the company says it has taken a number of actions in response to the invasion.
The crisis between Russia and Ukraine continues to be a major concern and focus...
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Most of the announcements bound for this year's Mobile World Congress even hit the news wire a bit early, though it hasn't been completely dry since the initial flurry. To wit, MediaTek has unveiled a pair of Dimensity 8000 series SoCs that are intended to bring "flagshlp level technology" and performance to Android...
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Would you like to play Destiny 2: The Witch Queen on your shiny, new Steam Deck? Think again. Destiny 2 players could potentially be banned if they attempt to play the game on a Steam Deck.
Bungie stated, “Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless...
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A pair of supermassive blackholes are locked in a fateful dance that draws them ever closer to one another. Once the pair finally merges in approximately 10,000 years, the result is expected to send out gravitational waves that will rattle space and time itself.
Astronomers have known that quasars could possess two...
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