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Card Payments Finally Beat Cash Transactions In UK
Card Transactions Finally Top Cash Payments It’s no surprise that in recent years we all look to pay and buy things more with our cards rather than carry cash. In truth, I can not honestly remember the last cash purchase I made. With the implementation of the contactless debit and…
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Major Card Payment Error Sees Tesco Billing Customers Months After Visit
Tesco, Every Little Helps? For the weekly shop, for years, Tesco has been one of the major retailers. A big development for the company was the expansion of their smaller ‘express’ stores. Customers who regularly use them, however, might want to check their bank accounts. A major processing error of…
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Synology Releases M2D17 Dual M.2 SSD PCIe Caching Card
Those who wish to get an extra level of performance in their NAS will usually opt for solid state drives to do so. But that does, for the most part, have the downside of occupying two or more of your drive bays with SSDs. That decreases the available drive bays for…
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ADATA Unveils Premier ONE Memory Cards
ADATA Technology released their newest memory cards called the Premier ONE series. This new series of high-performance microSD and SD cards consists of UHS-II U3 Class 10 and Premier UHS-I Class 10 offerings. The Premier ONE UHS-II U3 SDXC cards employ high-quality 3D MLC Flash which makes them able to reach…
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Kingmax Launches Pro Extreme SDXC/microSDXC Memory Card
While there is absolutely no shortage of available memory cards, it can’t hurt to have more to chose from. More competition equals progress in the field and a lower cost for the consumer. As such, it’s nice to see Kingmax launch two new memory cards, the Pro Extreme and the Pro series.…
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Toshiba Introduces Next-Generation FlashAir Wireless SD Card
Toshiba is ready to showcase their latest wireless memory cards and they’re starting to do so at CeBIT this week. The new FlashAir wireless cards are the fourth generation and as you would expect, they come with an improved performance over the predecessors. FlashAir products are SD cards with built-in…
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SilverStone Announces ECP01 Dual Output Power Adapter Card
SilverStone is one of those companies that has a knack for creating useful devices that we previously weren’t aware that we need. The brand new ECP01 dual-output power adapter card is another of such solutions. The ECP01, in its simplicity, offers a 12V DC and a 5V 3A USB charging…
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Lexar Announces 256GB Professional 1000x microSD UHS-II (U3) Card
Lexar already has some impressive memory cards, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for another one in the family line-up. That new one is the tiny 256GB Lexar Professional 1000x microSDXC UHS-II (U3) memory card. Cramming 256GB capacity into a microSD-sized card is darn nice and the card is…
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Gigabyte Unveils GTX 1080 Rock Edition Graphics Card
Despite the rumour mill being in full force about the GTX 1080Ti and Vega, it seems companies are still releasing new versions of current Pascal products. Recently, Gigabyte unveiled the GTX 1080 Rock Edition (GV-N1080G1 ROCK-8GD) which employs the WindForce 3X cooling solution from the company’s 900-series designs such as…
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New Digital Cards To Help Banks Combat Online Fraud
Banks in the UK could soon be rolling out a new type of card, which would majorly reduce cases of online fraud. This new type of card would see the 3 digit security number on the reverse of the card replaced by a randomly generated number which changes every 20…
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ASUS Announces The Xonar U7 MK11 Sound Card
Despite the overwhelming majority of consumers relying on motherboard audio, there’s still some users who prefer a sound card to take their listening experience to another level. Today, ASUS unveiled their latest audio solution entitled the Xonar U7 MKII which is a USB external sound card and headphone amplifier. This…
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Mach Xtreme Unveiled the Impressive Mach EXPRESS PCIe SSD
Mach Xtreme is a company that I’m mostly familiar with due to their SATA DOMs that I’ve used in a lot of builds over the years, but they also make normal flash drives and SSDs. Now they’re ready with an impressive new drive that I almost missed the news on…
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ASUS STRIX GAMING RX 480 OC Graphics Card Review
Introduction Some time ago, AMD officially launched the RX 480 as a VR-compliment GPU which targets a mainstream price point. Prior to this release, affordable graphics solutions struggled to contend with demanding presets and provided a sub-par user experience. The RX 480, especially in the 4GB flavour is superb value…
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XFX RX 480 GTR Black Edition Graphics Card Review
Introduction The RX 480 is AMD’s flagship product in the Polaris series and designed to provide a stellar PC gaming experience without breaking the bank. Rather impressively, this mainstream graphics card can maintain fluid frame rates while powering some of the most demanding games available today. Not only that, the…
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EVGA GTX 1070/1080 GPUs Catching Fire Due To VRMs Overheating
EVGA are in hot water this week, in what seems to be the season of tech catching fire! We reported the other day that EVGA cards were suffering overheating issues and that EVGA suggested customers could add additional thermal pads to mitigate the issue. However, it seems EVGA may have underplayed…
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