Month: October 2021
Intel’s hybrid 12th-gen chips are a major strike against AMD
We've been hearing about Intel's powerful hybrid chips for so long, they've achieved almost mythical status. The idea behind them is intriguing: they feature both performance-cores (P-cores) and and efficient-cores (E-cores) on a single die, giving you chips that can be beefy and a bit more power-conscious, depending on the…
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How California’s wildfire skies ended up in ‘Call of Duty: Vanguard’
In the summer and fall of 2020, smoke filled the skies above San Francisco, hanging heavy over the coast and bathing the city in an eerie orange glow. Massive wildfires were tearing across California, eating up piles of dead trees on the mountains and razing nearby housing developments. By the…
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This vicious WordPress plugin bug could wipe your whole site
Cybersecurity researchers have helped patch a high-severity rated security flaw in a popular WordPress plugin, which could be exploited to completely wipe and reset any vulnerable WordPress website. Discovered by WordPress security experts Wordfence, the vulnerability exists in the Hashthemes Demo Importer plugins that boasts of more than 8,000 active…
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DJI’s Action 2 is small rugged camera with a magnetic mounting system
More than two years after announcing the Osmo Action, DJI is back with a new rugged camera that not only drops the Osmo name but also adopts a fresh new design. The Action 2 features a 155-degree field of view lens and 12-megapixel sensor that can capture 4K footage at…
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Urbanista’s solar-powered headphones tease a charger-free future
81 percent. That’s the current battery level on the pair of Urbanista’s Los Angeles headphones sitting on my desk. When I took them out of the box about a week ago, the battery level was 75 percent. Number of charges? Zero. Hours of use? Around 10. In short, with some…
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The best early Black Friday deal is back – LG’s C1 OLED TV drops to record-low price
Black Friday is officially less than a month away, and we’ve just spotted an incredible deal on LG’s stunning C1 OLED TV. Just today, Amazon has dropped the 65-inch OLED TV back down to a record-low price of $1,796.99 (was $2,499.99). That’s a massive $703 discount and $100 less than…
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