Monthly Archives: April 2019

Adverts using disinformation to influence elections is a "significant online harm" needing urgent action from the government, MPs have been told. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham spoke to a parliamentary committee looking at disinformation. She said that she was surprised that a recent government White Paper on online harms had failed...

For most people, the thought of playing Super Mario Bros. on a Commodore 64 probably never occurred to them, for a number of reasons. The biggest one, of course, is that Super Mario Bros. was never made available for the best selling PC of all time—it's an NES game. However...

Sammy Davis Jr. offered up some helpful advice to would be criminals in a theme song he sang for Baretta, a detective show that ran in the late 1970s. He said, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." But what if you didn't do the crime in...

The automotive world is inching towards fully autonomous rides that can take us where we want to go without driver intervention. Tesla seems to be reaching towards full autonomy faster than competing brands; earlier this month the automaker announced that its Autopilot system could change lanes without driver input. Tesla...

Intel today launched new 9th generation Core mobile processors, while NVIDIA unboxed brand new GeForce GTX 16 Series Turing GPUs for laptops. As you might expect, OEMs are refreshing their lineups around these new chips, and we got the chance to get some hands-on time with new hardware from ASUS. ASUS ROG Mothership At the...

Chances are, you're sitting in an office, reading this on a monitor that isn’t that great. Organisations tend to stick with whichever monitor comes with a PC, and that's not always the best option. Having a good monitor can pay dividends in terms of greater productivity: clear, easily readable screens can...

The new addition comes as no surprise to anyone who follows the tech scene, particularly as it relates to gaming and graphics. That's because the GeForce GTX 1650 has been the subject of numerous leaks and rumors leading up to today's official launch. In fact, there is little in the...

AMD is getting a slight jump on its 50th anniversary by prepping a couple of special edition parts for release just ahead of the big day. If the latest leak proves real, then on Monday, April 29, AMD will unveil 50th anniversary editions of its Zen-based Ryzen 7 2700X processor...

Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019), NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 2000 Series mobility GPUs for gaming laptops. These Turing-based GPUs brought top-notch performance and hardware-based real-time ray tracing with the GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2070 and RTX 2080. Now, NVIDIA is pushing its mobility range...

A significant firmware update to Nokia’s flagship handset has seemingly exacerbated widely-reported issues with the Nokia 9 PureView's fingerprint scanner. With version 4.22 came a number of sweeping changes to the Nokia 9 PureView, including an improved user interface (UI) and better functionality. This aimed to address a number of...