Well, if they’re going to rip off the works of more talented writers and artists, they might as well do it the right way. They should at the very least pick the good ones. Lucky for them, this giant, angry nerd here has curated some of the very best Legends stories and plots that could easily fill up an 8-seasons long TV series. 1. The History of the Mand’alors As of now, Disney’s focus for the Star Wars franchise seems to be squarely locked onto one thing: Mandalore....

To quickly recap, Acer made some small but significant waves last week, after it announced its decision to enter the desktop graphics card market with the launch of the Predator Bifrost A770. It sports a unique dual-fan configuration comprising a blower-style fan and an open-air style fan. Getting back on point, the Acer-branded A770 made a surprise appearance on the Israeli website, Plonter.info, which claims to have already reviewed the card in full....

There are several main features within the new airasia Chat. Firstly, you can join the community chat rooms based on topics that interest you. You can also use channels to get the latest updates on AirAsia promotions, news, and more. Among the top community chat rooms are Kuala Lumpur Travellers and Bali Travellers, while not surprisingly, the airasia.com promotion has the highest number of followers in the Channels category. In today’s announcement, AirAsia has promised that more chatrooms and channels should emerge as chat members grow....

The image was posted by prominent leakster HXL (@9550pro), who managed to snag it from the China-based site, ITHome. Basically, it shows the box of the component inquestion, complete with the ASUS logo at the top-left corner, along with the TUF Gaming sub-branding and model number of the card. In true NVIDIA style. Unfortunately, the picture doesn’t contain much else in terms of information about the card. Source: https://t.co/vXt4Mmvjlm pic....

According to the post, the two listed CPUs feature 18-cores, 36-threads and 10-cores, 20-threads, respectively. On a related note, the Geekbench listing specifically shows that both processors were fitted and tested in a Dell Precision 5820 Tower PC and was tested using the Windows 10 Enterprise OS. Once again, the CPUs here aren’t blatantly or obviously named, but the processor IDs are listed as “Genuine Intel Family 6 Model 85 Stepping 7”....

In the case of Twitter, the 12800H’s details were posted by Benchleaks (@BenchLeaks), who seemingly discovered the CPU’s benchmark details first. According to the Geekbench listing, the CPU is fitted inside a Gigabyte AORUS 15 YE4 laptop and paired with 16GB of what we presume is DDR5 RAM. In terms of core configuration, the system information specifies that the CPU has a 14-cores, 20-threads configuration, with initial reports stating that six of those cores are Golden Cove (P-Core) cores, with the remaining eight being Gracemont (E-Core) cores....

Well-known and reliable tech insider Evan Blass aka Evleaks took to Twitter and uploaded a render of a new yet unannounced Motorola smartphone. In the following tweet after the render was posted, Blass suggests that the phone could be known as the Edge Plus but revealed no further information. The render depicts a Motorola branded smartphone featuring a flat all-screen display with a punch-hole cutout on its upper left. More interestingly, the device also features a sleek S-Pen-like stylus which looks like it could be stored within the phone itself....

The RX 5500 series can be divided into two categories; a desktop lineup that will undoubtedly be expanded with different SKUs over time, and the RX 5500M mobile GPU that AMD says will be (for now, anyways) the only mobile GPU solution for notebooks. Regardless of the configuration, both GPUs are manufactured based on the same 7nm die lithography that house 6.4 billion transistors. And yes, because it is based on the RDNA architecture, both GPUs support PCIe 4....

According to the lawsuit, which was filed with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), AMD is said to be seeking monetary compensation from MediaTek, for “past, continuing, and future infringement”. On top of that, AMD also wants the ITC to block MediaTek from infringing upon any other APU and GPU patents that it has. Specifically, the patents that were infringed upon seem to be focused upon three patents. Two of which pertained to its acquisition of ATI Technologies back in 2006....

Originally announced back in September 2018, you might be wondering what is actually interesting about this ageing Ryzen 2000 series processor. Well, prior to this, the chip was made available only to OEM and system integrators. With a base clock speed of 3.5GHz, the Ryzen 3 2300X processor also offers boost clock of up to 4.0GHz. The AM4-based 65W quad-core quad-thread chip also comes standard with Wraith Stealth as its cooler....

