Month: August 2020
BT’s broadband and TV deal gets you Champions League, UFC and more for cheap Broadband deals
It was a hard summer for sports fans. We were deprived of live action and ‘forced’ to watch classic replays of Leicester’s triumphant Premier League win, McGregor’s 13-second knockout and highlight reels of Verstappen’s most aggressive overtakes. Luckily, not only is that all over now with the return of live…
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Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU could have super-speedy GDDR6X RAM – and lots of it null
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 (or RTX 3080 Ti, as it’s also been referred to) will use much faster GDDR6X memory, and possibly plenty of it, going by the latest from the rumor mill, which has also spilled further details on the consumer flagship for Ampere graphics cards. As spotted by…
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IoT and 5G: a blessing or a curse? IoT and 5G: a blessing or a curse?
The UK’s recent decision to phase out Huawei infrastructure from UK telecoms networks has brought concerns around 5G deployment back to the top of the news agenda. There are a wide-ranging list of reasons, varying in legitimacy, of why different groups are concerned about 5G – whether this is over…
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Amazon Alexa security bug could have let hackers listen in to your chats amazon echo
Owners of Amazon Echo devices have been warned that their systems may have been compromised due to a security flaw in the Alexa voice recognition service. Researchers from security firm Check Point found vulnerabilities in certain Amazon and Alexa subdomains that could have allowed outsider access to a user’s voice…
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Trump gives TikTok a new deadline: 90 days instead of 45
President Trump issued an executive order Friday giving ByteDance 90 days to either sell or spin off its TikTok business in the US. “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance … might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States,” Trump…
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Facebook begins merging Instagram and Messenger chats in new update
Facebook appears to flipping the switch on integrating the chat systems for Instagram and Messenger. On Friday evening, several editors at The Verge across the country — on both iOS and Android devices — noticed an update screen popped up in Instagram’s mobile app with the message “There’s a New…
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