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Flash to Be Removed From Windows 10 Next Month
It’s been pretty clear for at least the last 5 years that the writing has been on the wall for the eventual death of ‘Flash’. Although once representing one of the most integral parts of the internet, today, it’s either largely forgotten or, generally speaking, not used anymore. With a…
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Windows 10 Manual Update Purges Flash from the OS
Flash has undoubtedly been one of the most prevalent tools seen on the internet and particularly hit its peak around the turn of the millennium. Over the last 10-years, however, its application has largely been dying out due to the growth of other (arguably better) tools, and particularly in more…
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Microsoft Details the End of Flash Support for Edge
All good things must, sooner or later, come to an end. When it was announced back in 2017 that the vast majority of mainstream browsers would stop supporting ‘Flash‘, however, it must admit that it gave me more than a few nostalgic pangs of pain. Most of which, I freely…
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Flashpoint Looks to Preserve the Internets Most Classic Games
This year will mark the death of one of the longest standing media player applications on the internet. Namely, Flash. Admittedly, I have a lot of love for the program and particularly the Newgrounds website which, if you were a budding animator or game designer at the time, was one…
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Samsung NAND Production Disruptions Could Drive Prices Up
Power Outage Causes Production Disruption As any PC system builder knows, the market volatility of NAND and other memory products means that prices can widely swing up or down whenever the wind blows. A minor setback often means that supply is affected, which in turn increases prices since the demand…
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Canon Introduces the 470EX-AI – World’s 1st Camera Flash with AI
Artificial Intelligence in a Flash Camera manufacturer Canon just announced the world’s first flash with AI built-in. The new Speedlite 470EX-AI has the innovative Auto Intelligent Bounce function which sets the optimal bounce angle for natural, properly illuminated results indoors. It completely removes the guess work out and lets photographers…
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Video Card Successfully Flashed to RX 580
After less than 24-hours since its launch, a user from the TechPowerUp forums called TonybonJoby has shown that he has successfully flashed a previous generation AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card with a Sapphire RX 580 BIOS. He used an XFX RX 480 8GB graphics card and used the ATIFlash…
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SanDisk Increases Capacity iXpand and Wireless Stick to 256GB
iPhones and iPads have one major problem, you can’t expand their internal storage with memory cards. Luckily manufacturers have found ways around that and SanDisk’s options for this are called iXpand Flash Drive and Connect Wireless Stick. Now, these two drives can be had with up to 256GB capacity on…
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Toshiba Now Sampling 64-Layer, 512-Gigabit 3D Flash Memory
The cooperation between the large NAND manufacturers to create BiCS (Bit Cost Scaling) flash memory is bearing its fruits. Toshiba has now unveiled and announced its latest addition to the industry-leading three-dimensional flash memory, a 64-layer device that achieves a 512-gigabit (64-gigabytes) capacity with 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology. The new…
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AMD RX 460 Unlocked to Increase Stream Processors!
The RX 460 is AMD’s most affordable option in the Polaris range and primarily designed for eSports gaming. Even though it’s not particularly powerful, the RX 460 is a solid option and good alternative to the GTX 1050. From a technical perspective, the GPU has 896 Stream Processors, 14 Compute…
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Researchers Find Malware Hiding in GIFs
Security researchers have found a type of malware on popular websites which hides in advertisement images and has been active for around two years. The Stegano exploit kit – discovered by Eset researchers – finds vulnerable computers and displays a custom GIF, the alpha channel of which contains malicious code.…
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WD Unveils Raspberry Pi Storage Drives
Western Digital has unveiled a new line of hard disk and flash storage drives specifically designed for use with the Raspberry Pi single board computer. The WD PiDrive Foundation Edition and WD PiDrive Berryboot Edition drives are optimised to be powered directly from the Raspberry Pi, require no external power,…
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60-Second Google Pixel Hack Wins $120k Prize
A team of Chinese hackers compromised the security of Google’s new premier smartphone, the Pixel, in less than a minute, earning it members a cash prize of $120,000. The white-hat hacking team, Qihoo 360, exploited a critical vulnerability in the Google Pixel while competing in the 2016 Pwnfest hacking festival…
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Flash Hit by Another Zero-Day Vulnerability
Like a sailor, desperately panning water out of a sinking ship, Adobe has released an out-of-bound patch for yet another zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software. Versions of Flash affected by the vulnerability are those released on 11th October and earlier, from version 23.0.0.185 (or version 11.2.202.637 on Linux).…
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Lexar Announces Two New 3-in-1 Flash Drives
I recently had the pleasure to review Lexar’s JumpDrive C20i which is a 3-in-1 flash drive, but it had the downside that it really only was useful for Apple users due to its Lightning connector on one end. Now everyone else can enjoy the same benefits of this drive as…
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