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Samsung's Galaxy S25 range of flagship phones is now complete, thanks to the addition of the new, svelte Galaxy S25 Edge handset. Its 5.8mm-thick titanium main frame is bound to elicit some "oohs" and "aahs" from smartphone lovers worldwide, especially those drooling over the upcoming iPhone 17 Air.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has been a hit for Microsoft, as the game has seen over 4 million players embark on the refreshed experience through Cyrodiil. However, there are still plenty of rough edges to deal with unfortunately. On the PC side, gamers were forced to find and share fixes for framerate...
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When it comes to "companies that gamers groan in irritation," you probably think of names like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Activision, NCSoft, Konami, and maybe Nexon or Capcom. You might not think of Nintendo just yet, but the company is rapidly speedrunning its way to the very top of that list with aggressively...
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With recent GPU prices experiencing incredible surges, it's only fitting that at least they be made of solid gold, right? We're not far from that reality, with the ASUS ROG Astral Dhahab Edition GeForce RTX GeForce 5090 now available. This GPU is made to celebrate how fast the Middle East has advanced, with the theme...
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If you have a need for blazing-fast speed AND the kind of premium image quality that only OLED displays can deliver, then Samsung has some good news. It's new Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SF) display with a blistering 500Hz refresh rate has officially arrived, at least in preorder form, with a retail release (and shipments)...
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China-America trade war be darned, it looks like Chinese phonemaker Honor has been getting sweet enough with Google that its Honor 400 series will be the first in the world to feature Google's Veo 2 AI video generation tool baked into MagicOS 9.0. The tool will allow users to generate five-second videos from static...
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It's now or never, dear readers—the final so-called "micro" full Moon this year will be culminating tonight. The Moon will technically be furthest away from Earth today at 251,939 miles, but when viewed this evening near the horizon, our little planetary satellite will still appear larger than usual due to a human perception phenomenon called
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Kingston just rolled out a new flagship solid state drive (SSD) and, at least on paper, it's an absolute scorcher. Called the Fury Renegade G5, it's a follow-up model to the original Fury Renegade, but with rated read and write speeds that are up to twice as fast (or more) thanks in big part to leveraging the PCI...
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Despite the long gap between the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI and the previous installment (Grand Theft Auto V), as well as an unexpected delay from a fall 2025 release until May of next year, anticipation for a video game has never been higher. Heck, you could cite the gap and subsequent launch delay as...
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It took several years, but there's finally a proposed resolution for a privacy fumble related to Siri that prompted a rare apology from Apple back in 2019. As part of the proposed settlement, Apple would dole out $95 million in collective funds to past and present Siri device owners, though there is a deadline that is...
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Almost two years ago, people were already complaining of stability problems in Unreal Engine games played on Intel CPUs, but the issue really came to light when huge numbers of customers trying to play Tekken 8 in Korea started returning their Raptor Lake chips in droves. Intel responded by launching a comprehensive...
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It's almost Mother's Day and if the annual maternal day of celebration crept up on you, have no fear—in addition to the flowers and candy that you might have picked up last minute, there's still time to go bigger with some sweet savings on a variety of earbuds and headphones. And yes, some of them will even arrive by...
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Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around 8 characters in length are easily brute-forced with only consumer-grade hardware.
Hive Systems used only 12 RTX...
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With the gaming world is buzzing over the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, the Video Game Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play announced some new additions. The new inductees for this year are Defender, Goldeneye 007, Quake, and Tamagotchi. This group of games had some serious competition to make...
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Somewhere out in the cosmic deep—about 600 million light-years away—a wayward monster has been caught in the act. Using a combo of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble, and the NRAO Very Large Array, NASA has identified a 'wandering' supermassive black hole snacking on an unlucky star. The scene unfolded in what...
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Gaming accessories maker Razer has released the Razer Basilisk Mobile mouse and Razer Joro keyboard that meld ultra-portability with reserved and (dare we say it) professional looks. Even though they're made for working on the go, both have Razer DNA through and through, so gamers on the go are not left out. The mouse...
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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is the most expensive gaming graphics card in history, and it's still one of the rarest to find in stock. With its significant specifications including a staggering 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, it's been used for many other use cases, too (AI, content creation, and so forth). If you're looking for...
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Can Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge take a beating despite its skinny profile? Well, we probably won't have to wait too long for Zack Nelson to test that theory, but in the meantime, Samsung says that at least the Edge's Gorilla Glass will be the best performing glass yet, featuring embedded crystals for improved...
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We have to hand it to Apple, moving on from Intel's x86 silicon to its own Arm-based Apple Silicon hardware was a bold and risky move, and it's paying off. One of our first run-ins with Apple's home brewed hardware was the 2020 Mac Mini with an M1 chip inside. Now several years later, Apple's chips are even more...
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The next Samsung Galaxy Watch OS update is set to introduce big features taken straight from Samsung phones, such as One UI 7's Now Bar and Now Brief. Gemini AI will also be onboard with the ability to move your calendar events, summarize emails, as well as other Google Assistant-like actions. Early reports point to...
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Are you holding on to an aging wireless router in hopes of stretching out the bang for your bucks? That's admirable—no sense in throwing away and filling up a landfill with electronics that are still useful—but depending on the model, it can also pose a security threat. So says the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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It was around this time last year when I reviewed Razer's Iskur V2 gaming chair, which I'm still using as my daily rump-rester. At the time, I didn't anticipate that there might be first-party accessories for it, but enter Razer's new Clio, a THX spatial audio-enabled speaker head cushion designed to turn practically...
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