Michael J. A. Sexton
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Star Citizen has been in development for several years now and it is still far from finished. However, gamers that bought into the upcoming interstellar game may soon have some new content to explore while they wait. A single-player campaign set in the Star Citizen universe known as Squadron 42 is set to be released...
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Christmas is nearly here, and if you haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, your time is almost up. It's too late to shop online from most retailers, but if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you still have a few days left to place orders and receive your loot before Christmas
If you want to take advantage of...
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The solid state storage market is highly competitive, and it is also one that changes rapidly as the technology continues to evolve and prices fluctuate due to various factors. There are dozens of companies with multiple product lines that vie for dominance in the SSD space, which can make selecting a drive for a system a rather daunting task...
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Buyer beware, it has come to our attention that there are several websites advertised on Facebook that are scamming people into paying for merchandise that they will never receive. These scams appear to have started to show up about a month ago on Facebook, and there have been hundreds of comments from people...
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JEDEC announced an update to the the JESD235 memory standard that deals with the second generation of high bandwidth memory (HBM). This update brings two key feature enhancements to the standard. First, it raises the capacity limit for each device to 24GB, and it also raises the speed threshold to 307GB/s.
If you...
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A woman named Courtney Davis has filed a lawsuit against Apple in the Northern District of California over misleading images used to advertise the company's new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max smartphones. Mrs. Davis claimed that the images hid the display notch from view and gave the impression that there wasn't...
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Microsoft is giving away a very special quasi-holiday ugly sweater to a handful of lucky fans on Twitter. The sweater has a sweet retro Windows 95 theme. Although wearing this sweater may not make you cool (or it might if your inner geek is inspired), its constant freezing is could keep you nice and chill...
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A new book titled "The Legacy of 3dfx" sheds some incite on 3dfx's experimental Rampage graphics card that never saw a public release. A few pictures released early from the book reveal the results of a few benchmark tests that show how pre-production models of the Rampage GPU performed.
3dfx Interactive closed...
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Retro gaming is plentiful nowadays, and retro gaming consoles like SNK's NeoGeo Mini, Nintendo's SNES Classic, and Sony's PlayStation Classic are selling extremely well. Sega is looking to undercut the competition in the retro gaming world, however, by working with Amazon to introduce its own bundle of retro games for...
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Samsung announced that the Chinese version of its Galaxy A8s mid-range smartphone will be the world's first smartphone to feature a camera hole that is inside the display itself. Before we dive into the phone's details, we should say that it's unclear if this phone will see a release in the United States. Samsung...
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After being arrested on Saturday, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is still awaiting extradition to the United States. At the time no formal charges had been disclosed, but a bail hearing held in Vancouver revealed that Meng Wanzhou has been charged with fraud and violating US sanctions against Iran.
The scandal revolves...
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When it comes to AMD's upcoming Navi architecture, there aren't many concrete "knowns" about the GPU. One of the few things that we know for certain is that it will be based on AMD's new 7nm process tech, which should allow for some pretty significant power savings compared to previous generations. With that being...
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Obsidian Entertainment announced that it has a new game titled "The Outer Worlds" that is slated to launch in 2019. This comes shortly after Microsoft's acquisition of the game developer, and the two companies appear to want to capitalize on Bethesda's recent difficulties with Fallout 76.
A two-minute trailer...
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Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States. The charges levied against her haven't been revealed at this time, but Meng Wanzhou's arrest has already had staggering effects on stock exchanges around the world.
In addition to being Huawei's CFO, Meng Wanzhou...
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NVIDIA announced that it's now offering a bundle of rare Fortnite gear with GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 graphics cards. The new gear includes a specialized Reflex outfit that comes equipped with a Response Unit on its back. The bundle also contains a Pivot Glider, an Angular Axe pickaxe and 2000...
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Geil launched three new DDR4 RAM kits that will become a core part of its Super Luce RGB Sync product lineup. These new kits joining the Super Luce RGB Sync lineup are the fastest kits introduced in that series to date. Like all other members of Geil's Super Luce RGB Sync family, these new RAM kits come equipped with...
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We've got our first look at what lies beneath the PlayStation Classic's retro plastic exterior. A thorough teardown reveals that the SoC used inside of the PlayStation Classic is the MediaTek MT8167A, which contains four ARM Cortex-A35 processor cores.
ARM introduced its Cortex-A35 cores based on the ARMv8 ISA as a...
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A new patent filed by Sony on the KIPRIS (Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service) has revealed that the company is developing a new storage device for an upcoming game machine. The storage device looks rather similar to the memory cards used by Sony for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, but it isn't...
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A new benchmark published by Twitter user Ice Universe may give us our first look at the power inside of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S10 Plus smartphone flagship. Samsung's Galaxy S10 Plus will utilize the company's new Exynos 9820, which is a rather complex and unique SoC. It has eight CPU cores split into three...
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With hundreds of deals on systems, laptops, PC components and tech gadgets, it can be hard to know what to look for this holiday shopping season. However, do not fret as we're continuing to strive to make this easier for you, by scoping out solid deals and selecting the very best items on sale for today, Black...
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Google kicked off it's Black Friday sale early this year, and the company has several deals on its smartphone and smart home devices live now. One of the most heavily discounted items included in the sale is Google's Pixel 3 XL, which is marked down $200.
The Google Pixel 3 XL (our full review) is Google's current...
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Every year, Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season seem to become more momentous. We have already seen several large retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Microsoft, Sam's Club, Staples, and Target "leak: Black Friday adds in an attempt to offer select deals early. Even with so many deals out...
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