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AMD says its graphics cards offer better performance & power consumption per dollar than Nvidia GPUs
Posted on Tuesday May 17, 2022
Frank Azor, AMD's Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions and Marketing, tweeted that as a gamer, he is grateful to see renewed competition in the high-end graphics card segment. He also posted a chart claiming to show how AMD's Radeon lineup fares against Nvidia's similarly priced equivalents when it comes to... Continue Reading »
Sony confirms PlayStation Plus relaunch games, perks and other details
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
In March, Sony outlined its upcoming PlayStation Plus tiers and prices but left a lot of blanks, promising more details to come. On Monday, it fulfilled its promise with an announcement listing dozens of games from every PlayStation system (except the PlayStation Vita) available on day one. The new tiers... Continue Reading »
CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX believes that Bitcoin has no future as a payments network
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
In a Monday interview, crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried said that he doesn't see a future for Bitcoin as a payments network. Bankman-Fried is the founder and CEO of FTX, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Continue Reading »
IT admin gets seven years in prison for nuking company servers
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
A disgruntled IT administrator for a real estate firm was sentenced to seven years in prison for wiping his employer's financial servers. The 40-year-old worker attempted to make the data unrecoverable, prompting the harsh penalty. However, the company was able to rebuild the databases and reenter the lost data at... Continue Reading »
Researchers claim malware can be loaded onto iPhones that have been powered down
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
The exploit is related to a feature in iOS 15 that allows Find My to work for several hours after a device has been turned off. Specifically, chips used for Bluetooth, near field communication (NFC) and ultra-wideband (UWB) continue to run in a low-power mode (LPM) even after a user-initiated shutdown. Continue Reading »
China's top chipmaker claims that smartphone, PC demand has declined substantially
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun told analysts that demand for smartphones, PCs, and home appliances has decreased dramatically. Continue Reading »
Verizon to increase admin fee on consumer accounts, introduce new line item for business users
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
The nation's largest carrier will increase the administrative fee for consumer accounts by $1.35 per voice line starting with the June billing cycle. Consumer fees for tablets, smartwatches, hotspots and other data products won't be impacted according to a report from CNET. Continue Reading »
Samsung SSD Magician lets you check drive's health and update your SSD firmware
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
Samsung SSD Magician is a management tool to check your Samsung's drive health, execute secure erasing, get TBW lifetime writes left, perform firmware updates, and more. Continue Reading »
Valve releases Steam Deck audio drivers for Windows
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
Valve launched an initial set of Windows drivers for the Steam Deck handheld in early March. These drivers lacked firmware Trusted Platform Module (fTPM) support, however, which limited installations to Windows 10 only. Valve was also waiting for AMD to get the audio drivers ready. Windows 11 support would arrive... Continue Reading »
Netflix is working on a longer and more cinematic new season of Black Mirror
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022
Real-life comparisons with previous Black Mirror episodes have become worryingly common in recent times, from gun-carrying robot dogs (Metalhead) to Meta's eye-tracking advertising tech (Fifteen Million Merits, one of Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya's early roles). Continue Reading »