Month: August 2022
Sega’s Genesis Mini 2 will only get ‘a small number of units’ in North America
If you live in North America, it looks like it’ll be really difficult to get your hands on a Sega Genesis Mini 2. In a statement to Polygon, the company says that only a small fraction of the consoles will be available in the region compared to what was available…
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Intel introducing Wi-Fi 7 to supercharge wireless networks in 2024
Audio player loading… Intel is set to introduce Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) to a commercial market, which features next-generation high-speed data processing that’s more than twice as fast as Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax). The rollout will begin for laptops and be extended to all PC products by the end of 2024. According…
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Intel Raptor Lake CPU leaks leave some gamers disappointed (again)
Audio player loading… Intel’s Raptor Lake processors have witnessed a bunch of fresh leaks, including some game benchmarks, and a hefty overclock to 6GHz for the Core i7-13700K. Let’s start with those gaming tests which were conducted by Extreme Player, a Bilibili-based leaker who aired benchmarks for the Core i9-13900K…
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What 21 billion Facebook friendships say about the economic ladder in the US
Meta publicly released information on 21 billion Facebook friendships as part of a research project looking at economic inequality in the United States, the company announced today. Along with new insights into the intersection of money and friendships in America, the partnership between Meta and the researchers gives us another…
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HBO Max is losing the Harry Potter movies to a major streaming rival
Audio player loading… HBO Max will lose all eight of the Harry Potter movies at the end of August. From August 31, the original octet will leave the streaming service, marking the second time in three years that the adventures of the boy wizard have left the platform. For those…
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Windows Defender hacked to deploy this dangerous ransomware
Audio player loading… Log4j vulnerabilities are now being used to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons through the Windows Defender command line tool, researchers have found. Cybersecurity researchers from Sentinel Labs recently spotted a new method, employed by an unknown threat actor, with the endgame being the deployment of LockBit 3.0 ransomware.…
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