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In a nutshell: A fortnight ago, AMD acknowledged the swell of complaints surrounding sporadic USB disconnections on X570 and B550 motherboards. They’ve had engineers working on the problem since, but without success: for now, AMD’s official guidance is to employ the workarounds suggested on Reddit. For the past two weeks, AMD has been collecting user…

What just happened? Nubia’s RedMagic 6 series is on the way with specs that make it unique among the current crop of smartphones. Not only does it boast the largest amount of RAM ever seen in a handset—18GB—but the device also has a 165Hz display, another first. Both the RedMagic 6 and RedMagic 6 Pro…

In a nutshell: Citing improved testing and release processes for Chrome, Google has decided to speed up the rate at which it pushes out major feature updates for its browser and will switch to a four-week release cycle down from six, starting with version 94 that’s arriving in Q3 this year. Google’s milestone updates for…

In WandaVision Episode 7, we learned a shocking (or not-so-shocking, depending on how deeply embroiled in fan theories you’ve been since the show’s premiere) truth about Kathryn Hahn’s Agnes. Surprise! She’s actually been Agatha Harkness all along, and she even gets her very own theme song to prove it.But, like many things in WandaVision, this…

It’s hard to imagine the Guardians of the Galaxy films without Drax the Destroyer, and it’s even harder to imagine anyone other than Dave Bautista bringing the ultra-literal strongman to life, but it turns out that almost didn’t happen.Director James Gunn is more active on Twitter than ever, offering fans of his work almost daily…

Delivering on a promise made before launch, Hitman 3 developer IO Interactive now has a way for you to bring over your Hitman 1 and 2 purchases to the Epic Games Store.Like Hitman 2 before it, Hitman 3 lets you import all the stages from the older instalments for play in its upgraded engine. Hitman…

Shudder’s anthology series Creepshow has been renewed for Season 3. In addition, AMC’s horror streaming service has confirmed that Season 2 will be released on April 1.Ahead of AMC Networks’ TCA winter tour presentation, the company confirmed that not only will the six-episode Season 3 start production soon, it will also be released later this…

GOT PRIVACY? — Cloud-based camera service Verkada exposed hardcoded password—and its customers. Dan Goodin – Mar 10, 2021 5:14 am UTC Getty ImagesHackers say they broke into the network of Silicon Valley startup Verkada and gained access to live video feeds from more than 150,000 surveillance cameras the company manages for Cloudflare, Tesla, and a…

Emissions get high — Ironically, growing it in a controlled environment has a huge environmental impact. John Timmer – Mar 10, 2021 12:13 am UTC Enlarge / All those lights take energy.Back in the pre-legalization days, cannabis production meant finding a rarely visited patch of land and growing outside, or it meant taking cultivation indoors—typically…

haha rumor mill goes brrrrrt — If you prefer a Surface with a heavier multicore punch, we’ve got hopeful news. Jim Salter – Mar 9, 2021 11:36 pm UTC Enlarge / Microsoft’s x86_64 Surface Laptop (right) may be in for an AMD-flavored refresh, alongside the usual Intel varieties.According to a report by German news site…