In total, Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, announced a total of four Ryzen CPUs: the Ryzen 9 5950X, the Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and the Ryzen 5 5600X. As you can already surmise, the new CPUs serve as generational updates to the current 3rd generation Ryzen 3000 series desktop CPUs, and while each processor bears a similar core and thread count as their respective predecessor, they also feature performance improvements....

As a quick primer, the 5800X3D is, once again, based off the Zen3 CPU architecture like its brethren, but what sets this particular processor apart from the crowd is the new 3D V-Cache chiplet design, which features an additional 64MP of L3 Cache, stacked on top of each other. Beyond that, the CPU features the same 8-cores, 16-threads as its non-V-Cache sibling, the same 105W TDP, but a lower base and boost clock of 3....

According to its official description, Camscanner scans documents using optical character recognition (OCR) and converts them into PDF files. The app appears legitimate and seemingly depends on advertisements revenue and in-app subscriptions to keep it running, but it’s clear that somewhere down the line, one of these advertising libraries contained the malicious module. Researchers at Kaspersky named the malware “Trojan-Dropper.AndroidOS.Necro.n,” or simply Trojan-Dropper. According to the reaserchers, the trojan malware extracts and run malicious modules in the background....

Located at Komtar JBCC which is just across the road from Johor Bahru’s main transportation hub JB Sentral, the Angry Birds Activity Park originally opened in October 2014. Said to be the first Angry Birds theme park in Southeast Asia, it was a joint venture between a subsidiary of Johor Corporation, Damansara Assets together with the creators of Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment. The 26,000 square feet indoor activity park is mainly designed for children and given its name, all of the attractions within it were inspired by the acclaimed game franchise....

In the video, Anonymous Malaysia claimed that the government’s cybersecurity level is still relatively low which could lead to data leak. Additionally, the group has also touched on the massive telco leak in 2017 which involved around 46 million mobile numbers, as well as the rise of scam cases and the recent cyberattack incident involving the Malaysian Armed Forces web portal. https://twitter.com/anonymalaysia/status/1353689443270422528 Anonymous Malaysia blamed the government which it claimed were not supportive of developers....

During the MacBook Air segment, Apple has also unveiled the new 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter. The company introduced it as one of the new charging options for the equally new laptop and has also pitched it as a convenience since the power brick allows users to charge two devices at the same time. The compact version of the charger, as revealed at WWDC 2022. [Image: Apple / YouTube....

As a part of a pretty lengthy Twitter thread, Kuo shared that the Apple mixed reality headset may get delayed to “2H23”. The tweet mentioned that the previous estimated date for the headset’s release was 2Q23, based on the shipment of components. But “software-related issues” pushed the new forecast back to the current second half window. — 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) December 4, 2022 Kuo goes on to mention that it’s still not yet clear if the press conference announcing this Apple mixed reality headset will also be delayed as a result....

Both Apple and Epic are engaged in a high-profile, high-stakes legal battle that could decide the fate of Apple’s App Store and its relatively closed ecosystem. Epic’s lawsuit claims that the commission fee and rules Apple imposes on app developers are unreasonable and anticompetitive. But according to Bloomberg, Apple is challenging the credibility of Epic’s court witnesses, officially petitioning the court to ignore the testimony of Xbox Business Development Vice President Lori Wright....

In general, the IRP designation is meant for companies that are being authorised by Apple to repair out-of-warranty iPhone and Mac. On another hand, repair jobs for in-warranty devices can only be done by Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP) who are also allowed to repair other Apple products such as iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and more. Nevertheless, IRPs still have direct access to genuine diagnostics, tools, and spare parts as well as training, service guides, and other related resources to help them perform those repair jobs....

According to MacRumors, affected users would have been sent out an email from Apple. Informing them about the issue, and that they could get the free repair at all Apple Store locations, as well as authorized service providers. Oddly enough, none of the reports actually specify what exactly the issue is, only that it exists. It should also be pointed out that Apple’s repair policy is not a public one, and that it is only offering it both on the down low and to the affected customers....