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If you've been having trouble streaming TV or playing Blu-Rays on Windows 11 lately, you aren't alone—and Microsoft is officially acknowledging the issue and promising a fix. The problem with playing back certain content was introduced...
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Yesterday, Call of Duty staff shared a deep dive on Black Ops 7's multiplayer, including the launch date and extensive details of the upcoming cross-platform beta on October 2nd. Among the several details revealed, including a list of...
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NASA has officially introduced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class, a group of 10 individuals whittled down from a pool of over 8,000 highly qualified applicants. The group, which includes six women and four men, will hopefully make its...
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If you continue to doubt China's prominence in EV tech, look no further than the Yangwang U9 Xtreme, which has claimed the title of the world's fastest production car by knocking out a verified top speed of 308.4 mph (496.22 kmh).
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Look away, cash-strapped folks (yours truly included), Bang & Olufsen has unveiled the new Beo Grace ANC earbuds with an MSRP of $1,500—yes, that's M4 MacBook Pro money. There's little doubt that these buds sound amazing, but for that many...
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Up until now, it was easier to find a yellow needle in a mile-high and mile-wide haystack then it was to score a GeForce RTX 5090 at NVIDIA's starting MSRP. That's not to say it was impossible, just challenging, to say the least. And now?...
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A winning bidder just added a piece of Apple history to their collection for the cool sum of $475,000, besting the pre-auction estimate for an ultra-rare Apple-1 by $175,000. The final selling price includes a 25% "buyer's premium" fee...
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The Steam Deck is already one of the best bangs for buck in the PC gaming handheld space and the value proposition just got even better with Valve's steep discount in play. For a limited time, the base Steam Deck is is 20% off for a low...
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OpenAI and NVIDIA have signed a letter of intent for what may just be the largest single investment in AI compute infrastructure to date: a plan to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems dedicated to training and running OpenAI's...
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Over the weekend, Twitter user @phantomofearth noticed that a classic Windows Vista Ultimate feature had been added back into the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build— video wallpapers. Video wallpapers, also called live wallpapers...
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Apple bolstered this year’s iPhone lineup with the debut of the iPhone Air, a phone that measures up well against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s an impressive device that manages to pack some serious specs into its thin frame, and a...
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While some would like to see themselves as Robin Hood-type, well-intentioned opportunists, it has long been known that there is no honor among thieves. Case in point: today's story, where a man named Raivo Plavnieks was trying to raise...
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Since the AMD FSR 4 INT8 DLL leak, we've known that it's possible to use FSR 4 on older GPU architectures than RDNA 4. Recently, we've actually seen successful use of FSR 4 on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, after early efforts resulted in...
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Could an ASUS prototype PCIe connector spell the end of bulky, unsightly power cables for graphics cards? We may soon find out—ASUS is showcasing a "magic modification" to the standard PCIe slot, allowing it to deliver a massive 250 watts...
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The U.S. government has approved Meta’s Llama artificial intelligence system for use by its agencies. Thanks to a partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA), Meta joins the likes of Google, AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, and more...
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Amazon's dedicated deals site is hosting a 'Best of Woot!' sale with deep discounts over MSRP on a bunch of items, including a decent selection of electronics. A lot of the items are over half off. Consider it an appetizer for Amazon's...
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We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a bit shocking," or more precisely...
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Rockstar Games is under the impression that Grand Theft Auto VI will become the "largest game launch in history," as evidenced by a recent job listing (the developer removed the comment after it gained media coverage). Judging by the...
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In a strategically timed announcement, MediaTek today unveiled its next-gen flagship system-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, the Dimensity 9500 with an all-big-core CPU design and several key upgrades. What makes the timing strategic is...
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A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with "a mix of...
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Apple's transition to its own in-house designed silicon based on Arm is bearing fruit (excuse the pun) these days. Now several years into the pivot away from using Intel's x86 chips, Apple's latest generation Mac mini and MacBook systems...
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The market for PC gaming hardware, including systems and accessories, is projected to grow by 35% in 2025 by Jon Peddie Research. This data is considered "conservative in relation to total PC hardware expenditure", and is attributed by the...
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