February 2024

Buyer beware: scammers are selling useless Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics cards that can’t actually play games

Buyers of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 flagship GPU have been scammed in the past, and another victim of a graphics card sting has just been flagged up.Hong Kong-based HKEPC reports (hat tip to VideoCardz) that a reader of the site purchased a second-hand RTX 4090 at a popular online marketplace (Carousell). The buyer found that the…

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Want faster frame rates for free? Intel’s tech to boost game performance is coming to more of its CPUs

Some good news from Intel, as revealed at CES 2024, is that its APO tech will be coming to older CPUs, not just the newest Raptor Lake Refresh chips on our best processors list.APO or Application Performance Optimization is a tech that optimizes supported games and boosts frame rates, and it was something Intel introduced…

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Some Galaxy S24 Ultra owners have reported serious issues plaguing the screens and the cameras

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is easily the best Android phone on the market in 2024. But if you want to get the most expensive, non-foldable phone Samsung has to offer, you should be aware of a couple of potential issues with the device. Some Galaxy S24 Ultra early adopters have reported screen and camera defects…

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AWS talks up Q4 increase in large customer wins as global market share drops

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still feeling the effects of many of its customers embarking on cloud cost optimisation strategies, but said the pace of new customers joining its ranks is accelerating. The public cloud giant has posted its fourth quarter and full-year results, which revealed the firm has seen its revenue increase on a…

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UK police facial recognition explained: What you need to know

UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial deployments…

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AMD: Zen 5-Based CPUs for Client and Server Applications On-Track for 2024

As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD re-emphasized that its Zen 5-architecture processors for both client and datacenter applications will be available this year. While the company is not making any new disclosured on products or providing a timeline beyond “later this year”, the latest statement from AMD serves as a reiteration…

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AMD Set to Fix Ryzen 8000G APU STAPM Throttling Issue, Sustained Loads Affected

Earlier this week, we published our review of AMD’s latest Zen 4 based APUs, the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G. While we saw much better gaming performance using the integrated graphics compared to the previous Ryzen 5000G series of APUs, including the Ryzen 7 5700G, the team over at Gamers Nexus has since…

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‘People are now listening,’ Post Office inquiry told as latest phase ends

The statutory public inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal was told that the public are now paying attention, as barristers closed its fourth phase. After months of questioning and several delays, the inquiry phase investigating the Post Office’s wrongful prosecutions of its branch managers heard powerful closing submissions. Legal representatives of core participants wrapped…

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Here’s how Facebook, X, TikTok, and more harvest your iPhone data with just a push notification

Apple always states that “privacy is a fundamental human right” and does everything to keep user’s data safe from third-party apps and developers trying to sell this information to others. While Apple itself doesn’t consider the way it collects data harmful, as it wants to bring “personalized content” to its customers, it’s impossible to say…

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Intel’s next-gen Battlemage GPUs are on track, and 3rd-gen Celestial hardware is being worked on – with more good news to follow

Next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are progressing well and should arrive before CES 2025, we’ve heard from Intel.Specifically this came from Tom Petersen, Intel Fellow, who was interviewed by PC World at CES 2024 (see the YouTube clip below) as highlighted by PC Gamer.Petersen said he’s excited about Battlemage which has moved onto development on the…

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