Month: September 2022
Arm turns up the heat in the fight for the data center
Audio player loading… Arm has lifted the lid on a new generation of Neoverse cores designed to deliver maximal performance and power efficiency in the data center. The new flagship core, Neoverse V2 (codenamed Demeter), is said to offer “market-leading integer performance” across cloud and HPC workloads, in addition to…
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Modern Warfare 2 scraps decades of tradition with new third-person mode
Audio player loading… New details have dropped for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 including a brand new third-person mode. Call of Duty has historically been a first-person series. That’s part of what made it difficult to get the hang of it when I first dabbled in the franchise all…
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FBI warns hackers are stealing healthcare payments
Audio player loading… Hackers are stealing healthcare payments, by diverting them to bank accounts under their control, the FBI is warning. The Bureau was forced to issue a warning after more than $4.6 million was stolen in three separate incidents where criminals would send out phishing emails, or reach out…
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Amazon Echo may soon answer your questions with ads
Can surgery turn short kings into… regular kings? For $75,000—and one agonizing operation and recovery later—you can add about three inches to your height via leg lengthening. Among the many details in this remarkably written GQ story, one surgeon notes that this procedure is getting more popular among men who…
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Apogee Boom brings its DSP-powered plugins to a budget-friendly audio interface
You might know Apogee for its pocketable headphone or guitar interfaces. Or maybe its microphones. But ask a bedroom producer and most will tell you they know the company for its audio interfaces and software tools. Today, the company unveils the Boom ($300), a new 24-bit/192kHz desktop audio interface with…
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Lenovo issues emergency security patch for hundreds of models
Audio player loading… Lenovo has fixed a number of major BIOS flaws which allow threat actors to potentially launch all kinds of devastating cyberattacks across a wide range of its products, from desktop PCs (opens in new tab), to laptops. In a security advisory published earlier this week, the company…
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