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Fractal Design Define 7 Dark Tempered Glass Review (Page 1 of 4)

About a month ago in my Western Digital Red WD140EFFX 14TB review, I told a story about how one of my friends got the nickname "Hong Kong Grandma", to which we would refer her to as HKG for short. With regards to the mentioned situation HKG was in from the WD140EFFX review introduction, the gist of it was she was getting a lot of unwanted attention from a guy. The guy was socially oblivious to the fact she is not interested in him; not to mention...

SilverStone PP07E Review

There is an old saying that says you do not realize what you have until it is taken away. This reminds a lot of people about the good things they have in life and how it is important to be content with what we have or the situations we are in. On the flip side, I think it is also true you sometimes do not realize you want something until you have tried it once. Unfortunately, this can often happen when you experience something more luxurious than...

WhatsApp tests new feature that lets you add contacts via QR codes

From The Verge: WhatsApp’s latest beta version lets you add contacts by scanning their QR codes, WABetaInfo reports. The feature, which is available in beta on both iOS and Android, can be found in the app’s settings menu, where there are options to display your own code, as well as to scan other...

Interest in Nvidia's Cloud Gaming Service, GeForce Now, Goes Up During the Pandemic

From PC Mag: The pandemic is helping to drive more gamers to try out Nvidia’s cloud gaming service, GeForce Now.

On Thursday, Nvidia indicated that GeForce Now has two million users, up from over one million back in mid-February, when the cloud gaming service moved out of a public beta to become...

Logitech's Circle View Camera only works with Apple's HomeKit Secure Video

From CNET: Logitech on Monday announced a new indoor security camera -- the Circle View Camera. This $160 security camera has a very specific audience: it only works with HomeKit Secure Video.

HomeKit is Apple's iOS-only smart home platform. Like Alexa and Google Assistant, HomeKit is voice-enabled...

ASUS Launches New Motherboards with AMD B550 Chipset

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS is announcing new motherboards featuring the AMD B550 chipset which brings the potential of PCIe 4.0 to mainstream builds everywhere. AMD B550 motherboards enable 20 general-purpose PCIe 4.0 lanes from 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ desktop processors. The primary PCIe slot on all...

Thermaltake launches TOUGHRAM RGB DDR4 4600MHz Memory 16GB

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake proudly announced our high clock rate memory, the TOUGHRAM RGB DDR4 4600MHz 16GB Memory (2x8GB), which comes in both black and white versions. Besides the previous TOUGHRAM RGB 4000MHz and TOUGHRAM RGB 4400MHz Memory, we have now reached a new level, the...

iOS 13.5 Released With Faster Unlock Option for Masked Faces

From PC Mag: Just in time for the Memorial Day long weekend, Apple has rolled out iOS 13.5 to iPhones, and with it, made life a little bit easier for face mask wearers.

As The Verge reports, iOS 13.5 is notable for two new features. The first, hinted at in the beta 3 release last month, should be...

Chrome 85 to erase ads that hog network, CPU resources

From ComputerWorld: Google last week said that this summer Chrome will remove resource-hogging web advertisements from websites, including ads that mask unauthorized crypto-mining operations.

Arguing that a very small number of online ads - three-tenths of a percentage point of all on the web -...

Facebook rolls out new safety notices in Messenger

From CNET: Facebook announced a new safety measure for its Messenger app today. Designed to pop up when a user is about to interact with a new contact that is acting suspiciously, these notifications will offer tips for blocking or ignoring conversations.

Whether or not these safety notifications...