Month: November 2022
Andor’s designers approached it like a Star Wars period drama
When production designer Luke Hull was first approached about working on Andor, he felt some trepidation. He was just coming off HBO’s Chernobyl series and was worried that working within the well-established Star Wars universe could be stifling. “My biggest fear when taking this project on was that I’d have…
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Watch out for this Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge botnet extension
Audio player loading… If you stumble upon a website asking you to download the latest update for the Adobe Flash Player – maybe think twice, as a new campaign to distribute a malicious browser add-on for Chromium-based browsers has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Zimperium The experts warn that…
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The best 60 percent keyboards you can buy
Gaming keyboards are plentiful and diverse right now. You can buy them in black or white, wired or wireless, and with at least a dozen key switch options. And every year they’ve gotten bigger and more complex, with media buttons and macro keys and bright rainbow LED lighting. However, this…
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Meta Has Cut More Than 11,000 Workers In Its First Mass Layoffs In 18 Years
Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a statement this morning. The cuts, which amount to about 13% of Meta’s staff, mark the first time that the world’s largest social media company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, has laid off people at…
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ExpressVPN aces three independent security audits
Audio player loading… Not only has it been confirmed as the #1 best VPN on the market by our last round of testing, ExpressVPN also aced all the latest independent audits on its security infrastructure. Two different cybersecurity firms, Cure53 and F-Secure respectively, were called to check all its desktop…
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Microsoft’s DirectStorage 1.1 arrives to boost PC game load times with GPU decompression
Microsoft is releasing DirectStorage 1.1 this week, and the biggest new addition is GPU decompression for Windows PC games. GPU decompression is the next natural step in an industry-wide effort to improve game load times on modern PCs. Microsoft originally launched DirectStorage earlier this year, but developers have been calling…
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