Paul Lilly
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You may have suffered a moment of panic this morning when you tried to fire up Discord only to be told, "Sorry, you have been blocked." Even more startling is a blurb of text explaining why you were supposedly blocked, which claims some...
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If you think the iPhone 15 Pro Max is expensive, wait until you see the asking price for an original and still functioning Apple-1 computer. Housed in its original Byte Shop case made from Hawaiian koa wood (which is also rare), this piece...
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In case you missed it, Maingear recently unveiled a 'Drops' program in which the boutique system builder looks to dive "back into our roots" with preconfigured systems based on the hottest hardware (something we can obviously get behind at...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorney generals are taking a big swing at Amazon with a 172-page lawsuit alleging an "ongoing pattern of illegal conduct" to block competition. According to the lawsuit, Amazon's list of...
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Newegg has rolled out a GPU trade-in program that gives buyers varying amounts of credit on their old graphics cards when purchasing new ones. Ostensibly, this is a move to reduce to e-waste, though we'd like to see the actual buyers who are going around tossing GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon RX...
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Acer is getting ready to roll out an affordable line of Nitro V 15 gaming laptops consisting of at least half a dozen SKUs at varying price points, each one under a grand. The most expensive SKU (ANV15-51-75HE) comes in under the $1,000...
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As with most storage mediums, the life of a solid state drive (SSD) can be really long, disappointingly short, or somewhere in between. That's not exactly helpful info. So how reliable are SSDs really? That, dear reader, is a loaded...
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Try to hold back your surprise but Apple might not be the right-to-repair champion you hoped it might become, even after recently penning a letter in support of California's proposed right-to-repair bill. This is evidenced in a teardown of...
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For the record, Intel has never once said that its Meteor Lake architecture will be exclusive to laptops. However, it has now gone on record stating the exact opposite, confirming in no uncertain terms that its 14th Gen Core processors will indeed launch in desktop form after breaking ground...
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In the movie Field of Streams, Amazon heard a voice saying, "If you build it, they will come." Okay, it was actually Field of Dreams (based on the novel Shoeless Joe) and Kevin Costner's character Ray Kinsella who heard, "If you build it...
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Google is ramping up its effort to publicly shame and pressure Apple into supporting the Rich Communications Service (RCS) messaging protocol on its iPhone devices. To help #GetTheMessage out, Google's Android channel on YouTube posted a...
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Razer rolled up to its RazerCon 2023 event with a handful of product announcements, not the least of which is a limited Blade 16 x Automobili Lamborghini Edition gaming laptop in fancy black and orange trim. The company calls it an...
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CD Projekt Red is pushing out its Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update today (likely by the time many of you read this), followed by the much-anticipated Phantom Liberty expansion next week. In a post on X/Twitter, the developer reiterated that both...
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Ready or not, Wi-Fi 7 is coming to supercharge multi-device homes with cutting-edge connectivity that aims to significantly speed up connections and reduce latency. Netgear was one of the first to start pushing out consumer Wi-Fi 7...
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The fortune tellers at TrendForce predict that NAND flash memory prices are stabilizing and on track to rebound next quarter. That's good news for suppliers, which are making moves to induce a rebound. For consumers, however, it means SSD...
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The thirteenth installment in the long-running Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed Mirage, is due to release on PC, consoles, and iOS (for the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max) in less than two weeks. For those of you who plan to play the game...
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Netgear has a new flagship wireless router and it's called the Orbi 970, which is actually a mesh router system based on Wi-Fi 7 (otherwise known as 802.11be). In terms of combined bandwidth, the quad-band Orbi 970 series delivers speeds...
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It took a little while, but the cheaper variant of the ASUS ROG Ally outfitted with a non-Extreme version of the Ryzen Z1 SoC is now available and it costs $100 less than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme model we reviewed in June. The arrival of the...
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It was only a few short weeks ago when Amazon boasted its latest Prime Day event was the biggest one ever, with more than 375 million items sold tallying over $2.5 billion. Given the success it had with the July event, it's no surprise...
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My Arcade is teaming up with Atari to launch the Atari Gamestation Pro, a sleek console with hundreds of delightfully retro games built in, made easily playable on modern TVs and monitors. Obviously there have been multiple attempts to...
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Apple is not always super keen on sharing every single specification for its iPhone devices, including the recently-introduced iPhone 15 series. One of the hardware specs Apple leaves out is the specific battery capacity for each model. We...
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A retailer in Canada has posted listings for Intel's not-yet-released 14th Gen Core 'Raptor Lake Refresh' processors, which are a refresh of its 13th Gen 'Raptor Lake' CPUs. There's not a whole lot out there in terms of official details...
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