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AMD & Nvidia GPU Prices Still Appear to Be Going Up
It’s pretty much been a year now since the graphics card shortages began. So, happy anniversary I guess?… With GPUs in such short supply, however, this has, by proxy, seen a huge inflation in prices which hasn’t just been exploited by scalpers, but sadly by many mainstream retailers too! –…
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Battlefield V Tides of War Chapter 1: Overture Now Available
Following a Brief Delay DICE has apologized after a brief delay, but they have finally released the latest update for Battlefield V in the wee hours of the morning. No doubt requiring some last minute checks and overtime. https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/1070075326280187909 However, fans will be thankful since this brings the first Chapter…
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Battlefield V Will Have A German Perspective Campaign
BFV War Stories Includes German Soldiers There has been plenty of games set during World War II. But so far there have been no campaigns where the players are on the German side. With understandable reason of course. Nobody really wants to deal with the political fallout and backlash that…
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Overclocker ‘der8auer’ Sets Impressive Ryzen 7 1800X Record
The well known German overclocker der8auer recently took the i7-7700K processor to new levels as he overclocked it to impressive speeds with all cores enabled. Now he’s back and he has done the same with the brand new AMD Ryzen 7 1800X chip. Okay, the Ryzen result doesn’t go nearly…
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German Police Raid Hate Content Posters
The internet has many sides. The light side, where people post pictures requesting that people use Pokémon Go lures at hospitals to help those unable to walk around and play the game, to the dark side where people will post offensive comments and remarks just to laugh and mock people.…
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Skyrim’s Total Conversion Enderal Features Hours Of Gameplay
Skyrim is a great game, offering many hours of gameplay as you create a custom character that could be a warrior, hunter or mage while you pick and choose your skills in between each battle and campaign to free the lands of Skyrim. Now it would seem that Skyrim is…
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ISP’s in Germany Can be Ordered to Block Piracy Websites
ISP’s are the ones responsible for giving the public access to the world wide web and everything that you can find on it. The problem with the public having access to everything is that sometimes they give access to things which they shouldn’t, a game or a movie or sometimes…
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Germany Promises 50Mbps Broadband
With a wide majority of the world using internet on a regular, if not every day, basis, we need to be aware of just how much we use the internet for. While most activities are mundane and almost ritualistic in how we do them each day. There are some which…
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Treason Investigation For Netzpolitik.org Paused In Germany
Secrecy and news. These things are against odds in recent years with the public being aware of just how much we do not know courtesy of the Snowden leaks. In Germany, there is an investigation into the digital rights news site Netzpolitik.org, or rather two journalists, who are charged with…
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German Youth Club Produce Sweet ‘Floppy’ Music
I’m sure everyone has an old floppy disk drive under their bed or in a box in the attic. How long since you used it? A year? 2? 5? Well a group of german individuals went and rounded up 49 of these relics, joined them together to produce the music of…
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Fingerprint of Politician Cloned Just From Public Photos
A member of the Chaos Computer Club has reportedly ‘cloned’ the fingerprint of a politician from Germany solely using publicly available images taken by press at a conference. Jan Krissler created a usable copy of German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen’s fingerprints using only images and computer software. The software presumably…
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Phone, Tablet Company Linshof Claims a ‘Clean Android’ Device Launch
We’ve recently reported on Linshof’s i8 smartphone offering, allowing users to utilize their 80GB of storage space through an interesting 64GB and 16GB memory module paring technology. Just now, news has come to light that this German manufacturer has announced that they will launch ‘clean Android’ offerings of these smartphones…
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Germany May Switch to Using Typewriters in a Bid to Stop US Spys
It seems like German and US relations are being stretched even further recently, with the NSA scandal showing no signs of dissipating any time soon, German politicians are now considering using typewriters to write up confidential documents in a bid to stop spying from the NSA. By going low-tech the…
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Tor/Tails Linux Users and Linux Journal Readers Tagged as “Extremists” by NSA
Tor and Tails Linux Users, as well as Linux Journal readers have been apparently tagged as ‘extremists’ by the National Security Agency, having leaked documents reveal that the XKeyscore snooping program is apparently targeting anyone who is interested in online privacy and use the latter software. For those who do…
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Intel Fined $1.4 Billion Due To “Unfair Sales Tactics”
Intel has lost a case this Thursday opened by the European Commision back in 2009, where Intel was charged with harming its competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, or most commonly known as AMD by giving rebates to PC makers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Lenovo for buying most of their…
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