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We’ve been hearing about Google’s Fuchsia in dribs and drabs for years, but it appears that the company is really gearing up to push development of the next-generation mobile operating system. Google has posted official documentation at Fuchsia.dev, which is indeed a Google-owned domain. According to Android... Read more...
Good news if your 2018 model MacBook Air is giving you trouble—Apple has discovered an issue with the logic board and has instructed to employees at Apple Store locations as well Authorized Service Providers to fix affected units at no charge. If you own an affected model, you should receive an email from the... Read more...
The developer of the rather disturbing and depraved 'DeepNude' application, that is programmed to "undress" women using machine learning and AI technology, has shut down the operation following a backlash on social media. In a message posted to Twitter, the developer acknowledged that "the probability that people will... Read more...
Fortnite’s latest Fortbyte challenge has player’s embracing their inner disco fever. Fortnite players can obtain Fortbyte #53 by dancing it out to raise a disco ball. This particular challenge will also require a dancing partner who is down to cut some rug with you. Players will need to grab at least one friend and... Read more...
This mobile app is definitely something to scream about in more ways than one. The Android game “Scary Granny ZOMBYE Mod: The Horror Game 2019” s stealing users’ Google and Facebook data. The malicious app attempts to siphon both data and money from its users to attackers.  “Scary Granny ZOMBYE Mod: The Horror Game... Read more...
Huawei will once again be allowed to purchase parts and components from US suppliers, including Intel and Qualcomm, after President Donald Trump announced that he is lifting the ban on the Chinese telecom. The decision was made after he met with China's president over the weekend. It also calls into question if the... Read more...
Deals and bargains loom right around the corner, but if you are in the market for a big screen TV or smart speaker right now, you can score a bargain on Amazon ahead of the upcoming Prime Day bonanza. Among them is a Toshiba 43-inch Fire TV Edition (shown above) that is marked down 40 percent, to just $179.99... Read more...
The GeForce RTX SUPER and Radeon RX 5700 family of graphics cards are right around the corner, which means that gamers will have a number of new graphics cards to choose from when building a new rig (or upgrading an existing one). Thankfully, we’re getting an early look at how performance is shaping up for two of... Read more...
Valve has come a long way since the days of Half-Life, which was revolutionary to gamers of a certain age when it was released in the late 90s. These days, Valve has its hands in many cookie jars including the Steam Store and Index VR headset. Gabe Newell was on hand at the Index launch event to taunt Half-Life fans... Read more...
Back in late February, Samsung announced its sleek and sporty Galaxy Watch Active, which is an Exynos 9110-powered smartwatch with a 1.1-inch 360x360 display running Tizen OS. Given that we are not far removed from the launch of the Galaxy Watch Active, we weren't expecting to see its... Read more...
The Steam Summer Sale is underway, and a couple days ago we ran down twelve of the best games with the most significant discounts. Steam has a mechanic on the Summer Sale called the Steam Grand Prix that has been the source of lots of player and developer ire for its confusing and very complicated gameplay and... Read more...
The Core i9-9900K is among the fastest processors that Intel makes available for the mainstream/enthusiast segment of the market. The processor is part of Intel's 9th generation Core family, has 8 cores/16 threads along with a base clock of 3.6GHz and single-core boost of 5GHz. However, AMD is gunning for Intel in... Read more...
Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner, and while the usual assortment of discounts and bargains will be in full swing, Twitch Prime is planning to gift subscribers exclusive in-game Apex Legends content. This will include a unique Legend skin and weapon skin, along with three more exclusive Apex Legends skins... Read more...
The first set of actual, real life photos of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 10+ have leaked online, and assuming they are real, the pictures bring with them confirmation of a few details. One of those details is the overall rectangular shape of the Galaxy S10, as has been spied in previously leaked renders and case... Read more...
The EVO series is a member of Origin's thin-and-light family of gaming laptops. The words "thin-and-light" aren't often used when describing powerful gaming laptops, but considering Origin has managed to squeeze both an Intel 9th generation 6-core processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX series GPU into the EVO17-S, a... Read more...
AMD has begun pushing out a firmware fix for its EPYC server processors that addresses the way the chips provide Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). Left unpatched, an attacker could leverage the vulnerability to recover a secure key, which could then be used to access an isolated virtual machine (VM) on a targeted... Read more...
When Microsoft launched the Windows 10 May 2019 Update last month to the public, one of the big changes came with how the Cortana virtual assistant is presented to the user. Previously, Cortana and Search were fused together in the taskbar. However, the May 2019 Update separated the two so that they could be further... Read more...
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X hasn't even been officially released yet, but the processor is already making waves in the enthusiast community and breaking world records while overclocked. The Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores/32 threads, and boasts a base clock of 3.5GHz and a boost clock of 4.7GHz.  However, as we've seen in... Read more...
Surprise! Amazon is taking preorders for a pair of "Super" variants of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX series graphics cards that have not yet been officially announced. They include the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super XC Gaming and EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 Super XC Ultra Gaming, priced at $599.99 and $499.99... Read more...
Apple has had a big week, most notably its famed designer Jony Ive has left the company to join his own design firm. Apple has also announced that its Apple Music service has now passed 60 million subscribers. That number come from Eddy Cue in an interview given this week with a French news site. It appears that... Read more...
Sir Jony Ive, who has been with Apple for nearly three decades, is officially saying goodbye to the company. Ive landed at Apple in 1992, took over the reigns as head of the company’s design efforts back in 1996, and has been instrumental in Apple’s iconic designs like the original iPod, the iPhone and the Apple Watch... Read more...
Most Android users simply use Google Chrome by default for their browser because it's there and well, it works. However, there are plenty of alternative browsers out there for the Android platform including Firefox, which is getting a big update today. The new browser is being dubbed the Firefox Preview in its... Read more...
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