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- Consumer PCIe Gen 5 Gaming SSDs Arrive For Sale In Japan At A Smoking 10GB/s
- An Old NSA-Found Security Threat Is Still Menacing Windows Users And Data Centers
- Top TV Deals: Samsung, Sony, TCL And More Up To 55% Off In Time For Super Bowl Sunday
- Experts Say We’re Running Out Of Space In Space Between Earth And The Moon
- FBI Beats Hive Ransomware Gang At Its Own Hacking Game With A $10M Bounty
- Amazon Tech Deals: Save Up To 38% Off Galaxy Buds, Gaming Monitors, 4K TVs And More
- AMD Throws Its Radeon RX 7000 RDNA 3 GPUs Under The Bus In Value Comparison
- Seagate's Storage Roadmap Teases 30TB Drives Coming Soon And 50TB By 2026
- This Samsung Galaxy S23 Drop Protection Feature Is Not Found On Any Other Smartphone
- Sony Revives The Walkman In Two Stunningly Slick Android Digital Music Players
- Intel Doubles Down On Meteor Lake CPUs Launching This Year, Lunar Lake In 2024
- NASA's Shocking Discovery Of A Ringed Asteroid 2B Miles Away Was Remarkable Luck
- Intel CEO Gelsinger Shares Silver Lining After Chipmaker Posts Brutal Earnings Results
- CISA Warns Of Heightened Hacking Threat Using Legit Remote Desktop Tools
- Intel's 56-Core Xeon W9-3495X Sapphire Rapids CPU Flexes Server Muscle In Early Benchmarks
- Monster RTX 4090 Gaming PC Tests DirectStorage In Forspoken With Fascinating Results
- GoldenEye 007 Is Making A Glorious Comeback On Xbox And Switch Online
- 2.5 Geeks: Genoa, Sapphire Rapids, Core i9-13900KS: POWERFUL CPUs And The Best Of CES 2023
- Pixel 7 And 6 Owners Are Getting Google's January Play System Update But There's A Problem
- Redfall Release Date Revealed For Xbox, PC And Game Pass, Here's New Gameplay Footage
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All News for January 2023
Have you ever heard of CFD Gaming? Neither have we, but the company appears to be first to market with a Phison-based PCIe 5.0 SSD. The M.2 NVMe drive has appeared in shops in Japan's famous Akihabara technology district with a 2TB capacity and a claimed maximum sequential read speed of 10 GB/sec.
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In 2022, the National Security Agency, in conjunction with the U.K’s National Cyber Security Centre, reported a critical vulnerability in the Windows CryptoAPI to Microsoft. While this was patched in August of 2022 and published in October of 2022, it could still prove to be a problem as threat actors could still...
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So you couldn't get tickets to the big game. Let's face it, not many folks do. Super Bowl tix are crazy expensive and you can still catch the game and half-time extravaganza in the comfort of your living room, with some friends, family and festivities. Thanks to some awesome discounts on TV deals, upgrading your...
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The race to get humans back to the Moon, and eventually, Mars has led to a precarious situation concerning the new frontier of space real estate. This has some concerned that it could lead to future tensions between Earth's superpowers, and possibly end in war.
Some will remember the first race to the Moon between...
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Last November, two weeks after the Biden administration held the second International Counter Ransomware Summit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning...
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There is never a bad time for a bargain and a little retail therapy may be just the ticket to brighten your day. We've put together what we think are fantastic deals on some of our favorite tech products that anyone can enjoy!
Everyone needs motivation now and again, and often that motivation comes in the form of...
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Understandably, AMD is really keen to sell through the remaining stock of its previous-generation RDNA 2-based graphics cards. To that end, the company has put up a blog post with a bunch of price-versus-performance data that carefully outlines why its Radeon RX 6000 series cards offer the best value. That's including...
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Seagate has just released its Q2 2023 financials, and it shared a selection of slides about its storage technology plans among the materials published for investors. In particular, we were interested to note that the iconic storage firm is still busy developing its hard disk drive (HDD) technologies and a new roadmap...
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Corning announced that Samsung's next generation of smartphones, assumed to be the Galaxy S23 family, will be the first to use Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The glass company says the latest generation of Gorilla glass uses a new composition that delivers improved drop performance on rough surfaces such as concrete, while...
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Sure, your phone plays music, but does it play music well? Those with audiophile leanings might want to take note of Sony's latest portable music players, the Walkman NW-ZX707 (above) and NW-A306. The product naming is pretty nebulous, and the feature sets are maybe a bit esoteric. They have FTCAP3 high-polymer...
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Intel is coming off a brutal quarter in which it posted one of its biggest losses ever for a three-month period, but it wasn't all a big slice of ham and pineapple pizza (or put another way, it wasn't all a big slice of awful). During its earnings presentation, Intel confirmed that its next-generation Meteor Lake CPU...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured footage of a ringed asteroid more than 2 billion miles away using a new technique, known as occultation. Chariklo is 160 miles (250 kilometers) in diameter and its rings orbit at a distance of around 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the center of the icy rock's...
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It was right around two years ago when Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Chief Executive Officer of Intel, replacing Bob Swan and returning to a company he first joined at just 18 years old before moving on 30 years later. During the past two years, he's made big and bold promises as he attempts to right the ship. There...
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Yesterday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning network defenders about phishing attacks that leverage remote monitoring and management...
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HPC and hyperscale guys are excited for Intel's Xeon Max processors with onboard HBM, but Sapphire Rapids comprises an entire line of processors spanning the whole range of Xeons. One of those chips has just shown up in the Geekbench database, spotted by the watchful eye of the Benchleaks bot.
The processor in...
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Square-Enix's Forspoken is out now, meaning that you can actually test DirectStorage in a real game. Forspoken even includes a built-in benchmark that not only shows framerates but also tracks load times. As you'd expect, faster SSDs mean faster load times, but they have another curious effect too: lower frame...
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The Nintendo 64’s iconic James Bond FPS adventure, GoldenEye 007, is due to be released on modern platforms tomorrow with support for modern standards such as widescreen 16:9 and 4K Ultra HD depending on platform. From Friday, January 27, the remastered title will become available worldwide on Nintendo Switch plus...
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In our latest episode of 2.5 Geeks, we cover Intel and AMD's beefiest, baddest processors that were announced this month for desktop PCs and the data center, including Sapphire Rapids, AMD EYPC Genoa, and the Core i9-13900KS. We also discuss the best we saw at CES 2023...
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Owners of Google's Pixel 6 and 7 smartphones are saying that there is a major problem with the January Play system update. According to some Pixel owners on Reddit, the latest update is not actually doing anything.
Google has had something of a rough patch with its Pixel flagship smartphones as of late. The Pixel 6...
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The "not like Left 4 Dead" undead fighting thriller Redfall, by Arkane Austin and Bethesda Softworks, has a new trailer we are very excited about. We now know when we'll get to visit the fictional island village of Redfall, Massachussettes, as well as a whole slew of gameplay details.
During the extensive...
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MAINGEAR MG-1 Gaming Desktop: Starting At $1499 The Maingear MG-1 is the fastest pre-built gaming PC we've ever tested. It also makes for a solid workstation, and it's not hard to look at, either. Excellent Performance Massive Room For Expansion Attractive And Customizable Impressive Build Quality High-Quality...
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Red Planet's surface that resembles that of a bear's face. The image was taken with the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Since arriving in Mars' orbit in 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has...
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