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Three Great Reasons To Treasure The Honor 20

There's a lot of competition in the mid-range of Android smartphones. Like any designers, the Honor 20 team has to decide where to compromise, and where to push the boat out. Which three features illustrate that balance? Let's find out. Honor 20 (photo: ...

Summer Games Done Quick 2019 Raised Over $3 Million Dollars In One Week, Setting A New Record

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Summer Games Done Quick 2019 has been a huge success and earlier this morning it was announced that the event had raised $3,003,889 for the charity Doctors Without Borders. This easily beat last year's total of $2.1 million and is a new record for the ...

This Scary Game Stole Passwords From Thousands of Android Users

Horror video games have been popular for a long time now, and it's easy enough to understand why. A good scare can be pretty entertaining... as long as it's confined to the game. Image: Getty. Getty. Security researchers at Wandera recently discovered a ...

The Truth About NASA's Plan to "Privatize the Space Station"

"NASA, floundering under the weight of its promise to return to the Moon by 2024, has been forced to take on some extra work to pay the bills: playing host to private tourists aboard the International Space Station." That's how RT recently described the plan ...

Borderlands 3 "wouldn't be as good as it is now" without Battleborn

Gearbox Software is currently hard at work making Borderlands 3 for release in September – a full ten years after the studio's previous game in the series, Borderlands 2 in 2009. During that time, the studio worked on the ill-fated multiplayer title Battleborn – a ...

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Big Tech's big blow to the news business

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On 11 June, the US Congress' House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation into the market dominance of Silicon Valley's biggest firms, starting with the impact of digital platforms like Google on news publishers. The US justice department and the ...

A Russian defence official has accused Metal Gear of being created by US spy agencies

What most of us think of as Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid games are actually part of a covert U.S. intelligence project meant to destabilize governments and sow anti-authoritarianism around the world, a top Russian defence official has claimed.

The Lotus Evora GT410 Is a Very Credible Alternative to a New 911

From Road & Track. The new Porsche 911 is a masterpiece. That comes as a surprise to no one. It's a 911 after all, and all 911s are fun to drive. But match it up against Lotus's brilliant Evora GT410, and it becomes clear just how much cars have changed in ...