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Apple Denies Bloomberg Chinese Hacking Story to Congress
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 8, 2018 at 5:45 pm Last week, Bloomberg published a bombshell story about a supply-side hardware hack that allowed a Chinese …
Intel Announces New Core i9 Family, 9th Generation CPUs
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 8, 2018 at 4:01 pm After months of leaks, Intel is finally taking the lid off its 9th Generation CPU family. The new series of CPUs …
ET Deals: $400 off the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, New ThinkPad V330 Budget Business Laptop
ExtremeTech - Grant Brunner
By on October 8, 2018 at 3:30 pm For a limited time, Lenovo is offering up a massive $455.70 total discount on the 6th-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon …
Google+ Will Shut Down in 2019 After Exposing User Data
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 8, 2018 at 2:21 pm Google has been trying to gain a foothold in social networking for years, going all the way back to the tragically …
Hubble Is in Safe Mode After Another Gyroscope Failure
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 8, 2018 at 1:02 pm The Hubble Space Telescope is creeping ever closer to 30 years old, and nothing lasts forever. Scientists are acutely …
Nintendo Patent Reveals Case That Turns Your Phone Into a Game Boy
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 8, 2018 at 11:07 am Nintendo has been famously hesitant to bring its most beloved franchises to mobile for fear that would cannibalize …
You Can Buy a $999 Surface Laptop 2 in Any Color, as Long as It’s Platinum
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 8, 2018 at 9:21 am Last week, Microsoft announced new Surface devices, including the Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2. As part of the …
Microsoft Halts Rollout of Windows 10 October Update
ExtremeTech - David Cardinal
By on October 6, 2018 at 4:07 pm After numerous reports of data loss when upgrading to Windows 10 Build 1809 (also known as the October Update), …
ET Deals: Start Playing Vampire: The Masquerade for just $1
ExtremeTech - Grant Brunner
By on October 5, 2018 at 5:29 pm Want to make this month something special for your friends around the tabletop? Right now, you can snag a digital …
AMD Announces New 12-Core and 24-Core Threadripper CPUs, Performance-Boosting Memory Mode
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 8, 2018 at 7:30 am In August, AMD announced a new 32-core and 16-core Threadripper, revamping its top-end product line and further …
Lockheed Wants to Build a Lunar Lander for NASA’s Gateway Station
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 5, 2018 at 4:47 pm NASA representatives have spoken in the past about returning to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, but it was …
Apple Now Bricks MacBook Pros to Prevent Third-Party Repair
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 5, 2018 at 4:03 pm It’s not illegal to have your devices repaired by a company that isn’t Apple — but Apple would really prefer you …
Top Cars of the 2018 Paris Motor Show
ExtremeTech - Bill Howard
By on October 5, 2018 at 3:03 pm The Paris Motor Show shines, somewhat, when the Germans are resting. Specifically, the Paris show runs in even years, …
LG V40 ThinQ: How 5 Cameras Push the Bounds of Phone Photography
ExtremeTech - David Cardinal
By on October 5, 2018 at 2:07 pm As we’ve written before, adding zoom capability — especially telephoto — is one of the final frontiers phone …
Cassini Detected ‘Ring Rain’ During Plunge into Saturn
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 5, 2018 at 1:02 pm It has been more than a year since the iconic Cassini probe ended its mission by diving into the atmosphere of …
Boeing May Be Funding Op-Ed Campaign Attacking SpaceX Across the Country
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 5, 2018 at 10:37 am Companies like Boeing and SpaceX may both be working with NASA to return Americans to space in rockets and crew …
Nokia
The New Nokia 7.1 Is an Affordable Almost-Flagship Phone
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 5, 2018 at 9:20 am Nokia used to be the most recognizable name in the mobile industry, but that was before the modern smartphone era. …
Users are Reporting Lost Data After Installing Windows 10 October 2018 Update
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 4, 2018 at 5:20 pm Every time Microsoft releases a new Windows 10 update, there’s a certain number of people that have trouble …
Nintendo May Launch Switch With Improved Display in 2019
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 5, 2018 at 7:30 am The Nintendo Switch has sold faster than any previous Nintendo console — it even broke the US sales record previously …
Supermicro
Amazon, Apple Servers Completely Compromised by Chinese Hardware Backdoors
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 4, 2018 at 3:22 pm Update 10/8/18 @ 5:46pm EST: More information has come to light about this report, although it’s still inconclusive. …
Mars Rover
NASA Switches Curiosity Rover to Backup Computer Following Glitch
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 4, 2018 at 2:14 pm NASA’s Curiosity rover has already long outlived its minimum projected lifespan with more than six Earth years — more …
Intel Corporation
ET Deals: Current Best Price on AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700x Eight-Core Processor
ExtremeTech - Grant Brunner
By on October 4, 2018 at 2:00 pm Ready to build a new gaming PC? Right now, Walmart is selling the octo-core 3.7GHz Ryzen 7 2700x CPU at a $41 …
Windows Store
Forza Horizons 4 Buyers Can’t Download Game Thanks to Windows Store Bug
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 4, 2018 at 1:02 pm Microsoft rolled out the Windows Store about six years ago, but it doesn’t seem like that long ago, does it? We’ve …
Manufacturers Struggle to Improve QLC NAND as Yields Sit Below 50 Percent
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 4, 2018 at 10:43 am When Micron announced that it would bring QLC (quad-level cell) NAND to market earlier this year, we were genuinely …
Wi-Fi
The Next Wi-Fi Version Will Be Wi-Fi 6
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 4, 2018 at 9:22 am Ever since Wi-Fi technology was introduced, it’s been known principally as 802.11x, where the “x” stands for one or …
Exoplanets
Astronomers May Have Found the First Exomoon
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 4, 2018 at 7:30 am We used to wonder if there were planets outside our solar system, and today the answer to that is a resounding “yes.” …
Hayabusa2 Probe Deploys Third Robot on Asteroid Ryugu
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 3, 2018 at 4:07 pm The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has talked a lot about how the Hayabusa2 mission aims to return a …
Intel May Have 10nm Hardware In-Market Faster Than Expected
ExtremeTech - Joel Hruska
By on October 3, 2018 at 3:20 pm 2018 hasn’t been a good year for Intel; the company has been rocked by security problems from Spectre and Meltdown …
Hands On With New Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2019
ExtremeTech - David Cardinal
By on October 4, 2018 at 9:00 am It’s popular, and completely fair, to complain about how hard high-end photo and video editors are to use. That …
Google’s Voice Access App Lets You Control Your Phone Entirely Hands-Free
ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam
By on October 3, 2018 at 1:02 pm Today’s mobile devices rely on touch-screen technology for almost everything, but you can now control your Android …

