Deleted Facebook? Kiss Your Oculus Games Goodbye
It took a mere two months for Facebook to start enforcing the changes they announced back in August, and fully assimilate all of your Oculus assets into their social disease. ...
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Please Log In To FaceBook To Access Your Oculus Rift
In a move which came as a surprise to absolutely no one who was paying attention, you now have a limited time to link your Oculus account to your Facebook account. If…
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Patent Enforcement In A Time Of Troubles
Update: Manufacturing company Intersurgical says it had no intention of making a threat. Managing director Charles Bellm issued a statement to The Verge: You may recall the story from earlier this week...
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A New Type Of Apple Pay Means Money Back To You
Apple will be handing over between $310-$500 million to customers in the US who found their older iThangs mysteriously slowing down around about the same time new devices were released...
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Sonos Speakers Go Silent And Under Armour Record Is Wiped
The Internet of Things has once again reminded us how incredibly poorly thought out the various devices which call that place home are. Users of a variety of Sonos smart devices, including…
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Trend Micro Employee Took The Fable Of The Pyromaniac Firefighter A Little Too Seriously
The headline pretty much says it all, 68,000 customers of Trend Micro are now receiving phishing and spam calls thanks to the nefarious deeds of a single employee, now an ex-employee. The…
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Did You Know Chrome Rusts? Google Does!
Did you know that Google provides 6.5 years of Auto Update support for devices, after which you hit the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) Date. That date is not tied to when you…
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Apple Continues Its Assault Against Batteries
Apple has a very interesting relationship with batteries, one which has not gone well for them in the past unless you consider legal action against your own policies a success. ...
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SSD Manufacturers Uniting Against Ryan’s Law?
With so little information at the moment this should be treated as nothing but a rumour; though history suggests a grain of truth is likely to emerge. Flash memory and controller makers…
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Sorry about that, you are going to have to post your smartphone usage stats to Facebook manually now
You may remember news back in the summer of 2018 about Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN, when it was pulled from the Apple store due to the fact it collected an...
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but … it’s only illegal for the other printer companies to disable ink cartridges!
Unsatisfied with charging more for ink by weight than a variety of rare metals, once again a printer maker is disabling your ability to use third party ink cartridges. The most recent…
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The Huawei defence; it ain’t cheatin’ if everyone does it!
In a move reminiscent of the old Quack.exe debacle, Huawei has been caught enhancing benchmark results. Their recent phones are able to detect a running benchmark and will switch to...
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Dell and HP ain’t down with the GPP
Curious about the state of NVIDIA's new GeForce Partner Program? There is definitely news as both Dell and HP do not seem to have joined up, though neither will confirm...
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The GeForce Partner Program has some Kool-Aid it would like you to try
[H]ard|OCP have posted an article looking at the brand new GeForce Partner Program which NVIDIA has announced that has a striking resemblance to a certain Intel initiative ... which turned out poorly. …
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NVIDIA Launches GeForce Experience 3.0
Update (September 7th @ 9:34pm): It's been pointed out in our comments that the new GeForce Experience cannot be used without logging in. It supports NVIDIA, Google, and Facebook accounts. It's been in…
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That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit
There is a spat going on between Intel and NVIDIA over the slide below, as you can read about over at Ars Technica. It seems that Intel have reached into the industries…
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Avoiding online price creep
Have you noticed that prices seem to creep up slightly every time you visit an online ticket site hoping for a deal? As many are probably already aware, the cookies dumped on…
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AMD and NVIDIA get into a hairy argument
The topic on NVIDIA Gameworks was discussed at great length on last night's PCPer Podcast and from the live comments as well as the comments on Ryan's original story...
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