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My entire book was plagiarized on Amazon. I admit that in the grand scheme of things that could go wrong in tech these days, I wasn’t quite expecting this one. It’s all the more surprising because the same distributor handles both books. Last year, our publisher Ziff Davis (ExtremeTech’s parent …

No computer system in the world is completely secure, so businesses and governments often keep their most sensitive data in so-called “air-gapped” machines. These computers are not connected to the internet or to any other local devices, making it almost impossible to steal data. It’s almost impossible, but there have …

Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year, according to new data from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower. The firm found that U.S. iPhone users spent 23 percent more on in-app purchases in 2017 than they did the year …

Klook.com Smart set to use Huawei P20 Pro and P20 for Travel Junkies Smart Communications, one of the country’s leading telecoms service providers, has actually verified that it will be using the Huawei P20 Pro and P20 under their GigaX Postpaid Plans when they are released starting on Saturday, April …

Navigating familiar areas like the streets of your childhood community is less about bring around a map and more about remembering exactly what’s around the corner. This comes almost naturally to human beings and, however can a computer system learn how to stroll the streets of New york city City …

Google stepped up its scrutiny of device security several years ago in the wake of the massive Stagefright vulnerability. Ever since then, Android devices list a “patch level” that tells you when its security was last updated. However, Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell Security Research Labs say that many devices …

AMD technically just launched a new lineup of GPUs this week, but don’t worry if you can’t find them on store shelves. The new 500X family adds an “X” to the brand of each previous Radeon card. The Radeon RX 580 is now the RX 580X, the 570 is the …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is kind of a big deal at the moment. The Battle Royale-style shooter has been challenged by games like Fortnite, but the two titles are different enough that they’ve each maintained distinct play styles and strategies. As with any multiplayer game, there’s an ongoing war of attrition between …

Microsoft has been talking up the Spring Creators Update for Windows 10 in recent months, but there’s one big problem: It’s missing. The release was expected yesterday, but there are no reports of the update appearing on systems, and Microsoft hasn’t said a word. According to some unverified but totally …

Apple and Microsoft have always pursued different approaches to backwards compatibility, with Microsoft generally prioritizing the capability far more than Apple has. That difference in stance is largely the result of Redmond having a vastly larger legacy installation base than Cupertino, but it means Mac users need to keep a …