It’s getting harder for ransomware operators to get the victims to pay up, but once they do – they pay more than they did a year ago. A new report from Coveware claims that although the number of payments dropped, the value of the payments made rose. It found the average ransom payment for the…
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If you’re a Sony camera owner who’s been looking for one super-versatile zoom lens for almost any shooting situation, you’re in luck – Tamron has announced that it’s working on a 50-400mm lens that’ll be released for E-mount later this year. The Tamron 50-400mm f/4. 5-6. 3 Di III VC VXD, to give it its full name,…
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Editing PDFs can be very important for businesses – and a limited PDF editor will stifle productivity and slam the brakes on otherwise efficient workflows. Foxit’s PDF Editor (opens in new tab) sidesteps all of that, and more besides, making it easier to tweak an existing document. No more going back to the software where…
We’re now less than two weeks from the August 10 announcement of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, but as so often happens with high-profile phone launches, the phone has already been leaked more or less in full. In fact, two big leaks have now landed more or less simultaneously – one revealing the likely…
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Getting your smartphone repaired can seem like a daunting prospect; knowing that your mobile – full of personal information and photos and sensitive apps – is going to be in the hands of a stranger for a time without you present. And sure, the vast majority of repair specialists are trustworthy experts, but now Samsung…
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Making sense of your unwieldy Microsoft OneDrive library could soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update. The cloud storage platform is set to receive a new feature that will allow it to automatically rename files without annoying users with alerts noting that their files or folders have not synced properly. The change…
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Two-minute reviewIt took a week of testing for this Asus Zenfone 9 review before we realized that our struggles to ‘get’ this phone stemmed from the device’s own identity issues. The Zenfone 9 is a cheap phone playing dress-up as a premium one; it’s two middling phones standing on each others’ shoulders in a trench…
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While Google has teased some aspects of the Pixel 7 we’re left guessing on other fronts – or, more accurately, letting leakers fill in the gaps. However, according to one leak, the Pixel 6 provides all we need to know. This comes from leaker and developer Kuba Wojciechowski, who wrote a Twitter thread on a…
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We’ve heard a number of times now that every iPhone 14 model – including the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max – might have 6GB of RAM, and the latest leak again suggests as much, but this RAM apparently won’t all be equal. According to a report in DigiTimes (opens in new tab)…
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We’ve been hearing reports for a while that Samsung might use Snapdragon chipsets – likely the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 – globally in the Samsung Galaxy S23 line. These were just rumors, but now Qualcomm, which makes Snapdragon chipsets, has also suggested this will be the case. In its Q3 2022 earnings call – a…
