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AI is now further integrated into your gaming PC with the Xbox Gaming Copilot Assistant making its way to the platform. For Xbox Insiders, it's available as a beta release starting today. It will be on the Game Bar on Windows PCs, and is...
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Amateur astronomers (who're you calling amateur?) and casual skywatchers alike are in for a treat this month as the night sky transforms into a pretty busy playground. From a rare six-planet alignment to a dazzling conjunction of our two...
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Many pundits celebrated the hiring of Lip-Bu Tan to replace Intel's ousted chief executive officer (CEO) earlier this year, but if U.S. President Donald Trump has his way, Tan's tenure as the man in charge of one of the biggest...
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After teasing another collaboration with Noctua during Computex earlier this year, ASUS has officially launched its GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition and it's quite the chonker. As in, the burly, brown-themed cooling solution makes this a...
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If you're using a Dell PC, you need to update your firmware immediately. The Cisco Talos research team found five flaws affecting over 100 different Dell models. These vulnerabilities are severe and attackers can exploit them to access a...
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ASUS has been unafraid to offer interesting designs with some of its RTX 50 series graphics cards. It has released a Doom themed RTX 5080, which would bring a smile to the face of any fan of the series. It then went to another level with the ASUS ROG Astral Dhahab Edition, an RTX 5090 that...
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Battlefield 6 might be the last chance EA gets to breathe fresh life into the long running franchise. The run up to the game’s launch got off to a strong start with its debut trailer, and it got an even better reception after a public...
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A Reuters report yesterday claims that Intel is struggling with poor yields on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process, and the state of the manufacturing chain is bad enough, allegedly, that it might jeopardize the launch of Panther...
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After five months of trying to reestablish contact with the lost NASA Lunar Trailblazer, the agency has released a sad update: the mission is over. NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer in February 2025 to orbit the moon and investigate its...
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Does your gaming laptop cough and wheeze every time you hit the power button? And could you use a new set of headphones with active noise cancellation? Whether you're in the market for one or both, it can be an expensive proposition...
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General Motors' 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV truck has reserved a spot in the Guinness World Record for the longest driving range in a production electric vehicle. In an independently verified drive conducted on public streets in Milford...
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One of the most vital aspects of the gaming experience is the monitor or TV that you're playing on. With the recent explosion in OLED demand and growing offerings across the market, it's becoming a no-brainer for an increasing number of...
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Sonos, a premium audio company most recently known for its challenging company issues last year, is responding to a growing number of user reports regarding its popular Sonos Roam portable speaker. The company has acknowledged that a small...
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AMD overcame export restrictions on its Instinct MI308 data center GPU to still post its best quarter ever, with revenue increasing 34% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to nearly $7.7 billion. It also saw a giant increase in net income...
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NVIDIA is emphatically putting to rest the notion that it supports any industry push to equip its AI chips with backdoors or remote kill switches. In a new blog post titled "No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware.," the chip designer...
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A curious detail of OpenAI's popular AI models—like the GPT-4o model used in ChatGPT—is that despite the name, OpenAI's models are overwhelmingly not open-source. OpenAI has now released two new open-weight large language models, however...
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As companies continue to invest heavily in AI, it has meant an increase in the number of data centers necessary to train and deploy the technology. These data centers are energy-intensive facilities, which is causing the cost of...
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OpenAI is adding some features designed to cater to mental and emotional well-being. The new features come after widespread complaints about emotionally unintelligent and unhelpful responses, OpenAI has now acknowledged its AI models'...
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Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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The gaming community has been in an uproar after storefronts such as Steam started a mass delisting of adult games following pressure by payment processors. Gamers subsequently mobilized to lead a campaign against these delistings...
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If any AI company were to face allegations of using deceptive web crawling tactics to access website content, few would have expected Perplexity. With its $150 million annual recurring revenue, one would expect that it has the financial...
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NASA's acting administrator, Sean Duffy, made his first major policy move to fast-track plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon. NASA has been on this for quite some time now, with the original plan to launch a 40-kilowatt reactor on...
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