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HyperX and MSI break DDR4 overclocking world record again with 7.2GHz speeds

Matthew Wilson 8 hours ago Featured Announcement, Memory Earlier this month, HyperX and MSI were able to set a new DDR4 memory overclocking world record, reaching speeds of 7156MHz. Now, just a few weeks later, this record has been broken, with MSI and HyperX hitting 7.2GHz speeds. HyperX is of course the gaming division of… Read more

Spotify set to raise subscription prices for all tiers in UK and Europe

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, General Tech As great as large-scale entertainment subscription services can be, over time, price hikes tend to occur. Those who use Spotify in the UK and Europe are about to be hit by one such price hike, raising the monthly fee across all tiers. As reported by… Read more

Respawn is working on a new IP

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Software & Gaming It looks like Respawn is cooking up another brand new IP. The studio recently put up some new job listings, revealing plans for a completely new game not connected to Titanfall or Star Wars. We first caught wind of this via Vince Zampella himself, who tweeted out… Read more

EA is working on a Battlefield mobile game

Matthew Wilson 3 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming This week, DICE and EA began teasing this year’s Battlefield game, promising bigger battles and more destruction than ever before. Battlefield 6 isn’t the only new project in the works though, EA is also planning a Battlefield mobile game to compete with the likes… Read more

This Stainless Steel Gaming Desk Fights Messy Cables With Magnets

Home News (Image credit: Secretlab) Secretlab today announced that it’s expanding beyond gaming chairs with the Secretlab Magnus Metal Desk, which it designed specifically with PC gamers in mind. Before you ask, yes, that does mean the desk features RGB lighting. But that isn’t the only way Secretlab tried to make the Magnus Metal Desk… Read more

Ford takes its first step toward producing its own electric car batteries

Ford announced the launch of a new battery development center in Michigan, the first step toward taking on some of the burden of building its own battery cells for electric cars in-house. The new “global battery center of excellence” will be called Ford Ion Park and will be based in Southeast Michigan. Ford said the… Read more

Watch all the sessions from the What Hi-Fi? Virtual Show

Home News (Image credit: Future) The What Hi-Fi? Virtual Show took place on Saturday 24th April, featuring interviews, expert advice and a Live Q&A session with the What Hi-Fi? team. Thousands of you logged on to watch the videos and ask questions – and there’s still time to catch up on any videos you missed…. Read more

Pixar’s next animated short expands the complex world of Soul

From the very beginning of Pixar’s Soul, 22 — a soul who refuses to come down to Earth — is cynical. She hates the idea of inhabiting a body or finding her inspiration, instead being content with spending eternity in the “great before,” a space meant to prepare souls for their human lives. Viewers don’t… Read more

The Golden State Warriors are auctioning team memorabilia collections as NFTs

The Golden State Warriors are auctioning off a plethora of team-related memorabilia as non-fungible tokens, the team’s first foray into the world of NFTs. The Golden State Warriors Legacy NFT Collection has two series minted on the blockchain: the Warriors Championship Ring NFTs and Commemorative Ticket Stub NFTs, which were designed by artists’ studio Black… Read more

Spotify launches podcast subscriptions, but you can’t subscribe in-app

For the first time, Spotify is letting podcasters on its platform offer subscriptions to their shows. The company announced its paid podcast subscription product for the US today, which will initially allow select partners who host their shows on Anchor to charge for content. Twelve independent shows, including Tiny Leaps, Big Changes and Mindful in… Read more

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin protests NASA’s $2.9 billion SpaceX contract

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is protesting NASA’s decision to award SpaceX $2.9 billion for a pair of missions to land on the Moon by 2024. NASA’s Human Landing System program, which funded development of three rival lunar lander prototypes (including Blue Origin’s), was expected to pick two of those landers in April. But… Read more

Intel, Microsoft Team Up to Combat Cryptojacking

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel and Microsoft are collaborating on a new project to help enterprise and small business customers avoid security issues that may involve others using PCs on your network to mine cryptocurrencies, known as cryptojacking. The protection will be built into Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on systems using 6th Gen or… Read more

EA says FIFA mode with loot boxes is the ‘cornerstone’ of the franchise in leaked documents

Electronic Arts wants to push FIFA players to the FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) mode, which lets people spend real-world money and in-game currency to buy loot boxes with virtual athletes, according to documents obtained by CBC News. Loot boxes, which typically offer random collections of virtual goods with the tantalizing (and often very small) chance… Read more

REvil Ransomware Group Reportedly Drops Apple Threat

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The hacking group known as REvil has reportedly pulled all references to a ransomware attack against Apple supplier Quanta Computer from its home on the dark web, MacRumors reports. Last week, the group had threatened Quanta with ransomware, demanding $50 million by April 27 in order to stop it from… Read more

Luminar’s LIDAR will take flight in new partnership with Airbus

Luminar, the newly public LIDAR company, is teaming up with the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world to bring its laser-guided mapping and perception technology to new heights. LIDAR, the laser sensor that sends millions of laser points out per second and measures how long they take to bounce back, is seen as a key… Read more