A collaborative investigation by the Hamilton Police and US Intelligence organisations uncovered the theft of CAD$46 million in cryptocurrencies. A victim in the US was targeted by the bad actor in a SIM swap attack. An adolescent who was allegedly involved in the incident was arrested in November 2021.

OPPO has confirmed that it will debut the potentially innovative Reno7 series of Android smartphones tomorrow (November 25, 2021). Now, it is rumored to have new TWS earbuds to launch alongside them. Judging by their alleged product name, they may be cheaper versions of existing products, although they may still offer in-demand specs and features.

The heavily discounted WD Black SN850 SSD with 1TB of capacity is not just suitable for upgrading the storage of most modern laptops, it can also be used as a storage expansion in Sony's PlayStation 5 console.

Nominees for the Best Gaming Hardware Of All Time included PS 1/2/4, Nintendo SNES / N64 / Wii, PC, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500 and Commodore 64, while the Ultimate Game Of All Time list presented nominees like Tetris, Pac-Man, Doom ‘93, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Go, GTA V, Halo and the original Sim City.

November 19 registrations for a few A2 and B2 OLED screens have been spotted on the South Korean National Radio Research Agency site. The SKU format also led to the discovery of 42-inch C2 and 83-inch G2 models.

The Life360 has announced that it will acquire Tile, buying the company out for just over $205 million. The acquisition has the potential to expand and streamline the location-tracking features involved in the services offered by both companies. For example, it might expand the current Tile network by about 10x.

Successors to the POCO X3 and POCO X3 NFC have surfaced online. The POCO X4 will be an Indian model again, like the POCO X3. Similarly, the POCO X4 NFC will serve as Xiaomi's global model.

Intel has begun shipping its 12th gen Alder Lake-P mobile chips to laptop makers. Gregory M Bryant, Executive Vice President and GM of Intel’s Client Computing Group, broke the news on Twitter. The Alder Lake-P chips are expected to come in two variants. The low-end Core i3 and Core i5 chips will have two Golden Cove performance cores, while the high-end Core i7 and i9 will rock up to six.

The Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic may be Samsung's latest smartwatches, but they are both available at discounts during Black Friday. Most models have received a US$50 discount, but additional reductions are possible.

A well-known leaker has cleared up what camera sensors Samsung will include in the Galaxy S22 Ultra. For some reason, Samsung only seeks to equip the Galaxy S21 Ultra successor with new telephoto cameras; the 108 MP and 12 MP ultra-wide-angle cameras from this year's model will remain.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have issued a joint statement clarifying the next steps in the US cryptocurrency regulations. After the infrastructure bill was signed into law with crypto taxation provisions, the agencies are now outlining a roadmap for their digital assets regulation guidance that stretches through 2022.

VideoCardz has detailed what specifications to expect from the Radeon RX 6400 and RX 6500 XT, two upcoming entry-level graphics cards. The website has revealed a release window for the pair, too.

The Radeon RX 6000 series may continue to sell for well above MSRP, but AMD is pushing their prices even further. Reportedly, AMD is to push higher TSMC wafer costs onto AIBs, with 10% price increases felt across all Radeon RX 6000 GPUs.

A developer has brought PlayStation games to the Game Boy Advance via a Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie. The mod can be built at home without changing your Game Boy Advance, too.

LG has released the 34CN650N, a thin-client with a 34-inch monitor. The LG 34CN650N is passively cooled and has a 1080p panel, among other features.

Honor has confirmed that its next flagship smartphone will feature some impressive hardware. The company's new teaser shows that the Honor 60 Pro will have a 108 MP primary camera, a stylish back panel and a quad-curved display.

The sharp devaluation of the Turkish Lira and high inflation in the country has resulted in Apple pulling all sales from its Turkish website. The company has not confirmed when it will begin selling in Turkey again, either.

Contrary to previous reports, the Pixel 6a will not feature a Snapdragon 778G or the ISOCELL GN1 from the Pixel 6 series. Instead, the Google Camera app has confirmed that Pixel 6a, 'bluejay' will launch with a mixture of Pixel 5 and Pixel 6 cameras, along with the Google Tensor SoC.

Deliveries of the Hummer Edition 1 will begin next month, 14 months after it was announced. The truck will use GM’s Ultium battery, giving it up to 329 miles (~529 km) of range. The Edition 1 will be the first all-electric vehicle released by Hummer.

Xiaomi is edging nearer to releasing the Redmi 10 2022, a re-hash of the Redmi 10. The budget smartphone has appeared at even more regulatory bodies, including the EEC. Additionally, a leaker has revealed what to expect from the Redmi 10 2022's cameras.

AnTuTu scores of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 have leaked online. Both flagship SoCs seem to have achieved near-identical scores north of the 1 million mark. Individual component scores in the benchmark are not yet available.

Iris Xe performance is much faster on average than with the older UHD Graphics 620. Unfortunately, GPU clock rates cycle heavily over time for unsteady frame rates and performance.

The Intel Core i7-1260P has appeared on Geekbench again delivering a much more promising performance than previously reported efforts. The i7-1260P was part of an unnamed Lenovo laptop system, and there is a belief that Alder Lake mobile parts, such as the i7-1270P, will end up in premium devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Book 2.

Samsung has released a new photo app for the Galaxy S21 Ultra in its home market called Expert RAW. The new app allows users to manually control the camera settings of the device across the primary lens, ultra-wide, 3x telephoto and 10x telephoto.

New leaks from Ishan Agarwal and Max Jambor suggest that the OnePlus RT and OnePlus Buds Z2 will be launched in India on December 16. The OnePlus RT is essentially a rebranded version of the OnePlus 9RT launched in China earlier this year.

