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3900XT, 3800XT, and 3600XT Performance Desktop CPUs There’s been some question about what AMD’s Ryzen 3000 refresh would look like in 2020, given that Zen 3 is intended to launch before the end of the year. The company has given us our answer in the form of the new Ryzen …

Verizon’s Lenovo Flex 5G Is the First Windows 10 PC With 5G Connectivity   Verizon has been pushing its millimeter-wave 5G for over a year now, but the multi-gigabit speeds possible with this network is of limited usefulness on a smartphone. A computer, though? You might actually want to use …

  The Supposed ‘AMD Radeon 6900 XT’ Slides Are Completely Fake There’s a new set of slides being passed around that supposedly showcase AMD’s upcoming Radeon 6900 XT. They’re completely fake. Here’s how you can tell: In the first slide, the branding has been updated at the upper right, but …

Google Might Delay Pixel 4a Until Fall to Launch Alongside Pixel 5   This time last year, Google was basking in praise after launching the Pixel 3a, which was widely considered one of the best phones of 2019. It wasn’t objectively the best phone, but it was an incredible value. …

May Partly Protect Against Spectre, Meltdown Intel announced today that an upcoming CPU security technology, Control-Flow Enforcement (CET), will deploy for the first time on Tiger Lake CPUs, expected later this year. The new capability may include some ability to protect against attacks like Spectre and Meltdown, though Intel doesn’t …

How to Upgrade From a Smaller SSD to a Larger One It’s been roughly a decade since the first SSDs started to hit the consumer market, and about seven years since they began arriving at price points that could broadly be called “consumer-friendly.” It’s only been in the past few …

finally removed from the App Store Zynn, the TikTok clone that shot to the top of the app store charts in late May, was pulled from Apple’s App Store on Monday. The controversial app had already been removed from the Google Play store, following a series of complaints from influencers …

Social networking app for women, Peanut, is rolling out video chat Mobile social networking app for women, Peanut, is expanding into video chat to help better support its users amid the coronavirus outbreak. The company, which began its life with a focus on motherhood, has evolved over the years to …

Etsy adds an AR shopping feature on iOS designed for use with wall art Retailers like Target, Home Depot, Wayfair, IKEA, and others have embraced augmented reality to help shoppers make decisions about products they’re interested in by visualizing the items in their own homes. Today, Etsy is hopping on …

How to Create a Local In the five years since Microsoft released Windows 10, it’s made a number of positive changes to the operating system — and demonstrated a distinct willingness to use dark patterns to push users towards using online Windows 10 accounts. There are certain benefits to using …