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One of the accouterments that accompany the "Art" of PC building is very simple: the cables. Sometimes, it's because enthusiasts just want them to look ultra cool. Other times, it's because they add a significant utility to the design of...
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The UK has given its blessing to Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard after the tech giant agreed to exclude cloud gaming rights from the deal. The new deal has Ubisoft acquiring cloud gaming rights instead of Microsoft.
The...
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The OnePlus Open is about a week out from launch and already it is dropping specs and taking names—the Open is now claiming that the Google Pixel Fold is too fat for your pants.
While nothing official has been revealed by OnePlus...
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A new study reports two ice giant exoplanets colliding near a sun-like star, creating an astonishing afterglow in deep space. Astronomers were able to view the afterglow of light and plumes of dust as it passed in front of the parent star...
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As consumers, we've been a little spoiled with RAM prices over the past few years. A continued overabundance of chips on the supply side kept retail prices steadily trending downward, even (and especially) for DDR5 kits, which were sky...
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Luxury game controllers are somewhat vogue these days with all the major platforms sporting fancy hardware, like the Microsoft Elite series and Sony's DualSense Edge. SCUF is taking them both on with its new Envision, a new line of...
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To appreciate the subject of this post, you're going to have to take a trip back to 1993 with us. The gaming scene on the IBM PC had been growing rapidly for a few years, championed by graphics-heavy games taking advantage of the explosion...
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With the tumultuous GPU market of the last several years, gamers are absolutely in need of some great sale prices. Be wary, however - there's an enemy in our midst. Along with various legitimate sales, we often find a plethora of scams...
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Just a few years ago, Huawei was ascendant. The Chinese megafirm was on-track to become the world's largest smartphone maker, and then it was slapped with trade restrictions by the US government. This cut it off from some of vital...
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It's a rallying cry frequently heard among certain groups ever since the "Occupy" protests: a demand for corporations to "pay their share" of tax obligations. The truth and fairness of these demands is still debated to this day by people...
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If you regularly browse Reddit for PC hardware discussions, you may notice a slightly alarming trend. NVIDIA's RTX 4090 may be a graphics powerhouse, but it's had a bad omen following it since release: melted power adapters. On sub-Reddits...
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Twitch has finally provided a way for streamers to block banned users from being able to view their livestreams. While streamers now have the power they have been asking for, there are a few things that they need to know moving...
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Korean chip design company AD Technology has announced that it's making a server CPU for an as of yet undisclosed client, but the company did mention a pretty important point: this chip will be fabbed on Samsung's 3nm node. Thus far...
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The United States Space Force has declared a temporary halt on all use of web-based AI tools among its ranks, citing data security concerns as the key reason. The ban will possibly be lifted once more guidelines around AI usage can be...
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NASA engineers and flight control teams are reviewing data and video associated with a coolant leak that postponed two US spacewalks initially scheduled for today and October 20, 2023. The leak is from a backup radiator on the...
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Hot on the heels of releasing the Arc A580 for gamers on a budget, Intel has released a new WHQL-certified Arc GPU driver (version 31.0.101.4887) that's tuned for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, as well as Total War: PHARAOH and...
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A researcher out of Amsterdam is asserting in his recent study that our love and growing dependence on all things AI (artificial intelligence) will draw enough electricity to power a country the size of Sweden in less than five...
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Amazon's second Prime Day of 2023 has concluded, but as it turns out the best bargain for a gaming desktop was not a Prime Day deal, or even a discounted PC for that matter. Instead, it's a sub-$900 setup with some surprising hardware...
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Threat actors and malicious hackers have been targeting gamers with malware for quite some time, as they can be easy targets who download and run strange things from the internet all the time. Such was the case with a trojanized Super...
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With the recent acquisition of Fakespot, Mozilla is looking to improve Firefox's user experience by tracking fake reviews on popular online shopping sites such as Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Reports reveal that Mozilla has integrated...
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Folks who have been around the hardware scene for a while will likely recall that NVIDIA used to release new GPUs every year, even if they weren't necessarily a new architecture. This went on for quite some time, but in the last decade or...
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Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro: Starting at $699.99 and $999.99 Google's latest Pixel phones are the smartest smartphones in town, and there's better battery life, brighter displays, new cameras, sleeker designs, new AI features, and more...
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