How to turn off iMessage on a Mac

Apple’s multi-device ecosystem includes ways to send messages. But what if it's too distracting on a Mac?Here's how to quiet notifications and disable it.

Guides         December 14, 2020

Refreshed LG Gram laptops head to North America in January for CES 2018

LG said that its refreshed line of LG Gram laptops will make their debut during CES 2018, and hit North American store shelves in January.

News         December 14, 2020

Samsung refreshes its Notebook 9 laptops for 2018, adds model supporting S Pen

Just before the CES 2018 technology show next month, Samsung announced the upcoming refresh of its Notebook 9 line of laptops.

News         December 14, 2020

Intel is building brain-like processors that will power the robots of the future

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich revealed two chips at CES: one "Loihi" chip for neuromorphic computing, and Tangle Lake for quantum computing.

News         December 9, 2020

Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to transfer save data

Moving to a new Nintendo Switch and don't want to leave your island behind? Now you can take it with you using Nintendo's new tool. We show you how.

Guides         November 20, 2020

Dell teases new rugged Chromebooks, daring young students to rough them up

Dell introduced a new rugged line of Chromebooks, the 5000 Series. The first unit is the 11.6-inch Chromebook 5190 packing a two-core or four-core Celeron processor, and support for electro-magnetic resonance pens.

News         November 2, 2020

Google’s new patent will automatically open, close laptops with just a touch

Google recently landed a patent that will enable notebooks to automatically open and close their lids with a simple touch of a finger.

News         November 2, 2020

How to rotate the screen on a Chromebook

Here's how to rotate the screen on a Chromebook to view your content better or rotate it back after it goes sideways accidentally.

Guides         November 2, 2020

Western Digital unveils iPhone backup station, home cloud storage device at IFA

During the IFA technology show in Berlin, Western Digital introduced three new products for better media management across multiple devices.

News         October 29, 2020

Hacker steals more than $7 million in digital currency by switching a mere link

Trading platform CoinDash conducted a sale based on digital currency to generate investment in its app, but a hacker had other plans.

News         October 28, 2020

Report claims ecommerce sites are hijacking visitor CPUs to mine digital coins

A report claims that more than 2,400 legitimate ecommerce websites are running CoinHive software in the background while visitors shop.

News         October 28, 2020

Government websites fall prey to a plugin injected with a digital coin miner

On Sunday, someone hacked a popular website plugin and inserted Coinhive's controversial Monero digital coin mining script. More than 4,200 websites used this plugin spanning government, organizations, and educational institutions across the globe. One Monero coin is worth $238.

News         October 28, 2020

Salon will mine digital currency on your PC if you opt to disable ads

Visitors on Salon.com that don't want to see advertisements have two options: Purchase the paid mobile app for Android and iOS, or let the company mine digital coins on your PC. The move is to secure revenue due to the heavy use of ad blocker plugins in modern web browsers.

News         October 28, 2020

Report finds millennials want to use cryptocurrency in their favorite games

A recent report published by World Asset Exchange surveyed 1,000 gamers to rate their stance on using cryptocurrency in video games.

News         October 28, 2020

Companies, lawyers probed for selling cryptocurrency initial coin offerings

The Securities and Exchange Commission distributed 80 subpoenas to companies, lawyers, and brokers regarding cryptocurrency initial coin offers.

News         October 28, 2020

Thieves heist 600 PCs built for digital coin mining in Iceland

Between December and January, an organized group of thieves raided data centers across Iceland and stole 600 PCs dedicated to digital currency mining.

News         October 28, 2020

Hackers target Windows clipboard to steal cryptocurrency wallet addresses

The latest email scam contains malware that will install on Windows machines and scan the clipboard for copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses.

News         October 28, 2020

Digital currency prices fall after SEC warns about exchange dangers

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a warning on Wednesday against the use of unregulated exchange platforms for cryptocurrency.

News         October 28, 2020

Windows Defender thwarts major malware attack directed mostly at Russian users

Microsoft said its Windows Defender platform thwarted a campaign that sought to distribute a trojan packing a cryptocurrency miner payload.

