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Asus Formally Completes Acquisition of Intel’s NUC Business

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ASUS has formally acquired Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) products based on Intel’s 10th to 13th Generation Core processors. Asus is set to continue building and supporting Intel’s existing NUCs and will, over time, roll out its own compact NUC systems for office, entertainment, gaming, and many other applications. “I am confident that this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our…

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This iPhone Lock Screen trick will help stop you from giving anyone your phone while it’s unlocked

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I hate giving my iPhone to strangers asking to scan a digital ticket with the screen unlocked. Yes, it’s incredibly easy to pull up a barcode or QR code on the screen so you can prove you have a valid ticket, loyalty program membership, or discount. And it’s very easy to add most of these…

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Intel leaks specs of key Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs, suggesting launch is imminent

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Intel has leaked some of its own marketing bumph pertaining to incoming next-gen desktop processors, Raptor Lake Refresh, giving us details on specs for some key models.The material comes from Intel Japan, as discovered by VideoCardz, and these would represent the official specs (assuming, naturally, that the tech site hasn’t been duped somehow and these…

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Intel’s long-lost Arc A580 suddenly appears online – is the GPU about to launch?

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Despite Intel’s Arc A580 graphics card going missing in action for absolutely ages, it turns out that this lower-mid-range Alchemist GPU could be about to launch.At least going by what VideoCardz flagged up, namely that ASRock and Sparkle A580 graphics cards have both been spotted online (via the Geizhals price comparison site). The ASRock model…

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Mediatek Dimensity 7200 chip brings powerful gaming to mid-range Android phones

3 minutes of reading / 5G, AI, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Snap, Tech / By

When we talked about the Mediatek Dimensity 9200 chip a few months ago, gaming was one of the main highlights. The processor is meant to compete against the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 System-on-Chip (SoC) in the Android market. Fast-forward to mid-February, and Mediatek’s Dimensity 7200 mid-range SoC also puts gaming at the forefront. Tech.…

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Intel leak suggests MacBook-beating laptops could trouble Apple sooner than expected

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Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have been somewhat under the radar thus far, so it’s interesting to see a leak pop up around the future CPUs.As a quick refresher – the various lakes Intel employs are confusingly numerous – the next-gen chips from Intel are Meteor Lake (laptop chips, due in December) and Raptor Lake Refresh…

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Nvidia RTX 4080 Ti rumor suggests it’s the high-end GPU you’ve been waiting for

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Nvidia could be planning a faster version of its RTX 4080 graphics card, and this GPU might just be temptingly priced.That’s the latest theory from MEGAsizeGPU, one of the regular hardware leakers on X (formerly Twitter), so regard it with the usual caution you’d employ around chatter from the rumor mill.There will be a 4080S(maybe…

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Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for deeper anti-competition probe

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The UK public cloud infrastructure market will be the subject of a further anti-trust probe by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The move has been under consideration since April 2023 when Ofcom released the interim findings of its September 2022 investigation into the inner workings of the UK public…

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Policing minister wants to use UK passport data in facial recognition

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Policing minister Chris Philp has outlined his intention to give police forces access to the UK’s passport database, claiming it will enhance their facial-recognition capabilities to help catch shoplifters and other criminals. Speaking at a fringe event of the Conservative Party Conference, Philp told attendees that he plans to integrate data from the police national database…

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Google CEO wants Bard tests of up to 4 hours from employees

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Google’s first demo of its ChatGPT-like service Bard cost the company $100 billion in market cap, in a very public display of incompetency from the AI product. The chatbot made an innocent mistake when providing an answer in the conversational tone of ChatGPT. One that real humans caught immediately. That error tanked the stock by…

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