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Amazon's next Prime Day event is around two and a half weeks from now (it starts on July 8), but if you're looking for a reasonably powerful Mac Mini at a great price, there is no need to wait. The latest version of Apple's diminutive system has fallen to an all-time low price, and it features the company's powerful...
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AMD continues to flesh out its lineup of gaming processors with 3D V-Cache bolted on, with the current focus on releasing more affordable models at the lower end of the spectrum. We saw this earlier in the month when a new Ryzen 5 5500X3D chip for socket AM4 owners was added to AMD's database, and now there's a Ryzen...
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At this year's VLSI Symposium in Kyoto, Intel offered a closer look at what to expect from its next-gen 18A manufacturing node. The biggest takeaway is that Panther Lake, the follow-up to last year's Lunar Lake, is shaping up to be a serious leap in performance and efficiency for mobile chips, and Intel could actually...
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There has been a major emphasis from hardware vendors lately, especially NVIDIA, on the technique of interpolation, better known as frame generation. Whether using AI as in NVIDIA and Intel's methods, or less complex frame interpolation as in AMD's FSR 3, the ultimate result is the same: "generated" frames that are...
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Might we interest you in the quiet, dulcet whoosh of a custom-built graphics card with a whisper-quiet fan/heatsink combo? That's exactly what the Japanese builders at Sycom have just announced -- a trio of RTX 50-series cards bedazzled with Noctua fans.
Sycom is not well known here in the west, but over in Japan...
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Rumors that Apple is working on foldable versions of different device models within its lineup have been swirling for years, with the iPhone tipped as the most likely candidate. Although it seems as if the company is on the brink of bringing it to market. Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known Apple analyst, has provided some...
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It might be high time to rotate your least-changed passwords, if not all of them. The research team at Cybernews has been quietly tracking stolen credential datasets released this year, and the figures aren't good: a total of 16 billion records leaked (so far), including government accounts, Apple, Google, Facebook...
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Google Messages is rolling out a welcomed wave of new features: among the most anticipated additions are "Delete For Everyone", Snooze Notifications, and expanded group chat customization. These updates are now reaching stable channel users.
For anyone who's ever sent a text in haste, in a passionate exchange or...
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YouTube Shorts is set to shake things up (for better or worse) with the upcoming integration of Google's advanced AI video and audio generator, Veo 3—for free, no less. Announced by YouTube CEO Neal Mohan at the Cannes Lions advertising and creative communications event, this new Shorts feature democratizes access to...
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Excuse us for a being a little sensational with our headline, but with Nintendo's Switch 2 console earning the distinction of being the fastest-selling console in the history of game systems with 3.5 million units sold in the first four days after launch, then it's fair to say that every model produced counts. And so...
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Samsung's semiconductor foundry business is reportedly in crisis, facing scrutiny and internal overhauls following Google's decision to entrust the production of its next-generation Pixel 10 Tensor G5 processor to rival TSMC. While this departure has obviously sent shockwaves within Samsung, it's rather surprising how...
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The trilogy of PC gaming necessities includes your keyboard, mouse, and audio setup. Razer is a brand that focuses on all three (including its recently-unveiled Blackwidow V4 Pro Barebones plank), and now it's announced a new V3 version of its Hammerhead wired earbuds. With dynamic 11mm drivers and an included USB-C...
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This week, astronomers have unveiled the most intricate and vibrant image ever captured of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) in a stunning thousand-color spectrum. This unprecedented view, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE)...
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Kioxia is demonstrating some prototype storage solutions built around its 8th generation BiCS Flash memory featuring CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology, which the company is billing as a breakthrough architecture for data center SSDs. Called the CD9P series, these PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage solutions promise to...
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The long-held belief that MacBooks are impervious to malware has been overwhelmingly debunked, and that's probably stale by now. We've published several stories on malware infestations targeting macOS. The new story here, sedulously baked from the giant ovens of North Korean hackers, is a wave of malware attacks on...
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Texas Instruments has committed to spending more than $60 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing capacity, marking what the company claims is the largest-ever investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in the history of the U.S. As part of the expansion, Texas Instruments says its investment will support...
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AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards are a major step up from the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series across multiple key metrics, but arguably the most notable is the added support for the company's FSR4 upscaling. FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 represents a paradigm shift in AMD's image upscaling...
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Gamers are still coming to grips with the increasing costs of the latest games. Microsoft has raised the price of its consoles, while Nintendo is pricing certain games, such as Mario Kart World, at $79.99. These developments have led fans of the Borderlands series to worry that the next entry in the series would be...
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Adobe just launched its Firefly mobile app for Android and iOS, a move that will provide users more tools to create AI images and videos directly on smartphones. The new Firefly app will enable smartphone users to access the AI models available on the web app, alongside models from partners such as Ideogram, Runaway...
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Linux server administrators, it's time to get your patch on. The boffins at Qualys, a security firm well known for its excellent SSL configuration tester, found a pair of security vulnerabilities that combined can grant any unprivileged user instant root (administrator) access.
The first vulnerability in this...
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Nintendo has checked many of the right boxes with the Switch 2 and gamers have snapped up units at a record setting pace. It’s a great upgrade from its predecessor, bringing several new technologies to its player base. However, the Switch 2's implementation of HDR is a bit of a mess.
The problems stem from the way players are able to adjust
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Aiming to transform user-generated content into actionable marketing ads, Reddit unveiled its "Community Intelligence" suite this week at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. This AI-powered platform promises to redefine how advertisers connect with their audiences by leveraging the vast and real...
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