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Boy, it sure seems like it's the early 2010s again, with "thin" being all the rage. Along with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge and the iPhone 17 Air, the war for thinness has been reignited. The redesigned Razer Blade 14 laptop is the latest entrant to this proverbial fight, packing GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs and top-tier...
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Google has recently announced that it is bringing Gemini to smartwatches, cars, TVs, and, in collaboration with Samsung, headsets and glasses too.
A fascinating part of this upgrade is that Gemini will be able to understand natural conversations. With Gemini in cars (Android Auto and cars with Google Built-in)...
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File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big computational simulation. Yep, we're talking simulation theory again — the idea that reality is just a very elaborate piece of...
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Star Citizen has defied the odds, remaining in an alpha release state for over a decade without losing support from its community, while managing to raise several hundreds of millions of dollars in that time. While the game is no stranger to controversial moments, the latest decision from developer Cloud Imperium...
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Valve's Steam marketplace is very popular, so it only makes sense that Microsoft may be looking to add it to its Microsoft Store and beyond. It makes sense to us too—if you ask any PC gamer, Steam is typically where they prefer to buy and play games. The Steam app offers a virtually effortless and organized...
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As the quest for the slimmest smartphone continues to heat up this year between Apple and Samsung (at least initially), it's quite apparent that Cupertino's svelte iPhone 17 Air will be thinner than the new Galaxy S25 Edge by a nice margin—5.5 millimeters versus 5.8mm. Of course, with great thinness comes great...
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Xiaomi's newly unveiled XRing O1 chipset has demonstrated promising performance in a couple of early Geekbench scores (when paired with the upcoming Xiaomi 15S Pro). At its best, the XRing O1 is shown to perform just as well as the Mediatek Dimensity 9400 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite, but other results have the...
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First things first—congrats to any of you who managed to preorder a Nintendo Switch 2 console ahead of its imminent retail release. For anyone who missed out, you'll get another chance on launch day, or even the night before with Best Buy hosting a late-night launch event. Whether you secured a preorder or hope to...
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB: MSRP $299 The mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 brings NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPU architecture down to a $300 price point and targets mainstream 1080p gamers, but DLSS4 with multi-frame generation is a must to achieve peak performance. Blackwell Architecture Power Efficient Smaller Form Factors Cool And Quiet Tons...
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At Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel made waves with a series of announcements showcasing serious hardware possessing with advanced AI capabilities, designed for the AI workstation scene. As part of that, the tech giant unveiled the compact Intel Arc Pro B50 (16GB VRAM, 170 TOPS) and a larger Pro B60 (24GB VRAM...
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Foxconn is teaming up with NVIDIA to deploy what the two are calling an "AI factory supercomputer" in Taiwan, in cooperation with the Taiwan government. Announced at Computex, Foxconn subsidiary Big Innovation Company will collaborate with NVIDIA as an official NVIDIA Cloud Partner to provide the the AI...
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In a continued arms race with LG for living room supremacy, Samsung is rolling out NVIDIA G-SYNC support to its 2025 lineup of OLED televisions, starting with its flagship S95F. These TVs are already AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certified, so the addition of G-SYNC paves the way for smooth gaming on a wider selection of...
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At least one overseas retailer is under the impression that PowerColor is about to give AMD's not-yet-announced Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card the Hellhound treatment. Spotted by @momomo_us, a reliable leaker on X, early retail listings seemingly confirm a factory overclocked PowerColor Radeon RX 9060 XT Hellhound OC...
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We're not sure if it qualifies as being fashionably late just yet, but Silicon Power has officially joined the ranks of memory makers to leverage Clock Unbuffered Dual In-Line Memory Modules (CUDIMMs). The benefit of doing so is being able to offer faster memory kits than regular DIMMs, which is this case is a...
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In a twist straight out of a sci-fi flick, researchers have discovered that AI agents—specifically large language models (LLMs)—can independently develop their own communication systems and biases, all without human intervention. This revelation comes from a recent study by City St George's, University of London, and...
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A pair or TikTok videos have gone viral for appearing to show a translucent smartphone, like something out of a futuristic science fiction flick. The first video, which shows a woman standing in line while appearing to scroll on a see-through smartphone, has racked up 41.6 million views, 2.8 million hearts/likes, and...
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It's a great day for fighting game aficionados and emulation enthusiasts everywhere. The much-revered 8BitDo, known for its high quality peripherals, has released its own take on a high-quality hitbox-style controller. Comboing off has never been easier.
For those unfamiliar, a hitbox (or leverless) controller is...
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If you're a Chrome user, take note that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has identified and reported three zero-day vulnerabilities, and one of these flaws could affect you.
The CISA reported that CVE-2025-4664 is already being exploited in the wild and that it impacts the Google Chromium...
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Flock -- a company that offers a license plate reader (LPR) tool to communities and law enforcement agents -- has built a controversial tracking tool called Nova. Nova will reportedly make it possible to link LPR data with personal data from different sources to identify and track specific persons or others connected...
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The run up to the launch of the Switch 2 has been somewhat tumultuous for Nintendo, although it seems it hasn’t hindered the hunger for its upcoming console. Some gamers were irked when the pre-order period was marred by unprepared retailers. Moreover, the company has had to contend with a chaotic economic environment...
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Lenovo just announced the new ThinkStation PGX, a new compact personal AI developer workstation designed to empower AI researchers, developers, data scientists, practitioners, students, and application engineers. This purpose-built mini desktop solution, equipped with an NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip offers...
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High-refresh-rate OLED monitors of various types are all the rage these days, and every major OEM under the sun is trying to get in on the action. The folks at Acer have just added a couple members to its Predator monitor lineup, the Predator X27U F5 and the Predator X27X that offer some compelling features for...
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