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A text message exchange between an Android and iPhone user can be a bit irritating. Not only do users have to stare at different-colored messages, but Android users receive long messages if someone who uses iMessages “reacts” to their...
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As the International Space Station enters its third decade of service, NASA begins to look at transitioning to commercial services. The Space Station is set to finish out its operations until the end of this decade.
Space stations are...
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If AMD is in the rear view mirror (arguable), that's only because it keeps making pit stops to collect more money from skyrocketing Zen 3 and RDNA 2 sales. So says the company's latest earnings report. AMD capped off a record year with...
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It is very likely that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time needs no introduction for HotHardware readers. Released to universal acclaim in 1998, the first three-dimensional Zelda title is regarded as one of the true all-time greats. The...
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In May 2021, Discord announced an upcoming feature allowing gamers to link their PlayStation Network accounts to the chat platform. That feature is finally rolling out, after Discord’s announcement on Jan. 31 that it would soon arrive...
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As contentious as the topic is among certain enthusiasts, for the most part, the presence or absence of 512-bit-wide vectors in Intel's desktop CPUs is a largely academic consideration. Very little software makes use of AVX-512. Certainly...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a spectacular photo of NGC 1705, a dwarf galaxy situated 17 million light years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor. Taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the image shows...
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Researchers say you should upgrade a popular WordPress plugin sooner than later, or else you could end up losing access to your website, and potentially your web server!
If you exist on the internet, you likely know of or have seen at...
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A couple of weeks back, AMD launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT, an entry-level GPU targeting mainstream gamers with 1080p displays. The Radeon RX 6500 XT is built around the Navi 24 GPU, which is the smallest discrete graphics processor in...
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It seems like game studios are always being acquired by bigger outfits, but what's happening now feels like it could be the start of an arms race. Hot on the heels of Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion, Sony...
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Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy system draws its name from Universal...
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Spain’s National Police recently raided what they thought was an indoor marijuana plantation. In Santipone, located in the Spanish province of Seville, the agents instead found and dismantled a cryptocurrency mining farm that was stealing...
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This is shaping up to be a potentially big year for gaming on Linux. The first shipments of Valve's Steam Deck handheld with Proton in tow will go out later this month, and then later this year Intel will debut its first Arc Alchemist...
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Destiny 2: The Witch Queen expansion will be here in a little over three weeks and we have finally learned more about new weapons and armor. Google Adsense appeared to have accidentally leaked a glimpse into the new gear, but we now have...
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I can see a pack of Chromebook owners gathering in the distances with torches and pitchforks in hand, but the crowd is getting smaller. A lot smaller, actually, according to the latest figures from IDC. Or bigger, depending on which...
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Has all of the mirth that Wordle has given come to a close? The New York Times has purchased the hit game Wordle. At the moment we do not know what its long term plans are for the game. However, we can recommend some alternatives should...
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Well, it's officially the first day of February and that means January is now in the rear view mirror. Why is that notable? Technically, we were supposed to have learned more about NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti by now. During the company's...
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A security researcher who goes by the name “RyeLv” recently discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows. Microsoft has publicly disclosed the vulnerability and registered it in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures...
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When Cyberpunk 2077 released in December of 2020, it came out for PCs and the previous, 8th-generation consoles: the Xbox One family and the PlayStation 4 series. Thanks to backward compatibility, you can play the console versions on the...
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Fans watching the NFL AFC championship game between Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals got a special treat during halftime. The first trailer for the Halo live-action TV series made its debut. The series is coming to Paramount Plus...
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NVIDIA sells a huge parallel processor called A100. This is based on a gigantic Ampere-architecture processor called GA100, an 826 mm² chip. That makes it expensive to manufacture and power-thirsty to operate, but by all accounts it...
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Intel is releasing a "Special Edition" 12th Gen Core i9-12900KS processor based on its Alder Lake architecture, which ranks as only the second KS chip in the past couple of years (the other one being the 9th Gen Core i9-9900KS we reviewed...
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