When UK citizens wake up on 19 March, there will no longer be a regulation that limits how much they can spend in a single transaction on a contactless card, but changes will take time. The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) rule change on contactless payments means the £100 limit will no longer exist, allowing banks…
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It turns out that $600 laptops don’t have to be made from cheap plastic. The MacBook Neo certainly makes design trade-offs compared to its more expensive siblings, but frankly, the build quality still beats plenty of Windows machines twice this price. Much of that comes down to the aluminum unibody build. It’s really what helps…
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Dima Berlin/Getty Images Having your car tracked and getting followed home or having a stranger learn your routine is a scary thought. Though you might be vigilant about watching who follows you around, your car may actually emit a trackable signal that you are unaware of coming from your tires. It is your Tire Pressure…
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The chair of the Treasury Committee of MPs has written to Lloyds Banking Group boss demanding more information about an “alarming breach of confidentiality”.On the morning of March 12, some users of the banking group’s current accounts were able to see the financial transactions of strangers when they opened their banking apps. Users of the…
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The chairman of a top memory chip maker has issued a worrying warningChey Tae-won notes: “We need some time to build up more wafers, at least four to five years”That’s a more pessimistic prediction than analyst firms are makingOne of the top memory chip makers in the world believes that the RAM supply shortage and…
Intel has released a new Arc graphics driverIt introduces a Precompiled Shaders feature to help supported games load fasterThis is a situational benefit, but it’ll apply more often than you thinkIntel has introduced a new trick for some of its Arc GPUs, which helps supported games load a lot more swiftly (albeit in certain situations…
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Update, March 20: A Pearl Abyss spokesperson confirmed to us: “At the moment, we do not support Intel Arc.” However, it didn’t add any further comment on whether this might change in the future.Original story as follows…Crimson Desert won’t boot on systems using Intel Arc GPUs, according to multiple usersPearl Abyss states Intel Arc GPUs…
Walmart in the US is suddenly getting more RTX 4000 stockThis could be an effort to offer alternatives to hard to find RTX 5000 models You might need to act fact for the best RTX 4000 discountsIn case you hadn’t noticed, the price of RTX 5000 GPUs has been creeping upwards, and in some cases…
Vladimir Soldatov/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Wi-Fi 7 is the consumer-facing name for the wireless connectivity standard officially titled IEEE 802.11be EHT (or Extremely High Throughput). It works across three bands, which are 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz, and the latter of those gets 320 MHz of channel…
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Proxima Studio/Shutterstock In recent years, IR blasters have become a standard part of smart TV systems, but it’s not always clear just what these devices are or do. For starters, the IR in the name stands for infrared, which is a type of harmless radiation invisible to the human eye. Infrared radiation is the universal…
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