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  • In context: Epic Games this week filed an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, of the court’s decision from last year in its antitrust case against Apple. This time, it has the backing of dozens of US states. Epic filed a 91-page appeal to the US Ninth Circuit court…

  • StackCommerce Read stories about people who’ve struck it rich with Bitcoin? The reality is that cryptocurrencies are volatile — And while some traders have created wealth, the vast majority do not. That’s why, before jumping in, experts recommend getting educated to help mitigate some of the risks. The Beginner’s Guide Cryptocurrency Trading, NFTs, and Metaverse Bundle offers the exact…

  • In this article we’ll take a closer look at memory scaling performance with Intel Alder Lake CPUs, or more specifically the Core i9-12900K, though these results should apply across the entire 12th-gen Core range, particularly when CPU limited. In a previous benchmark feature, we already took a look at DDR4-3600 vs. DDR5-6000 memory across 41…

  • Why it matters: Malwarebytes’ Threat Intelligence Team has issued a new warning to users regarding a recently identified threat from the North Korean hacking group Lazarus. The attack uses fake documents with embedded macros designed to resemble Lockheed Martin employment information. Once the macro is executed, the exploit uses Windows Update and GitHub to deliver…

  • AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync are must-have features for PC enthusiasts. Each syncs the refresh rate of compatible displays with your graphics card‘s frame rate, providing perfectly smooth motion in most situations. The tech has even come to televisions like (most of) LG’s OLED line. In most cases, PC enthusiasts use FreeSync and G-Sync over…

  • Roomba Today you can give an abandoned robot vacuum a second shot at a home. Woot, via parent Amazon, is selling a refurbished iRobot Roomba E6 for $160. That’s down from the usual $200 to $220. This deal ends just before midnight Pacific time on Friday evening. This product is refurbished or renewed in Amazon’s…

  • Amazon Amazon makes child-friendly versions of its popular Kindle e-readers, and today only, you can get them for a whole lot less than usual. The regular Kindle Kids is $60 down from $110, and the Kindle Paperwhite Kids is $110 instead of $160. Both Kindle devices are at their all-time low prices. The deals end…

  • The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced a new DisplayPort certification called Ultra-High Bit Rate (UHBR) for DisplayPort 2.0. It establishes two levels of certification, DP40 and DP80, that mark cables as capable of up to 40 and 80 gigabits of data, respectively. VESA intends this to clear confusion, but I’ll bet it has…