Report: The RTX 2070 Super, 2080 Super, and 2080 Ti have been discontinued


You might remember reports in July that claimed Nvidia had ended production of several RTX cards. According to MyDrivers.com, the company’s AIB partners have since started the process of delisting their high-end products and are offering promotions on existing stock.

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Google will completely shut down Play Music in December


Google's replacement for Play Music had been on the cards for a while now, but it wasn't known when the company would be officially retiring its long-running music streaming service. In a recent blog post, the tech giant shared a detailed timeline on the platform's closure and informed users of...

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Activision says Call of Duty: Mobile's success justifies Diablo Immortal


The amount of criticism leveled at Diablo Immortal might have forced some companies to rethink their mobile strategy, but CoD: Mobile has shown the platform's lucrative potential. The game reached 100 million downloads in the first week of launch, almost four times more than the launch week downloads of Fortnite,...

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Arm co-founder says Nvidia acquisition would be a disaster


We heard last month that Nvidia was considering a bid for Arm, which was acquired by Softbank back in 2016 for around $31 billion. The Japanese conglomerate has been offloading some assets recently to help lessen the impact of the Coronavirus-related economic downturn and is looking to sell part or...

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2020: How to watch today's unveiling of the Note 20 and what to expect


As is currently standard with major events, this year's Unpacked will be an online-only affair. Samsung is broadcasting proceedings on the company's Newsroom and website, and will most likely have a YouTube stream of the event. We will embed the livestream on this page as soon as it becomes available.

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PS4 sales continue to decline as PS+ users and at-home digital game sales surge


On Monday, Sony published its Q1 results for the 2020 fiscal year (April 1 - June 30). It looks pretty good overall for the company with consolidated sales and operating income reaching nearly 2 trillion yen ($19 billion US). That is a two-percent uptick year-on-year.

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Honda is recalling 608,000 US vehicles due to software and hardware failures


Honda is announcing these recalls ahead of time to both inform customers, and encourage them to check if their specific car model is included in the recall. If you're a Honda owner, you can accomplish the latter via the company's official recall website right here.

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University of Chicago researchers are building a tool to protect your pictures from facial recognition systems


Facial recognition technology has evolved so fast that its uses have become a real concern for many consumers who see this as yet another intrusion into their lives. Last week, it was revealed that drug store chain Rite Aid had been using face recognition to make it easier to identify...

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Bitfinex offers hackers 25 percent reward to return what the 120,000 Bitcoins they stole in 2016


Bitfinex on Tuesday put out a call to the cryptocurrency community to help in the recovery of nearly 120,000 Bitcoins stolen from the exchange more than four years ago.

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Microsoft's 'Cloud gaming' service launches September 15th only on Android


Last month, Xbox head Phil Spencer announced that Project xCloud is launching sometime in September, although it won't be called that. It sounds like the company is just calling it "cloud gaming" for now, but for the sake of familiarity, I will continue to call it xCloud. While it remains...

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