Month: June 2021
The world’s biggest meat producer got taken down by a cyberattack representational image of a cloud firewall
Cybercriminals have disrupted operations at one of the world’s largest meat suppliers, forcing it to restore systems from a backup, reports have claimed. Following the attack, JBS SA was forced to take some of its servers in North America and Australia offline, delaying some transactions with customers and suppliers, although…
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Samsung and AMD are working on an Exynos mobile chip with ray tracing
AMD is partnering with Samsung to provide RDNA 2 graphics technology for an Exynos mobile system-on-chip, potentially giving a boost to GPU performance in flagship Samsung phones. The announcement was made today at Computex Taipei. There aren’t many details on the chip or which products it’ll be used in, but…
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PSVR 2 games will include familiar franchises ‘synonymous with PlayStation’ PSVR 2
We’re still yet to see what the PS5’s new virtual reality headset, the PSVR 2, looks like. But along with its orb-like controllers, we’re starting to get a picture of what Sony has in store in terms of the PlayStation VR 2’s software and games offering. Revealed within an investor…
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The original Dune movie is also getting a 4K release this year
Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune isn’t the only film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel getting a 4K release this year. That’s because the original adaptation, made in 1984 by a young David Lynch, is getting a limited edition 4K Blu-ray release on August 30th. The film was both a critical and box…
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LG has reportedly made its last smartphone LG Wing 5G
LG has reportedly stopped making smartphones. We knew this day was coming, after the company announced a couple of months ago that it was quitting the smartphone industry, but apparently it manufactured its final phone on Monday, May 31. That’s according to Asia Business Daily (a South Korean financial newspaper),…
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Gokada to launch ride-hailing service in two Nigerian cities as part of super app plans
When two of Indonesia’s biggest companies — ride-hailing company Gojek and e-commerce marketplace Tokopedia — joined forces as GoTo Group last month, a key highlight from the merger was that the last-mile delivery space is still a huge global trend. In Nigeria, the e-commerce and last-mile delivery market is projected…
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