Amid a losing camera war with Applie’s iPhone 13 and processor battle with Goggle’s Tensor chip, Samsung today announced its new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200.
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Samsung Delivers Next-Level SSD Performance with 980 PRO for Gaming and High-End PC Applications
Samsung Electronics today unveiled the company’s first consumer PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid state drive (SSD) – the Samsung SSD 980 PRO.1 The new 980 PRO is designed for professionals and consumers who want cutting-edge performance in their high-end PCs, workstations and game consoles. Optimized for handling data-intensive applications, the 980 PRO is ideal for consumers…
If you haven’t played your Blu-Ray in a while, you might want to check if Samsung’s latest patch bricked it.
New CallStranger exploit takes advantage of UPnP vulnerability in millions of routers, gaming systems, TVs, printers, and other Internet-connected attachable devices.
Researchers just announced the discovery of a UPnP vulnerability that impacts any UPnP device exposed on the Internet. The attack, called CallStranger (CVE-2020-12695), is being used for massive DDoS attacks , to exfiltrate data, and to scan ports from Internet-facing UPnP devices. How the CallStranger exploit works The attack takes advantage of a Callback header…
This seemingly benign photograph is bricking Android phones when set as a screensaver or wallpaper.
Word spread on social media of a particular photograph that is causing some phones to go into a continuous reboot sequence when the photo is set as the screensaver. It’s been tested and yeah, it does trigger the reboot. In some instances, you cannot escape out of the sequence effectively bricking the phone and requiring…
Calm down everyone – Samsung’s not going to make you send your Note 7 back for repairs.
The Samsung Note 7 battery problem is indeed a major blow but not unheard of. Samsung will recover and in fact, there are already rumors they’ve ramped up customer service to save face. Still, with Apple’s new iPhone 7 coming out in mere weeks, the battery grenade problem couldn’t have happened at a more inopportune…
And from the rib of Apple came…
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) memory standard promises 15 times better performance than traditional DDR1/2/3 SDRAM
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium finished hammering out the Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) 1.0 standard this week. With a max bandwidth of 320GB/sec to a nearby CPU or GPU (compared to 24GB/sec for DDR3 SDRAM), HMC offers up to 15 times the performance of DDR3, while using 70% less energy. Rather than placing RAM dies…
Samsung Galaxy S4 fizzle but device does solidify position as king of the mobile arena – for now…
The Samsung Galaxy S4 was revealed today and although there were no mind-blowing revelations (and a couple of disappointments), it is indeed a beauty. With a 5 inch Super AMOLED 1920×1080 display (441ppi and protected via Gorilla Glass 3) and 1.6GHz 8-core Exynos Octa 5410 SoC (which is really two quad-cores – four Cortex-A15 cores…
Samsung announces the new Galaxy Xcover 2 smartphone – rugged smartphone for adventurers with nifty outdoorsman features
Samsung today announced its new Galaxy Xcover 2, a ruggedized smartphone designed for outdoor adventurers. It is dust and sand proof and water resistant up to a depth of one meter. It features a 4-inch display, 1GHz dual-core processor, VGA front-facing camera, and 5-megapixel rear camera. It will include 4GB of internal memory, expandable to…