Paul Lilly
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The latest buzzword is 'metaverse' and over time, you might get sick of hearing about it (if not already). It seems inevitable as major tech firms have latched onto the term—Facebook even changed its name to Meta (not for the social...
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Lenovo is evidently getting ready to refresh its Legion gaming PC with a not-yet-announced graphics card from AMD, the Radeon RX 6500 XT. While the card is not official at the moment, it likely soon will be, assuming its reference in a PDF...
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AMD is going all-in with chip stacking technologies, like the stacked 3D V-cache that is headed to its refreshed Zen 3 processors for a claimed 15 percent performance boost, and also its 3rd Gen EPYC processors with an even bigger...
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Digital privacy advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is telling Chrome browser users to beware of Google's plan to transition extensions to Manifest V3, which Google touts as being "more secure, performant, and privacy preserving...
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Somewhere in a parallel universe, iPhone owners are accessing and playing Xbox exclusive games on their iOS handsets (and iPad tablets), because Microsoft and Apple hammered out an agreement to allow Xbox Cloud Gaming titles on the App...
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Data from a major retailer in Germany shows that Alder Lake is already helping Intel regain some of the market share it gave up to AMD. That retailer is MindFactory, and looking at the sales data for the past month, Intel has finally...
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The discrete GPU race is currently a contest between just two major players, AMD and NVIDIA, but Intel is getting ready to enter the marathon very soon as well. Lest anyone happened to forget, Intel offered up a sneak peek of its upcoming...
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Whether you will actually be able to find them in stock or not, NVIDIA is supposedly on the cusp of launching as many as three new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards, including a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Should that come to pass, it would...
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One thing we've learned over the years is not to skimp on creature comforts that affect our time sitting in front of a PC. Having a nice monitor and desk is a start, but don't forget your backside. Unless you're using a standing desk, a...
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Do you see a crease in the photo above? You shouldn't, because according to Oppo chief product officer Pete Lau (who is also the co-founder of OnePlus), that is one of the pain points of the folding smartphone form factor that Oppo set to...
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We are not going to see a new generation of GPUs until next year, which will also usher in a third player, that being Intel and its Arc lineup. But while RDNA 3 (AMD) and Ada Lovelace (NVIDIA) are still off in the distance bit, AMD might...
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Like a basketball player heaving a half-court shot as time expires, Apple scored a buzzer-beater of its own, but in a different kind of court. That would be the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—it granted Apple's...
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To borrow a phrase from the South, Amazon has grown too big for its britches. That alone is not worthy of a monumental fine, but according to the Italian Antitrust Authority, some of Amazon's business practices have unfairly harmed...
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We have been patiently waiting for Unreal Engine 5 to manifest in an actual game ever since we saw a tech demo last year that left us slack-jawed and drooling. Well, the wait is technically over—surprisingly or not-so-surprisingly...
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Hot on the heels of NVIDIA launching a refreshed GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, which is twice as much as the original version, two other existing models appear bound for more onboard memory too. They include the GeForce RTX...
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Motorola is having trouble containing its excitement at being the first to introduce a smartphone built around Qualcomm's recently introduced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. In anticipation of the launch, the company is teasing images and...
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A complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, of "unlawfully deceiving millions of consumers" by not appropriately highlighting paid advertisements in a fast enough manner when searching for a product. And it does this on more...
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The refreshed GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory (up from 6GB on the original model) officially releases to retail today, though as of this writing, it's nowhere to be found for purchase. It might not matter anyway—a supposed...
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Scoring a modern console is no easy task, but if you are still on the hunt for one, you may potentially get another chance this week. There are multiple restock events scheduled for Wednesday, including two for the PlayStation 5 (both the...
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Qualcomm recently announced a new flagship mobile chipset for next-gen Android devices, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which also kicks off a rebrand of the Snapdragon platform. Going forward, Qualcomm will no longer use three-digit model number...
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Have you outgrown your 23-inch gaming monitor and are ready for something substantially bigger? You have options, and they continue to grow. The newest big screen monitor on the block comes from AOC, which unveiled its 43-inch G4309VX/D...
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Have you tried to purchase a graphics card recently? You have our condolences. Supply remains well short of demand, leading to frustrating situations where scalpers can charge obscene premiums on eBay, and retail vendors can force unwanted...
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