PCs & Laptops: The Latest Computing News
PCs, laptops, Microsoft, Apple and everything in between. Here you’ll find all the latest computing news – from the gaming, to benchmarks to raytracing. You’ll also find stories about security, privacy, hacking and the dark web.
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Why Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram All Went Down on Monday
Facebook, your uncle’s favourite source for information on how 5G is making everyone communist, experienced a six-hour outage Monday. And it wasn’t just Facebook — the company’s other major platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, were also down. We finally got a statement from Facebook overnight about what happened, and the culprit was some configuration changes made internally…
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Netflix’s Streaming Shuffle Feature Is Coming to Android
If you’ve ever sat helpless in front of the hundreds and hundreds of movie and TV show options on Netflix, unable to decide which specific type of mindless content to settle into for the night, you’re in luck: After launching its “Play Something” instant-streaming shuffle feature on connected TVs last April, Netflix announced on Monday…
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Should You Upgrade to the Apple Watch Series 7?
When Apple announced the Series 7 last month, it left out exactly when you’d be able to buy it. That made sense, given murmurs of production delays related to the Series 7’s new design. But now we know: The Apple Watch Series 7 will be available for preorder starting at 11pm AEDT on Oct. 8,…
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Crypto Company Accidentally Gives Users $124 Million, Politely Asks for It Back
If someone accidentally deposited millions of dollars into your bank account, what are the chances you would just return it? What if the person that sent it to you asked really nicely?