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Some four decades ago, developers of the game Tarzan for the ColeVision console were ready to release a version for the Atari 2600, but it never saw the light of day. Why? Crummy timing, for the most part—the infamous video game crash of 1983 upended the industry for a spell, and games like Tarzan fell by the wayside...
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Canon has unleashed its new EOS C400 full-frame cinema camera and CINE-SERVO lens. The company also announced its first Mount Adapter PL-RF, and an RF-mount version of the award-winning CINE-SERVO 17-200mm cinema lens.
The 6K full-frame EOS C400, with back illuminated CMOS sensor, comes packed with a triple-base...
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Carl Pei's at it again. The Nothing CEO is now building hype behind how the AI user experience might look like on the next Nothing Phone (3). He claims that it'll be different from other brands that are just slapping AI powers onto their products with little cohesion between user, apps, and device. On the surface, it...
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Boeing’s Starliner finally launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida yesterday, but not without issues. NASA reported it knew about one helium leak before launch, but two more became known post launch.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams rocketed into space at 10:52am EDT on...
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At some point, micro LED technology has the potential to disrupt the TV display landscape by potentially dethroning OLED in image quality while completely avoiding OLED's biggest weaknesses, such as the risk of permanent image retention (burn-in). That point could be now if you're wealthy and willing to drop $110,000...
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3dfx Voodoo graphics processors never gained much traction in the laptop market in their day, because putting a power-thirsty discrete graphics processor—an idea that 3dfx arguably pioneered—into a laptop was seen as an absurd venture at the time. Despite that, 24 years after the launch of the 3dfx Voodoo4 4500...
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Patriot Memory is using Computex as an opportunity to show off some of the fastest parts it currently has available in its product lineup.
The company’s Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 series of memory is bringing some seriously fast performance to the table. Patriot is claiming that this memory can achieve speeds of up to...
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Samsung Kazakhstan is in trouble. It appears someone uploading assets to the company's Kazakhstani website clicked the wrong file and revealed the unannounced Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6. The promo graphic doesn't provide much detail, but this is the first verifiable look at the design of Samsung's upcoming...
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MSI is showing off some cool PC gaming gear at Computex, including a sneak peek at its upcoming Claw 8 AI Plus handheld powered by an SoC base on Intel's newly-announced Lunar Lake architecture, some AMD Strix Point (Zen 5) laptops, and a bunch of other stuff. You can also expect a barrage of new motherboards along...
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Computex 2024 is underway, and as expected, the barrage of new products feature AI as the focal point. Related, ASUS has announced a gorgeous ROG Zephyrus G16 OLED gaming laptop to join the new products with AI capabilities of its own. Featuring AMD's new AI 9 HX370 processor, the latest ROG Zephyrus laptop provides...
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OnePlus' next flagship—the OnePlus 13—is said to boast one of the largest mainstream smartphone battery capacities ever plus eschew curved glass for a flat-edged one. However, according to the same rumor, these changes could see wireless charging being dropped (again) to keep weight and cost down.
We, along with...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation is looking to bring AI to the masses with the release of the Raspberry AI Kit, which includes a Raspberry Pi 5 alongside a Hailo-8L AI accelerator module. The Foundation says that with this kit users will be able to “integrate local, high-performance, power-efficient inferencing into a wide...
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Bungie has issued a response to complaints about Destiny 2: The Final Shape expansion following its launch with an apology to gamers on Reddit. Players of the long-awaited DLC took to Reddit and social media, saying they had been missing entire cut scenes because of an apparent error, and were also running into server...
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We have a presence at Computex this year (everyone wave 'Hi' to site owner and Editor-in-Chief Dave Altavilla) and so we're getting see the first wave of Copilot+ laptops in person. To say they're gorgeous would be an understatement. They're also all powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform (Snapdragon X Elite and...
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NASA will attempt to launch Boeing’s Starliner for its historic first crewed mission to the International Space Station later this morning. This launch follows two other attempts that were thwarted close to liftoff because of issues, but as they say, the third time is the charm.
Today’s launch attempt of the Boeing...
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Arm’s CEO, Rene Haas, is bullish that chips based on the company’s designs will make waves in the PC market that is currently almost exclusively the domain of Intel and AMD. While chips using Arm’s designs have been a wild success in the mobile device nad IoT spaces, it hasn’t managed to make any significant inroads...
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Early adopters pay a premium to have access to the latest technology and features, and there's nothing at all wrong with going that route, provided you have the budget. If you're a more value oriented shopper, however, the best time to buy a product is when it's been usurped by a next-generation model, as discounts on...
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Corsair joined in the festivities at Computex 2024 with its new vision for the sim racing community. The company announced its upcoming Sim Rig, which can be customized to fit the driving style of individual sim racers.
The idea of creating a customizable experience for its customers is not new for Corsair. The...
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Stargazers who don’t normally get the chance to take in the beauty of an aurora may once again get an opportunity this month. The sunspot region responsible for last month’s tantalizing aurora is once again showing off, and experts say the next several years could see even bigger events.
Last month people as far...
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MSI is teasing several upcoming products at Computex, one of which is a second generation Claw handheld game console based on chips featuring Intel's newly announced Lunar Lake architecture. More than just a processor swap, the next version of the Claw, which is currently dubbed Claw 8 AI+, brings a bigger 8-inch...
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As a current owner of Sony's PlayStation VR2, I have mixed feelings about this device. On the surface, it has a lot of great features and looks great when gaming. Unfortunately, a fairly limited game library for it on the PlayStation 5 has left playability wanting. Fast forward to now, however, and Sony has announced...
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It was the case for a very long time that if you were buying a laptop, you were almost assuredly getting an Intel processor. Sure, AMD was around, and there have always been Macbooks, but both were niche products at opposite ends of the market for ages. For the overwhelming majority of users, only Intel offered the compelling combination of...
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