Month: January 2023
Fortnite’s native iOS version won’t allow players to spend V-Bucks after January 30th
The native iOS and macOS versions of Fortnite are about to become even more limited. Since the start of its legal feud with Apple back in the summer of 2020, Epic Games has allowed players who had Fortnite installed on their devices prior to the game's removal from the App…
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These security flaws could let hackers install anything they wanted in the Samsung Galaxy App Store
Audio player loading… Samsung has patched two vulnerabilities in its mobile app marketplace that could have allowed threat actors to install any app on a target mobile device without the device owner’s knowledge or consent. Cybersecurity researchers from the NCC Group discovered the vulnerabilities in late December 2022 and tipped…
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AWS is spending $35 billion on one of its most troubled US cloud regions
Audio player loading… Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans to invest $35 billion in the US state of Virginia to expand its operations between now and 2040. Virginia is home to the company’s US-EAST-1 region, which has suffered significant outages and other issues in recent years, leading some to…
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Mega Microsoft layoffs may have killed off HoloLens for good
Audio player loading… Microsoft recently confirmed it would be cutting around 5% of its workforce globally, leading to around 11,000 departures across the company. At the time, it was uncertain which workers and departments would be most affected, but the Internet has had an entire weekend to unravel the situation…
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Someone made a music record so tiny, it fits inside the groove of a normal vinyl record
Audio player loading… Plenty of us have shrunk the space taken up by our music collection with the advent of digital and streaming services, but scientists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have taken that to the limit. In a feat of miniaturization, the research team at DTU has managed to…
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AMD is winning a key battle against Nvidia in GPU price war
Audio player loading… AMD’s RX 6000 graphics cards are looking like compelling purchases right now, with prices falling steadily as seen in a new report for this month, while Nvidia GPUs are stubbornly refusing to drop. This is going by TechSpot’s (opens in new tab) GPU price update for January…
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