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You Can Now Use Your New MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar For Adobe Photoshop: Here Are The Functions

Adobe has now released a new update for Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 for Mac that adds Touch Bar support for the 2016 MacBook Pro. Let’s take a look at the things users can perform on Photoshop using the Touch Bar. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Intel vs AMD: which chipmaker does processors better?

By Gabe Carey Building – even just buying – a PC isn’t an effortless task. With an ostensibly endless list of components to consider, powering on that hardy rig for the first time may feel like a pipe dream. Fortunately, we’re here to help you get started. Among the most important parts of a computer…

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Foxtel Play

By Nick Broughall,Stephen Lambrechts Update: Foxtel Play is now available to stream on the Telstra TV streaming device and is receiving new pricing tiers – details below! It seems like an age since the TV through the internet craze took Australia by storm. While ABC iView and SBS On Demand are practically everywhere these days…

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AMD Radeon RX 460 Cores Can Be Unlocked To Boost Performance Via BIOS Modding: 896 Stream Processors To 1,024

There is a trick that can boost AMD Radeon RX 460’s performance by about 12 percent. It will be able to unlock additional cores that AMD has so far failed to admit as well as stream processors and texture mapping units, all for a very simple and short procedure. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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AMD has jumped on AI bandwagon with new GPUs

By Darren Allan AMD has unveiled a trio of new GPUs aimed at the machine learning and AI arena to rival Nvidia’s Tesla range, backed up with a suite of open source software offerings for an all-round solution. The Radeon Instinct range are high-performance GPU solutions for machine intelligence – deep learning and training –…

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Some Netgear Routers Are Easy To Hack: R6400, R7000, And R8000 Confirmed To Have Security Vulnerability

Three of Netgear’s routers have been found to be vulnerable to basic attack, which could lead to the complete takeover of an entire network. This is mainly blamed on the routers’ inability to filter out malicious commands hidden behind web URLs. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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HP Omen X Desktop

By Kevin Lee HP wants the world to know it’s serious about PC gaming, and to that end has introduced the Omen X Desktop, one of the most impressive and largest pre-built desktop gaming PCs we’ve ever tested. While some desktops, like the Alienware Aurora and Acer Predator G1, have decided to go down in…

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Aorus X5 v6

By Kane Fulton If you’re on the hunt for a gaming laptop with cutting-edge graphics that can be slipped into a backpack with room to spare, Aorus usually has you covered. The sixth iteration of the company’s X5 continues tradition by upgrading to Nvidia’s latest GPU architecture under the hood without fattening up the chassis…

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Adata XPG SX8000 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD

By Matt Hanson The Adata XPG SX8000 512GB is an SSD that uses the faster PCIe NVMe interface and M.2 form factor that puts regular SSDs that rely on the older and slower SATA 3 connection in a PC’s motherboard to shame. Along with SSDs such as the Samsung NVMe SSD 960 Pro M.2 and…

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Microsoft 12 Days Of Deals: Big Discounts On Select Gaming PCs And Dell Laptops

‘Tis the season to be jolly. For Dec. 14 and Dec. 15, as part of its 12 Days of Deals sale, Microsoft’s slashing up to $1,000 on gaming laptops and up to 40 percent discounts on select Dell laptops. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Razer Raiju Controller

By Jon Porter Third party controllers have had a bad reputation in the past. It’s not that they’ve been particularly bad, but they’ve been the kinds of controllers that have made you realise just how amazingly designed Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s own controllers have been. As a case in point, the wired Xbox 360 controller…

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AMD Crimson ReLive Radeon Update Boosts Performance, Reduces Power Consumption

AMD’s Radeon cards got significantly improved thanks to the Radeon Software Crimson ReLive update. The driver introduces new features and functions that can boost performance and efficiency …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Qualcomm’s new CPU will give AMD and Intel nightmares

By Darren Allan Qualcomm has announced the Centriq 2400, noting that it’s the first server CPU in the world to be built on a 10nm process, and one that could be a worry for Intel and indeed AMD, particularly given other recent developments in terms of Qualcomm hooking up with Microsoft over Windows and ARM.…

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AMD’s New Horizon Event For Zen Could Give Us First Look At AM4 Motherboards Based On X370 Chipset

The New Horizon event is set for Dec. 13, and there AMD hopes to have a successful presentation detailing Zen. The company could also talk about its AM4 motherboards that are required to have Zen up and running. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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WD’s 12TB monster hard drive can hold almost 500 Blu-rays

By Darren Allan Western Digital has revealed new hard drives and SSDs aimed at the enterprise, including a new fourth-generation helium drive which offers the biggest capacity available in the HDD world, and a super-speedy solid-state drive. The Ultrastar He12 is helium-based 3.5-inch hard disk which uses PMR technology and notches up 12TB in capacity,…

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