Florida alt video site Rumble helps keep Russian news online
A user holds a smartphone with an opened Facebook page in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 10, 2021. Pavel Golovkin AP As the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine continues, many U.S. media platforms have halted the broadcast of Kremlin-funded news…
Grand Theft Auto 5 Loads Over Twice as Fast on PS5 Than PS4
One of the key features of the new-gen consoles like PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is the faster loading times, and this key benefit is coming to Grand Theft Auto 5 when it’s re-released on the newest systems. According to tests we ran here at IGN,…
Research team develops a smartphone app to calculate genetic risk for heart attack
Scientists at the Scripps Research Translational Institute developed the MyGeneRank mobile app that can provide study participants with their unique genetic risk score for coronary artery disease. Credit: Scripps Research A Scripps Research team has…
NCAA Tournament Central: Brackets, Schedule, Live Streaming
The NCAA Tournament gets underway this week, and for the first time in several years, Rhode Island is represented by multiple programs. Providence College and Bryant will be among the first teams to take the court. The Bulldogs are matched up with Wright…
Alleged leak says Philips may be planning to enter the RAM market
Rumor mill: Philips is best known for making consumer electronics, like smart light bulbs, TVs, sound systems, and more. However, it would seem the company wants to expand its business even further. According to some allegedly-leaked pictures taken from…
Microsoft releases DirectStorage: ‘a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games’
18 months ago, Microsoft revealed that one of the most important advancements in its new Xbox Series X console would be coming to PC — the ability to stream tremendous amounts of data from a blazing fast NVMe solid state drive to your GPU, instead of…
Another pain of returning to the office? Record high gas prices.
Record high gas prices are the latest obstacle for millions of U.S. employees facing a costlier commute as they return to the workplace amid a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases. Fuel costs have jumped more than 20% in the past two weeks alone and are up a…
Secret WhatsApp trick reveals how many texts you’ve sent and received
WHATSAPP has a fun feature that reveals the true scale of your texting habits. Hidden in the chat app’s settings is a page that logs how many messages have been sent back and forth in individual and group conversations. 1 WhatsApp is one of the…
Apple Has Bad News for Its Customers
If you’re looking forward to the latest suite of Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report products from its first launch event held online last week, there maybe an unexpected kink that could disrupt your plans to upgrade to the new low-cost…
Stocks of the Week: Alphabet, Apple and Rivian
The Dow Jones Industrial Index stood at 32,944 heading into a new trading week. That’s down 1.99% in the past week and 9.34% on a year-to-date basis. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is off 10.9% year to date; the Nasdaq Composite is down 17.6%; and the…