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Samsung’s 960 EVO SSD Might Pack Quite the Punch
Samsung is reportedly almost ready with their latest consumer-oriented solid state drive in the form of the 960 EVO SSD – and it comes with a few surprises compared to previous generation drives. Samsung has fully embraced the new NVMe standard and they’ve shown us some great specifications and performance…
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ASUS Announced RT-AC58U Dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi Router
Wi-Fi congestion can quickly become a problem these days and it is something older routers have trouble dealing with. Take a random family of four, each of them has their own cell phone connected to the home network and on top of that, you get smart TVs, tablets, laptops, gaming…
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Soon Chrome Will Wave Goodbye to Flash
Companies all over have become keen to dodge and even kill the Flash plugin, with companies often avoiding it due to the many (and we mean many) security flaws it seems to possess and creates with each update. Now it would seem that Google has had enough and will start…
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Micron Reportedly Fighting Off Hostile TakeOver
Over the past year, NAND prices have continued their steady fall. For the average consumer, this has meant cheaper and cheaper SSDs and the release of ever larger capacities. However, this has placed enormous strain on NAND producers to reduce prices while taking on ever more expensive R&D costs. This…
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AMD RX 480 4GB Cards Actually Have 8GB of Memory!
When it comes to graphics cards, those based on the same architecture or chip often make use of the same silicon, limited down to a lower spec for the cheaper cards. This isn’t usually the case with the onboard memory however the RX 480 seems to break this trend with…
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Even Uninstalling Flash Is A Security Risk
When it comes to security, there is a big risk to everyone available online in the form of Flash. A piece of software that’s been used for years for games and commercial software available online, but sadly the software has been plagued with a series of flaws and security risks. The…
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This Year Chrome Will Block Flash Content For Your Safety
Over the years, we’ve constantly reported on one security flaw after another when it comes to Flash. As a popular system to provide content to site viewers, websites often use the software for everything from videos to interactive content and with more and more bugs reported it would seem that the…
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Regulators Approve WD-SanDisk Merger
One of the biggest storage mergers to take place in recent memory has moved a step closer to completion. Two months after shareholders from Western Digital and SanDisk approved the deal, the last regulator has given the nod to the amalgamation. This means the deal will finally close today and…
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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exposed In Microsoft and Adobe Software
Day after day we are warned about security risks, be it from that scam email claiming to be a prince looking to help spread his wealth or the free vouchers you often get given for sites like eBay or Amazon. Some threats are little more built in and for those…
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Adobe Releases Emergency Update to Fix Flash Ransomware Exploits
Adobe’s flash plugin has rapidly become extremely unpopular with web users due to its buggy nature and propensity to make browsers hang. As a result, HTML5 is the modern standard for viewing video content or animations which has made Adobe’s flash superfluous. Despite this, Flash can still be used to…
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Plextor Announces M7V Value SSD Range
Solid state drives have progressed at an extraordinary pace during the last few years and the latest NVMe products are capable of read speeds well beyond 2000MB/s. In comparison, the traditional SATA interface has a theoretical limit of 6Gb/s and offers significantly lower numbers than extreme M.2 drives. This is…
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Lexar 512GB Portable SSD D512 USB 3.0 Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Today we are taking a closer look at fast external storage, more specifically Lexar’s newest portable SSD called the D512. Lexar also offers the drive in a smaller D256 version with 256GB capacity, but I have the pleasure to have to big 512GB model on the test bench today.…
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Adobe Issues Patch For Code-Execution Bug
Flash has long been at the heart of a debate over usability and security. The media player has long been used for everything from Youtube to online games, but it has often by problems with even the fixes containing problems. As a result, people are being told to avoid using the…
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Google is Dropping Flash Display Adverts
Adobe’s Flash is commonly used stream video content on various services including YouTube, DailyMotion and more! However, the software plugin has a fairly terrible reputation for being unstable, and causing web browsers to freeze. As a result, websites began to slowly move towards HTML5 integration which provides a better user-experience.…
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ASUS Announces Travelair AC Pocket-Sized Wireless Flash Drive
ASUS has created a few products out of their norm lately and I think it’s nice to see them breaching into new product categories, especially when they create things that aren’t all that common yet. The newest product to be announced is the Travelair AC which is a pocket-sized wireless…
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