Day: February 24, 2023

The performance race continues, as a newly leaked AMD review guide revealed that the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is between 5-6% faster than the Intel Core i9-13900K. The confidential data, which was leaked by HDTecnologia and reported on by VideoCardz, shows how well the Ryzen 9 7950X3D flagship Zen4 model equipped with extended L3 cache […]

Smart TV interfaces provide a necessary portal to streaming, smart home control, cloud-based gaming, and multiple other apps and services, but they are typically cluttered with unwanted content recommendations, free ad-supported TV offerings, and, now more often than not, in-your-face advertisements. Google TV, which powers Google’s Chromecast with Google TV streaming stick and is also […]

New details for Garmin’s upcoming smartwatch, the Forerunner 965, have been leaked by yet another hasty online store giving us our first high-resolution look at the device. The images come from swimming retailer SwimOutlet showing off the device in two different colors: a metallic black and a bright greenish-yellow. At a glance, it appears the […]

Some Microsoft Exchange folders and processes, which the company previously suggested be excluded from antivirus scans for stability reasons, should no longer be excluded, it has announced. Explaining the change of heart, Microsoft said the processes no longer affect the stability, or the performance, of Exchange servers, adding that it could even be beneficial as […]

New data from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed the astonishing scale of scams across America, which accounted for billions in losses last year. In 2022, the FTC reported $8.8 billion in losses due to fraud, an increase of more than 30% on the previous year. The report shares insights into the most […]

A number of advanced Microsoft 365 Defender features first announced last year as a means of stopping ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, have now reached public preview, the company has announced.  The features, called “automatic disruption” use “high-confidence Extended Detection and Response (XDR) signals across endpoints, identities, email, and SaaS apps”, Microsoft explained, […]

The iPhone 14 may have pioneered the idea of the satellite-connected smartphone, but now the first Android phone has launched with the feature – and it's already more powerful than Apple's Emergency SOS. Just to rub it in, Motorola has also launched a Bluetooth add-on that brings satellite messaging to both Android and iOS devices.  The […]

Xbox FPS Boost allows select backward-compatible Xbox games to run at double or even quadruple the original framerate without any developer input, so the games you remember running at 30fps can now hit the heady heights of 60fps or even 120fps to make for an even better experience. This feature is only available on Xbox […]

A fierce debate is raging online about whether Cocaine Bear should be considered a good movie or not. We're only two months into 2023 but, after the unprecedented success of M3GAN – thanks in part to the horror movie going viral online pre-release – another new horror movie in Cocaine Bear is cooking up a […]

Signal, one of the best encrypted messaging apps around, would leave the UK if a proposed new security Bill becomes law.  In its current form, the UK government's Online Safety Bill would undermine encryption by allowing authorities to check private messages in an effort to halt terrorists and pedophiles online.  Signal said it would rather […]