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Neil Walker Has Passed Away - RIP Neil

Posted: 26 April

Neil Walker Has Passed Away - RIP Neil

My Dear, amazing wonderful husband, father and son-in-law has passed. A kind and generous man who lived life to the fullest. A loyal companion through thick and thin, a beloved father, 
has left us far too soon. Even though we said goodbye with tears and laughter, the loss is a void that cannot be filled. 

Neil Walker

24-01-1956 - 24-04-2024

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Andy & Danielle

Vega-Lee...

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How to increase your chances of success in a tax dispute or appeal

Posted: 25 April

How to increase your chances of success in a tax dispute or appeal
by Martin O’Neill @ Keystone Law

Don’t represent yourself – Before any dispute, HMRC will conduct its investigation. This will involve having meetings with you and an analysis of your books and records. You won’t be told you need to have advisers present, and commonly HMRC try to keep the meetings relaxed. It may not feel like it, but the HMRC officers are conducting...

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Tech Radar Updates

Intel admits damage to unstable 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs is permanent – incoming patch is a preventative, not a cure

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New Q&A session with Intel is revealing, but likely won’t comfort owners of these processors.
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Nvidia looks to be revamping RTX 3050 mobile GPU with current-gen tech – and that might mean better battery life for budget gaming laptops

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Nvidia’s secret weapon for affordable gaming laptops could be… a (kind of) supercharged RTX 3050 graphics card.
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Intel’s fix for high-end CPU crashes is coming, but a new leak suggests Team Blue could still be in hot water

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Intel’s cure for CPU crashes may not be the end of this story, as the investigation into the flaw is still ongoing.
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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 due to last-minute discovery of problems with some CPUs – launch won’t happen until August now

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Keen to buy a Ryzen 9000 CPU? Bad news – AMD has delayed Zen 5 to August as some next-gen chips have ‘quality’ issues.
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Nvidia RTX 5090 may not be the fastest next-gen GPU, as rumors suggest RTX Titan could rise from the grave

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The rumor mill would have us believe that Nvidia’s RTX Titan is set to make a shock return with Blackwell graphics cards.
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Hurry - this exclusive mini PC deal won't last long

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Save 15% now on the Geekom Mini IT12 mini PC with this exclusive code.
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Intel admits ‘elevated voltage’ is primary cause of unstable CPUs – and thankfully a fix is coming soon

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The results of Intel’s long-running investigation have been revealed, and a patch for instability issues is inbound.
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Nvidia RTX 5080 and 5090 may not turn up this year after all – next-gen GPUs might be launched at CES 2025

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Want to get your hands on an Nvidia RTX 5000 GPU? You might be waiting longer than you thought.
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Worried your Intel laptop CPU might suffer from instability gremlins? Team Blue clarifies that mobile chips don’t have the same issue as desktops

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Intel clarifies that its laptop CPUs aren’t plagued by the instability woes that have hit Core i9 desktop chips.
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AMD’s next-gen driver progress makes us hopeful RDNA 4 GPUs could arrive sooner than we thought

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Hoping new value-packed GPUs from AMD will be out in 2024? We’ve just caught a hint that this could still happen.
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