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Animal Crossing's Colorful Festivale Update Arrives This Week, Mario Crossover Set For March

On January 28th, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will be getting a free update to bring festivity to every player’s island. This update will include “a colorful and feather-filled Festivale event, some heartfelt seasonal additions, new Reactions and new items to purchase.” Also, there are hints for an interesting collaboration on...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Google Warns Of Sneaky Social Engineering Hack From North Korea Targeting Security Researchers

Security researchers beware, as Google is reporting that a “government-backed entity based in North Korea” is targeting anyone working on vulnerability research and development. These attackers use several different accounts and means of communication to reach out to a target. Then, they share that they have a 0-day available for...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Intel And OEMs Quietly Launch Iris Xe Discrete Desktop Graphics Cards

In an announcement that is decidedly under the radar, Intel today revealed the very first discrete desktop graphics cards to use its 12th generation Iris Xe GPU. With very little fanfare, Intel revealed that the first desktop graphics cards will be targeted at the consumer market in addition to small- and...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Qualcomm's Newest Snapdragon Platforms To Make Cars Smarter, Safer And Hyper-Connected

As technology takes over the automotive space for more intelligent driving experiences, there are increasingly more powerful processing platforms to control various powertrain, infotainment, and safety subsystems. Such is the case with Qualcomm's new 4th generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform. This new connected compute platform combines multiple sensors with computer vision...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Mysterious AMD Radeon Nashira Summit GPU Surfaces With Possible RDNA 3 Roots

Internet sleuths should don their detective caps right about now, to solve the case of the secretive GPU codename that just surfaced within the Ashes of the Singularity database. There are actually two GPUs in this particular listing, both identified as Nashira Summit. Could this be an early look at...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
GeForce Experience 3.21 Brings AI-Fueled WhisperMode 2.0 And More For RTX 30 Laptops

Today is a pretty big day for gamers on the go—it marks the launch of GeForce RTX 30 series laptops sporting the company's latest generation Ampere GPUs, in mobile form. And right on cue, NVIDIA has released a driver update and a bolstered version of its GeForce Experience utility, the...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Alexa Can Now Automatically Act On Hunches For AI Takeover Of Your Smart Home

Amazon has long been working on trying to make users’ lives more convenient with connected devices. They initially introduced the concept of “Hunches” in 2018. This allowed Alexa to inform a user when something was not quite right with their connected device and offer to fix the issue if possible...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
A Sinister Telegram Bot Is Selling Stolen Facebook User Data For $20 Each

In this episode of Misbehaving Bots, automated Telegram miscreants have been found selling private Facebook user data in an unscrupulous forum, for $20 a pop (or even less). Maybe this is why the bots gobbled up all the latest generation CPUs, graphics cards, and game consoles—it's not cryptocurrency mining, but...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
Verizon Opens Its Blazing Fast 5G Ultra-Wideband MmWave Network To Prepaid Customers

Verizon is expanding access to its greater 5G network to its customers that prefer prepaid accounts. Verizon previously provided access to both its 5G Nationwide (sub-6GHz) and 5G Ultra-Wideband (mmWave) to its postpaid customers, however, only the former was available to prepaid accounts. With this week's announcement, prepaid accounts will...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop Performance: What To Expect

NVIDIA unveiled its Ampere-based RTX 30 series mobile GPUs at a special GeForce Event, during this year's virtual CES 2021 festivities. A wide range of notebook design wins were also showed off at various events, spanning a variety of form factors. With the GeForce RTX 30 series, NVIDIA is targeting...

This entry was posted in Tech News on January 26, 2021 by gigarefurb.