Author: Mike Harrison

Google has rolled out a set of new privacy features, including an option that would let users delete their last 15 minutes of search history on mobile. Announcing extra protection for Google’s search history, a company executive said in a blog post that the new privacy features are particularly important for those who share a device and want to make sure others aren’t able to access their search history.Google is now giving users a way to put extra protection around the searches saved in their accounts. When signing in from their Google account, they can opt for extra verification for…

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AMD Ryzen is bringing out the biggest guns for their next-generation Threadripper CPUs.  (Photo : Joseph Branston/Maximum PC Magazine/Future via Getty Images)An AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X central processing unit, taken on March 21, 2017. According to a report by WCCFTech, the next-gen Threadripper chips codenamed “Chagall” will feature as much as 64 Zen 3-based cores on the 5990X & 5995WX, both of which are rumored to release next year.  The information comes from the YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead, who said that the upcoming chips are going to be marketed to HEDT, “prosumers,” and workstation users. If everything works…

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Undermining the World Health Organization’s own March report on the origin of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), the head of the UN health agency on Thursday said that the push to discount the lab leak theory was “premature.” Speaking to reporters in Geneva, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged the possibility of coronavirus leaking in a laboratory accident.“I was a lab technician myself, I’m an immunologist, and I have worked in the lab, and lab accidents happen,” Ghebreyesus said. “It’s common.”Researchers have been trying to identify the origin of Sars-Cov-2 since its first outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But they…

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Hong Kong’s national security police on Friday raided the office of a university student union after student leaders last week commemorated a man who killed himself after stabbing a police officer, local media reports said.Police raided the office at the University of Hong Kong and cordoned off the area around it, the South China Morning Post newspaper said. No union members were in the office at the time.It was not clear if anything was seized or if any arrests were made. Police did not immediately comment.Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam earlier this week urged the university and police to take…

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Apple could soon release a buttonless iPhone 13. However, some rumors claimed that this could still change in the future, saying that the buttonless feature could arrive in future-gen iPhone models instead.  (Photo : Photo credit should read PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)A man uses a smartphone on the first day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) on February 26, 2018 in Barcelona. – The Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest mobile fair, is held in Barcelona from February 26 to March 1. (Photo by Pau Barrena / AFP) On the other hand, Apple still hasn’t confirmed this detail yet.…

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Nintendo Switch OLED just came out during the first week of July, whereas the latest Steam Deck console from Valve has been introduced on Thursday, July 15. Fans have shown an early interest in the two latest consoles for this year amid rumors about a powerful gaming gadget that would come with new processors, and several upgrades. For this reason, you might feel confused as to what you should choose between the two. This article will assist you in choosing the “better” console depending on your preference and gaming habit. Switch OLED vs Steam Deck: Design and Display (Photo : Valve)Valve…

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Urian B., Tech Times 16 July 2021, 08:07 am (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) $HEX Climbs from $0.08 to $0.17 in Just 4 Days | Other Top 10 Cryptocurrencies Remain Bearish $HEX price has just climbed up from $0.08 to $0.17 after showing consistent bullish growth since the other top 10 cryptocurrencies started suffering. What’s worse is that as of the moment, Dogecoin has even shrunk down to just $0.18. Crypto Market Volatility With the market’s volatility being very hard to predict, day trading or investing has become very difficult as of late. However, when it comes to…

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The United States surgeon general published a report this week calling for a whole-of-society response to health misinformation, calling it a “serious threat to public health.” It took a sweeping look at a wide range of misinformation, on everything from masks to unproven drugs. But the focus of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s remarks circled back to vaccines. Daily vaccination rates have stalled out at around 500,000 shots per day, and in many pockets of the country, a majority of people aren’t getting immunized. The US is struggling to bump those numbers up. Misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines spreads fast, and…

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Samsung Exynos 2200 has been rumored for a while now, but this is perhaps the biggest leak out of everything.  (Photo : JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)A Samsung flag flutters at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul on July 7, 2021. According to a report by NotebookCheck.net, the new Samsung Exynos 2200 chip will feature a 6-core GPU based on the current-generation RDNA2 architecture from AMD. That might not sound like much, but various claims say that it’s strong enough to outpace the GPU of the Xbox One.  Now, that’s massive news, considering that the Xbox One is still considered…

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A group of Australian scientists are looking to halt the harmful effects of heart attack by using the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders. The researchers have developed a drug candidate from a molecule found in the venom of the Fraser Island funnel-web spider to stop the “death signal” sent by the heart that leads to cardiac arrest.The development of experimental medicine, which has only been tested in the lab so far, has been led by Dr Nathan Palpant and Professor Glenn King from The University of Queensland and Professor Peter Macdonald from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research…

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