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Apple Denies Bloomberg Chinese Hacking Story to Congress

Intel Announces New Core i9 Family, 9th Generation CPUs

ET Deals: $400 off the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, New ThinkPad V330 Budget Business Laptop

Google+ Will Shut Down in 2019 After Exposing User Data

Hubble Is in Safe Mode After Another Gyroscope Failure

Nintendo Patent Reveals Case That Turns Your Phone Into a Game Boy

You Can Buy a $999 Surface Laptop 2 in Any Color, as Long as It’s Platinum

Microsoft Halts Rollout of Windows 10 October Update

ET Deals: Start Playing Vampire: The Masquerade for just $1

AMD Announces New 12-Core and 24-Core Threadripper CPUs, Performance-Boosting Memory Mode

Lockheed Wants to Build a Lunar Lander for NASA’s Gateway Station

Apple Now Bricks MacBook Pros to Prevent Third-Party Repair

Top Cars of the 2018 Paris Motor Show

LG V40 ThinQ: How 5 Cameras Push the Bounds of Phone Photography

Cassini Detected ‘Ring Rain’ During Plunge into Saturn

Boeing May Be Funding Op-Ed Campaign Attacking SpaceX Across the Country

The New Nokia 7.1 Is an Affordable Almost-Flagship Phone

Users are Reporting Lost Data After Installing Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Nintendo May Launch Switch With Improved Display in 2019

Amazon, Apple Servers Completely Compromised by Chinese Hardware Backdoors

NASA Switches Curiosity Rover to Backup Computer Following Glitch

ET Deals: Current Best Price on AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700x Eight-Core Processor

Forza Horizons 4 Buyers Can’t Download Game Thanks to Windows Store Bug

Manufacturers Struggle to Improve QLC NAND as Yields Sit Below 50 Percent

The Next Wi-Fi Version Will Be Wi-Fi 6

Astronomers May Have Found the First Exomoon

Hayabusa2 Probe Deploys Third Robot on Asteroid Ryugu

Intel May Have 10nm Hardware In-Market Faster Than Expected

Hands On With New Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements 2019

Google’s Voice Access App Lets You Control Your Phone Entirely Hands-Free