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Patriot Supersonic Rage Prime 1TB Review (Page 1 of 8)

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Rockstar is reportedly remastering its PS2-era Grand Theft Auto trilogy

From The Verge: Rockstar Games’ Dundee studio is working on remastered versions of three classic PS2-era Grand Theft Auto titles: Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Kotaku reports. A late October or early November release is said to be tentatively...

Facebook Employees Won't Return to US Offices Until January

From PC Mag: Facebook has once again delayed plans to return US employees to the office, amidst concerns over the more contagious COVID-19 Delta variant.

The social network initially anticipated allowing work-from-home conditions to continue until July 2021, providing an additional $1,000 for folks...

Google bars apps from using location tracking tool that sells user data

From CNET: Google on Thursday said it has taken action against a company that sold the location data of Android users.

The company, called SafeGraph, had sold data sets to customers, which it obtained by having software developers embed SafeGraph's code in their apps. One of the company's clients...

Phanteks Introduces The T30 Ultimate Fan and Glacier One 240 T30 AIO Cooler

From Phanteks Press Release: After years of development and rigorous testing, Phanteks today releases the ultimate T30-120 cooling fan alongside the new premium Glacier One 240T30 All-in-One Liquid CPU cooler. Developed in collaboration with SUNON, the Phanteks T30-120 fan brings unparalleled...

Twitter Redesign Includes Proprietary Font, High-Contrast Features

From PC Mag: Twitter is rolling out a new website and app design, complete with fresh font, higher-contrast colors, and less "visual clutter."

At its core, the revamp—rolling out now to iOS, Android, and desktop users—is meant to boost accessibility. "While it might feel weird at first, these...

The 5 biggest announcements from Samsung’s August Unpacked event

From The Verge: Samsung has finished up its Galaxy Unpacked event, where it announced the next generation of its foldables (it called them the new mainstream of smartphones), wearables, and earbuds. Here are the biggest pieces of news from the event.

Samsung’s flagship foldable has some new tricks...

Senate targets Apple and Google app stores in new bipartisan bill

From CNET: A bipartisan Senate bill unveiled Wednesday could set new rules for how app stores are run and for what rules companies like Apple and Google can impose on developers. The bill, introduced by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican...

Norton and Avast are merging into an $8 billion antivirus empire

From The Verge: NortonLifeLock and Avast are merging in a deal worth more than $8 billion. The deal will see NortonLifelock acquire all of Avast’s shares, and create a much larger cyber security firm. “With this combination, we can strengthen our cyber safety platform and make it available to more...

Microsoft Files Protest Against Amazon Winning $10B NSA Cloud Contract

From PC Mag: Two behemoths in the cloud computing space look set to squabble over every government contract, it seems. First, Amazon contested Microsoft winning the Pentagon JEDI contract, now Microsoft is protesting a National Security Agency (NSA) contract awarded to Amazon.

As Nextgov reports...