Facebook's Outage Sent The Masses Browsing For News In Droves

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Facebook's Outage Sent The Masses Browsing For News In Droves]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 21, 2021 01:50 pm [Facebook's Outage Sent The Masses Browsing For News In Droves]( What do you do when the world's largest social playground goes down? Maybe look up from your screen and play with the cat, or take a walk? Pfft, who are we kidding? Not in this day and age. Instead, when Facebook went offline for what felt like an eternity for some people, many news publishing sites saw a massive spike in traffic. This [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA Releases A Firmware Update To Fix Blank Screen Boot Issue For These GPUs]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 21, 2021 01:01 pm [NVIDIA Releases A Firmware Update To Fix Blank Screen Boot Issue For These GPUs]( Those who are currently using either an NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti or a GeForce RTX 3060 may be having a hard time upgrading to Windows 11. This could be because if you are using a DisplayPort on your monitor these GPUs will only turn on the display once Windows loads. Some people using those NVIDIA GPUs affected by the DisplayPort issue have probably [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [All Of AMD's Windows 11 Woes Are Now Fixed (Update)]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 21, 2021 12:55 pm [All Of AMD's Windows 11 Woes Are Now Fixed (Update)]( Update: Wouldn't you know it? Almost as soon as we published this article, Microsoft began pushing out a fix for the L3 cache latency bug that was introduced with the first cumulative (Patch Tuesday) update for Windows 11, and which only affected AMD processors and platforms. This is great news for AMD chip owners. Along with the updated [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Wildy Volatile Bitcoin Balloons To New High, Is It Time To Buy Into Cryptocurrency?]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 21, 2021 11:41 am [Wildy Volatile Bitcoin Balloons To New High, Is It Time To Buy Into Cryptocurrency?]( Remember when Bitcoin was worth a fraction of a cent? Those days are long gone, and barring a cryptocurrency crash of epic proportions, they may never come back. Instead, Bitcoin this week went on a rally, skyrocketing to its highest value ever. This raises the question, is it finally time for casual observers to invest in Bitcoin? We don't [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel's ControlFlag Debugging Tool Uses AI To Clean Up Code And It's Now Open Source]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 21, 2021 11:05 am [ Intel's ControlFlag Debugging Tool Uses AI To Clean Up Code And It's Now Open Source]( In 2020 a study showed the IT industry spent an estimated $2 trillion in software development associated with debugging code. The study also showed that 50 percent of IT budgets were allocated to debugging code alone. Intel hopes to change those numbers by making its ControlFlag tool open-source. ControlFlag is an AI-powered tool created [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Gigabyte Aorus Z690 Xtreme For Alder Lake Looks Stunning In Leaked Images]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 21, 2021 10:23 am [Gigabyte Aorus Z690 Xtreme For Alder Lake Looks Stunning In Leaked Images]( You can bet motherboard makers have every intention of giving Alder Lake the flagship treatment, and lest there be any doubt, leaked images showcase Gigabyte's upcoming Z690 Aorus Xtreme. It's a beauty for sure, and also wields some fancy technology on board—dual PCI Express 5.0 slots and DDR5 RAM support among them. The Z690 Aorus Xtreme [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [God Of War In 4K Rides Victorious To PCs On Tears Of PlayStation Elitists, Pre-Order Now]( By Brittany Goetting on Oct 21, 2021 10:17 am [God Of War In 4K Rides Victorious To PCs On Tears Of PlayStation Elitists, Pre-Order Now]( Some PC players have been envious of the kinds of games that have been PlayStation exclusives. Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 4, and Marvel’s Spider-Man have all been well-reviewed games, and only accessible to the PlayStation crowd. At least one PlayStation exclusive will finally be making its way into the hands of PC players, though: God of [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Big NVIDIA GeForce NOW Update Brings RTX 3080 And 3X Xbox Series X Power To Cloud Gamers]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 21, 2021 09:02 am [Big NVIDIA GeForce NOW Update Brings RTX 3080 And 3X Xbox Series X Power To Cloud Gamers]( NVIDIA is quite literally taking its cloud game streaming service, GeForce NOW, to the next level by adding vastly upgraded game servers to the mix—or as NVIDIA calls them, GeForce NOW SuperPODs. These SuperPODs purportedly deliver "GeForce RTX 3080-class gaming" on the company's cloud service, and are being made available exclusively to a [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Steam Deck Prompts Biggest Half-Life 2 Update In Years With These New Features]( By Keith May on Oct 20, 2021 07:40 pm [Steam Deck Prompts Biggest Half-Life 2 Update In Years With These New Features]( When Valve's follow-up to the genre-defining Half-Life was released back in November of 2004, gamers were floored by the game's immersive story and visuals. Fast forward 17 years and Half-Life 2 is still one of the most beloved first person shooters of all time and it looks like the legendary favorite it getting some modern updates. Valve [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Microsoft Starts To Make Running Android Apps On Windows 11 A Reality]( By Zak Killian on Oct 20, 2021 04:53 pm [Microsoft Starts To Make Running Android Apps On Windows 11 A Reality]( One of the few really interesting announcements surrounding the roll-out of Windows 11 was the news that the latest version of Redmond's PC OS would also support apps from the dominant mobile platform, Android. That hype quickly died down as Microsoft admitted that such support wouldn't be available from day one. Some folks suggested it might [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [DJI's Ronin 4D With LiDAR And Built-In Gimbal Is World's First 4-Axis 8K Cinema Cam]( By Zak Killian on Oct 20, 2021 04:42 pm [DJI's Ronin 4D With LiDAR And Built-In Gimbal Is World's First 4-Axis 8K Cinema Cam]( We don't talk about specialty cameras much around these parts, usually because those discussions require deep technical detail, full of industry jargon about the optical characteristics of the device. That's not the case when talking about DJI's new Ronin 4D cinema camera, though. Sure, we could talk about the ultra-wide aperture and support [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Early Tomb Raider Reboot Footage Shows It Was Originally Conceived As A Horror Game]( By Keith May on Oct 20, 2021 03:08 pm [Early Tomb Raider Reboot Footage Shows It Was Originally Conceived As A Horror Game]( Lara croft has been raiding tombs for quite some time now, 25 years to be exact. Right now Square Enix is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Tomb Raider series and along the way has been highlighting major accomplishments for the beloved franchise. 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