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OnePlus is now pushing a new update to its Nord smartphones. The update carries version number OxygenOS 11.1.1.2 and adds no new feature, but it does include general bug fixes and performance improvements. Talking about what’s new in the update, the OxygenOS 11.1.1.2 adds the latest Android March 2021 security patch, improvement to the power consumption performance of the system, improved network ...

OnePlus officially launched its much-awaited affordable smartphone, OnePlus Nord. Although OnePlus hasn’t started shipping OnePlus Nord, meaning buyers are yet to get a taste of the OnePlus’...

Netmarketshare has released its market share report for June 2020.In this month’s report, Windows 10’s share is 58.93%, up from last month’s 57.83%.  Windows 7 share continues to decline from 24....

Users facing issues after installing Windows 10 cumulative updates is something that we’re already familiar with. That being said, sometimes the issues are way more disturbing than what they appear. T...

Intel has accused Qualcomm of driving it out of the mobile market. It claimed that the mobile chip manufacturer leveraged its advantages over Intel to keep its chips from being adopted by OEMs en mass...

Two days ago Microsoft released a final Windows 10 Insider PreviewBuild 18305 (19H1) for 2018to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. At the time Microsoft says it was the last major Insider build for...

For the first time in a while, Microsoft has overtaken Google’s market capitalization. As of today, Microsoft’s market capitalization stood at $732 billion beating Google who stood at $731 billion.This is the first time in around 3 years that Microsoft has overtaken Google in terms of market capitalization. Although, this shouldn’t come as a surprise since M...

Steam’s Hardware Survey numbers are out for February, and while they are useless for PCs at present, they do give us a look into the market share of the various VR headsets, due to Steam’s cross-platform support and attractive library of VR games and other applications.This month’s numbers, for February 2018, show slow growth for Windows Mixed Reality device...

A new trademark application by Samsung in South Korea suggests the company may be getting ready to release their own smart glasses into the market soo...

We posted a week ago about a new vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player which was apparently being used by North Korean operatives against South Korean researchers in “limited, targeted attacks against Windows users.”The malware can be delivered by web pages, but also by email or in Office documents.Most browsers and versions of Windows (and even Linux and MacOS) were affected, but Microsoft has today made a patch available for the issue.Microsoft notes the Adobe Flash Player KB4074595 for Windows 10 includes important security fixes, and notes:“This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player that is installed on any supported edition of Windows operating system.”The upd...

Last month, Intel pulled back its Spectre patches for some platforms as it caused rebooting and other unexpected issues in PCs.Intel today aounced updated Spectre patches for Skylake-based PCs. They have released them to OEM customers and industry partners, they will test Intel’s patch and then release it to general customers.It is highly recommended to update your PCs with these patches.According to the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber-emergency unit, US-CERT, as many as 85 percent of all targeted attackscan be prevented with regular system updates.“I can’t emphasize enough how critical it is for everyone to always keep their systems up-to-date. Research tells us there is frequently ...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has received its 8th patch in Xbox Game Preview today. While it’s not large and just addresses some minor issues, it’s a step towards further improving and balancing different elements of its gameplay.The last patch issued for PUBG in Xbox Game Preview increased damage done to vehicles, and this latest update tweaks that element a bit more. Over on PUBG’s forums, the patch was detailed and states that the developer has revertedback to increased damage if a player is struck by a vehicle. Full patch notes can be read below.GameplayWe received a lot of great feedback following the changes made to vehicle/player damage. We continue to tune and balance this element o...

The patching of the SpeculativeExecution vulnerability has not been going too well recently, with Intel telling users to avoid the patch they released to OEMs as it was causing reboots.Now Microsoft has itself issued an emergency out of band Windows Update (KB4078130) which disabled the patches for the Spectre Variant 2 bug (CVE-2017-5715).The patch addresses the same Intel reboot issue, with Microsoft saying it needed to disable their patchafter Intel admitted that its software was causing “higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior” that led to “data loss or corruption.”The anti-patch patch applies toWindows 7 (SP1), Windows 8.1, and all versions of Windows 10, an...

