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...

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.

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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'...

From TechCrunch: Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis. Its worldwide customers also shopped and ordered more items than ever...

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...

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.

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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...

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...

From AnandTech: Huawei has announced today that shipments of its smartphones in 2018 have exceeded 200 million units. In recent months the company became the No. 2 supplier of smartphones, ahead of Apple and behind Samsung, marking a remarkable progress Huawei has made since it entered this market...

From The Verge: HQ Words, the new Wheel of Fortune-style game from HQ, launched out of beta last night with a debut round hosted by the company’s CEO Rus Yusupov, reports TechCrunch. Unlike the company’s first game, which has players answer 10 multiple-choice questions to win a share of the prize...