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Intel Discontinues Skylake-X HEDT CPUs, With Cascade Lake Barely Available Intel has published a new set of Product Change Notifications (PCNs) for the Skylake-X platform as well as a number of Xeon processors. The boxed and unboxed versions of the Core i9-9980XE, i9-9960X, i9-9940X, 9-9920X, i9-9900X, i9-9820X, and i7-9800X are …

Gates, Musk, Others Hacked in Comprehensive Twitter Attack Normally, managing to hack just one celebrity, CEO, or tech industry titan would be something of an event. On Wednesday, however, dozens of famous individuals began tweeting out the same Bitcoin scam. ? pic.twitter.com/9cDkJ1RdRH — Louan ✊?✊?✊? (@louanben) July 15, 2020   …

Hackers Might Have Paid a Twitter Employee to Conduct Massive Crypto Scam The dust is still settling after yesterday’s massive Twitter hack, and there are numerous questions that still need to be answered. While Twitter’s initial response blamed hackers targeting employees with phishing attacks, some reports claim the hackers had …

Oppo’s 125W ‘Flash Charge’ Can Completely Recharge a Phone in 20 Minutes Charging your phone used to mean plugging it in and walking away for a long, long time as power slowly leached into the battery. In just the last few years, charging speeds have improved dramatically thanks to USB-C …

Finalized: Up to 6400GT/s, 2TB LRDIMMs JEDEC, the consortium in charge of DDR technology development and standardization, has announced that it has completed the last revision to the DDR5 standard. While time-to-market varies, historically it takes 12-18 months from specification finalization to consumer-ready product, and JEDEC has indicated it expects …

More than 2,500 mobile games have been removed from China’s App Store during the first week of July, according to a new report from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The removals were expected due to a planned crackdown on unlicensed games, but this data is the first to demonstrate …

  The Pixel 4a has leaked in more ways than we can count at this point, and now even Google is getting in on the fun. The company updated its Canadian online store today, and whoops. It placed an official render of the Pixel 4a on the product page for …

Chinese x86 Manufacturer Zhaoxin Prepping We’ve discussed the x86 CPU manufacturer Zhaoxin multiple times at ET, always with reference to the company’s CPUs and efforts to enter the mainstream x86 market, at least in China. Now, there’s evidence that the firm intends to produce its own graphics card as well. …

Google Says Android 10’s Adoption Rate Is the Fastest Ever Complains about Android system updates are almost as old as Android itself. Google’s early decisions made it very difficult to get devices updated with the latest features and patches, which has haunted the platform for years as the dreaded F-word. …

Google Leaks Upcoming Pixel Device Names, Including Pixel 4a 5G Speculation has been rampant as rumored release dates for the Google Pixel 4a have come and gone without a word. Now, we might finally know what Google’s planning for its 2020 phone releases, but not because it told anyone. Strings …