Apple Quietly Joins FIDO Alliance Body for Passwordless Authentication

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Apple has been one of the tech companies that appeared more resistant to joining the FIDO Alliance, a several-years-old biometrics and authentication standards body. FIDO was founded by companies including Google, Yubico and Microsoft and was later joined by multiple chipmakers, financial institutions and other tech companies.

Apple hasn’t actually announced that it joined the FIDO Alliance, but we can see Apple listed as one of the 40 or so "board level members" on FIDO’s website (


Asus ROG Zephyrus S GX502 Review: Thin Frame, Full RTX 2070

Our Verdict

The ROG Zephyrus S GX502 packs tons of power in as tight of a 15.6” package as possible, but at the detriment of cooling efficiency.

For

  • Thin design
  • Clean durable build
  • Great gaming performance

Against

  • Loud fans
  • RAM soldered down
  • No webcam
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G.Skill's Latest DDR4 Kit Offers a Whopping 256GB Capacity

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Back in the DDR3 days, 8GB was the accepted norm for the largest RAM module size. Now, it's not unusual to see modules up to 32GB in size with DDR4 , which is just how G.Skill is packaging its upcoming 256GB RAM kit -- by combining eight of them. Announced today, meet the Trident Z Neo DDR4-3600 256GB.

The kit's specifications are

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Leaked Presentation Shows Intel's 'Arctic Sound' Xe Graphics Cards With up to 4 Tiles, 500W TDP

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Digital Trends has reportedly gotten its hands on an internal presentation from Intel’s Data Center Group pointing to specifications for Intel's Xe, codenamed Arctic Sound, graphics cards. The presentation is from early 2019, however, so it's possible that some things could have changed since then, such as final TDP numbers.

Arctic Sound will likely to be Intel's highest volume graphics card and built on the Xe HP architecture, in contrast to the Intel Xe DG

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Apple May Start Selling Macs With AMD CPUs

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Although Apple offers Radeon graphics cards in its Macs, the company has yet to use AMD's processors. However, multiple lines of code reported by hardware leaker @_rogame as being from the latest macOS Catalina 10.15.4 operating system (OS) beta suggest that Apple might shift over to AMD chips in the future.

There's no evidence that Apple will completely ditch Intel for AMD. However, if the lines of code are real, the inclusion of

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Acer's Expansive 34-Inch 1440p 100Hz Superwide Monitor Is $120 off at Just $380

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It wasn't all that long ago that a 1440p 34-inch ultrawide monitor with a triple-digit refresh rate was distinctly exotic. Now you can have all of that in the Acer ED347CKR for just $380 from Newegg. What a deal.

Clocking in  at 100Hz, the Acer ED347CKR isn't quite as speedy as the 144Hz gang that now dominates the gaming monitor

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US Feds Pin Equifax Breach on Chinese Spies

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Equifax might not be the only one to blame for the 2017 data breach that revealed the personal data of more than 147 million Americans. The U.S. Department of Justice today announced that the U.S. charged four Chinese intelligence officers with "wire fraud, economic espionage, conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other offenses" in January.

It's been almost three years since Equifax first revealed the data breach that exposed the names, birthdays, addresses


Apple's MacBook Air Retina Is $200 Off, Now Just $899

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Apple makes some of the most desirable computers bar none. The problem is price. Well, it usually is. But not when you can grab a brand new, box fresh Apple MacBook Air for just $899 thanks to this Amazon deal.

That's for the base model with its slightly stingy 128GB SSD. For $1,099, you can grab the 256GB model. That's what you'd normally pay for

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AMD Takes on Nvidia Quadro With Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation Graphics Card

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AMD has announced its latest workstation graphics cards, the Radeon Pro W5500 for desktop workstations and the Radeon Pro W5500M for mobile ones. The new graphics solutions target professionals, such as designers and engineers, that require both performance and efficiency.

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The Radeon Pro W5500 will be available in mid-February 2020 with a suggested e-


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Arm's New Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 Make Leaps for On-Device AI-Inferencing

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Arm, the maker of embedded processors and CPUs for various mobile devices, today announced its new Cortex-M55 processor architecture and Ethos-U55 neural processing unit (NPU). These chips are said to increase the level of AI processing power over their predecessors.

The Cortex-M55 CPU focuses on machine learning performance. It offers five times faster digital signal processing (DSP) performance and a 15 times increase in machine learning inferencing than previous Cortex-M

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