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Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex Review (Page 1 of 4)

Whenever people around my age talk about childhood TV shows, I often find myself not being able to join in on the conversation. I moved to Canada when I was around 5 years old, which put me in a weird situation for watching TV. My English was not good enough to watch the shows others watched here, but my Chinese reading skills were also not sufficient for me to watch Japanese shows with Chinese subtitles. My friends' childhood usually fell within...

Kiwi Ears Aventus Review (Page 1 of 4)

Some combinations are an interesting choice because you wonder how they complement each other. For example, I was recently participating in a limited budget cooking competition. For this event, we could make any main dish with a certain secret ingredient. When the organizers told us the ingredient was dark chocolate, my thought was to do something that would hide it, which is not easy to do. Initially, I was thinking about doing a chocolate mole...

Aflac Confirms Breach as Hackers Target US Insurance Providers

From PC Mag: Aflac is warning that a cybercriminal gang briefly breached its systems as part of an ongoing hacking campaign against insurance providers.

Aflac noticed "suspicious activity" on its network on Thursday, June 12, at which point its cybersecurity team stepped in to prevent any malware...

Data for 86 million AT&T customers leaked again. I take it as a warning

From PC World: AT&T lost information on millions of its U.S. customers last year—not just account numbers, but full names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, birth dates, and even social security numbers. But that wasn’t the end of the story, as the stolen data surfaced again. And...

iPhone 'Flip': The Apple Foldable Is Still Rumored To Come in 2026

From CNET:
We're half a decade into foldable phones, with plenty of devices from Samsung, Google and Motorola (as well as others from Oppo, Huawei and more) for consumers to choose between. Yet among big phone makers, only Apple still lacks one in its lineup. The latest flexible-screen devices...

YouTube is plugging Veo 3 AI videos directly into Shorts

From The Verge: YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a Cannes Lions keynote from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.

Shorts creators can already take advantage of...

Facebook Finally Lets You Sign in With a Passkey, But Not Everywhere

From PC Mag: Passkey authentication’s highest-profile holdout is now giving its customers a more secure alternative to brittle, password-based sign-ons. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it's rolling out passkey logins for users of its Android and iOS apps.

“Passkeys will soon be available on...

Anker Recalls 1.1 Million Power Banks for Fires and Explosions: What to Do if You're Affected

From CNET: Electronics company Anker has announced an official recall of Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263, following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding.

The Consumer Products Safety Commission reports that more than 1.1 million of the...

Fractal’s first gaming headset available now

From Fractal Press Release: Released today, Scape marks Fractal’s first entry into the gaming audio category. Combining Scandinavian design aesthetics with user-centric features, Scape offers a uniquely Fractal take on the gaming headset.

Scape is designed to provide gamers with a rich, immersive...

Eufy’s new smart display keeps an eye on your security cams

From The Verge: Eufy is launching its first portable smart display, designed to allow multiple users to control and monitor security devices from a single hub. The Smart Display E10 is capable of displaying up to four live camera feeds simultaneously and can be paired with the company’s AI-supported...