From The Verge: Valve and five PC video game publishers have been fined a total of €7.8 million (around $9.5 million) by the European Commission for restricting cross-border game sales in the European Economic Area. The Commission said that the companies geo-blocked around 100 PC video games...
From PC Mag: Nvidia continues to keep its Shield TV devices bang up-to-date, with the latest software update adding support for controllers from the most recently released games consoles.
As The Verge reports, Nvidia just rolled out Shield Experience Upgrade 8.2.2. and the major feature it...
From CNET: A week after Qualomm's latest high-end 5G processor arrived in Samsung's new Galaxy S21 lineup, rival MediaTek unveiled new chipsets of its own: the Dimensity 1200 and Dimensity 1100. The new processors from the Taiwanese chipmaker bring improved AI, camera and multimedia capabilities but...
From The Verge: Samsung’s 860 SSD has been one of the standards for PC parts since it was released in 2018. Now, the company is announcing its successor, the 870 Evo, its latest SATA SSD designed for consumer use that brings faster speeds and lower prices.
The new drive is apparently so fast that...
From PC Mag: Windows 10 users are used to Windows Defender automatically protecting their PC from malware, but enterprise users rely on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint instead, and it's about to get a lot more effective at dealing with malware thanks to a simple setting change.
In a blog post (via...
From CNET: Qualcomm just launched a new high-end Snapdragon 888 smartphone processor, but it's already got another chipset available to power slightly cheaper phones. The company on Tuesday unveiled its Snapdragon 870, which will be used by companies like Motorola and Xiaomi in their upcoming...
I was recently watching one of my favorite music YouTube channels who was going over the reason why soundtracks often repeat. It goes into an interesting rabbit hole that explains how the more times a track of music repeats without the listener recognizing the repetition, the more the listener will enjoy the piece of music. It might explain why record labels try to get their top tracks on the radio to be played day after day in order to make more...
About a few weeks ago, our Editor-in-Chief Jonathan asked me if I would want to review a mousepad, and I said yes. Then I told my wife about my upcoming review project. Unsurprisingly, my wife just had a reaction you would expect from anyone who is not a computer enthusiast. She wondered how I would be able to write a multi-page review about supposedly simple things like mousepads. Well, it is fair that for normal office or home use, mousepads...
From The Verge: Amazon will now allow third-party companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform.
While Amazon has allowed companies to build skills for Alexa and allows pretty much...
From PC Mag: Chinese electronics company Xiaomi has been added to a blacklist by the US Department of Defense following its classification as a "Communist Chinese military company."
As CNBC reports, Xiaomi is one of nine new companies added to the list "in accordance with the statutory requirement...
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