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Play It While You Can – Review Geek

Zynga Did you spend way too much time playing the original FarmVille way back in its heyday? Well, now your last chance to get one last minute of retro farming in. The original FarmVille shuts down after today (December 31) and won’t work anymore when the new year arrives. The writing was always on the wall considering the impending death […]

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World of Warcraft Shadowlands: How one of the oldest games in production uses the newest lighting tech

World of Warcraft is a sixteen-year-old game, but that doesn’t mean it’s stuck with decades-old graphics. WoW’s engineers have updated the game’s tech with every expansion, and the new Shadowlands pack this fall brought in a subtle, but important, new addition to the scenery: ray tracing. We say subtle because Warcraft’s lighting is already an […]

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Bitcoin Mining Machine Maker Ebang to Launch Crypto Exchange in 2021; Shares Rise

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding Over 7%; Raymond James Says ‘Buy’ Wall Street’s investment firms are burning the midnight oil as we approach the end of 2020, publishing their year-end notes and their New Year prognostications, both for investors’ edification. There is the obvious point: we’re in a moment of rising markets, and investor […]

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What to Expect From Apple in 2021: New Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone 13, AirTags and More

We’re expecting 2021 to be an exciting year for Apple thanks to a renewed focus on the Mac. Apple debuted the first Macs with Apple silicon chip in late 2021, and Apple’s M1 chips turned out to be unexpectedly powerful, leaving us looking forward to what’s next. New iMacs and MacBook Pro models are rumored […]

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[Deal] RAVPower’s 65W PD Pioneer Desktop Charger is down to just $38

Looking for a sleek little desktop charger to replace the multitude of adapters clogging up your power strip? Look no further than the 65W PD Pioneer Desktop Charger from RAVPower that offers 2 x USB Type-C ports and 2 x USB Type-A ports in a tidy package that is now down to just $38 from […]

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US government agencies told to patch SolarWinds flaws now

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has asked all US government agencies to update their SolarWinds Orion installations to the latest version, by the end of business hours on December 31, 2020. According to reports, CISA’s Supplemental Guidance to Emergency Directive 21-01 orders all agencies using Solarwinds’ Orion to update to the latest […]

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Governments Will Start to Hodl Bitcoin in 2021

Reflecting on 2020, I struggle to think of another year in recent decades with both so many all-time highs and all-time lows. From the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the global population to record-setting wildfires in the western United States to numerous other calamities, the world this year has often appeared figuratively and literally in flames. […]

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Labor violations – Apple slow and reluctant to act, says report

A new report today claims that Apple is reluctant to ban suppliers found guilty of labor violations, and can take years to do so, even in the most serious of cases. In one case, it says, Apple took three years to stop using a Chinese supplier that was repeatedly found to use child labor… The […]

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AirPods Max case: WaterField Shield hands-on

The controversial Smart Case for AirPods Max has arguably received more attention than the over-ear headphones themselves. The Smart Case has been criticized for not providing adequate protection for AirPods Max and for its awkward design. WaterField Designs is aiming to solve those problems with its new AirPods Max Shield. Read on for a closer […]

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