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When you hear the brand Zotac, your mind may immediately think of graphics cards, but the company was actually one of the real pioneers in the mini-PC space with its Zbox brand. Zboxes date back to 2011, predating even the original Intel NUC, and Zotac has offered a wide range of models sporting both Intel and AMD...
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Sony scored a big win in US District Court in a long running patent lawsuit, which has been ongoing since 2017. Genuine Enabling Technology claimed that Sony was infringing on its ‘730 patent,” Method and Apparatus for Producing a Combined Data Stream and Recovering Therefrom the Respective User Input Stream and at...
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It's been a week now since Dragon's Dogma 2 released, and while the Steam reviews are slowly recovering—they're currently at 55% positive, up from a nadir of under 35%—the critical reviews have largely been glowing. It's certainly not a game for everyone, but it's definitely a good game for those who will enjoy it, and overblown controversies
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Dell XPS 16 (2024): Starting @ $1,699, $3,399 As Tested The Dell XPS 16 is a premium laptop with a polarizing design that is well suited to many uses cases, but its price point could give some consumers pause. Gorgeous But Polarizing Design Large, Stunning OLED Panel Solid Battery Life Discrete GPU Delivers Gaming And...
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Microsoft's Xbox product line is going through some changes, with the company's newfound desire to port previously exclusive titles to PlayStation. Regardless, anyone who sticks to playing Xbox games on the Xbox may soon have a new option as well. A series of leaked images purport to show Microsoft's unannounced white...
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Nikon just introduced a new camera lens to its lineup that might just be what some shutterbugs are looking for. The Nikkor 28-400mm f/4-8 VR is a high-magnification full-frame zoom lens that is compatible with the Nikon Z mount system.
Every photographer seeks out at least one lens that can serve as an all around...
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The Nintendo Switch has been an extraordinarily popular gaming console that has stood the test of time. First released in 2017, it has gone mostly unchanged save for the OLED model upgrades in 2021 (and the release of a Lite model). Recent changes at Nintendo of America concerning contractors who do the testing has...
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It's not just fast CPUs and graphics cards that can benefit from beefy coolers, so too can the latest crop of solid state drives (SSDs) that shuttle data through the PCI Express 5.0 bus. That being the case, we suspect we'll see more drives emerge with towering coolers like the one MSI has plopped on its Spatium M580...
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A photography expert has shared some vital techniques and practices to capturing the upcoming total solar eclipse in stunning fashion. The April 8th event will be Stan Honda’s third time photographing a total solar eclipse.
Stan Honda, who has worked 34 years as a photojournalist, will be in Fredericksburg, Texas...
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With the summer vacation season right around the corner, Google is updating Google Maps with new features so users can make the perfect travel plans. The company says that it’s “introducing updates to Google Maps that make it easier to find inspiration, share travel recommendations, and really get a feel for a place...
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It turns out that our previous coverage of the supposed Google Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro leak might have had a potential third model hiding in plain sight. There's new (backpedaled) information that claims the leaked renders were actually of a smaller Pixel 9 Pro as well as a larger model using the old "XL"...
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It hasn't been a full two months since Apple's Vision Pro headset released to retail, but that's apparently enough time for it to go on sale. Sorta, kinda, that is—Apple is not offering the Vision Pro for a discount (not yet, anyway), but the folks at Woot, which is owned by Amazon, are offering up Apple's high-tech...
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Moving up a tier in a product stack means you're typically supposed to get a better-performing part, right? Well, at least in the case of the MSI Claw and its Intel Core Ultra processors, that may not always be the case. Testing the two variants of the MSI Claw against the two variants of the ASUS ROG Ally, at least...
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Intel is looking to bolster its AI efforts and better enabled the industry to leverage AI, with the launch of its new AI PC Acceleration Program. In addition, an AI PC Developer Program is part of the initiative, to engage with independent hardware vendors and potentially create opportunities for smaller organizations...
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A new image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has astronomers excited about magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), as well as it hinting at a hidden jet. The image showed Sgr A* in polarized light for the first time, revealing a magnetic...
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Nintendo has been delighting audiences with a myriad of Mario games over the last few decades, and it continues to please. The upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door has been teased in a trailer, showing a delightfully remade title that is sure to visually impress.
The original Paper Mario: The Thousand Year...
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Qualcomm and Google are giving people another reason to start embracing ARM-compatible PCs with an optimized Chrome browser. The new Chrome browser is just one aspect of Qualcomm’s initiative to make upcoming Snapdragon X Elite powered PCs more desirable to consumers.
While Windows on ARM has made significant...
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In a recent 10-K filing with the the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), games retailer GameStop said it was putting in place "initiatives to reduce headcount" as part of a "strategic plan to achieve profitability." Separately, GameStop reported $1.79 billion in fourth quarter revenue for its fiscal 2023...
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Samsung is bringing its Galaxy AI features to more of its Galaxy devices this week. One UI 6.1 will begin rolling out soon to a select group of Galaxy owners across most carriers, with a few devices not seeing the update until next month.
Samsung made it clear that it was all in when it came to AI during the launch...
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Keyboard and mouse support looks to finally be making its way to the Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Users participating in the Xbox Insiders program will be seeing an Xbox Update Preview available in the Skip-Ahead Ring with this newly added feature. Xbox says it will be available “while playing via cloud gaming on...
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Vivo just showed the rest of the industry how foldables should be done with the X Fold3 Pro and X Fold3. Not only does the Fold3 Pro come with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, both devices are thinner and lighter, yet have significantly larger batteries than (at least in the U.S.) Samsung, Google, and OnePlus...
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Apple is making preparations for its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, otherwise known as WWDC, which will run several days in June—it gets underway on Monday, June 10 and commences through Thursday, June 14, 2024 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. It's an in-person event, though Apple will also host a livestream that anyone can
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