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New tech is always expensive and the same is true of the latest and greatest console hardware from Xbox and PlayStation. However new reports suggest that SSD storage expansion on the Xbox Series X could be about to get a fair amount cheaper.SSD or solid-state drive storage is much faster than your typical hard drive but is also more expensive for the same amount of digital space. What can further complicate matters on Xbox Series X/S consoles is that you’ll also get a different performance out of an SSD external drive and an SSD expansion card (with the latter being…
According to the report, risks to financial stability depend on the take-up, or rate of adoption, of a CBDC as well as bank funding, lending and resilience. If take-up is too fast, it could throw the existing financial and banking systems out of balance, the report says. The prevailing fear is that the use of any CBDC would require a shift of funds out of bank deposits and into digital cash. Without bank deposits, banks won’t have the funds to issue loans that help them make money: should CBDCs rapidly replace bank deposits, they could reduce banks’ ability to lend,…
Oct 04, 2021, 4:22 AM We may earn a commission if you make a purchase from the links on this page. It’s not very often that you see one of the world’s best fitness trackers priced closer to the $50 mark than $100, and even though the Fitbit Charge 3 is a couple of generations behind the times, a killer new Woot deal arguably brings the 2018-released device in line with this year’s Charge 5 as far as its mass appeal is concerned.That’s because the Amazon-owned e-tailer is currently charging (no pun intended) a measly $69.99 for a “factory reconditioned”…
The handheld market is having a good time this year, we have seen the Nintendo Switch OLED, the Steam Deck, and the surprisingly impressive Steam Deck as well, and now it seems that Lenovo also wants to have a piece of the pie. The company is preparing its device that will rival other already available devices. The handheld from Lenovo will be called the Lenovo Legion Play, and well, it should be coming out sooner than one would expect. Lenovo Wants to Take on Valve and Nintendo with the Lenovo Legion Play Liliputing found the images of the Lenovo Legion…
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy game is starting to look like it could be a sleeper hit – at least in how deeply it’s leaning into all the latest graphical bells and whistles.A new trailer shows off how those lucky enough to have the latest and greatest in PC hardware, such as an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 graphics card, can push the game to its limits:”PC players will enjoy this stunning universe’s visuals with even higher performance”, said Olivier Proulx, senior producer at Eidos-Montréal. And he’s not kidding – the trailer shows off resolutions going up to 8K natively,…
The damage from executive email account takeovers can run into millions of dollars, as recent examples show.In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million after the information in a payment direction from a third-party was changed, sending millions to the fraudsters. The recent SolarWinds attack was bad enough, and now Nobelium, the group responsible, has since launched a campaign of email attacks appearing to originate from USAID after its Constant Contact email account was compromised.Recently, Microsoft 365 Defender researchers disrupted an attack against infrastructure hosted in multiple web services after a phishing attack on a cloud provider netted stolen credentials…
The iCloud Tabs feature that syncs open tabs in Safari across all your devices didn’t disappear in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and Safari 15 for macOS, but it might seem like it. Previously, you found shared tabs in these places (and also see “What Apple operating systems work with iCloud Tabs across devices?”): iOS 14/iPadOS 14 and earlier: In Safari, tap the Tab Overview button (two overlapping rectangles) and swipe down past locally opened tabs until you see listings for other devices by name, showing each tab. Tap to open one of those in the current device’s Safari browser.Safari 14 and…
Dogs became uber-popular during the pandemic. Everyone stuck at home needed someone to snuggle, and since people are gross and disease-ridden, there was a run on the pounds and shelters of America as puppies were adopted en masse. Which worked out great until this summer, when a lot of people went back to work. This is why we don’t deserve nice things.But what if you could have an all-digital pet for petting? That’s a bit of the impetus for the research in these infographics provided to us by Protect My Paws, a website that helps people find pet insurance plans.…
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis with which Apple somewhat disagrees, its gaming-related operating profit of $8.5 billion for a 12-month period was more than those of Sony, Activision, Nintendo, and Microsoft taken together.During the Epic trial deliberations, Apple’s lawyers disputed such analyses of mobile gaming profits saying they are inflated by a large margin. Even if the external consultants’ observations are off the mark, though, Apple is obviously still doing very well in gaming revenue, just like Android’s Play Store has its top 10 grossing apps be almost exclusively games.According to Sensor Tower, gamers added $45 billion to the…
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR WhatsApp is working on a new feature that would streamline voice messages on the platform. The “global voice message player” would allow users to listen to voice messages wherever they are in the app. This would make listening to longer WhatsApp voice notes far less tedious. WhatsApp could soon introduce a feature to streamline the voice message listening experience while giving users more freedom.The “global voice message player,” first spotted by WABetaInfo, would allow users to listen to voice messages wherever they are within WhatsApp. Currently, voice messages only play from the sender’s chat screen.…