Monthly Archives: September 2022

Lower power consumption is a massive win for the Nvidia RTX 4080

OPINION: A wise man once said “with great power comes more expensive energy bills”, but that’s the consequence you have to accept when upgrading your graphics card.  It’s widely accepted that more powerful components will consume more power, and Nvidia’s track record with graphics cards showed exactly that.  The Nvidia RTX 2080 has a 225W…

American Airlines reveals data breach — two months after it was discovered

The accounts were compromised as the result of a phishing campaign. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge American Airlines is alerting some of its customers to a data breach, where an “unauthorized actor” got access to names, birthdays, mailing and email addresses, phone, driver’s license and passport numbers, and “certain medical information”…

A Tesla Megapack battery is on fire at a PG&E facility in California

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire this morning at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, as reported by local news stations KSBW Action News 8 and KRON4. The fire started at around 1:30AM this morning, according to PG&E’s operations comm manager,…

The Midnight Club’s first trailer looks like The Fault in Our Stars but with vengeful ghosts

Iman Benson and Igby Rigney in The Midnight Club. | Netflix The seven terminally ill youths at the center of Netflix’s upcoming horror mystery series The Midnight Club from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong all know they’re probably going to die before any of them are ready. But in the show’s first full trailer, the…