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100 million and counting: Nintendo affirms that Switch is still mid-cycle
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100 million and counting: Nintendo affirms that Switch is still mid-cycle

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Nintendo) Nintendo's latest financial report to investors, issued as an overview of its fiscal year's third quarter, came with a momentous announcement for the veteran video game and console producer: Switch has joined the 100 million-worldwide-sales club. What's more, Switch's current tally of 103.5 million means the device has leapfrogged over…

Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems
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Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is growing increasingly malevolent as its developers add new bells and whistles. The additions include the pushing of an aggressive second-stage adware payload that installs a persistent backdoor on infected Macs. The UpdateAgent malware family began…

For T-cells, omicron is nothing unusual
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For T-cells, omicron is nothing unusual

Enlarge / False-color image of a T-cell (orange) latching on to a cell in preparation for killing it. (credit: Getty Images) From the start, the omicron variant had experts worried because its version of the virus's spike protein carried mutations in many of the sites that are recognized by antibodies. This meant that antibodies generated…

Producer: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will connect to a famous wrathful villain
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Producer: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will connect to a famous wrathful villain

Enlarge (credit: Paramount+) The Star Trek franchise continues to expand on Paramount+ with the upcoming prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts in May. The show's executive producers and key cast members were on hand this week for a virtual panel discussion as part of the 2022 Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) meeting. In…

Western Digital Introduces WD_BLACK SN770: A DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD
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Western Digital Introduces WD_BLACK SN770: A DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD

The initial wave of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs put emphasis on raw benchmark numbers, with power consumption remaining an afterthought. The targeting of high-end desktop platforms ensured that it was not much of a concern. However, with the rise of notebook and mini-PC platforms supporting PCIe 4.0, power consumption and thermal performance became important aspects.…