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Cooler Master MasterAir MA624 Stealth Review (Page 1 of 4)

If there is one thing I do not like having to do, it would be making calls. Recently, I had to do it twice, once for the prepayment of my mortgage and another to renew my contract with my cell phone provider. Thankfully, both of these calls were quite seamless for similar reasons. For one, neither of them had a long wait time. Conversely, my calls to my internet service provider are often met with hours upon hours of waiting with their background...

XPG Spectrix D50 DDR4-3600 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

In my review of the Antec P10 FLUX, I discussed a product that solely focused on performance, omitting any bling or glitter found in most PC hardware components today. Of course, the lack of colors was not an issue, since the P10 FLUX was going for performance only. On the other hand, it does get me thinking on the topic of RGB in PC components these days. My initial surprised reaction at a PC case with no RGB fans or tempered glass made me...

GM’s second $2.3B battery plant with LG Chem to open in late 2023

From TechCrunch: GM and LG Chem announced Friday plans to build a second U.S. battery cell factory — a $2.3 billion facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee that will supply the automaker with the cells needed for the 30 electric vehicle models it plans to launch by mid decade.

Construction on the plant...

Kindle Owners Can Now Use Book Covers as Lock Screen Wallpapers

From PC Mag: Amazon's Kindle e-reader has been available in various forms for 13 years now, but owners are only just gaining the ability to set a book cover as their lock screen wallpaper.

As Engadget reports, Amazon is enabling the option for most, but not all Kindle devices. The supported models...

Google 'partially' misled Android users in Australia about location data, court rules

From CNET: Google "partially" misled some Android users in Australia regarding how their location data was being collected, according to a court ruling handed down Friday.

Australia's Federal Court found that Google misrepresented that its "Location History" setting that users saw during the...

VIPER launches the NEW VP4300 PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 SSD

From Patriot Press Release: VIPER, a trademarked brand of PATRIOT, is proud to launch its Viper VP4300 PCIe Gen4 x 4 NVME M.2 2280 SSD today. The SSD is built using the latest Innogrit Gen 4x4 high-speed controller-IG5236 and the highest quality DDR4 DRAM cache, which delivers blistering transfer...

Turtle Beach's Best-Selling Recon 70 Gaming Headset Now Available In Arctic Camo

From Turtle Beach Press Release: Turtle Beach (NASDAQ: HEAR) today announced the latest colorway for the Company’s best-selling* Recon 70 gaming headset. The all-new Recon 70 Arctic Camo will be available tomorrow, Friday, April 16, 2021 at turtlebeach.com and at select retailers in participating...

Nvidia warns the great GPU shortage will continue throughout 2021

From The Verge: If you were hoping to pickup a new RTX 30-series GPU in the coming months, Nvidia is warning about supply shortages for the rest of 2021. “We expect demand to continue to exceed supply for much of this year,” said Colette Kress, Nvidia CFO, on an investors call earlier this week...

Twitch Discovers Over 7.5M Bot Accounts Inflating Streamer Stats

From PC Mag: Twitch streamers are in for a bit of a shock in the coming days as their follower and view counts are likely to fall dramatically. The reason? Bots.

As Engadget reports, Twitch has discovered over 7.5 million bot accounts have been inflating both the follower and view counts of...

Amazon Prime now has over 200 million subscribers

From CNET: A new letter to shareholders from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that the tech giant's Prime service now has over 200 million subscribers. That's up 50 million from the beginning of 2020.

Bezos also noted that the net profit for Amazon in 2020 was $21.3 billion.

In relation to the...