Month: March 2017
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Security Reportedly Bypassed with Photo
Samsung has freshly launched their flagship Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus smartphones on Wednesday, touting new security features including a facial recognition and iris scanning system that unlocks the phone instead of the usual fingerprint and keypad code unlocking methods. These biometric systems are becoming more popular and are being…
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Oculus Co-Founder Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook
Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Oculus Rift, has left Facebook three years after he sold Oculus, the company he co-founded, to the social media giant. Luckey – and, by association, Facebook and Oculus – was subject to controversy in September last year after a Daily Beast investigation found that…
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Laptop Makers Wildly Overstating Battery Life
For years, it has been an accepted truism that a manufacturer’s estimated battery life of a new laptop is misleading, to say the least, but now it has been (mostly) proven. An investigation by Which? has shown that the discrepancy between the official estimated battery life and the actual battery…
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Facebook Launches GoFundMe Rival
Social networking giant Facebook is set to muscle the likes of GoFundMe out of the crowd-sourced fundraising game with the launch of its new Personal Fundraiser scheme. Personal Fundraiser is, like GoFundMe, designed to help people raise money either for themselves, a loved one, or a charitable endeavour via Facebook.…
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Liquid-cooled MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk Video Card Takes Flight
Details about MSI’s GTX 1080 Ti Armor and GTX 1080 Ti Aero surfaced three days ago and but now the liquid-cooled MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk and Sea Hawk X video card has finally been revealed. As with MSI’s other GeForce GTX 1080 Ti offerings, the MSI GeForce…
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Mad Catz Files for Bankruptcy
Beleaguered peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz has filed for bankruptcy following months of financial instability. The company has been struggling since 2015, when Rock Band 4, a game that it co-published and produced a range of instruments for, sold fewer copies than hoped. Soon after, it posted huge losses for the quarter the…
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iFixIt Reveals New iPad is Basically Just 1st Gen iPad Air with Minor Updates
The latest iPad from Apple, currently in its 5th generation update has been released recently although according to the findings by teardown experts at iFixIt, aside from some minor updates, the new tablet is infact very nearly identical to the 1st generation iPad Air which came out in 2013. Many…
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Cooler Master Masterliquid 240 AIO CPU Cooler Review
Introduction Cooler Master is one of the biggest names in the PC component market, and they’ve already won many awards for their coolers over the years, from the virtually legendary 212 air cooler to their more recent Masterliquid series. Today we kick things off with a look at their newly revised Masterliquid 240,…
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Twitch Introduces 1080p60 Streaming
Video game streaming service Twitch has announced that it is increasing its maximum resolution to 1080p at 60fps. Twitch has been testing 1080p streaming for some time now, but now the feature is being rolled out to everyone. In order to facilitate the increase in quality, Twitch has ditched its…
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New Deep Photo Style Transfer Imaging Algorithm Accurately Copies Photo Styles
Researchers from Adobe and Cornell University have come up with a new imaging algorithm called “Deep Photo Style Transfer” that hopefully will find its way to the latest version of Adobe Lightroom as it is quite impressive. The new feature is able to assess the photo style of one picture…
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Twitter Finally Excludes @Usernames from 140-Character Count Limit
It is one of those features that for some reason have not been implemented earlier, but everyone will be glad to hear that Twitter has finally decided to exclude the @Username replies from the micro-blogging social media platform’s 140-character count limit. While including the person’s username is not usually a…
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SpaceX Made History by Successfully Launching and Landing a Re-flight Rocket
It is a momentous event for SpaceX as well as the future of space flight as they have successfully launched a Falcon 9 re-flight rocket and have also landed it back safely. This is the very first time in history that the same rocket has been used on two separate…
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Toshiba Shareholders Agree to Sell NAND Flash Memory Unit
Most of us know Toshiba as a hardware manufacturer with products from mechanical and flash-based storage over notebooks and all the way to smart TVs, but the company is a lot bigger than that. They are also a huge player in the international Nuclear business, or maybe we should say that…
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Thecus Launches Thecus Wizard iOS and Android NAS Set-Up App
These days, there are more and more homes that don’t have a PC anymore, instead, they rely on their mobile gadgets such as tablets and mobile phones. This can make it tricky to set up new devices such as NAS units. To combat this issue, Thecus created and launched their…
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GTA V Online Hackers Reportedly Being Removed Whilst in Session
Rockstar has had a tough time dealing with hackers, but recent reports suggest GTA V Online hackers are being removed whilst in the session. If true, it seems as though the latest update brought in new anti-cheat detection, and if it works, this is great news. Cheating and hackers are all…
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