Month: March 2022
MacBooks and Galaxy phones could soon get much harder to buy
Audio player loading… A recent Covid-19 outbreak has locked down all production in Shenzhen, a city that borders Hong Kong and is notable for being the ‘Silicon Valley’ of China. With manufacturing and transportation at a standstill, popular products like the Galaxy S22 Ultra, MacBook Pro laptops and the iPhone…
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How to Safely Travel Within the US
You’re ready to take to the skies, hit the open road, or ride the rails. Wonderful. Here’s how to do it safely. Source
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Russia bans Instagram as promised, blocking access for 80 million users
Russia’s promised ban on Instagram has kicked into effect today, with the social media platform inaccessible for the vast majority of the country’s population, according to internet monitoring service GlobalCheck. The country announced plans to ban Instagram last week, in response to parent company Meta’s decision to allow Facebook and…
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AMD forced to fix Spectre patch after Intel reveals flaws
Audio player loading… Intel has revealed several apparent shortcoming in some of the security protections offered by its great rival AMD. The company had recently discovered new Spectre-like vulnerabilities affecting both its chips, as well as those produced by ARM. AMD’s devices were reportedly immune, but while Intel was investigating…
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The Morning After: Intel’s latest NUC mini-desktop is pretty powerful
As Apple’s new powerful mini-desktop, the Mac Studio, arrives, Intel’s very own series of tiny desktop PCs, the humble NUC, has reappeared. Engadget The NUC 12 Extreme is basically a slightly upgraded version of last year's NUC 11 Extreme, which was notable for being the first of its kind that…
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Netflix cancels critically-acclaimed family-drama despite 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating
Audio player loading… Netflix have cancelled The Baby-Sitters Club after two seasons. The show had been universally acclaimed by critics, with both seasons holding a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Vanity Fair even going as far as to call it “Near-perfect kids’ television”. But it seems that such praise…
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