Paul Lilly
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The rise of AI is not in and of itself what's concerning. Rather, it's the eventual downfall of human civilization and whether the two will be related. Only time will tell. Either way, an artificial life after humans is apparently...
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CD Projekt Red recently rolled out an update to Cyberpunk 2077 that adds support for Intel's XeSS upscaling technology and according to Intel, owners of its Arc series discrete GPUs can expect a fairly substantial performance bump. As in...
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We've been hearing unofficial chatter about Google's first foldable smartphone for over a year now with some of the first rumors suggesting it would launch at the end of 2022. That didn't happen, obviously. Nevertheless, Google appears to...
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Now that the modern gaming console shortage is effectively over, won't someone think of the poor scalpers? Hopefully not—if they get stuck with thousands of dollars in unsold inventory, well, that's just too bad. Of course, that's easier...
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AMD has issued a timely graphics driver update coinciding with today's release of Dead Island 2, the third installment in the franchise that was initially planned for a 2015 release but ultimately took a backseat to Dying Light. It's...
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Several Google employees who tested the company's Bard AI tool prior to its release raised serious concerns to the search giant, with one person calling it a "pathological liar" and another deeming it "worse than useless," according to a...
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For the second time this year (and in less than a week) Google has issued an emergency security patch for billions of Chrome browser users. Left uninstalled, the browser is vulnerable to a zero-day security flaw that is known to be...
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Nearly 30 years ago, a game called Myst helped boost demand for CD-ROM drives, which at the time were still expensive and not yet ubiquitous. It's only fitting, then, the developer of Myst is putting the final touches on another adventure...
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It was inevitable that Netflix would eventually abandon its DVD-by-mail business and that day is fast approaching. The streaming service announced it would ship out its final discs on September 29, 2023, ending a remarkable DVD run that...
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There are a growing number of superwide gaming monitors to choose from these days with ASUS, Samsung, LG, and others offering ginormous 49-inch panels. Well, get ready to add at least one more the mix—display maker AUO is planning to...
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One of the telltale signs that a new piece of tech is nearing release is an increase in the frequency of leaks and rumors. To that end, we can reasonably anticipate that NVIDIA will formally introduce the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in the near...
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It wasn't all that long ago when finding a graphics card in stock and at the manufacturer's MSRP was a near-impossible task. A silicon and substrate shortage combined with a boom in cryptocurrency mining and opportunistic scalpers made it...
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The recently-released GeForce RTX 4070 ranks as the least expensive entry in Ada Lovelace territory (and with it, access to frame generation magic by way of DLSS 3), but maybe not for long. One of NVIDIA's hardware partners has seemingly...
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Razer is back with another iteration of its all-in-one controller for streaming and content creation in a similar compact form factor with more than a dozen LCD buttons, but the new Stream Controller X arrives with a much cheaper price...
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After months of speculation, NVIDIA finally got around to releasing the GeForce RTX 4070 (non-TI model), which ranks as the least expensive Ada Lovelace card to date with a $599 starting MSRP. That also means it's lowest on the totem pole...
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We had another chance to visit our friends at Maingear and build a custom gaming PC decked out with high-end hardware, including AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU. This is the first time we've done so since the boutique builder...
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You probably don't go installing software and updates willy-nilly but you may know someone who does, be it a less tech savvy friend or family member. If they surf the web using Google's Chrome browser, save yourself a potential tech...
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Little by little, developer Naughty Dog continues to chase away bugs that plagued the much-anticipated PC port of The Last Of Us Part I, which initially racked up a 'Mostly Negative' rating on Steam from disgruntled gamers. That rating has...
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Google is adding some nifty new and upgraded features to YouTube including an enhanced bitrate version of Full HD 1080p videos, though only paying customers will see them. In a blog post, Google detailed what its 80 million paying Premium...
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There's quite a bit of mystery surrounding Intel's CPU roadmap, not the least of which pertains to Meteor Lake and how it will be branded and marketed to the public. As we inch closer to its release, a newly discovered support document may...
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It's been said for centuries (literally) that what goes up must come down, though not always because of a gravitational pull. To wit, a fresh report from the folks at International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm, notes that...
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You should always be cautious about where and how you obtain BIOS updates for your devices, though that's especially true right now for anyone who owns a product from MSI, be it a motherboard, graphics card, or any other hardware with...
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