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WD My Passport SSD Review: Sleek, Slim, and Secure Storage

Our Verdict WD’s My Passport SSD is not the fastest portable drive with speeds of up to 10 Gbps, but it also comes with full disk encryption support that secures your precious files and also comes backed by a 5-year warranty. For Attractive aesthetics and color options Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption Appealing thin and light… Read more

Thanks, I love NOAA’s satellite-themed Valentine’s Day cards

Let’s be honest, when most people think of places to get good Valentine’s Day cards, the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Twitter account is probably not high up on the list. And yet, it’s posted some cards on the NOAA Satellites account, and I think they’re absolutely fantastic. Finding a Valentine’s Day… Read more

How you can help astronomers hunt for undiscovered worlds

Astronomers discovered the stars closest to our Solar System more than 100 years ago. There’s the three-star Alpha Centauri system about four light-years away and Barnard’s star about six light-years out. But our celestial neck of the woods might be more crowded than we ever thought possible. In the past 25 years, astronomers have been… Read more

High-resolution audio: everything you need to know

Home Advice (Image credit: Astell & Kern) After years of niche positioning in the music world, “high-resolution audio” (or “hi-res audio”) finally hit the mainstream, thanks to a huge raft of support in streaming services (such as Tidal and Amazon Music HD) and products (from smartphones to most digital hi-fi components). So why should you… Read more

Amazon Music Unlimited vs Spotify: Which is best?

(Pocket-lint) – The rise of Amazon Music Unlimited has gone hand-in-hand with the explosion in the use of Amazon Echo speakers and Alexa, its digital assistant. It integrates seamlessly with Echo devices, while also working just like any other streaming service on your phone and other devices. Spotify is probably the first service you think of… Read more

GDDR6X in 3080 and 3090 Hits 110C While Mining Ethereum

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Popular hardware monitoring tool HWInfo64 has just received a new update, version 6.42 that adds support for “GDDR6X Memory Junction Temperature.” This feature will allow you to check your VRAM temperature if you have a GDDR6X equipped Ampere card like the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. This could be… Read more

Hitman 3 has perfected the art of turning bumbling players into master assassins

Image: IO Interactive The most accessible, cohesive Hitman game to date To the casual onlooker, the Hitman series appears to be about embodying a master assassin, one who can assume a disguise with ease and dispatch a target using virtually any object in the room. A hairless John Wick, if you will — if John… Read more

10 best remastered games: The top Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC gems to play now

(Pocket-lint) – Feeling all nostalgic? Well, if you want to dabble in a bit of old-school gaming then there’s no need to go digging the PS1 or Dreamcast out of the attic – so many of those machines’ older games have been lovingly picked up and remastered by developers. No scratched CD nightmares or cartridge-blowing… Read more

Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS

An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private astronaut crew to journey to the International Space Station. The trio will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule early next year, with a veteran NASA… Read more

After cyberattack on EMA: Corona vaccine email correspondence leaked

In December 2020 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that in the course of a successful attack on its network, some sensitive data had been tapped. These included documents from the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Biontech, which were in connection with the two companies’ application for approval of their vaccine against the corona virus. Last… Read more

“Sunspot” and “Raindrop”: More malware in the SolarWinds attack chain discovered

Since the end of last year, security researchers, companies and authorities have been intensively analyzing supply chain attack tactics on SolarWinds Orion software that criminal hackers successfully used to compromise networks of large companies and authorities. Over the past few weeks, the analyzes have uncovered other malware families that were used in the course of… Read more

ViacomCBS: Paramount + video streaming service is scheduled to start on March 4th

ViacomCBS plans to launch its Paramount + video streaming service on March 4th. As the media group announced, the start will initially take place in the USA and Latin America. In Canada, CBS All Access will be renamed Paramount +. To Europe, Paramount + is supposed to be on 25. March come, but initially only… Read more

Huawei, all new user interface on AppGallery: here are the news

The third app store in the world takes on a new user interface for the European market, offering greater interactivity and a simplified user experience of Nino Grasso published on 18 January 2021 , at 12: 01 in the Telephony channel Huawei AppGallery is the third largest app store in the world, with 384 billions… Read more

Huawei, all new user interface on AppGallery: here is the new app

The third app store in the world takes on a new user interface for the European market, offering greater interactivity and a simplified user experience of Nino Grasso published on 18 January 2021 , at 12: 01 in the Telephony channel Huawei AppGallery is the third largest app store in the world, with 384 billions… Read more

Valve: will Source Engine 2 also receive Ray Tracing support?

How would you see Half-Life: Alyx with Ray Tracing support? A rumor feeds the possibility that this feature will soon be introduced for games based on Source Engine 2. The “overwhelming proof” has been found in the Artifact source code – here’s what we know. by Pasquale Fusco published 16 January 2021 , at 08:… Read more