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The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a email highlighting some interesting figures...
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Seemingly out of nowhere, Perplexity AI posted a $34.5 billion bid to buy out Google's Chrome browser. Additionally, the offer was made fully in cash, with no equity to be exchanged.
The offer comes as a surprise because as far as most...
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An eager beaver on Amazon's web team flipped the switch on a retail listing for the upcoming ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handheld weeks before it is scheduled to release. We know it went live weeks early because in the short time that the listing...
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The way we power our devices could be changing soon. Right now, batteries pose some big problems. Mining for them pollutes our planet, and we don't have enough infrastructure to recycle the battery waste we create. This challenge is...
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It's all too common to find edited videos or still images of individuals doing or saying things they never did. This disturbing trend, if not curbed, could cause serious consequences. To further combat misinformation, a group of...
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy launched in an awful state, delivering a subpar experience for such an important franchise. Nintendo Switch owners got an even shorter end of the stick, as the physical release made use of one of the dreaded...
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One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more generation of CPUs coming to the DDR5-based...
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The tech space has no shortage of personalities, and memes about Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang are in plentiful supply—especially considering how pivotal their decisions are. However, one person who's just as relevant right now is...
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This month's edition of Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes hundreds of security flaws, including 13 critical flaws and a zero-day vulnerability. It also contains security updates to vulnerabilities initially patched in July's Patch...
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The Acura NSX Roadster famously driven by Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark at the end of Marvel’s The Avengers film is making a dramatic return to the spotlight this week. After more than a decade in storage, the one-of-a-kind superhero...
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Move over OLED, because they're supposedly a new display sheriff in town. Looking to make a splash just in time for a new season of football (go Patriots!), Hisense announced the retail launch of its absolutely mammoth 116-inch UX series...
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One-netbook has had a busy year. The portable gaming brand has just unveiled its latest flagship device, the OneXPlayer Super X, after having unveiled an upgraded X1 Pro earlier this year. This new gaming tablet goes all out by boasting...
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If you're a competitive gamer, chances are you are familiar with clicky controllers and TMR joysticks. Razer, a maker of popular PC gaming accessories, is updating its Wolverine line of PC controllers with some sweet features...
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a dozen dormant (or affectionately called “sleeping beauty”) galaxies, which are ancient galaxies that have mysteriously stopped forming stars. The surprise isn't just that they’re dormant, but...
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Samsung is laying claim to the world's first OLED gaming monitor to sport a blistering 500Hz refresh rate, and if that's the kind of thing you've been waiting for, it's now available to purchase. The caveat is that it doesn't come cheap...
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The most contentious part about the modern GPU era is a toss-up between pricing and availability, at least when it comes to graphics cards for gaming PCs. So in that regard, there's a bit of good news floating around the rumor mill...
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Everyone's favorite file archiving utility isn't often in the news, but today is an exception. The WinRAR archiving utility has been the target of a couple of large-scale attacks that leverage a 0-day security vulnerability.
The news...
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The foremost Dutch tech site, Tweakers, is reporting that AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D has now reached End-of-Life (EOL). That means that any stock remaining in the channel is what's left, so if you want one of these chips, you'd better pick it...
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The Xbox has been taking some lumps this year. There has been a wave of layoffs and various headlines claiming that its hardware division is dead. The latter looks like a bad take though, with rumors circulating that there will be a next...
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A team of astronomers just discovered FRB 20240304B, a fast radio burst (FRB) from 11 billion years ago. It is the farthest FRB we now know, dating just about 3 billion years after the universe began.
Here's some backstory to explain...
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Drivers who rely on the popular navigation app Waze for their daily commute may soon need to consider a hardware upgrade. The Google-owned company is in the process of discontinuing updates for older Android devices, particularly for loyal...
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Apple could be incorporating an interesting structural/design tweak to the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro series. Latest supply chain whispers indicate that the device's antenna system may be relocated to wrap around the camera module, an idea inspired by the dual frequency band antenna design of the...
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