2022-01-25 10:58:00 www.techspot.com Why it matters: The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its target orbit point around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, also known as L2, nearly a million miles from Earth. The observation fired its onboard…
2022-01-25 11:45:00 www.techspot.com Something to look forward to: EA's Respawn Entertainment subsidiary -- responsible for the ever-popular Titanfall series and Apex Legends -- is reportedly working on three new Star Wars games in some capacity. Two are being directly…
2022-01-25 16:40:00 www.techspot.com In brief: This week, Samsung introduced a new solution for payment card security. It combines a fingerprint sensor, a security chip, and other elements to streamline card authentication while also adding another layer of protection. Samsung's…
2022-01-25 12:16:00 www.techspot.com In brief: Meta has designed and is building what it believes will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world. The AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) is already among the fastest AI supercomputers running, and is expected…
2022-01-25 10:15:00 www.techspot.com In a nutshell: Nvidia’s protracted and troubled $40 billion acquisition of Arm could soon be abandoned by the graphics giant after repeated attempts to convince governments and regulatory boards to green-light the deal. If it does…
2022-01-25 07:21:00 www.techspot.com WinRAR 6.10 adds support for Windows 11 context menus. This latest version can also extract .zst and .zipx archives. WinRAR is available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux. Source Link
2022-01-24 10:38:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? Apple earlier this month implemented a verification system to determine if those applying for discounts through its education portal actually qualified for reduced pricing. In an unexpected twist, Apple has since removed the…
2022-01-24 13:59:00 www.techspot.com In brief: GPU prices have caused gamers a great deal of pain over the past year, but rising mining difficulty and tumbling Ethereum value are once again putting downward pressure on the ridiculous retail price of…
2022-01-24 12:45:00 www.techspot.com In context: Intel Arc Alchemist mobile GPUs should be coming out soon, but Intel hasn't shared much about their specifications yet. However, a leaked Intel slide has recently started making the rounds confirming some rumors we've…
2022-01-24 07:44:00 www.techspot.com Why it matters: Are you a US resident who uses American Express, Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, or other similar financial apps? If so, you could be entitled to part of a $58 million payout from Plaid, the…
2022-01-22 12:36:00 www.techspot.com Something to look forward to: Last week 343 Industries announced incoming changes to cosmetics pricing in the Halo Infinite store. The changes were based on feedback from the game community after continuously criticizing its microtransaction cosmetic…
2022-01-22 10:01:00 www.techspot.com In brief: McAfee Agent, a component of the company's ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), is deployed to client machines to report data, status, and enforce policies. Earlier this week, the company released a security bulletin highlighting two CVEs…
2022-01-20 08:08:00 www.techspot.com In a nutshell: Google's plan to create the "world's largest gaming platform" seems to be slowly taking shape with the launch of a first-party Windows app for playing Google Play games on PCs. Launched as a…
2022-01-20 10:48:00 www.techspot.com The big picture: Spotify has managed to maintain a respectable distance between itself and the next closest competitor in the global streaming music subscription market. As impressive as Spotify’s lead over the competition is, its market…
2022-01-21 17:38:00 www.techspot.com Something to look forward to: For a while now, rumors have pegged the performance of at least one of Intel’s upcoming discrete desktop GPUs at around the level of Nvidia’s RTX 3070 or 3070Ti. The latest…
2022-01-21 05:51:00 www.techspot.com Last week Nvidia quietly released a new 12GB variant of the RTX 3080. The card sounds like it’s the same as the original 10GB version, but with an extra 2GB of VRAM. And while that’s the…
2022-01-21 11:33:00 www.techspot.com In brief: Share value in Netflix plummeted after the streaming video giant shared its fourth quarter earnings report Thursday afternoon. As of writing, shares are down 24.87 percent and if it holds until markets close, Netflix…
2022-01-21 08:44:00 www.techspot.com Something to look forward to: The brief teaser for Samsung's upcoming Galaxy flagship hints that the S and Note series will finally be merging, presumably under the S22 line. Previous rumors indicated as such when a…
2022-01-21 06:45:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? Russia has proposed following China in coming down hard on cryptocurrency. The country’s central bank has suggested banning the use and mining of crypto within its territories over concerns it could damage Russia’s…
2022-01-21 05:14:00 www.techspot.com In brief: Intel is set to announce plans to build a $20 billion chip manufacturing complex in New Albany, on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, as the company looks to lessen US reliance on foreign chipmakers…
2022-01-20 12:34:00 www.techspot.com In context: Apple isn't the first company to develop a tracking fob. However, the extensive Find My network has made AirTags a very effective tool for criminals. It is a problem the company will have to…
2022-01-20 14:11:00 www.techspot.com Recap: TikTok in a surprise move late last year said it would soon be entering the restaurant business. The strategy would see the social media giant open 300 ghost kitchens and use them to deliver trending…
2022-01-20 15:37:00 www.techspot.com The big picture: The metaverse is coming whether you like it or not and big tech companies are scrambling to develop strategies on how to get involved. While some are interested in the NFT side or…
2022-01-20 16:44:00 www.techspot.com Why it matters: Given its many limitations, the Radeon RX 6500 XT is hardly an exciting product. As it turns out, the Navi24 GPU was really only meant for laptops, and the missing media decoding and…
2022-01-20 16:08:00 www.techspot.com Why it matters: Sony’s first official response to Microsoft’s historic acquisition of Activision Blizzard indicates that current multiplatform games will remain on PlayStation in the near term. Comments from Activision support this claim. However, short-term obligations…
2022-01-20 13:08:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? AT&T is now activating C-Band 5G networks in limited parts of eight metro areas across the US after having followed a voluntary six-week pause to give the Federal Aviation Administration and the aviation…
2022-01-20 10:15:00 www.techspot.com A hot potato: While many companies and individuals have announced their intentions to jump on the NFT bandwagon, social media firms have been comparatively quiet when discussing plans for non-fungible tokens. However, a new report claims…
2022-01-20 06:33:00 www.techspot.com A hot potato: Elon Musk has responded to an ad taken out in Sunday’s New York Times that blasts Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software, claiming it malfunctions and commits critical driving errors every 8 minutes. The CEO…
2022-01-19 07:52:00 www.techspot.com Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. According to Android Inc. founder Andy Rubin, the software that became the Android operating system was originally designed to be used in "smart cameras," but was…
2022-01-19 13:56:00 www.techspot.com What just happened? Apple now requires US shoppers applying for education pricing to verify their status as a student, teacher or staff member to qualify. Up to this point, Apple’s education pricing in the US largely…
2022-01-19 17:08:00 www.techspot.com Why it matters: When Apple launched iOS 15 last fall, it promised that users who didn’t want to upgrade from iOS 14 would still get critical security updates. That option seems to have recently disappeared, as…
2022-01-19 15:39:00 www.techspot.com In context: Toxicity in gaming has received much attention from developers lately. While trash talk has always been a part of competitive video games (and sports, for that matter), developers have been spending more effort to…
2022-01-19 10:47:00 www.techspot.com The big picture: Buying an NFT today is often a multi-step process that includes opening a crypto wallet, buying crypto, then using it to purchase an NFT from an online marketplace. It’s the norm for crypto…