In a disturbing revelation that highlights the evolving nature of cyber threats, a YouTuber uncovered a significant security lapse where a printer manufacturer inadvertently distributed malware-laced software to its customers for at least six months. The drivers, which were hosted on popular file hosting site Mega.nz...Read more...
Have you read our review of the MSI Claw 8 AI+? If you haven't, please do! We were quite fond of the machine and had a lot of nice things to say about it, although one of our complaints was about the aesthetics; the odd beige color that MSI chose for the system's handgrips gave it a very unusual vibe. Well, MSI's...Read more...
Rightly or wrongly, most folks historically assumed that Macs were the way to go, for digital music production. However, Windows has been home to just about every digital audio workstation (DAW) outside of Apple's own Logic and GarageBand. Even though Windows on Arm has been around for several years now, DAWs have...Read more...
Unless you're willing to build a piranha-filled moat around your home and then surround it with barbed wire and wooden spikes, you're not likely to prevent a determined porch pirate from plucking your holiday package right off your doorstep. However, a Ring doorbell or other security camera can at least serve as a...Read more...
Jupiter is well-known for its Great Red Spot, but astronomers have recently discovered equally large spots at the giant gas planets north and south poles that appear and disappear at random. The dark UV ovals were first spotted by NASAs Hubble spacecraft in the late 1990s, but have only recently been studied in...Read more...
We would hope that dropping a solid state drive (SSD) wouldn't destroy it, even on a hard surface like tile or concrete, not unless you also happen to step on it immediately after it hits the ground. Nevertheless, ASUS is offering up another rugged enclosure for anyone who wants a portable storage solution, and it...Read more...
While the James Webb Space Telescope has been solving the Universe's riddles in the last couple of years, Hubble continues to prove its value. One recent example was a new image comprising more than 500 images from Hubble spanning two decades of the innermost region of Omega Centauri, providing new evidence for the...Read more...
The download size of video games is getting out of hand. For a massive open world game with ten years of updates like GTA Online, 110 GB isn't out of the realm of possibility. When a first-person shooter like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is 235GB, with the upcoming Black Ops 6 reportedly being over 300 GB, well, we...Read more...
LG Electronics announced a new addition to its Tone line of earphones. The Tone Free T80 can be had for under $200 and is touted as "the worlds first Dolby Atmos earbud series designed to enhance listening with Dolby Head Tracking." Let's take a quick look to see what that actually means for consumers.
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We recently had the opportunity to meet with Qualcomm to learn the latest about its Snapdragon X processor line-up for emerging AI PCs and to get more hands-on time for performance benchmarks. During our meeting, we got the scoop on the Snapdragon X Plus, a 10-core variant of the platform that will drop into the...Read more...
Nothing Phone (2a) - Starting at $349 Nothing’s Phone (2a) is an affordable mid-range smartphone that punches way above its weight. Solid performance Cool design Beautiful display Decent cameras Outstanding battery life Clean, responsive software No 4k selfie video Limited US band support No wireless charging No...Read more...
If you're quick, you can save on some great deals from Best Buy this weekend before they disappear. Deals include a Samsung Tab S8 Ultra tablet, Apple MacBook Air, and an outdoor TV.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra Deal
Anyone who needs to be productive on the go will benefit greatly by having a powerful and portable...Read more...
NASA shared a scintillating view of the annular eclipse from 1 million miles in space. The image was produced by a 10-channel spectroradiometer onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.
Onlookers gazed upward this weekend as the Moon moved between the Sun and Earth and created what is known...Read more...
With Father's Day just around the corner, here are a few deals that dear old dad is sure to appreciate. There are plenty of ideas to choose from that range from a pair of Sonos Bluetooth speakers to a gaming PC from HP.
Liven Up The Party With Sonance Speakers
What dad would not appreciate a set of Sonos outdoor...Read more...
While AI technologies (like NVIDIA's ACE for Games and Microsoft's Windows Copilot) have dominated the discussion so far this week at Computex, ASUS is making a splash in graphics hardware. According to ASUS, its ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 ships with the highest out-of-box GPU boost clock speed ever for...Read more...
Back in the day, liquid cooling meant "custom loop," but you only needed to worry about the two or three processors at the most. These days, when you're doing custom-loop liquid-cooling, you need to cool almost every major component on every single board. That means cooling memory and power delivery hardware as well...Read more...
Kohler's latest-and-greatest smart toilet, the Numi 2.0, is available for your home starting today. It packs every commode tech that's guaranteed to make your tush blush, but if you know of better ways to flush $12,000 of your hard-earned cash down the (smart) toilet, let us know in the comments.
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Keeping it simple, Xiaomi unveiled the 13 and 13 Pro models as part of itsXiaomi 13 series, packed to the gills with the latest specs, and thus giving us a hint that the smartphone wars won't be easing up in 2023. Highlighting the Xiaomi 13 series is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 4nm processor paired with a new Adreno...Read more...
An international team has identified a very large atomic gas structure which spans nearly 2 million light-years in a region around a famous quintet of galaxies. The team used the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) 19-beam receiver to unveil the atomic gas around Stephan's Quintet.
Stephan's...Read more...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an alluring image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2, showcasing a tempestuous and turbulent stellar nursery of infant stars. Both objects are located in the constellation Orion, and are about 1,250 light-years away from Earth.
While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...Read more...
Hubble has provided the imagery necessary to identify a black hole that is growing at a breakneck speed in the early universe. Astronomers believe that it could be the "missing link" between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes.
Until recently, a supermassive black hole, known as...Read more...
NASA believes it may be on the bubble of creating a bigger and better space telescope. The bigger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the farther astronomers are able to gaze into the vastness of space.
As the world patiently awaits the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to cool down enough to become...Read more...