If Mixed Reality is to get a foothold in the construction industry hardhat compatibilityis a legal requirement. We have already posted about Meemim’s hardhat kit, which is already on salebut now giant engineering firm Trimble have aounced their own version that should hit the market soon.Shown off at the World of Concrete exhibition, their kit integrates the HoloLens with a hardhat, making 3D virtual reality accessible to workers in the field, and bringing CAD drawings to life in the real world via theTrimble Coect software, which can stream designs from the cloud.The Trimble Coect software lets users select different layers of information from multiple subcontractors such as structural, mec...

PC users have been complaining that Intel’s rushed Spectre and Meltdown patches were causing spontaneous reboots, and now Intel has admitted as much, and now officially recommends users avoid their software. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors, and end users stop deployment of current versions on specific platforms,” said Intel executive vice president Neil Shenoy, “as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.” Intel says it has identified the issue on Broadwell and Haswell processors and was “actively working on developing solutions” for their other processor platforms such as Ivy Bridge, Sa...

Microsoft has been pushing for White Spaces Inteet for more than a decade, with varying amounts of success around the world. Microsoft’s White Space technology offers wide area long distance wireless networking over the old television bands, offering higher throughput, low power usage and greater penetration into buildings. Globally, the white space technology has been successfully deployed in the US and Singapore and is being tested in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and the Philippines. Now in their latest move, they have registered a new trademark for a service related to the technology named Airband. The trademark pertains to two uses. One, for “Computer hardware, software and software a...

Ubisoft is deploying a patch tomorrow for Assassin’s Creed Origins on all platforms that adds a new quest and provides a host of other fixes within the game. Part of the patch also adds support for the upcoming story expansion, The Hidden Ones, which is set to release at the end of this month. Ever since it launched in late October, Ubisoft has continually pushed out patches and monthly updates for Assassin’s Creed Origins to keep players coming back for more. Much to the aoyance of some players, certain store items were previously not available through the Heka Chest, but that has thankfully been rectified. Patch 1.2.0 will be coming tomorrow, January 16, and it fixes a ton of Quest, UI, a...

While processor manufacturer AMD initially claimed their chips were not vulnerable to Speculative Execution flaws, later research showed that this was not completely true and that flaws in Speculative Execution could allow hackers to exfiltrate data from your PC. Microsoft’s OS-level patch for the issue appeared to cause more harm than good, however, causing Microsoft to pull it from distribution. AMD itself, however, has now started delivering a fix to PC and motherboard OEMs to push out to their clients. AMD says: AMD will make optional microcode updates available to our customers and partners for Ryzen and EPYC processors starting this week. We expect to make updates available for our p...

Microsoft has temporarily blocked the AMD Meltdown and Spectre patches after reports of unbootable PCs. Users have taken the Microsoft forums to share the issues with the patches which allegedly stops PCs from booting. The company then has taken steps to ensure the patches aren’t installed on AMD based PCs and has blamedAMD’s documentation for the unexpected problems. Microsoft has reports of customers with some AMD devices getting into an unbootable state after installing recent Windows operating system security updates. After investigating, Microsoft has determined that some AMD chipsets do not conform to the documentation previously provided to Microsoft to develop the Windows operating...

Microsoft is currently pushing out a patch for Windows 10 users designed to address the processor vulnerabilities which is involved in the Meltdown and Spectre exploits.With proof of concept exploits already in the wild it seems a very good idea to update your PC as rapidly as possible, but today we have already seensome sites explaining how to disable automatic updates due to the rumoured performance impacts of the patch, which has been said to reduce execution speed by up to 30%. Intel has, however, said for most tasks performance impact should be minimal, and now Techspot has done some benchmark tests to see exactly who will be affected. First, the bad news. There is a clear reduction in ...