News         October 28, 2020

Twitter CEO aims to overhaul verification as digital coin scams grow

During a Periscope livestream on Thursday, Jack Dorsey and David Gasca talk about overhauling Twitter's confusing verification system.

News         October 28, 2020

A fake startup uses initial coin offering to steal $2 million in digital coins

A startup promising a device to manage cryptocurrencies disappeared with more than $2 million in Ethereum after an initial coin offering.

News         October 28, 2020

Leak shows cryptocurrency mining card with surprising Nvidia chip

A recent leak shows that Inno3D is gearing up to launch a graphics card dedicated to cryptocurrency mining that's based on the GTX 1080 Ti.

News         October 28, 2020

Google will ban cryptocurrency ads from its AdWords network in June

Google said that starting in June, its AdWords advertisement platform will no longer support ads based on cryptocurrencies and related services.

Computing         October 28, 2020

Power-gulping cryptocurrency miners now charged higher fees in New York

The New York State Public Service Commission is now allowing power companies to charge higher rates to cryptocurrency miners.

News         October 28, 2020

Bitcoin’s blockchain contains links to child pornography, possible illegal image

Researchers recently downloaded the Bitcoin blockchain to analyze its non-financial data and uncovered links to child pornography and an image.

News         October 28, 2020

Yahoo Japan invests in a cryptocurrency exchange platform launching this fall

Yahoo Japan and BitARG Exchange Tokyo both confirmed on Friday a 40-percent investment in an upcoming Bitcoin exchange platform launching this fall. Yahoo Japan will supposedly make additional investments in the beginning of 2019 to launch a full-blown product by April 2019.

News         October 28, 2020

Another initial coin offering ‘exit scam’ steals $660M from Vietnam’s investors

Reports stemming from Vietnam claim that a company developing two cryptocurrency platforms raised $660.79 million in initial coin offerings and disappeared with the money. The company initially paid commissions to investors with cash, but then reverted to tokens that couldn't be withdrawn for money.

News         October 28, 2020

Want to hide your Pornhub browsing? Use digital currency to make payments

Adult-oriented site Pornhub is now accepting cryptocurrency as payment for all products, including its monthly subscription service for premium content. More specifically, the site now accepts Verge Currency, a cryptocurrency that relies on TOR and I2P technologies to hide your transactions.

News         October 28, 2020

Microsoft Bing joins Google, Facebook in banning cryptocurrency advertisements

Microsoft is now banning ads for cryptocurrency, related products, and unregulated binary options from its Bing Ads network. Given their unregulated nature, cryptocurrencies and related products pose an elevated risk due to bad actors that may participate in predatory behaviors to scam customers.

News         October 28, 2020

The Justice Department is now cracking down on cryptocurrency scams

The Justice Department is now working with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to launch a criminal investigation to determine if digital coin traders are manipulating prices using illegal practices such as spoofing and wash trading. Sources say the federal probe is in the early stages.

News         October 28, 2020

Was late 2017 cryptocurrency spike artificially inflated?

A new report stemming from the University of Texas at Austin claims that the big surge in cryptocurrency values during 2017 was artificially created using a digital currency called Tether. The report focuses on Bitfinex, one of the largest unregulated digital currency exchanges on the market.

News         October 28, 2020

Facebook changes its cryptocurrency rules by easing its ad blocking policy

Facebook changed its mind about banning cryptocurrency-related ads from the social network. Starting June 26, the updated policy will allow advertisements that promote cryptocurrency and related content, but only from pre-approved advertisers. Ads for ICOs and binary options are still banned.

News         October 28, 2020

Cryptocurrency may be why you still don’t have Nvidia GTX 11 Series graphics

Unnamed sources point to the current overabundance of add-in graphics cards as to why you’re not already seeing Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 11 Series on store shelves. Nvidia reportedly has around one million chips ready for release but is holding back because there is simply no room for next-gen cards.

News         October 28, 2020

Hackers allegedly used cryptocurrency in attack against Clinton campaign

An 11-count indictment filed against 12 Russian military intelligence officers reveals that the group allegedly used cryptocurrency to remain anonymous in a scheme against the Clinton campaign in 2016. They used these digital coins to pay for the website used to release stolen election-related documents.

Web         October 28, 2020