Paul Lilly
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Are you ready for some football? How about some streaming goodness? Well, you can have both if you take advantage of Amazon's deals on its entire Fire TV Stick lineup, as well as its flagship Fire TV Cube, which is a more powerful...
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Investors are fickle bunch and if you need proof of this, just look at AMD's share price this morning. It's down by more than 10% in early hours trading, despite AMD posting a monster quarter (another one) with a record $7.7 billion in...
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Following the immense success of Nintendo's first-gen Switch console, which has spawned several iterative refreshes (like the Switch Lite and Switch OLED), it's a safe assumption that the upcoming Switch 2 will attract a lot of buyers...
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Back at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last month, Dell announced several new products, including a retooled Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC. At the time, it promised to equip the refreshed desktop with NVIDIA's...
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In case you missed it, NVIDIA recently pushed out a new WHQL-certified driver package for GeForce hardware, version 572.16. That went out on January 30 to coincide with the retail release of its GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080...
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Up until very recently, Microsoft detailed how you could go about installing Windows 11 on an older PC that does not meet the operating system's hardware requirements, and specifically the TPM 2.0 requirement. It recommended against going...
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If we were to make a list of the top things you should never do to your smartphone, holding a flame from a lighter to the display for 30 seconds (or any amount of time) would surely rank high. So would gouging the frame with a blade from a...
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It's been four years and four months since Microsoft released Windows 11 to the wild. In the time since, it hasn't exactly ingratiated itself with a majority of users, especially those who are still clinging to Windows 10, but it has been...
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Whether the result of unprecedented demand, a bot invasion, or a paper launch (as some have surmised), all that really matters right now for gamers in the market for a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is when retailers will have...
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Outside of camping out in front of a Micro Center location days ahead of the retail release, scoring a GeForce RTX 5090 has been a near-impossible proposition. Even pitching a tent was not a guarantee of procuring NVIDIA's newest flagship...
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Microsoft released some new Surface Pro systems powered by Intel this week, and while intriguing, pricing starts at $1,499.99 for those models. If you're willing to give Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon X platform a whirl, you can get a...
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You still have just over a week to upgrade your TV for the big game. We're of course talking about the Super Bowl, which even if you have absolutely no interest in watching, it's still a great time to shop for a TV. This is the time of the...
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Time is ticking if you're hoping to score a deal on a premium smartwatch, and if you strike while the iron is hot, you can save a significant amount of money on a fancy new wearable. To that end, Best Buy's 'deal of the day' is a big $200...
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Intel posted its first earnings report since Pat Gelsinger retired from his post as Chief Executive Officer, and it largely shows the continued efforts of a major restructuring strategy that began before he left. For example, fourth...
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It's become clear that there are not enough GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards to meet demand, and while we can debate the reasons why until we're blue in the face, it won't change the fact this now ranks as one of the most...
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Around this time last week, reports began to surface that the nifty quick release mechanism ASUS implements on many of its motherboards was causing physical damage to graphics cards. Called Q-Release Slim, it's intended to make removing...
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After a months of leaks and rumors followed by weeks of anticipation, NVIDIA's much-ballyhooed GeForce RTX 5090 released to retail this morning, and then sold out in a nanosecond. Maybe even faster. It was a 'blink-and-you-missed' it retail launch, though not an unexpected one—NVIDIA this week...
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Happy launch day, folks! Not just for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards (which release to retail today), but also for the much-anticipated PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 after launching exclusively to Sony's...
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If you're thinking about adding an AppleCare+ protection plan to avoid pricey repair costs for your new device, be it an iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or whatever else, be sure to read the fine print. Some of the wording is just ambiguous enough...
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Kia is recalling over 80,000 electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid vehicles over a quirky wiring assembly design defect that, left unaddressed, could affect the deployment of airbags and prevent the seatbelt pretensioner from working...
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Intel's foray into the modern era of discrete GPUs has mostly focused on mid-range and entry-level solutions, a strategy it employed with its first generation Arc Alchemist architecture and, so far, again with its with second generation...
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NVIDIA's new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, is scheduled for a retail debut on Thursday, January 30 (which is tomorrow, at the time of this writing). Same goes for the GeForce RTX 5080. However, the retail release comes amid...
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