Facebook Has a Problem, 4 Million Devices May Cause Skin Irritation
Owners of Oculus Quest 2 VR goggles are reporting health problems. More than 4 million devices may be affected. What's Facebook's response?
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Arkadiusz Strzala
July 28, 2021
New World Beta Literally Burns RTX 3090 GPUs; Amazon Responds
The closed beta of New World, an upcoming MMORPG from Amazon Games, began on July 20. Owners of RTX 3090 GPUs need to be careful, as the game destroyed some users' cards during testing.
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Iltutmis
July 22, 2021
Chia Cryptocurrency Can Damage SSDs in the Span of Few Weeks
It turns out that the increasingly popular Chia cryptocurrency does not only affect the availability and prices increase of SSDs. First information about the increased failure rate of SSD media, which wear out very quickly during the mining proces, appeared on the web.
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Martin Nothing
May 12, 2021
PS5 Also Has CMOS Problem Like PS3 and PS4
The PlayStation 5 has the same CMOS battery issue as the PS4 and PS3. Thankfully, not in such a broad way, which may suggest that Sony has approached the solutions used in the PS5 a little better.
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Paul Musiolik
April 18, 2021
Without CMOS PS4 Blocks Access to Games; Internet Investigates
Internet user known as Forest has confirmed rumors of a problem with the PlayStation 4 console's CMOS battery. It seems that after it fails, the PS4 really does block access to all games, even those on disc.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 12, 2021
AMD Like Intel: Ryzens 5000 With Serious Security Vulnerability
AMD confirms that the new line of processors based on Zen 3 is vulnerable to a Spectre attack. The reason is the optimization mechanism included in the Ryzen 5000 and Epyc processors, among others.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
April 7, 2021
PS5 Has Serious Problem With Displaying SDR Image
According to Digital Foundry experts, SDR content on PlayStation 5 is not displayed properly. Dark colors blend together and details present in a scene are lost.
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Bart Swiatek
March 29, 2021
PS4 Won't Launch Games if Internal Battery Dies
A clock error can render the PS4 nearly useless. All it takes for this to occur is for the console's internal battery to die, effectively rendering it incapable of running games.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
March 25, 2021
PS5 Overheating With Second SSD? Sony Wants to Improve Cooling
Sony may soon make it possible to install an additional SSD into the PlayStation 5. According to Bloomberg, the new firmware will speed up fan operation due to the possibility of console overheating when a second drive is installed.
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Jacob Blazewicz
February 26, 2021
PS5's DualSense Can Fail After Just 417 Hours
iFixit investigated the problem of drift in Sony's DualSense controller for the PS5. The conclusions are not optimistic. The device can stop working after just 417 hours of use.
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Paul Musiolik
February 22, 2021
February's Windows 10 Update May Disable Your Webcam
February's Windows 10 update, which already caused numerous blue screens of death or gaming issues, among other things, may also disable your webcam.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 18, 2021
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PS5's DualSense Has a Problem With Stick Drift [UPDATED]
PlayStation 5 users are crowding in to report another issues with the DualSense. This time, the problem is the analogs, which quite quickly began to drift, messing up control precison in games.
Tech
February 16, 2021
PowerGPU: AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Highly Unreliable
PC building company PowerGPU tweeted stat figures showing that the failure rate of AMD's latest CPUs can reach almost 20 percent. The tweet has now been deleted, but not before it made big waves on the web.
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Adrian Piotrowski
February 15, 2021
One of Xbox Series X/S Features is Harmful to Environment
It turns out Microsoft's next-gen console may be harming the environment with its instant-on feature. So says a study conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Tech
January 17, 2021
Dirty Spots Are Definitely Not The Black PS5 Users Hoped For
Some owners of Sony's next-gen platform report strange, dirty spots on their console. Worse still, the dirt cannot always be removed.
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Bart Swiatek
December 1, 2020
iPhone Not So Waterproof After All? $12M Fine for Apple in Italy
The Italian consumer protection authority, AGCM, found that Apple was misleading customers about the waterproofness of its smartphones and imposed a fine of $12 million on the company.
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Bart Swiatek
December 1, 2020
PS5s Differ in Noise Volume Depending on Installed Fan
The editors of French website Les Numeriques have put several PlayStation 5 consoles together and discovered that some PS5 sub-models are equipped with a different, slightly louder fan.
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Bart Swiatek
December 1, 2020
PS5 Update Removes Spontaneous Game Uninstallation and Controller Issues
PlayStation 5 received update 20.02-02.26.00. Thanks to it, the console will no longer remove games from the drive without our knowledge. Also problems with charging the controller will disappear.
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Adrian Werner
November 27, 2020
Coil Whine in Your PS5? You Might Look for A Displaced Sticker
Are you having problems with the volume of PlayStation 5? There's a chance that the discovery of Frank Keienburg from Supercell might help. After dismantling the console the developer found a rather unexpected cause of coil whine.
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Jacob Blazewicz
November 22, 2020
Downloading Bug on PS5 Requires Console Data Wipe
Players who already have a copy of their PS5 report a serious mistake that can permanently block the ability to download games and applications in some situations. One solution seems to be to restore the console to its factory settings.
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Bart Swiatek
November 17, 2020