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The Nintendo Switch is a handheld game console that uses hardware already a year old when it released back in 2017. Considering all that, it should be trivial to emulate on modern PCs, right? Well... no, actually. Not only is emulation surprisingly difficult in general, but even high-level emulation of the Switch is...
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AMD has pulled back the curtain on its Ryzen 7 7800X3D and finally given us a preview of the chip's highly-anticipated gaming performance figures. The results do not disappoint. In two new official AMD slides revealed, the 7800X3D completely dominates its arch-rival, the Core i9-13900K and its predecessor the Ryzen 7...
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Half-Life 2 might be the new "Can it run DOOM?" It may be hard to believe, but Valve's magnum opus is now 19 years old which some would argue even makes it worthy of the "Retro" moniker. To show how far computing has come, one person decided to try running it on a Raspberry Pi 4, and lo and behold, it works!
Taking...
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Intel's Arc GPUs launched in a bit of a rough state, and early reviews were critical of both the cards' inconsistent performance and relatively high power consumption. However, Intel's been working hard to reverse those fortunes in its driver—both the performance and the power concerns. On top of that, the company has...
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The full moon can be an awe-inspiring sight, but capturing that vibe accurately isn't easy. Snapping a picture of the moon with your average smartphone will return a little white blob, but for the last few years, "Space Zoom" on select Samsung phones has provided what appear to be higher-quality images of Earth's...
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The U.S. government stepped in on Sunday to assure depositors would have access to their money following the collapse of two banks, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the federal government, however, would not be protecting the shareholders and that senior management of...
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Utah-based PCIe add-in-card developer Apex Storage has launched its maiden product, and it is pleasingly ambitious. The Apex Storage X21, earns its suffix for its ability to cram 21 M.2 NVMe SSDs into a single expansion slot. This add-in-card (AIC) thus facilitates the addition of up to 168TB of storage (using 8TB M.2...
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Gigabyte could be releasing a spiced-up version of the Radeon RX 6800 XT in the near future, known as the RX 6800 XT Gaming OC Pro. According to images received by VideoCardz, the Pro features a significantly beefed-up cooling solution utilizing the same cooler as Gigabyte's mammoth RX 6950 XT Gaming OC. If this...
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A new study proposes how Earth's evil twin, Venus, may have once been habitable for a brief amount of time in its past. Researchers suggest that Venus has more than likely been uninhabitable for over 70% of its history, which is four times longer than others have estimated.
Modern-day Venus is a toxic mess of a...
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The latest storage report from Backblaze, a cloud backup firm with oodles of data and stats to share, is live with some interesting comparisons between its crop of solid-state drives (SSDs) that have been in service since late 2018 and mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) that have been in use for quite some time. While...
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Today, at Embedded World 2023, DFI has taken the wraps off a new Single Board Computer (SBC) which it refers to as its second-generation Industrial Pi. The new PCSF51 1.8-inch SBC is based around the AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 Processor and DFI boasts that it offers “a 50% increase in CPU power… [and] graphics...
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Sony released its PlayStation 5 console to retail nearly two and a half years ago and it's still not as widely available as one might expect. The situation has certainly improved, but if you want to grab a standalone PS5 from Amazon without a game bundle, you need to request an invite. That is going to change—Amazon...
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Do you ever feel that music just isn't quite what it used to be? In recent years records have made a comeback, with many "purists" believing it is often the best way to consume music. Now that Amazon Prime is getting ready to release a new series, Daisy Jones & The Six, set in the 1970s, it's time to celebrate vinyl...
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Leaked images of the upcoming Google Pixel 7a smartphone have emerged, as well as some of the specs it will presumably ship with. Google's Pixel 7a is expected to launch just before summer, 2023.
It is not unusual for images and expected specs to be leaked ahead of a smartphone release, especially when it comes to...
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ChatGPT is being incorporated into everything from Discord to Snapchat and virtually every platform in between. While this might be incredibly useful for day-to-day searches and some interactions, you also end up with some interesting implementations, such as ChatGPT on smartwatches. As misplaced as this may sound to...
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Have you been holding off on upgrading your portable gaming experience? Waiting for "just the right time" to grab that upgrade to the next generation so you can knock the snot out of your opponents on the go? The time to upgrade might be right now because we've got a great list of portable powerhouse PCs below. Check...
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If you're building or buying a new gaming PC, you really can't go wrong with almost any current-generation Intel or AMD CPU. All of the mainstream desktop processors from either company offer fantastic gaming performance, even stretching into the lower-core-count models. There are key differences, of course, but...
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NVIDIA is hosting an event at GDC 2023 that will discuss the integration of path tracing technology into Cyberpunk 2077's highly anticipated RT Overdrive graphics mode. NVIDIA's senior developer technology engineer Pawel Kozlowski, and CD Project Red's global art director Jakub Knapik will be speaking at the event...
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The simple fruit fly has taken scientists to previously uncharted territory. For the first time ever, we're now about to see a 3D brain map in its beautiful complexity.
A group of scientists from the University of Cambridge published a complete reconstruction and findings of the brain of a fruit fly larva. Yes, the...
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Hewlett Packard (HP) is once again causing its printer customers angst, as it is found a new firmware update locks out the use of third-party ink. The news comes just days after HP's Instant Ink subscription service was called into question as being sketchy.
Earlier this week, it was reported that if you sign up...
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According to a report by Reddit user, it appears NVIDIA is now shipping a new GPU die with the RTX 4090 named AD102-301-A1. We don't know anything about this die officially, but the user, u/cavitysearch123, reports that the die features a reduced voltage limit of 1.070v compared to the original die's limit of 1.1v...
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Folks who follow technology news—probably you, if you're reading this—will no doubt be aware that the United States' federal government has allocated some $52 billion to promote microprocessor manufacturing inside the country. This money is being split between a few companies, but two of the biggest are both building...
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