Eventually, we hope to stop having to warn Android owners about infected apps that might be on their phones. Unfortunately, today is not that day. Last month, the security firm Fox-IT discovered trojans on Google Play posing as legitimate apps. Google removed the apps, but not before more than 60,000 Android users downloaded them. Delete…
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) consortium, together with some of the biggest names in tape storage (HPE, IBM and Quantum) have updated the LTO Ultrium roadmap. After a five-year gestation, the group has added a 13th and a 14th generation, reaching 288TB and 576TB uncompressed respectively (controversially, the tape industry usually adds 150% capacity to produce…
Saving money on gas is a great reason to use Google Maps for all your driving needs. Even if you don’t need navigation and directions in your hometown. That’s because Google Maps has two new features that will help you save money on gas. The features also work with hybrid and electric cars. They’ll come…
It’s an interesting time for the best graphics cards, what with Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Ada GPUs and AMD’s RX 7000-series RDNA 3 GPUs both expected to launch within the next couple of months. Some might say it’s a terrible time to buy a graphics card, but I sailed on that boat right before the Ampere…
AMD has revealed a new naming scheme for its laptop processors going forward from 2023, as next year is the arrival time of a fresh set of families for Team Red’s mobile chips. The new system is explained in a blog post (opens in new tab), in which the example chip cited is the Ryzen…
Three months after announcing iOS 16 at WWDC 2022, Apple finally confirmed the release date at the iPhone 14 launch event on Wednesday. iOS 16 RC is rolling out today for iPhone developers, and everyone else will be able to download the update on September 12. As for iPadOS 16, iPad owners are going to…
Raspberry Pi systems can bask in that new operating system glow today, with the launch of the latest edition of the tiny computer’s Debian-based OS. This release features many smaller tweaks, but the headline features seem to be an improved Python camera interface, and a simplified ability to easily make a Raspberry Pi into a…
The time has finally come. After more than a decade of development and evolution, someone has finally made Minecraft in Minecraft using only redstone. That someone is Reddit user real_sammyuri. Along with help from a couple of friends, real_sammyuri was able to accomplish what Minecraft redstoners have been talking about for years. If you’re unfamiliar…
Intel’s Raptor Lake flagship processor has been spotted being run through its paces by an overclocker, with some impressive results – including reaching a speed of 6.5GHz (with beefy caveats, as you might guess; indeed, be skeptical with all this info). This leak was highlighted by Wccftech (opens in new tab) (via VideoCardz (opens in…
What is the brain of the computer? We cannot say that the computer-human body analogy is the brightest idea in the world, but we have an answer for you. What is the brain of the computer? The central processing unit is the brain of the computer, through which all information travels along with commands and…
