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When we talk about the iPhone series, a lot comes to mind, and one of those things is the cutting edge they build into their products, in light of this, the iPhone X (ten) is no exception and this article shows what the 1000 dollar smartphone will do for you. Design Alright first off, let’s talk aesthetics, Apple took quite a bit of a different approach on the iPhone X, ditching the bezels and taking out the home button (more on that in a moment). The front and back has a complete glass finish which according to Apple are supposedly the more durable on a smart phone, but you really don’t wanna test that out cause apparently a glass replacement for the back of the iPhone X costs about three times as much as the screen replacement, so do the math. The part of the smartphone that isn’t glass is made with surgical grade stainless steel which has been sealed for dust and water resistance. According to Apple the iphone X will be available in both the space grey and silver finish. Di
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What you get when you Overclock the INTEL CORE i9-7980XE

You get a Byte crunching monster with clockspeeds of over 6GHz, pulling 1000 watts of power while its at it. Youtuber der8auer successfully achieved this with intel's latest processor, the Intel Core i9-7980XE (Skylake X) processor. How does one do this you might ask, well for a process the takes up that much amount of energy per time a cooling mechanism has to be in place, so essentially our overclocker submerged the processor in liquid Nitrogen, and in addition to that he applied lots of thermal paste both to the CPU and the die, This according to der8auer would prevent a loss of about 400MHz when the CPU is loaded. The result of this heist was a 18 core chip running at 6.1GHz, (all 18 of em). How fast is this??, well the Asus Predator's Intel core i7 7700k processor runs turbo at 4.2GHz and can be overclocked to just 4.5GHz, so there's that. This guy also tried overclocking the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor but the results of that was a lesser 5.4GHz on

ThePirateBay Mines Cryptocurrency From Visitors with No opt out option

Popular torrent website thepiratebay.org have been reported to mine cryptocurrency from visitors to the site. They first tried doing this at mid September this year but stopped along the way. This time it seems they are for real. According to them, they were experimenting to see if this method of earning can replace the current advertising method used on websites. Apparently the JavaScript code for cryptocurrency mining is embedded into the same code as those used by conventional ads on piratebay, and when these ad code run, the mining code runs also. During this process there is a significant increase in the CPU usage of the visitor’s computer, though they now implement throttling which makes it less likely for visitors to notice the spike in CPU cycles. The big Idea here is that thepiratebay has made no attempt to disclose this information to the website users and hence there is no option to opt out. This may pose a problem to CoinHive, the company that created the miners script,