From The Verge: Facebook is asking large banks in the US to share their customers’ card transactions, shopping habits, and checking account balances to offer new financial services, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.
In an emailed response to the report, Facebook denies that it’s “actively...
From PC World: The year of Android releases isn’t over until Google says it is. After Samsung, LG, and Apple each have their moment in the spotlight, all attention turns to the Pixel phone, and this year’s release—inevitably called Pixel 3—is shaping up to be one of the best phones of the year. At...
From AnandTech: Samsung on Monday announced the industry’s first consumer SSDs based on QLC V-NAND memory. The drives will be available with capacities of up to 4 TB and will target mainstream PCs featuring a SATA interface.
The new Samsung QLC SSDs are based on the company’s 1 Tb 64-layer QLC V...
From EE Times: Foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said a computer virus outbreak that hit the company on Aug. 3 will reduce its third quarter revenue by about 3%.
The virus, which TSMC said was accidentally spread by misoperation during the software installation process for...
From eWeek: Have you heard? Intel is launching new 9th Gen CPUs in the not-too-distant future. That’s the only reasonable conclusion after an avalanche of leaks in the past few weeks, with new details arriving from various websites and motherboard manufacturers alike. The latest is from Gigabyte...
From CNET: The death of Skype 7 (or Skype classic) has been delayed, following "customer feedback", according to Microsoft.
Microsoft originally announced on July 16 that classic Skype would be discontinued on Sept. 1, 2018 and encouraged users to upgrade to version 8.0. After many lamented the...
I have had my share of embarrassing moments in my life, but the one featuring my uncle at a Chinese restaurant is certainly among the top three. Earlier this year, we were eating at a chain Hong Kong style cafe while visiting my extended family in Toronto. After lunch, my uncle waved down the waitress -- an average-sized Asian lady with a buzz cut and glasses -- to ask for the bill. "Excuse me, mam", my uncle said in Cantonese. The waitress...
When I think back to all the gaming mice I have used over the years, there are few that really stand out. Often, it is difficult to properly place my finger on what exactly made those mice stand out, but I think there might be a couple of specifics I enjoy about them. Design is important to me to a certain extent. I enjoy the traditional design, while a mouse that is slightly larger than normal would not bother me at all. However, I dislike the...
From The Verge: We all knew this day would come eventually, but apparently 2018 is the year: Apple will reportedly no longer bundle its 3.5mm to Lightning port headphone dongle with this year’s iPhone models, according to a research note from Barclays that was seen by MacRumors.
And while you can...
From AnandTech: Microsemi is starting their transition to PCIe 4.0 with updates to their Switchtec PCIe switch family and Flashtec NVMe SSD controllers. The new PCIe standard doubles the per-lane throughput from approximately 1GB/s to almost 2GB/s.
The new Flashtec NVMe 3016 SSD controller features...
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