As we move onto the date of halloween, a new study has been published exploring the effects of full moon and the possible chance of a increase in crime activity.

The study explores what has been called the "lunar effect", which is term that suggest that when full moons occur crime increases. The investigation was conducted by Betagov who began by researching the literature surrounding the "lunar effect", ultimately they found quite mixed opinions on the subject.

The study eventuated in a conversation with a Vallejo police official from California who pulled together his crime data from January 2014 to May 2018. The crime data included the phase of which the moon was at the time of the crime and, what might be to your surprise, the data indictated that there was no association between crime events and full moons.

A new kind of Android malware has been detected by cyber-security firms and they report that over 45,000 devices have been found to be compromised.

The piece of malware is called xHelper and is a Trojan that is reportedly running rampant in Android users phones in India, US and Russia. Cyber-security firm Symantec has moved the malware up to the top 10 list of most detected malware, saying "In the past month alone, there was an average of 131 devices infected each day, and an average of 2,400 devices persistently infected throughout the month."

According to MalwareBytes, the source of the malware has been boiled down to users downloading it through shady game websites. The scariest thing about this malware is that its not easily removable either, since the malware doesn't display an app icon or a short cut. It also replicates itself throughout the users phone even after users perform a factory reset or a manual uninstall.

A new study that has been published suggests that the number of people threatened by climate change-related rising sea levels was incorrect, and that the number was much higher than previously thought.

The study which has been published by Climate Central in Nature Communications has suggested that a massive 300 million people who are located in low-lying lands are extremely vulnerable to ocean flooding by 2050. The study also says that a further 200 million people are likely to fall permanently below sea level by the end of 2100.

Climate Central says that sea level rising expectations are actually three times higher than previously thought due to topographical data of lands being measured incorrectly. Climate Central wrote in the report that NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), "generally overestimate elevation, particularly in densely forested and built-up areas. In low-lying parts of coastal Australia, for instance, SRTM data overestimate elevation by an average of 8.2 feet (2.5 meters)."

If you have seen Breaking Bad and loved the show (like most people did), and you haven't seen El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie you are truly missing out.

Firstly, El Camino kicks off right after the events of Breaking Bad's final season and follows the story of escaped criminal Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul. Paul recently went onto Conan to discuss the hit Netflix movie and revealed some cool facts about what he found was lacking in the script.

If you know Breaking Bad then you know Paul's characters catch-phrase is "yeah bitch" as its said numerous times throughout the show. Paul says during Conan that "[he] never improvised a 'bitch' before. Every 'bitch' you saw, it was a scripted 'bitch.'" That all changed in El Camino, he says "I think maybe third or fourth time I read [the script for El Camino] I was like, 'Wait, there's no... there's no 'bitch' in here!'"

An extremely old US power plant located in the heart of Montana will be converted into a mining farm and a recent approval.

Old Rainbow, the 110-year old power plant is a historical landmark and since it was put out of commission the owners have been discussing what to do with it. Now, a grant has been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to convert the building into a cryptocurrency mining facility that will run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

It is unclear what the facility will be specifically mining, but all in all the residents in Montana are happy with the decision due to the building requiring very minimal changes, ultimately keeping its historical value. The proposal sent the FERC says "minimal impact and maintain the historic character of the building."

Samsung should see its flagship 2020 smartphones in the next-gen Galaxy S11 family feature 120Hz refresh rate displays, something that would make the entire phone experience silky-smooth.

120Hz displays on smartphones isn't totally new, with ASUS and its kick-ass ROG Phone II and Razer's own iconic Razer Phone II both featuring 120Hz displays. Other manuifacturers like Google and OnePlus have 90Hz displays in their Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL and One Plus 7T and 7T Pro smartphones, respectively.

But Samsung hasn't shifted into the world of faster refresh rates on its smartphones... yet. It seems that 2020 will be the year, where thanks to its latest Exynos 990 processor, we should see the world of 120Hz on the Galaxy S11 open up. The new Exynos 990 chip is also made on the new 7nm process.

NASA has gotten into the festive spirit with Halloween in the coming hours, posting a photo to the official NASA pages on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking like a gigantic flaming jack-o'-lantern.

The reasoning behind the Halloween-themed photo of our star is that NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) snapped the shot on October 8, 2014 -- with active regions of the sun at the top in a long line, and bottom two separate but similarly sized lines. When flipped upside down, resembles a face -- and more particularly, a jack-o'-lantern. It's pretty cool, or rather it's pretty hot.

NASA explained: "They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Angstroms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance".

If you thought the CPU war was over... you'd be wrong: it has only just begun with AMD really slaying it right now with the Ryzen 3000 series, while Intel has literally just responded with the release on the Core i9-9900KS (our review here) with all-core 5GHz boost.

But what about the higher-end of things with AMD also starting to kick some serious ass with its EPYC datacenter/AI chips based on the new Zen 2 architecture as EPYC 'Rome' chips? Well, it seems that Intel is responding with some new rumors teased by Wccftech, which involve both a new 10nm and 14nm+++ CPU.

Intel's new Ice Lake-SP family of processors is on the fresh new 10nm node and will launch on the Intel Whitley platform, which also supports the Cooper Lake-SP/AP chips on the 14nm++ node.

If you watch porn Down Under, you might need to scan your face to get your rocks off in the future... with Australia's Department of Home Affairs seemingly aroused over the idea of scanning your face to verify your age before you can access porn or gambling websites.

The new system is called "The Capability" and feels like it's ripped right out of Fringe, The X-Files and 1984 combined -- and even though the Department of Home Affairs said the facial recognition system is not functional, it is still floating the idea to Parliament in Australia that would change things in a big way for Australians porn and gambling habits.

The department said that its Document Verification Service and Face Verification Service which is used to fight regular crime and identify theft, could be enabled and used by authorities for age verification. The parliamentary submission explains: "This could assist in age verification, for example by preventing a minor from using their parent's driver licence to circumvent age verification controls".

NVIDIA has released a new Game Ready 441.08 driver for GeForce RTX and GeForce GTX graphics card owners, with the new drivers first and foremost supporting the newly-released GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.

You can read my review on MSI's custom GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X right here, while NVIDIA's new GeForce 441.08 drivers also pack the latest and greatest in Team Green's constantly evolved software domination. Both the NVIDIA Control Panel and GeForce Experience have some new features and tools to make great use of.

First off the new GeForce Game Ready 441.08 drivers add the new ReShade Filters, Image Sharpening as well as enable G-SYNC to be turned on with Ultra Low-Latency Rendering. Not only that, but the new Game Ready 441.08 drivers also support HDMI 2.1 VRR -- something that benefits LG OLED C9-E9 TV owners with G-SYNC compatibility.