About | End the tyranny of cable! Be careful, or you could end up with old, overpriced, or low-quality streaming gear. Amazon Today’s Best Tech Deals Picked by TechHive’s Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect’s Editors If you’re looking to cut the cord, picking the right streaming device can be daunting. First…
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Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop 4 this week with a choice of either Intel’s 11th-gen Core (Tiger Lake) processors inside, or a special Surface Edition version of AMD’s Ryzen processor. Which Surface Laptop 4 should you buy? We can answer that question in two ways: what Microsoft recommends, and what we do.Somewhat surprisingly, Microsoft has…
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New Trailer For Josef Fares’ It Takes Two Shows Off The Gameplay And Epic Fight Between Squirrels And Wasps
by Tech NewsA new trailer for Josef Fares’ new co-op game It Takes Two has arrived, showing off more of the gameplay and providing some new context and insight into the story. It Takes Two follows the story of Cody and May, a couple who are struggling in their relationship and are seeking a divorce. Their child…
Joining the rest of New York, movie theaters in New York City itself will soon re-open. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that cinemas in New York City will be able to open again, at a limited capacity, beginning on March 5. Theaters can only accept 25% capacity, the governor said, and a cap of…
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Disney Plus: New “Star” Service Launches With More Adult Content For International Regions
by Tech NewsThe popular streaming service Disney+ continues to evolve, this time with a new offering for international markets called “Star” that features more adult-themed programming.Disney+ Star is now available in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, along with Singapore, which represents the first region where Disney+ launched with Star. According to Deadline, Disney will release Disney+…
Future of the human race — Q&A: Walter Isaacson’s account is a thrilling tale of scientific discovery. Megan Molteni, Wired.com – Mar 13, 2021 12:00 pm UTC 3d render of DNA spirals.According to Walter Isaacson, three great technology revolutions have shaped the modern world, based on three fundamental kernels of human existence: the atom, the…
DOUBLE WHAMMY — As if Exchange users didn’t already have enough to worry about, they have this. Dan Goodin – Mar 13, 2021 12:03 am UTC Organizations using Microsoft Exchange now have a new security headache: never-before-seen ransomware that’s being installed on servers that were already infected by state-sponsored hackers in China. Microsoft reported the…
Long play — Ebola virus is known to persist in some survivors—but not for this long. Beth Mole – Mar 12, 2021 10:53 pm UTC Enlarge / A staff member of the N’zerekore hospital lifts his shirt sleeve as he prepares to get his anti-ebola vaccination in N’zerekore on February 24, 2021. Nzerekore Hospital was…
Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Proposed by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in March 1989, the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented as a means of sharing information between scientists. Within a year and a half, Berners-Lee built the web’s early infrastructure including HTTP and HTML. The first website was hosted…
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This $23,000 custom PC features two RTX 3090 cards, an AMD 3990X Threadripper, and 128GB RAM
by Tech NewsIn brief: Nothing beats buying a monster of a PC—assuming you’ve got the money. One Australian retailer has come up with a rig that can definitely be described as epic, packing two RTX 3090 graphics cards, an AMD 3990X Threadripper, and a custom cooling solution inside an enormous case. The price? 30,000 Australian dollars, which…