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Intel Formally Discontinues its 11th-Gen Raptor Lake Processor Series
Intel launched their 11th-gen Rocket Lake processor platform in March 2021 and overall, while not a resounding success, it did prove to be relatively popular with consumers. Albeit, given the continued retention of the heavily ageing 14nm node design, this did, once again, see another (somewhat infamous at the time)…
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Microsoft to End the Sale of Consumer Windows 10 Licenses on Jan 31st!
It’s been confirmed for around a year now that Windows 10 will officially enter its end of life on October 14th 2025. – Yep, put simply, those of you still on the operating system have under two years of security patches and updates left before Microsoft finally decides to put…
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Facebook (Meta) is Ending Support for the Original Oculus Quest VR
The Oculus Quest 2 is a hugely popular VR device with it currently holding a circa 47% market share according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey. On the other hand, however, the original first-generation model didn’t prove to be that popular with consumers. – Although predominantly due to its cost,…
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Be Aware Folks! – Microsoft is Ending Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Support Next Week!
While both the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 userbase is now quite significantly diminished, there are still a fairly significant number of people still utilising the operating systems. Yes, while the figure might be less than 15%, if you are still residing on one of those platforms then you need…
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Internet Explorer is Nearly Dead But Microsoft Might Finish the Job on Feb 14th!
Back in the Summer Microsoft officially announced that support for Internet Explorer had concluded and the browser was now officially in its ‘end-of-life’. – Yep, it had certainly been a pretty (well, mostly) solid 27 years worth of performance, but all good things must come to an end, and, in…
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Nvidia Reportedly Ends Both 2060 AND 16XX Production!
Earlier this month information appeared online suggesting that Nvidia had (somewhat quietly) ended production of the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. While there has yet to be any formal confirmation regarding this, in many respects, the decision both did and didn’t make sense. From the ‘didn’t’ aspect, the 2060 has…
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Epson Receives Renewed Criticism Over End-of-Life Bricking Firmware!
Printers are probably the most detested piece of computer-related technology around. They never seem happy and perpetually complain over having to do the simplest of tasks (a bit like a teenager I guess). Epson products, however, are perhaps more uniquely loathed because of a rather terse piece of coding within…
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Red Dead Online 2018-2022 – Sacrificed on Rockstar’s Altar to Laziness & Greed
When compared to the continued success and massively popularity of GTA Online, it’s hard to deny that Red Dead Online has largely proven to be a huge disappointment for Rockstar Games. In many respects though, its ‘failure’ has been pretty much entirely of Rockstar’s own making. Ever since it was…
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Has Nvidia Quietly Discontinued Production of the 3080?
With the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 series of graphics cards expected to be launched this September (starting with the 4090 it seems), it’s clearly not entirely shocking that, sooner or later, Nvidia would begin to phase out production of their current-gen models in order to help boost manufacturing, stock, and…
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 Users Warned to Start Expecting End-of-Life Nagware!
Getting one elephant out of the room immediately, no, the Windows 8.1 operating system was never popular. – Released at a somewhat awkward time when Microsoft seemed to believe that the future lay in touchscreen products, while 8/8.1 somewhat worked reasonably well with laptops and tablets, for desktop PCs, it…
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Internet Explorer Has Officially Died! – A Brief Obituary!
Initially released back in 1995, Internet Explorer was, for many people, their first gateway into the online world. – This was, of course, back in the day where having a browser wasn’t a particularly common thing. If you didn’t have an internet connection, after all, you clearly didn’t need a…
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BlackBerry Phones Set to Officially Die on January 4th!
Once upon a time, in a phone store far far away, BlackBerry represented one of the most prestigious smartphone brands around. While the landscape has certainly changed massively over the last 20 years, it is easy to forget that, for a while, BlackBerry and Nokia were market-leading companies not just…
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Microsoft Confirms OneDrive Support is Ending on Older Windows Platforms
It seems incredible to think that OneDrive, as part of the Windows operating system, is now over 14 years old. Quite frankly, I thought it was a lot newer than that. – Albeit, coming from someone who has never once used it, I can’t personally profess to be too fussed…
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Source Claims Windows 10 Support will End in 2025
It seems somewhat remarkable that it’s already been over 6 years now since the Windows 10 operating system was originally released. Admittedly, a factor in that belief might be that when compared to a lot of other popular operating systems in Microsoft’s past, the adoption of Windows 10 has been…
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Nvidia Confirms ‘Kepler’ GPU Support is (Sort Of) Ending
As technology gets older, there is always a point where official support eventually has to end. It is, of course, usually a factor of weighing an ever decreasing user base against the practicality of the time and human resources such continuing efforts require. Following a report via TechPowerUp, however, if…
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