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Free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends today
Today, the offer to upgrade Windows 10 for free for assistive technology users has ended. Microsoft officially ended the free upgrade offer on July 29, 2016. However, it was later clarified that this offer would remain available for customers using assistive technologies. Although this offer was initially supposed to expire on December 31, the page regarding the status of the free upgrade ...read more
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Awesome Games Done Quick Raises New Record Amount For Charity
If you haven’t tuned in to Awesome Games Done Quick anytime this past week, you missed out on something spectacular. A number of speedrunning gamers got together to charge through their games, all in the name of raising money for charity. And when all was said and done, they managed to raise a record amount for the Prevent Center Foundation. The group announced that, over the course of the ...read more
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AMD Users PCs Bricked By Spectre And Meltdown Fix
Spectre and Meltdown are security issues that made vulnerable almost all modern devices to hacking. Of course, something so serious saw most software companies rush to get a patch out to keep their users safe. However it seems that in the mad dash, Microsoft didn’t get a ton of QA time to make sure people running AMD hardware would be able to enjoy their PCs. As those AMD users accepted ...read more
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South Korea might impose cryptocurrency trading ban
South Korea lawmakers have sent the cryptocurrency market into a free fall after the government’s justice minister said that the country is preparing a bill that would ban cryptocurrency trading. The news sent bitcoin tumbling 12 percent before recovering, and ethereum fell 7.6% on the Coinbase exchange after a day of growth in the 24 hours prior. The foreign minister of the Republic of ...read more
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YouTube cuts ties with Logan Paul
A few days ago, YouTube star Logan Paul came under a lot of fire for publishing a disrespectful video featuring his trip to the Japanese Aokigahara suicide forest. The video in question contained a blurred-out dead body which Paul's group chanced upon during their visit to the forest, after which they made a few insensitive jokes, incurring laughter from some members of their group. The video ...read more
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Pokemon GO Ending Support for Apple Devices Unable to Upgrade to iOS11
Pokemon GO has stayed strong in giving players the chance to go out and become a Pokemon Master, and while the app has been accessible for quite some time on a number of smart devices, the end is nigh for a few older generation devices, starting with Apple products. In an update from developer Niantic, the company announced that support for older Apple devices for Pokemon GO will be phased out ...read more
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Razer Announces Battery-Free Wireless Gaming Mouse the Mamba HyperFlux
Gaming peripheral manufacturer, Razer has announced its newest wireless gaming mouse – the Mamba HyperFlux. According to the manufacturer, when designing the new product, its goal was to create one of the lightest high-performance wireless gaming mice in the industry; with that in mind, one of the essential pieces had to be compromised – the battery. Although a battery does not power the ...read more
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Microsoft stops accepting bitcoin as payment method due to volatility
After months of tumultuous movement in its value, the most popular cryptocurrency in the world has seen massive gains in its value, followed by periods of steep decline, and so on. All this volatility has been enough to make Microsoft decide to stop accepting bitcoin as a way of adding money to your Microsoft account, at least temporarily. As Bleeping Computer reports, multiple Microsoft ...read more
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Xbox One consoles not affected by recent CPU vulnerabilities
The recent discovery of serious security flaws in Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs hit the tech industry pretty hard this week. We recently learned that the Meltdown vulnerability affects nearly all Intel processors released since 1995, while the more serious Spectre vulnerability affects all modern Intel, AMD and ARM processors. As you may know, Microsoft’s Xbox One family of consoles are powered by ...read more
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Pokemon Go Returns to Top Spot on App Store Over Holidays
Apple recently announced that Pokemon Go returned to the top spot of their App Store on December 21st, capping off a solid but not groundbreaking year for the popular mobile game. Apple credited Pokemon Go's rise on their sales charts to the game's recently added AR+ feature, which utilized Apple's boosted augmented reality technology. While the new AR+ feature got a lot of publicity, Pokemon ...read more
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