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At 1 Year Old Nvidia & AMD GPUs Cost Twice as Much as Their MSRP
Roughly speaking, it’s been pretty much exactly a year now since AMD and Nvidia released their latest graphics cards. The only problem is, hardly anyone has been able to get them. Admittedly, this isn’t a problem that has been solely restricted to them as tech, in general, has been in…
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UK Report Confirms Scam Calls/Texts Have Increased by 83%
I generally tend to receive at least one scam telephone call a week. The script occasionally varies (largely between something to do with my Amazon Prime account, or ‘hackers’ using my internet), but their aim is pretty much always the same. Namely, to extract either information or money from me.…
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Market Research Shows Nvidia GPUs ARE Getting Closer to their MSRP
Pretty much ever since the release of the Nvidia GeForce 3000 and AMD Radeon 6000 graphics card series last Autumn, there have been two key points that every consumer has likely noticed since. Firstly, they’re bloody hard to come by. And secondly, their cost hasn’t come anything close to the…
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Research Finds SSDs are Now WAY More Reliable than HDDs
SSDs (Solid State Drives) have certainly come a long way since they initially made their debut. Even though they have only become more commonplace over the last decade in desktop PCs, however, would it surprise you to learn that this year (technically) marks the storage solutions’ 30th birthday? – Going…
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Loot Boxes ‘Robustly’ Linked To Gambling
There has been a long-standing argument as to whether games that feature loot box mechanics are, technically speaking, a form of gambling. Admittedly, this pretty much boils down to practically everyone saying that it is, and companies such as EA saying that it is not. However, if loot boxes are…
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Security Firm Finds Huge Flaw in Fast Chargers!
If you own a number of devices in your household, the chances are that you may use some type of ‘fast charging‘ product to help get all the batteries topped up as quickly as possible. Following a report via TechSpot, however, a disturbing new security flaw has been found in…
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New Hacking Concept Uses PSU to Steal Data
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of examples and weird, wonderful, and frankly bizarre hacking methods. One such instance was a graphics card that was effectively turned into an RF transmitter that had a potential range of up to 50 meters! Following a post on the YouTube…
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AMD GPU Turned into Data Stealing Radio Transmitter
It’s certainly been a weird and wonderful week when it comes to unusual concepts and designs looking to (hypothetically) steal your data. For example, you may recall we recently reported on a concept that could potentially allow files to be stolen from your PC using the vibration of your system…
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Folding@home Has Over 470 petaFLOPS Fighting COVID-19
A little over a week ago we reported how the research company Folding@Home was offering people a unique opportunity to get involved in finding a cure for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). How could you do this? Well, essentially acting in the same way as a cryptocurrency miner, by ‘loaning’ them the…
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Doctors Compare Coronavirus to the World of Warcraft Plague
With the current outbreak of the Coronavirus, we are currently experiencing what may turn out of to be one of the biggest epidemics in recent memory. It seems, however, that in a report via PCGamesN, some researchers think that we might have seen something very similar before. Albeit, from a…
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You Can Donate Your CPU/GPU Power to Fight the Coronavirus
Many of you are probably aware that by utilizing your computers processing and graphical power, you can put it to work by earning you some Cryptocurrency. Did you know though that many organizations are desperate for you ‘lend it’ to them so that they can improve and speed up their…
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Scientists Find That Rats Can (Apparently) Drive Cars! – Video
You have to imagine that in universities around the world, a lot of highly-acclaimed scientists and researchers are looking to answer some of the biggest questions the universe has to offer. The potential of an unknown sustainable energy source, a cure to various illnesses and, of course, if rats are…
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Researchers Successfully Produce A Silicon-less CPU
One of the biggest driving factors behind the advancement in computers has undoubtedly been the silicon chip. It is, however, even today, still a remarkably difficult technology to work with. While improvements are possible (particularly with smaller node designs) it is costing companies insane amounts of money to produce (relatively…
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Game Company Suggests To Put Achievements on Your Resumé
If you’re anything like me, then whenever you have applied for a job your enjoyment of ‘video games‘ has been a subject you’ve preferred to keep a little quiet. You don’t, after all, want an employer to think that you use your spare time for such frivolous purposes right?… Well,…
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Researchers Find That People Who Use Emojis Have More Sex!
When using your social media accounts, do you tend to use a lot of emojis? -If you do, then it may be revealing something about you that you didn’t realise. Particularly if you use them pretty often! In a report via CNET, researchers conducted a study in which they concluded…
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