Seller loses $250,000 after listing his Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for the wrong price TechSpot

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a set of 10,000 semi-randomly generated apes created by Delaware-based Yuga Labs. They’re some of the most sought-after NFTs you can buy; a collection containing 101 apes sold for $24.4 million back in September, and its members (owners) include Jimmy Fallon, Steph Curry, and...





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Blue Origin successfully completes third crewed mission to space, its first at full capacity TechSpot

The six passengers included Laura Shepard Churchley, the oldest daughter of NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, who was the first NASA astronaut to fly in space. The New Shepard spacecraft is named after him.





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Tesla Cybertruck prototype spotted with a ludicrously long windshield wiper TechSpot

It’s not quite clear if the Cybertruck's wiper is a standard tilting wiper, or if it’s an "electromagnetic wiper" that moves side to side. Tesla’s original patent for the latter describes it as being able to fold down onto the bonnet when not in use, but that doesn’t seem to...





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European soccer fans have spent millions on crypto-based fan tokens TechSpot

How much are exclusive pieces of digital artwork and team-branded digital tokens worth to soccer fans? The answer, according to a recent BBC news report, is more than $300 million.





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Intel teases Arc GPUs at The Game Awards 2021 TechSpot

The teaser shows a few games running on an unspecified Arc GPU, including Hitman, Age of Empires IV, and Back 4 Blood. Of course, Intel didn't bother to compare Arc to an Nvidia or AMD GPU. The only clue that hints at performance is that the YouTube upload is 1440p...





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The biggest reveals you missed from The Game Awards 2021 TechSpot

While this list is by no means every trailer shown during the show, it does comprise 15 of the more surprising or hotly anticipated games revealed. So grab your popcorn for a short binge of the best trailers from The Game Awards 2021.





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Alder Lake boosts Intel's CPU market share, but AMD remains dominant TechSpot

The data comes from Germany’s largest retailer, MindFactory, and was posted by Redditor ingebor. We see that Intel has finally reached a 30% share of a sales market that AMD has controlled since the launch of the Ryzen 3000 series. Coincidentally, the figures are the other way around in the...





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Activision Blizzard workers go on strike, seek donations for wage assistance TechSpot

Now, the organization is taking the next step. Instead of merely expressing their discontent through Twitter posts and in-person protests, the ABK Workers Alliance is officially walking out and going on strike; but not just because of the harassment allegations. This demonstration was prompted by more recent events, in which...





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Google confirms Android bug that prevents 911 calls when Microsoft Teams is installed TechSpot

The concerning bug was discovered by a Pixel 3 user running Android 11 who goes by /u/KitchenPictures5849 on Reddit. They wrote that their phone “got stuck” immediately after just one ring when they rang 911 for their grandmother who appeared to be having a stoke. It left them unable to...





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5 Signs Your Storage Drive Is About to Fail TechSpot

#ThrowBackThursday Like all electronic devices, PCs don't last forever, and the parts inside them will eventually fail. While it's easy to replace a broken device, the same can't be said for the data stored in your machine.





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Sony gives us a sneak peek at its 8K VR headset prototype TechSpot

The device was revealed in a video as part of the Sony Technology Day. Sony R&D engineers Yasuko Ishihara and Kei Kimura demonstrated the headset, which, as you can see, is still very much in the prototype stage. The flagship feature is that it uses a 4K OLED microdisplay for...





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Assassin's Creed Valhalla update improves performance, but the entire game must be reinstalled TechSpot

Ubisoft writes that the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update 1.4.1 will bring a series of optimizations to the game that will "deliver faster loading screens, improved world data streaming, and overall runtime performance." It will also get AC Valhalla ready for all "future content and game updates."





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J.P. Morgan: next AMD Chromebook CPUs may use Samsung 4nm node TechSpot

On Tuesday, someone leaked via Twitter about a page and a half of a J.P. Morgan internal analysis paper issued last week. The excerpt covers the firm’s predictions on how companies like Intel, Nvidia, and AMD will choose between TSMC and Samsung for their nodes over the next couple of...





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Consumer spending on mobile apps and games to reach $133 billion by year's end TechSpot

That’s up 19.7 percent compared to the $111.1 billion spent across the App Store and Google Play in 2020 and close to the 21 percent year-over-year growth witnessed in 2019.





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Nintendo hacker Bowser settles Switch piracy lawsuit for $10 million in restitution TechSpot

In October 2020, federal authorities arrested Team Xecuter ring leaders Gary Bowser and Max Louarn on 11 felony counts of piracy. Six months later, Nintendo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bowser, asking for $2,500 for each SX Pro sold and $150,000 for every copyright violation.





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Tim Cook reportedly signed secret $275 billion investment deal with China to help Apple succeed in the country TechSpot

The Information reports that Cook personally signed the deal in 2016 during his visits to China. It’s claimed that interviews and internal Apple documents show he "personally lobbied officials" over threats of regulatory action against Apple Pay, iCloud, and the App Store.





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Ubisoft is adding NFT-based cosmetic items to Ghost Recon Breakpoint TechSpot

Ubisoft said the cosmetic items, which it described as the first NFTs playable in a AAA game, will allow users to keep track of current and previous ownership, “making players an integral part of the game’s history.”





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