Month: July 2024
Beats Solo Buds Review: Great Price, Greater Compromise
Beats’ budget buds are brilliantly tiny but don’t have noise canceling, transparency mode, or—gulp—water resistance. Source
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UK cloud hosting company expands in US as global demand for managed hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems explodes
There’s no question that demand for cloud services is going through the roof right now. Towards the end of 2023, Gartner predicted the cloud market would grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion the previous year, and that certainly seems to be an optimistic forecast…
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This new ransomware scam will hassle you with phone calls until you pay up
A new ransomware group has been discovered harassing its victims on the phone until they pay up. A report from anti-ransomware company, Halycon said that Volcano Demon was seen going after “several” targets in the last couple of weeks, deploying a new encryptor called LukaLocker. Its methodis relatively simple –…
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Samsung’s SSD rival has just released one of the world’s fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs — no, it won’t beat Crucial’s superfast T705 but its no-frills approach means it’s likely to be much cheaper
Samsung’s big South Korean rival SK Hynix has launched its high-end PCB01 SSD, designed specifically for on-device AI PCs. This PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD boasts impressive sequential read and write speeds of 14GB and 12GB per second, respectively, coupled with 4K random read and write rates of 2 million IOPS.…
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NASCAR shows off an EV prototype
NASCAR showed off a new EV prototype stock car at the Chicago Street Race today as part of a presentation on its sustainability initiatives, which it has a new partner for in Swedish electrification firm ABB. The car, which looks more like a performance crossover like the Ford Mustang Mach-E,…
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Lego is releasing a Jaws set in August that recreates the final showdown on Quint’s boat
In case you missed it, we’re officially getting a Jaws Lego set this summer. The company unveiled the upcoming 1497-piece set this week alongside a 90-second mini-movie that reimagines the film in Lego brick form. The Jaws set includes the boat (the Orca), the shark, and minifigures of the protagonists…
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