EU Slaps Valve And Five Major PC Game Publishers With $9.4M Fine For Geo-Blocking

Hot Headlines in Technology for today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [EU Slaps Valve And Five Major PC Game Publishers With $9.4M Fine For Geo-Blocking]( By Nathan Ord on Jan 20, 2021 01:52 pm [EU Slaps Valve And Five Major PC Game Publishers With $9.4M Fine For Geo-Blocking]( Have you ever tried to buy a game but found that it was not available in your region for some unknown reason? This may be due to a practice Valve’s game platform Steam does, called “geo-blocking.” This is done to lock out certain countries from getting a particular game or to manage pricing worldwide. The European Commission, the executive [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i5-11400 6-Core 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Impresses In Leaked Benchmarks]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 20, 2021 01:22 pm [Intel Core i5-11400 6-Core 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Impresses In Leaked Benchmarks]( Intel is making one final major push on its 14-nanometer node on the desktop (we think just one more, anyway), and with it comes a claimed 19 percent jump in instructions per clock (IPC) performance. Time will tell if upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPUs can deliver on the promise. Until then, various unreleased SKUs continue to find their way benchmark [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA SHIELD TV 8.2.2 Software Lands With Xbox Series S/X, PS5 DualSense Controller Support]( By Brandon Hill on Jan 20, 2021 01:00 pm [NVIDIA SHIELD TV 8.2.2 Software Lands With Xbox Series S/X, PS5 DualSense Controller Support]( NVIDIA first launched the SHIELD TV way back in 2015, but the media streamer is still being updated on a continual basis. Thankfully, the original SHIELD TV hardware is still being updated -- even though several hardware revisions have been introduced -- and that includes today's Software Experience Upgrade 8.2.2, which is the 27th software [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [MSI Prestige 14 EVO Review: Great Performance And Value]( By Ben Funk on Jan 20, 2021 12:12 pm [MSI Prestige 14 EVO Review: Great Performance And Value]( Intel's Tiger Lake mobile platform came out of the gate swinging, with excellent performance and improved power efficiency. The early Core i7-1185G7 development platform we evaluated set several mobile processor records in our benchmarks, and retail notebooks were just as strong when they arrived. So far we've reviewed two such notebooks from... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Destiny 2 Harbinger Mission: Here's What You Need To Know, Plus A New Hotfix]( By Brittany Goetting on Jan 20, 2021 12:00 pm [Destiny 2 Harbinger Mission: Here's What You Need To Know, Plus A New Hotfix]( Destiny 2 players have been itching to get their hands on the random rolls and catalyst of the new Hawkmoon Hand Cannon. The new Harbinger mission now finally provides players the opportunity to earn the catalyst and farm for Hawkmoon. We have provided everything you need to know about the Destiny 2 Harbinger mission as well as several important [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Newly Launched OnePlus Nord N10 5G Comes With Free $50 Gift Card In This Hot Deal]( By Brandon Hill on Jan 20, 2021 11:10 am [Newly Launched OnePlus Nord N10 5G Comes With Free $50 Gift Card In This Hot Deal]( The smartphone industry is swiftly shifting to 5G as wireless carriers around the country are lighting up their sub-6GHz and mmWave networks. Needless to say, as smartphone OEMs make the transition, new devices are popping up across a wide spectrum of price points. OnePlus is aiming squarely at the entry-level market with the Nord N10 5G, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [LG Reportedly Mulling 'Cold Judgement' On Complete Exit From Smartphone Market]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 20, 2021 10:52 am [LG Reportedly Mulling 'Cold Judgement' On Complete Exit From Smartphone Market]( As we noted in our LG Velvet review, a stylish 5G phone that lacks excitement, the past few years have not proven easy for the South Korean electronics maker, as it pertains to its efforts in the smartphone sector. The company has seen its phone sales and market share steadily diminish. This has LG considering giving up on making and selling [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super Rumored To Reenter Market Amid Ampere Drought]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 20, 2021 10:12 am [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super Rumored To Reenter Market Amid Ampere Drought]( Want to party like it's 2019? Fantastic, because there is a rumor going around that NVIDIA is going to re-introduce a couple of graphics cards from two years ago, those being the GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 2060 Super. As you probably know, both of those parts are based on the company's previous generation Turing graphics architecture, [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Watch Microsoft's Upcoming Windows 10X OS Running On A Surface Pro 7]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 20, 2021 09:42 am [Watch Microsoft's Upcoming Windows 10X OS Running On A Surface Pro 7]( Slowly but surely, Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10X initially designed for dual-screen (and later expanded to single-screen) devices is nearing completion. Microsoft has not yet announced a release date. However, previews of a nearly completed and leaked build have found their way to the web, including a video of the upcoming operating system [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [MediaTek's New Dimensity 1200 And 1100 5G 6nm SoCs Coming To Premium Android Phones]( By Brandon Hill on Jan 20, 2021 09:30 am [MediaTek's New Dimensity 1200 And 1100 5G 6nm SoCs Coming To Premium Android Phones]( In the Android smartphone world, Qualcomm has an entire army of SoCs blanketing the entry-level, mid-range, premium, and flagship markets. The company just yesterday tried filling any perceivable gap with the "flagship" Snapdragon 870 SoC. But rivals like MediaTek aren't mere pushovers in the smartphone segment, as the company has announced [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA Explains Why G-SYNC Ultimate Displays Now Won't Need To Hit 1000 Nits]( By Brandon Hill on Jan 19, 2021 04:48 pm [NVIDIA Explains Why G-SYNC Ultimate Displays Now Won't Need To Hit 1000 Nits]( Over the past few days, it was noticed that NVIDIA has made some changes to its marketing materials about what qualifies as a G-SYNC Ultimate display. It was previously assumed, based on the company's own wording, that a display needed a dedicated NVIDIA hardware module, HDR support, and a brightness rating of 1,000 nits (among other requirements [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Atari VCS Teardown Reveals AMD Ryzen R1606G Embedded Brains And Guts]( By Nathan Ord on Jan 19, 2021 03:29 pm [Atari VCS Teardown Reveals AMD Ryzen R1606G Embedded Brains And Guts]( The Atari VCS is one of those things that has been delayed time and time again, and it has become something of a myth. Atari still has them up on its website for preorder with claims that the new console will ship to consumers sometime this Spring. Ahead of the launch (maybe), Atari has sent some of the modern retro gaming consoles to reviewers [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [DuckDuckGo Cracks 100M Daily Search Queries As Internet Users Embrace Privacy]( By Nathan Ord on Jan 19, 2021 03:19 pm [DuckDuckGo Cracks 100M Daily Search Queries As Internet Users Embrace Privacy ]( As time goes on, people are becoming more aware of their privacy and data security regarding the products they use. We saw this with the outpouring of concern over WhatsApp’s privacy policies, causing confusion. People do not typically think about their search engine, though, but that is changing as well. 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