The Indian government will finally address the burgeoning cryptocurrency issue in the Winter Session of parliament. It plans to regulate crypto-related transactions in the country. A state-backed digital currency is also said to be in the works.

Italy's anti-competition watchdog AGCM has ruled against Apple and Amazon in a case concerning the sale of Beats-series products on the latter's website for the country. The authority has concluded that the 2 OEMs formulated sales agreements for the audio accessories that amounted to an anti-trust practice. The companies may now have to pay a combined ~US$236 million in penalties as a result.

Samsung Display's new micro-site contains a raft of teasers that might make sense of earlier leaks and rumors concerning the OEM's plans for its OLED technology and the devices based on it. They hint at an upcoming product line replete with foldable laptops, rollable TVs and collapsible tablets.

Several Reddit and Twitter users have stumbled upon cheaters in Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode using an aimbot, wallhacks and other software that gives them a competitive advantage. It is frustrating console players as there's no way for them to opt out of playing with PC players.

A new tech review video analyzes the blatant performance issues of the remastered versions of GTA San Andreas and Vice City on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles. On Nintendo Switch, the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition even appears to perform catastrophically bad.

It also features an AMD RX 550 GPU, 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM plus a 512 GB SSD and can run emulated Windows apps and games, including Crysis. Users can replace the SSD and GPU to boost performance.

Software developer Niantic and bank card company Fold have built an AR experience that allows you to find and win bitcoin. The game is currently being rolled out in a limited beta, with more features, such as bitcoin trading, to be released in the coming months.

We have accessed exclusive documentation from our sources that indicate Microsoft has set stringent webcam and real-time communication (RTC) requirements for all Windows 11 laptops coming this Holiday 2021. Microsoft's recommendations are categorized into entry-level, mainstream, and premium and may finally herald the arrival of some much-needed standardization in webcam and microphone quality.

According to reports, Xiaomi is preparing to announce the Redmi Note 11 Pro and Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus globally. The pair offer broadly the same hardware, but with a larger battery in the case of the Redmi Note 11 Pro and 120 W charging with the Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus.

The Dronut X1 offers a unique take on the compact drone, popularised by the likes of DJI. The drone has a 4K camera, a LIDAR scanner, a 1 km range and no external propellers. It is also exceptionally expensive.

The overall share of Wear OS within the smartwatch market has never so much as cracked 5% in Counterpoint Research's reports on this space for the last 5 years. Now, thanks to the launch of the new Galaxy Watch4 series, things have changed considerably for the latest quarter of 2021. Google's platform is now nearly at 20%, although Apple remains the largest single OEM in the sector.

Hyundai has reimagined the Grandeur, a car that it released in 1986. The car has undergone an EV restoration and has been available to view at two motor studios in South Korea.

Tesla's Cybertruck reservations beat the market capitalization of BMW or Ford with no deliveries in sight, just a tentative Q4 2022 release timeframe. The electric pickup reservations surpassed 1.2 million, potentially bringing Tesla a US$80 billion windfall in pre-sales. While investors are cautious about the EV stock bubble that is now worth more than storied legacy automakers, the Cybertruck sales success story indicates that the bubble may not pop any time soon.

Detailed specification sheets for the Reno7 and Reno7 Pro have leaked, not long after leakers revealed numerous details about the Reno7 SE. The trio will arrive on November 25 but only in China for the time being.

Oppo is introducing a unique 'cat's eye' camera lens with the Reno7 series. Available in the Reno7 and Reno7 Pro, the lens will work in conjunction with the Sony IMX709 and an RGBW pixel structure. The Reno7 and Reno7 Pro will be the first smartphones with Sony's 32 MP camera, too.

The latest stats on Android version adoption in 2021 are in, and the first of these OS updates to drop the dessert theme remains in the lead, still running on over a quarter of all devices studied thus far. Then again, Android 11's share has now grown to nearly match it. Pie is still hanging on in there to a potentially surprising degree, whereas other, older versions might now be on the way out.

According a leaked roadmap, Samsung hopes to shift upwards of 33.6 million tablets next year, along with 19 million smartwatches. The roadmap indicates that Samsung is confident of selling plenty of Buds Live2 and Buds Pro2 earbuds, too.

Qualcomm is currently thought to have a successor to the Snapdragon 8cx Gen2 chipset for PCs in development. Now, more evidence of possible progress with this SoC has emerged on Geekbench, in the form of a mystery Lenovo machine that has appeared on this database. Its performance seems to build on that of the processor's alleged initial outing on the same benchmark.

Multiple retailers have reduced the price of the entry-level Apple Watch SE. The 40 mm smartwatch is now available at US$60 less than its retail price, albeit only with GPS and Wi-Fi connectivity.

We may be a year on from the arrival of AMD and NVIDIA's latest desktop graphics cards, but their prices are still nowhere near MSRP. As research shows, the price of a GeForce RTX 30 or a Radeon RX 6000 series card will set you back roughly 1.9x more than NVIDIA and AMD state they should cost.

Honor has revealed the design and camera configuration of the Honor 60 Pro. The eye-catching smartphone will arrive with three rear-facing cameras, along with what could be a quad-curved display and an under-panel camera.

According to reports, Xiaomi will not equip its next flagship smartphone with a periscope or telephoto camera. Instead, the Xiaomi 12 is tipped to arrive with a 50 MP primary camera, along with ultra-wide-angle and macro sensors.

A reliable leaker has published a marketing render of the Vivo Watch 2, a successor to last year's model. The Vivo Watch 2 is thought to arrive as a 42 mm watch with an OLED display, a 515 mAh battery, and an LTE modem.