Paul Lilly
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We're all aware that if you want to get in your teacher's good graces, you should bring an apple to school and leave it on their desk. Your mileage may vary, of course. If you want to actually be prepared for the new school year, however...
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You probably didn't have U.S. President Donald Trump calling for the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on your 2025 Bingo card, but here we are. Trump's demand sparked a wave of headlines and also resulted in a drop in Intel's...
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Nintendo recently hiked the price of its first-generation Switch handheld game consoles, along with a bunch of accessories for both the original Switch and new Switch 2, citing "market conditions" as force behind the higher MSRPs. Be that...
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Do you want an OLED display, or a gaming monitor with a screaming-fast refresh rate? LG Display says you can have both. Over at the K-Display 2025 event, LG Display announced a number of "historic firsts," including a 27-inch OLED monitor...
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After teasing another collaboration with Noctua during Computex earlier this year, ASUS has officially launched its GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua OC Edition and it's quite the chonker. As in, the burly, brown-themed cooling solution makes this a...
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Does your gaming laptop cough and wheeze every time you hit the power button? And could you use a new set of headphones with active noise cancellation? Whether you're in the market for one or both, it can be an expensive proposition...
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AMD overcame export restrictions on its Instinct MI308 data center GPU to still post its best quarter ever, with revenue increasing 34% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to nearly $7.7 billion. It also saw a giant increase in net income...
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NVIDIA is emphatically putting to rest the notion that it supports any industry push to equip its AI chips with backdoors or remote kill switches. In a new blog post titled "No Backdoors. No Kill Switches. No Spyware.," the chip designer...
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Sorry buster, but your fancy build with its PCI Express 5.0 support is obsolete. Old news. Yesterday's tech. Woefully behind. And...we're just kidding, so don't go tossing your Intel Arrow Lake or AMD Ryzen 9000 series build in the...
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Word on the street is that Google will wait until the second week in October to release its Pixel 10 Pro Fold, a delay that is being cited to supply chain issues. That's still not a long wait in the grand scheme of things, though if you're...
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ASUS is making a high-speed pitch to road warriors with its new RT-BE58 Go, a compact Wi-Fi 7 wireless router that is small enough to fit into a backpack's side pocket, or even your own pants pocket. The mini Wi-Fi 7 router, if you will...
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AMD is expanding its discrete RDNA 4 GPU lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 9060, a non-XT version of of the 9060 XT that now occupies the bottom spot in the Radeon RX 9000 series family. According to AMD, the entry-level gaming card...
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It took some time, but AMD managed to breach a 40% adoption rate on Steam for the first time ever, according to Valve's latest Steam survey results. It's not inconceivable that AMD could match or even overtake Intel in Steam usage by this...
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Frustrated by the pricing on current-generation graphics cards? It's been another tough round for PC gamers, after already having suffered through the era of cryptocurrency mining on GPUs and the subsequent shortage of graphics cards...
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Nintendo is warning Switch and Switch 2 owners to use caution when playing on the company's handheld consoles outside in the sweltering heat. Why is that? We're now in the dog days of summer, and if ambient temperatures rise above a...
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A whole bunch of Apple MacBook laptops are on sale right now, and just in time for the back-to-school shopping season. Some of the models we've rounded up are even selling at all-time low prices. It's generally true that you get what you...
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Android users in the U.S. are flipping out over Samsung's newest foldables, at least in comparison to the company's previous-generation folding phone launches. According to Samsung, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 specifically has generated...
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Nintendo is getting ready to raise the price of its first-generation Switch consoles, including the Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite, along with select Switch accessories, the company announced. Fortunately, the recently-released...
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Before you know it, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season will be upon us, especially as retailers keep dishing up deals earlier and earlier each year. Even so, if you're in need of a new set of earbuds or a headset, you don't...
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Apple surprised Wall Street with its latest earnings report, which revealed a 10% year-over-year leap in revenue to $94 billion. That marks Apple's biggest quarterly revenue growth in nearly four years, and Apple managed to do it amid...
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If you read our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, then you already know that it's one of the best options to build a gaming PC around. That was true last November when we put the chip through its paces, presuming you could find it in stock and...
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Looking for an affordable laptop? Whether you're trying to get a head start on the back-to-school shopping season or own an old and crusty laptop that's begging to be retired, we have you covered. There are plenty of notebook deals out...
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