PlayStation Classic Gets $40 Price Cut Following Lackluster Reviews

From PC Mag: The PlayStation Classic hasn't exactly received glowing reviews since its release earlier this month. And now, just three weeks after making its debut, the retro mini console has received a huge price cut.

Those who already purchased the PlayStation Classic for its launch price of $99...

Nvidia May Be Building New Turing GPUs Without Ray Tracing

From ExtremeTech: There’s been a lot of reporting on the idea that Nvidia is preparing to launch a set of GPUs without ray tracing support over the past few months, including new rumors that broke before Christmas making the same claims. It’s a good time to round them up and look at the...

OnePlus Springs A Surprise And Delivers On A Popular Promise

From Forbes: OnePlus are making the transition from start-up and aggressive follower to a mainstream manufacturer who can take the lead in key areas. One of the tricky parts of that process is keeping the fans from one generation to the next. Part of that is maintaining promises.

With this week’s...

Facebook Tops the List of Least-Trusted Tech Companies

From PC Mag: Last week, the latest in a long string of Facebook privacy scandals came to light: According to a report in The New York Times, the company skirted its own privacy rules to give more than 150 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify, special privileges to its users'...

Nvidia Mobile RTX 2080, 2070 and 2060 Specs Leak on Manufacturer Site

From Tom's Hardware: It was only a matter of time before Nvidia released mobile versions of its new RTX cards, but it looks like Taiwanese ODM CJScope has let the cat out of the bag a little early. The company recently posted and then removed spec sheets for two unreleased laptops that list the...

GoFundMe returns $403,000 to donors in New Jersey scam

From CNET: GoFundMe has returned $403,000 to 14,000 people who believed they were helping a homeless veteran.

The crowdfunding site said Monday that all donations have now been refunded, as have processing and administration fees, according to CBS News.

A New Jersey couple, Katelyn McClure and...

Alexa crashed on Christmas Day

From TechCrunch: Amazon this morning said its Alexa devices were among the holiday season’s best-sellers, particularly the Echo and Echo Dot. But the influx of new users setting up their devices for the first time on Christmas Day appeared to be more than Alexa could handle. The service crashed...

Insurance-Related Spam Calls Skyrocketed This Year in the US

From PC Mag: Have you been recieving a lot of annoying insurance-related spam calls lately? You're not the only one.

According to new data from Truecaller, insurance-related spam calls have skyrocketed in the last year: They now account for 39 percent of all spam calls in the US, up from just 2...

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