On Wednesday night, a serious incident involving an undersea cable in the south of France caused widespread internet connectivity issues. At least three fiber cables were severed... | Continue reading
With the arrival of DirectX 10, vertex and pixel shaders maintained large levels of common function, and so moving to a unified shader architecture made sense. The... | Continue reading
Hot of the heels of AMD's Zen 4 series launch, here comes Intel with their highly anticipated 13th-gen Core series, codenamed Raptor Lake. Today we're reviewing the... | Continue reading
It's safe to say that one of the best inventions for PC components was the creation of NAND flash and the subsequent M.2 SSDs. The ability to... | Continue reading
Reports indicate that LG Display (LGD) is readying mid-sized WOLED panels for both TVs and gaming monitors, responding to falling demand. The displays should become available sometime... | Continue reading
With CPUs and GPUs continuing to get more powerful with each new generation, the push for ever more realistic graphics in blockbuster games shows no signs of... | Continue reading
Let's talk GPU prices and this month's update is very interesting because of two key factors: the first, Nvidia just launched new GeForce 40 series graphics cards;... | Continue reading
The bad news for Facebook came from a survey by Pew Research Center. It questioned 1,316 U.S. teens between the ages of 13 and 17 about their... | Continue reading
On Tuesday, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced it is investigating Apple, Google, and the local One Store, for allegedly violating its app payment processor law. The... | Continue reading
Back in 2013, James Howells's life changed when he threw out a hard drive that may just be the most valuable in the world. Before doing so,... | Continue reading
This week, Kaspersky researchers revealed a new firmware rootkit dubbed "CosmicStrand," which is believed to be the work of an unknown group of Chinese malicious actors. | Continue reading
Insider reports that Meta's human-resources chief, Lori Goler, sent a memo to staff warning that the company has started to operate with "increased intensity" and that it... | Continue reading
Filmmakers and researchers have proposed multiple factors to explain the rising popularity of subtitles. Reasons include changes in how viewers process information, what people are watching, and... | Continue reading
We already knew that improved availability, much of which is due to people leaving the crypto mining business, is pushing down the prices of graphics cards—below MSRP,... | Continue reading
The Persona Driven Dynamic Content Framework patent, originally spotted in April by Op Attack (via Exputer/VGC), describes a way of determining a 'player persona' based on the... | Continue reading
There are very few things out there that have not already been made to run one version of Doom or another -- everything from calculators, iPods, inkjet... | Continue reading
Microsoft last May announced that it would be killing off Internet Explorer in its traditional form this year. Now, the near three-decade-old software is about to be... | Continue reading
Israeli company Electreon has announced that it's planning to build the first US road with wireless-charging capabilities for electric vehicles. The pilot project is set to be... | Continue reading
Chrome 101.0.4951.41 for Windows, Mac, and Linux contains several fixes for severe security flaws. Google paid out a total of $29,000 for four of the top six... | Continue reading
The Meta team worked with Professors Lav Varshney and Nishant Garg from the University of Illinois to conduct the initial model's training using the Concrete Compressive Strength... | Continue reading
NASA writes (via Space.com) that a team of doctors was last year "holoported" to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Microsoft HoloLens Kinect camera and some... | Continue reading
Apple is now manufacturing some iPhone 13 handsets in India in a continued bid to better diversify production. | Continue reading
When enabled, Smart App Control uses AI and Microsoft's cloud knowledge base to check every app that runs, blocking anything unsigned, unfamiliar, or known to be malicious.... | Continue reading
For years, Adobe Flash was synonymous with interactive websites, web video, and browser games. At its peak, Flash Player was on 99% of desktop browsers. A decade... | Continue reading
The hackers behind the Nvidia security breach are setting their sights on the biggest tech companies in the world. Last week, South American hacker group Lapsus$ claimed... | Continue reading
Epic fantasy and sci-fi writer Brandon Sanderson launched a Kickstarter campaign for four new “secret novels” written over the past two years. Each book is about 400... | Continue reading
On Sunday, Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Federov tweeted a plea for all major crypto exchanges to block addresses of Russian users. “It's crucial to freeze not... | Continue reading
Users have been awaiting Windows 11’s touted support for Android apps since before the operating system launched last year. The first public, albeit limited, Android support came... | Continue reading
Last week, security researchers notified developers that they had discovered an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Apache Struts framework. The flaw was in the Log4J logging... | Continue reading
After looking at the performance of Apple's M1 Pro SoC powering the new MacBook Pro 16, there's another unique component in this laptop that's worth looking into,... | Continue reading
From September 2021 until now, the York Regional Police have already encountered five cases where suspects used Apple AirTags to track vehicles they were allegedly planning to... | Continue reading
Authorities in Yuma, Arizona, have arrested a 23-year-old man accused of making fraudulent returns at more than 1,000 Walmart stores across the country over an 18-month span. | Continue reading
Taiwan news outlet Commercial Times claims that the graphics processing hardware in the Meteor Lake CPUs will be TSMC 3nm chips. Industry insiders say TSMC will start... | Continue reading
Taiwan company VIA Technologies sent out a press release this week briefly discussing the deal with Intel. All it says is that Intel will be able to... | Continue reading
Last week saw Facebook confirm rumors that it is changing its name. While the social media platform retains the Facebook brand, the company itself is now called... | Continue reading
It can be difficult to differentiate individual owners from larger groups and exchanges that hold currency for many users, but the NBER was able to skirt this... | Continue reading
Between the strict system requirements and all the bugs and performance problems, Windows 11 isn’t a typical Microsoft OS release. For one, many people can’t upgrade their... | Continue reading
We’ve previously detailed on how you can bypass Microsoft’s TPM and CPU requirements to get Windows 11 running on your unsupported PC. And while that may be... | Continue reading
Cloud security firm, Bitglass, recreated a data tracking experiment from 2015 by inventing a fictional identity selling login and password data. Researchers then posted the information in... | Continue reading
Leacraft decided to file the lawsuit upon discovering a Pixma MG2522 printer he purchased, advertised as an "all-in-one" machine, would not function as a scanner when ink... | Continue reading
Despite the Chinese government's obvious dislike of crypto, the country has long been responsible for the majority of the global bitcoin hash rate—partly because of its cheaper... | Continue reading
Back in July, Chinese media outlets reported that Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) was getting ready for mass manufacturing of 128-layer 3D NAND memory, which is considered... | Continue reading
Moore's Law has been on life support for a while now, but it's not dead yet. ASML says its latest EUV lithography machine will extend the validity... | Continue reading
Louis Barclay, creator of the Unfollow Everything browser extension that lets users unfollow—not unfriend—all their friends, groups, and pages simultaneously (rather than individually), writes that his program... | Continue reading
Twitch has been having a hard week, and it's not quite over yet. This morning, hackers were able to deface the platform for a few hours, seemingly... | Continue reading
This past spring, Stack Overflow ran a gag in which every time a user entered the keyboard command to copy characters from the site, they’d get a... | Continue reading
Most people who hear the word "Nokia" associate it with mobile phones, but there's a convoluted history to tell since the company's humble beginnings over 150 years... | Continue reading
Mining the top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum requires vast amounts of power. A single Bitcoin transaction, including the resources needed to mine the coin and... | Continue reading