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Smuggler Gets Nicked With 420 SSDs Strapped Around His Stomach
In another classic smuggling fail, Chinese customs caught a man trying to traffic 420 M.2 SSDs by strapping them around his stomach. Man Fails To Smuggle 420 SSDs As reported by TomsHardware, Chinese customs caught a man trying to smuggle 420 SSDs into China from Macau to Zhuhai through the…
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China Has Banned Sales of Micron Memory Products Over Security Concerns
China has announced that US memory chipmaker Micron Technologies has failed its network security review and has in turn barred their products in the country. China Blocks Micron Sales According to Reuters, the cyberspace regulator in China has stated that Micron products have “serious network security risks, which pose significant…
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TikTok Concerns Raised Again As Committee Advises People to Remove the App!
I rather enjoy having the TikTok app on my smartphone. Not because I’m any kind of content creator (because I’m not), but more so the fact that it has often provided me with a very convenient and often satisfying piece of entertainment when I occasionally get 10 minutes to kill.…
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Nvidia 4070 Ti Pricing Suggests Rebranded 4080 12GB Will Retain its $899 MSRP.
Nvidia certainly fooled no one when they unveiled the 4080 12GB. It was abundantly clear that the huge specification gap between this and the 16GB model went well beyond just the amount of VRAM they had, and, ultimately, consumers and critics could draw no other conclusion than Nvidia was only…
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Following Lacklustre Sales, AMD May Already Be Discounting Ryzen 7000 in China!
It’s been around 6 weeks now since AMD’s initial Ryzen 7000 processors became available to purchase and I think it would be fair to say that the platform hasn’t currently, in terms of sales, been meeting Team Red’s expectations. – And by this, I mean that even AMD has conceded…
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Listed for Sale on Chinese Black Market!
AMD will formally confirm the launch of its new Ryzen 7000 processors on August 29th with a subsequent release date being rumoured for September 27th. – In other words, while samples will currently be out there in the wild, they shouldn’t be in the hands of the general public just…
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China Reportedly Shuts Down Factories Amid Power Crisis!
Although certainly not well publicised outside of the country (leading you to almost believe that the media was pathologically state-controlled there) information has been continually appearing online over the last couple of years that China is facing huge problems when it comes to power. – Put simply, for all the…
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Chinese Homemade GPU Performs As Well as Nvidia – Well, Nvidia 10 Years Ago!
Back in 2020, the Chinese government announced plans to remove all outside technology from its state-owned systems by the end of 2022. Put simply, by the end of this year, no state systems would be allowed to feature any technology from Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and others. Now, admittedly, with that…
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Popular Steam App Used to Share Adult Content in China (Bypassing State Censorship)
I’m sure that many of you are aware that China has quite possibly the strictest and most heavily censored internet in the world (well, with maybe some competition from North Korea). – As part of its ‘morality’ laws, therefore, adult content, and I’m sure you all know what I mean…
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Has China Just Seen the Largest Data Hacking Heist in History?
It’s not exactly a secret that China likes to keep a pretty firm eye on its citizens. While this may, of course, come under the somewhat friendly guise of data keeping and general national security, it’s hard to overlook the fact that a lot of this is also done to…
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Cryptocurrency Crash Sees Panic Live Stream Sales From Chinese Miners!
Within the space of just one month, the value of Bitcoin has nosedived, and with it, it’s taken many other cryptocurrency coins down with it too! – With its value currently floating around the region of $20,000, while this might still sound like a substantial sum, it shouldn’t be ignored…
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Intel Arc A380 Graphics Cards Reviews to Go Live Today?
If you’ve been paying attention to the recent tech news, then we dare say it hasn’t escaped your attention that the Intel Arc A380 desktop graphics card has been officially spotted in China. – Coming from custom AIB partner ‘GUNNIR’, while it was clear that at least one model was…
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Retailer Lists Custom Intel ARC A380 (The Price is NOT Good!)
Last week, images of the world’s first custom Intel A380 desktop graphics card appeared online. Created by ‘GUNNIR’ (and don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of them), while the design looks quite nice and tidy, it did look to somewhat represent something of a reference model. As such, in…
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The First Custom Intel Arc A380 Desktop Graphics Card Appears Online!
Earlier this week, Intel finally released its dedicated desktop A380 graphics card in China. Yes, admittedly, this was significantly later than most (including Intel) had expected. And more so, it is clearly a little frustrating that although released in this region, worldwide availability is still not anticipated for another 4-8…
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Intel Officially Launches its Arc A380 Graphics Card (In China)
Following their official reveal back in February, it has clearly taken Intel a lot longer than originally intended to bring their Arc graphics cards to the market. – With the release of laptops in China earlier this month, however, it was always known that their desktop counterparts would be coming…
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