FTC Warns Social Media Is A Gold Mine For Scams As Losses Tallied $770M In 2021

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [FTC Warns Social Media Is A Gold Mine For Scams As Losses Tallied $770M In 2021]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 28, 2022 02:23 pm [FTC Warns Social Media Is A Gold Mine For Scams As Losses Tallied $770M In 2021]( Remember what life was like before the advent of social media? Such a time feels like ancient history, and many people these days juggle multiple social media accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a host of others. They're all super popular, and so it's no surprise that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has labeled social media [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GA103 Mobile GPU Flaunts Massive Die In High-Res Photos]( By Jeff Butts on Jan 28, 2022 01:05 pm [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GA103 Mobile GPU Flaunts Massive Die In High-Res Photos]( NVIDIA’s new mobile GPU, the RTX 3080 Ti, has finally made its way into consumers’ hands. That means we finally get a peek at its GA103 GPU, which turns out to be quite a beast in both size and performance. The mobile graphics cards introduced this week have a GA103S/GA103M GPU, officially labeled GN20-E8-A1. These appear to be scaled back [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Steam Lunar Sale Is Live With Some Fantastic Gaming Deals Up To 90 Percent Off]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 28, 2022 12:56 pm [Steam Lunar Sale Is Live With Some Fantastic Gaming Deals Up To 90 Percent Off]( Is your Steam catalog looking a little thin? Probably not, but who can resist a sale? We all know the drill by now—Steam discounts a bunch of games for the latest sale event (the Steam Winter Sale is barely in the rear view mirror!), we buy up a bunch of titles in eager anticipation of playing them at some point, then life gets in the way. [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [HBM3 Specification Leaves HBM2E In The Dust With 819GB/s Of Bandwidth]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 28, 2022 12:14 pm [HBM3 Specification Leaves HBM2E In The Dust With 819GB/s Of Bandwidth]( At long last, there's an official and finalized specification for the next generation of High Bandwidth Memory. JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, the industry group that develops open standards for microelectronics, announced the publication of the HBM3 specification, which nearly doubles the bandwidth of HBM2E. It also increase the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple's Switch To M1 Silicon And Rabid iPhone Demand Fueled A Record $123.9 Billion Quarter]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 28, 2022 11:10 am [Apple's Switch To M1 Silicon And Rabid iPhone Demand Fueled A Record $123.9 Billion Quarter]( The house that Steve Jobs built just recorded its best quarter ever, and current CEO Tim Cook deserves a ton of credit for that. Under his leadership, Apple posted and all-time high $123.9 billion for its fiscal 2022 first quarter (period ended December 25, 2021), which is an 11 percent year-over-year gain. Net income for the quarter tallied [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Is On Course To Crash Into The Moon, Here's Why NASA Is Excited]( By Tim Sweezy on Jan 28, 2022 10:53 am [SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Is On Course To Crash Into The Moon, Here's Why NASA Is Excited]( The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in 2015 is nearing an impact with Earth's Moon. Sky observers believe it will make impact in March of this year. SpaceX has been steadily sending new satellites into space for its Starlink high-speed internet service. Just last week, a Falcon 9 rocket took 49 more Starlink satellites [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [300 Free Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs Still Up For Grabs As Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt Hits Homestretch]( By Tim Sweezy on Jan 28, 2022 10:03 am [300 Free Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs Still Up For Grabs As Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt Hits Homestretch]( Intel's Scavenger Hunt is ending in a frantic race to the finish, as the final four questions are all set to be revealed within 24 hours of one another. There will be 300 lucky winners who will be rewarded with a first generation Intel Arc Alchemist GPU for their hard work and diligence. The Arc Alchemist lineup of GPUs are Intel's first [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [EVGA E1 Gaming PC Is A Bodacious Alder Lake Build With A Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti And Racing Gauges]( By Paul Lilly on Jan 28, 2022 09:54 am [EVGA E1 Gaming PC Is A Bodacious Alder Lake Build With A Kingpin RTX 3090 Ti And Racing Gauges]( EVGA might be best known for its graphics cards, but it is getting ready to offer a bodacious prebuilt PC dressed to the nines in high-end hardware, and packaged in one of the most unique cases we have ever seen. Actually, we probably shouldn't even call it a case—it's a carbon fiber frame with a cable suspension system. The E1's frame [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD Linux Drivers Get Dynamic VRS Support To Boost Steam Deck Power Efficiency]( By Zak Killian on Jan 27, 2022 04:54 pm [AMD Linux Drivers Get Dynamic VRS Support To Boost Steam Deck Power Efficiency]( AMD's graphics drivers for Linux have been getting a lot of love lately, but not just from AMD. The most up-to-date and commonly-used Radeon graphics drivers are all open-source, which means anyone can contribute, and the biggest contributor lately is none other than game-dev-turned-platform-host Valve. That might be a surprise if you have [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Watch Doom Run On This Devilishly Small QT Py-Powered PINKY Adafruit Handheld]( By Lane Babuder on Jan 27, 2022 03:32 pm [Watch Doom Run On This Devilishly Small QT Py-Powered PINKY Adafruit Handheld]( Can it run DOOM? The meme-worthy phrase almost everyone has uttered in the tech space, at one time or another, today is true of this absolutely tiny device. A newly created Adafruit QT Py-powered handheld (which they code-named PINKY) does indeed run DOOM. With minimal modification to the open-source emulation project Retro-Go the team [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( Recent Articles: [Valve Confirms Steam Deck Shipments Will Begin February 25, What You Need To Know]( [HotHardware And Lenovo CES 2022 New Year, New Gear Giveaway Winners!]( [NVIDIA Is Working On A GPU Technology That Delivers A Massive Ray Tracing Performance Lift]( [G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-6400 Memory Kits Bring The Speed And Low Latencies You Crave]( [105 Million Android Users Hit By Massive Dark Herring Subscription Scamware Campaign]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Website]( [YouTube]( [Pinterest]( Copyright © 2022 Hot Hardware, Inc., All rights reserved. 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