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Watch out, Intel: Microsoft reportedly designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs

According to Bloomberg News, Microsoft is designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and possibly a future Surface device. The processors will be used in servers for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and be based around ARM designs, according to the report. Microsoft is also reportedly “exploring” using another chip for some of its Surface devices, but it’s not clear if this will progress into a final product. Microsoft currently uses […]

todayDecember 23, 2020

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Riot confirms it’s making a League of Legends MMO and More

League of Legends developer Riot Games is working on a massively multiplayer online (MMO) role playing game in the League universe, Riot’s VP of IP and entertainment, Greg Street, tweeted on Thursday.   “My recent job at Riot has been to help develop the League universe, which we’re going to need!” Street said. “My new job is to kick off a big (some might say massive) game that many of […]

todayDecember 22, 2020

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Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.05 update promises to fix a lot of Bugs

Cyberpunk 2077’s second promised hotfix is out for Xbox and PlayStation platforms. The PC version will follow “soon,” according to developer CD Projekt Red. You can read the extensive list of fixes here. While there doesn’t seem to be anything quite as significant as the changes to reduce epilepsy risk made in last week’s 1.04 hotfix, hopefully this new update will make what has been a very buggy game have […]

todayDecember 21, 2020

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Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data

You may have never heard of the company X-Mode Social, but its code may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data. Now, Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to it. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the tech companies have told developers to remove X-Mode’s code from their apps, or risk getting them pulled from their respective app stores. X-Mode […]

todayDecember 17, 2020

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The 13 biggest trailers and announcements from The Game Awards 2020

There weren’t any bombshells on the scale of last year’s Xbox Series X reveal, but the 2020 edition of The Game Awards was still packed with news and trailers. There were game reveals like Perfect Dark and Open Roads, more characters for Fortnite and Super Smash Bros., and a lot more. If you missed the show, or just need a refresher, here are the biggest moments. As has been long-expected, Epic revealed that Halo star Master Chief is coming to Fortnite. […]

todayDecember 16, 2020

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Oracle moves its HQ from California to Austin, Texas

Software giant Oracle moved the company headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, Bloomberg reported, the latest tech firm to depart Silicon Valley for the Lone Star State. Oracle did not immediately reply to a request for comment Sunday, but told CNBC that it was putting into place “a more flexible employee work location policy,” and that the move to Austin would “best position Oracle for growth and provide […]

todayDecember 15, 2020

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Norman Abramson, a father of modern wireless networks, dies at 88

Norman Abramson, one of the pioneers behind wireless networks, has died at 88, The New York Times reports. The Times stated that Abramson died of skin cancer that had metastasized in his lungs. Abramson and the team of graduate students and faculty he led were responsible for creating ALOHAnet, an early wireless network whose innovative techniques are still being used today in modern satellite, phone, and computer networks. An engineer and student of […]

todayDecember 14, 2020

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A new industry con encourages people to put their routers “in jail” to protect themselves from harmless Wi-Fi

If you’re reading this, as someone who uses the internet, it may seem obvious not to put your router in a Faraday cage. A Faraday cage, after all, blocks electromagnetic radiation and signals from escaping. Putting one around your router would, by very similar physics, prevent those same radio waves that carry your internet from reaching your devices. And yet, an entire cottage industry of con artists looking to make a quick […]

todayDecember 10, 2020

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PAX plans to resume most of its in-person Gaming Conventions in 2021

ReedPop and Penny Arcade, the organizers of the PAX gaming conventions, announced on Friday that they plan to resume PAX East, West, and Unplugged in 2021. Organizers are planning to hold these events as long as it’s safe to do so. The organizers announced that they have no plans to hold PAX South next year, but the show will return in 2022, while information on PAX Australia will follow “in the […]

todayDecember 9, 2020

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