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NVIDIA has been heavily impacted by US export control restrictions, which are part of the measures aimed at limiting China's access to key AI technologies and innovation designed here in the US. This has not gone down well with Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, who has described the export control policy as a complete...
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The latest generation of mainstream GPUs has arrived, and as has been the case for several generations now, the most affordable parts only have 8GB of memory onboard. This has caused some consternation among portions of the gaming public who feel that 8GB of video RAM is simply not enough in 2025. This point of view is somewhat elitist and
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Diablo IV fans might still be sinking their teeth into everything season eight has to offer, but Blizzard is already prepping for season nine. Features of the upcoming season, named Sins of the Horadrim, will be entering the Public Test Realm starting next week. Season nine will bring a lot of new goodies, alongside...
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After enjoying the success of its broad closed-loop cooling (CLC) patent for around 15 years, which expired on May 6, Asetek sent its engineers to the drawing board to come up with a new design to license to partners. In good Danish fashion, the new CLC design is called Ingrid, and its features are quite...
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In a bold (unofficial) declaration, Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi and semiconductor designer ARM have thrown down the gauntlet against Apple's formidable A-series processors with the upcoming Xring O1 processor. With the Xring O1, Xiaomi promises top-tier performance at a potentially more accessible price point...
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In April, President Trump announced that smartphones and a host of other electronic devices would be excluded from the tariff dispute between the US and China, bringing some temporary relief to the tech industry. Apple, however, may be entangled in a web of new tariffs. Following Apple's decision and subsequent...
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The DIY PC market is in a tough spot. If we disregard older, previous-gen graphics cards for a moment, the only company currently selling anything approaching a modern entry-level GPU is Intel, and those cards are nearly impossible to find for anything approaching MSRP. Quality motherboards for under $100 barely exist, and those that do are
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Apple has some smart glasses coming, after dabbling in the augmented reality space, according to the folks at Bloomberg. The question of how it will fare against Meta and its own Ray-Ban smart glasses will be interesting to witness in this new field. Furthermore, Apple's own complicated history with its Vision Pro may...
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Microsoft is rolling out an exciting wave of updates to its core Windows 11 applications – Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad – available now for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels using Copilot+ PCs. These enhancements, focusing on generative AI (naturally) and streamlined workflows, promise to bring...
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First and foremost, we want to thank past and present military members for their service. And as Memorial Day comes into view, we want to acknowledge those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, and offer our deepest sympathies to surviving family members. There's no non-awkward way to pivot into a deals roundup ahead of Memorial Day, so we want
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Astronomers have for the first time observed a violent cosmic collision dubbed the "cosmic joust." This dramatic encounter involving two galaxies 11 billion light years away, reveals how one galaxy effectively "spears" its opponent with a beam of radiation from a powerful quasar, severely hindering the latter's...
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Some boss battles are just too daunting, which the Federal Trade Commission has discovered in its ongoing effort to defeat Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of Activision-Blizzard. Or more accurately, it was ongoing. In what can be likened to the legal version of rage-quitting, the FTC dropped its case against...
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A recent campaign by 3AM ransomware actors found the team using more proactive techniques rather than simple opportunistic hacks by pretending to be IT support. Using a combination of email bombing and spoof IT support calls, unwitting employees dropped their guards, giving the attackers access to their terminals (and...
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Turn out the lights, the party's over! That's the message certain Fire TV device owners are getting from Netflix as the popular streaming service gets ready to go dark on outdated and/or legacy Fire TV sticks and older television models with Amazon's Fire TV platform built in. That's the bad news. The good news is...
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Let's talk about gaming handhelds for a moment. Actually, first, let's introduce a new product -- the ASUS ROG Bulwark, shown at Computex 2025, which is a dock primarily (but not exclusively!) for those very same handhelds. It connects to a compatible device with USB 10Gbps, supplying up to 100W of power, and then...
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Microsoft’s efforts to become a true multiplatform publisher, including bringing its games to PlayStation, has been paying off with increased sales. The company hopes that the momentum continues as it looks to bring over Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II to Sony’s platform. Especially as the game struggled to find an...
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Microsoft has sounded the alarm on a pervasive piece of malware that has already infected hundreds of thousands of PCs. A few weeks ago, we reported on the Clop gang's involvement in the large-scale data leaks at Hertz. This time, Microsoft reports that the Lumma info stealer created by the notorious Russian malware...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a guest appearance at Google I/O 2025, openly acknowledged the missteps of the original Google Glass launch, while passionately outlining a more promising future for smart glasses with the advent of Android XR and significant advancements in artificial intelligence. His remarks, made...
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Gen-Xers around here might remember the mighty Zalman Reserator, a literal tower of an external radiator/reservoir that you could hook up your liquid cooling setup to enjoy complete silence while your PC chugged away at full tilt. While the Reserator is a beautiful relic of days past, the concept is coming back in...
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The Nintendo Switch 2 launch date of June 5th is getting closer, and we're getting more information on one of its biggest launch titles. Mario Kart World, the successor to a long string of successful Mario Kart racing games, is at the top of the list for many gamers. Nintendo developers recently answers various...
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In a discovery that has astronomers both captivated and perplexed, a mysterious perfectly-spherical object, dubbed "Teleios," has been detected in the vast expanse of deep space. Discovered and observed exclusively through its radio emissions by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope...
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Logitech is expanding its lineup of gaming peripherals with the launch of the G522, a gaming headset that comes with the promise of extended comfort (and no paid DLC shenanigans). According to Logitech, the G522 builds upon the popular G733. While they may look similar, Logitech says the G522 "delivers a significant...
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