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European Investigation Called for Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Drift
It’s been well documented since the initial launch of the Nintendo Switch that while the controllers certainly represented something more than a little innovative, a pretty significant problem can lurk within. Namely, the dreaded Joy-Con drift issue. – With literally tens of thousands of complaints having being made about them…
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Chinese ‘State Backed’ Hackers Charged In The US
Hackers Charged With Attacks On US Companies There is little doubt that many countries apply what is known as ‘state-backed’ hacking groups. For those of you unaware of the term, this is quite literally an organisation that receives funding from a state with the sole purpose of looking to conduct…
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No Man’s Sky Under Investigation by ASA
No Man’s Sky may very well be one of the worst launches in modern gaming history. Not only did the game sell a huge amount of copies after one of the biggest hype trains we’ve ever seen, but most of those sales were also very quickly refunded as the game…
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Tesla Crash Causes the NTSB to Investigate Autonomous Driving
The fatal Tesla S accident that happened on May 7 definitely took both Tesla and autonomous car enthusiasts by surprise. Reports have been flowing in since then, with some stating that the driver was actually watching a Harry Potter film while the car was driving, while others focused more on Elon…
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Congressman Investigated for Spending Campaign Money on Steam Games
We all love a new game, but it does raise questions when the money you spend on is marked to be used for something else. Congressman Duncan Hunter is being investigated for just the same thing, having spent campaign money on Steam games. According to the San Diego-tribunes report, using…
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Police Dog Trained to Sniff Out SD Cards and Flash Drives
As part of the investigation into Jared Fogle, the former Subway spokesperson, affectionately known as “Subway Guy”, under suspicion of trafficking child pornography, federal agents used a dog trained specifically to sniff out SD cards, flash drives, and other external storage devices was employed during an 11-hour search of his…
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Lenovo Still Expects to Close Purchase of IBM Server Unit By End of 2014
Despite the United States government currently investigating Lenovo’s attempted acquisition of IBM’s x86 low-end server unit, Lenovo executives believe the deal should be completed by the end of 2014. Analysts expect the deal to finally be approved, but political tensions between Washington and Beijing have been strained due to cyberespionage accusations…
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Google’s Drive, Docs and Sites Experiencing Issues, Should We Be Surprised?
Google has experienced a lot of problems with its services lately, from Gmail to Calendar, which affected a great deal of people. It appears that their flaws have not yet been fixed, since we can see that the Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Sites services still experience…
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Google Glass Seen As Piracy Gadget Inside Movie Theatres
Google Glass apparently is not seen as a great advancement in technology that should freely roam on everybody’s head by many people. There was a case where a woman has been pulled over and fined for wearing Google Glass while driving, though no regulation has been made for this, on…
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First PC Monitors, Now DRAM Manufacturers are Accused of Price Fixing
It wasn’t too long ago when a few of the companies behind computer monitors were being investigated and charged with price-fixing during 2012. It was noted that DRAM industry maybe doing the same. Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) companies sold their product to consumers with a price that was at…
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