Month: January 2022
A Minecraft competition inadvertently took a whole country offline – here’s how
Audio player loading… A multi-day DDoS attack coinciding with a highly-anticipated Minecraft tournament left the entire country of Andorra without access to the internet last week. The DDoS campaign targeted Andorra Telecom, the country’s sole internet service provider (ISP), and resulted in the elimination of a number of Andorran players…
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Porsche Taycan gets Spotify support and more new features as major update rolls out
Audio player loading… Technology and software are such a huge part of the modern vehicle ownership experience that it’s big news when an automaker makes a change. Porsche, a company far better known for its world-class sports cars, SUVs, and electric cars, just announced updates to PCM, its infotainment software.…
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Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022
Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an “AI supercomputer” — a high-speed computer designed specifically to train machine learning systems. The company says its new AI Research SuperCluster, or RSC, is already among the fastest machines of its type and, when complete in mid-2022, will…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is finally a real wooden boy in first teaser
After years of being trapped in different circles of development hell, co-director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited take on Pinocchio is finally happening, and the stop-motion feature’s first teaser trailer is here to introduce the world to the story’s minuscule moral center. Set during Benito Mussolini’s fascist reign over Italy in…
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The Apple Watch 7 crashes to record-low price in rare deal at Amazon
While finding deals on the Apple Watch 7 isn’t a rare occurrence, Amazon typically only discounts the smartwatch with a Red, Blue, or Green sport band. If you’ve been looking to find the Apple Watch 7 with a Black sport band on sale, Amazon has just dropped the Series 7…
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Win a mystery bag from The Verge chock-full of free tech
Did you think the season of giving was over? Not at The Verge! Not only are we continuing to give you a heads-up regarding discounts and sales on the latest gadgets, but we have another mystery bag stuffed full of freebies to give away to one lucky reader. This time,…
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