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- Super Bowl TV Deals Offer Up To 37% Off On Samsung, Vizio, TCL And More For The Big Game
- Sony PlayStation Creator Says The Metaverse And VR Headsets Are Pointless And Annoying
- Stealthy MoonBounce UEFI Malware Alarmingly Infects Your BIOS To Execute Malicious Code
- AMD Exec Confirms Navi 24 GPU In Radeon RX 6500 XT Was Made For Ryzen 6000 Laptops
- Microsoft Says You Should Disable These 25 Group Policies In Windows 11 And 10
- Intel's Flagship Arc Alchemist GPU Battles A GeForce RTX 3070 Ti In Leaked Benchmark
- Save Up To 61 Percent On Earbuds From Apple, Bose, JBL, Sony And More With These Hot Deals
- Facebook Explores Eye Tracking Tech To Monetize The Metaverse, Creeped Out Yet?
- Activision Blizzard Buyout Could See King's Quest, HeXen And Other Classic Games Rebooted
- Blizzard Boss Promises Culture Change And New Game Innovation Following Microsoft Merger
- Opera's Crypto Browser Rides The Blockchain Wave With A Built-In Wallet, NFTs And More
- FAA Quells Pilot Panic By Clearing 78 Percent Of US Airlines For Safe Landing In 5G Hotspots
- Watch Live As Atlas V Rocket Makes Its Maiden 511 Voyage For US Space Force
- Intel's $20B Ohio Chip Mega-Site Will Become The Largest Semiconductor Fab On The Planet
- Ryzen 5800GX Chiplet Diagram Shows How Zen 3 And Navi 24 Could Fit In The Same Package
- Google Play Games Beta Brings Android Gaming To PC, What You Need To Know
- Razer’s Fiercely Pink Hello Kitty Streaming Gear Will Make Your Twitch Viewers Rawr
- 2.5 Geeks: Exploring PCIe 5 SSDs And Next-Gen Storage With Phison
- Steam Deck Verified: Here Are All The Games That Made The Compatibility List So Far
- Activision Reveals Whether CoD And Other Franchises Will Stay On PlayStation After Merger
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Are you planning a party for the big game next month, but you're still rocking a bulbous CRT from the days of 'Sanford and Son'? Or maybe you just want to upgrade from a small, drab 1080p panel to some big, glorious 4K action? Either way, we've got you covered.
As is typically the case, the weeks leading up to the...
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PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi says that the metaverse and VR headsets will only serve to divide the virtual and real worlds. The 71-year-old was one of the prominent people behind the creation of Sony's PS1, PS2, and PS3 game consoles.
The metaverse has quickly become the buzz word among tech companies and their...
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When people think of malware and malicious code, they might imagine an infected file or download from a sketchy email or website on their computer. However, this sort of infection is realistically only the tip of the iceberg and often some of the least sophisticated. Researchers at Kaspersky have found a complex...
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The just-released Radeon RX 6500 XT is a weird product in a lot of ways. Besides its lean 64-bit memory bus, its hilariously-narrow PCIe x4 interface, and the resulting mediocre performance, it also suffers from limited video encoding and decoding capabilities compared to its fellow RDNA 2 GPU siblings. On top of all...
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Windows Updates are great when they work properly, but many users like to have more control over when and how they update their OS. Microsoft's TechCommunity Blog, however, says there are a bunch of things that you probably should not attempt to control yourself.
Power users and system administrators commonly use...
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A lot of people were disappointed when CES 2022 came and went with nary a sign of discrete graphics adapters bearing Intel GPUs. Intel broadly promised Arc GPUs in Q1 of this year, but the thrust of the presentation was entirely focused on laptops, which are unlikely to include the hefty DG2-512 "Xe-HPG" processor...
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Are you earbuds on their last legs? That's a bummer, though it's also an opportunity to treat yourself to a fancier set, perhaps one with active noise cancellation and adaptive EQ that automatically tunes your music to your ears. Both of those features happen to be present on Apple's AirPods Pro, which is on sale...
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Facebook is looking into how it can use things like your body language and eye tracking, in order to send you targeted virtual ads. The patent documents provide more insight into how the company plans on monetizing the metaverse.
Meta, parent company of Facebook, has made no secret of its intention to move into the...
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There are plenty of opinions to go around on Microsoft's deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, but I'll say this—if Microsoft goes on to reboot franchises like King's Quest and other classics, I'll be ecstatic. It may very well happen, too. Xbox boss Phil Spencer alluded to the possibility when...
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New head of Blizzard, Mike Ybarra, promises that the company will place teams and players at the forefront moving forward. This follows the news that Microsoft will be buying out Activision Blizzard in a blockbuster $68.7 billion deal.
Microsoft sent the gaming world into a frenzy earlier this week, when it...
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You can run but you can hide from the deluge of cryptocurrency and everything related, like blockchain technology and those non-fungible tokens (NFTs). That doesn't mean you can't ignore all that stuff. However, if you want to go in the opposite direction and dive in browser-first, now you can—the Opera Crypto Project...
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Greater than three-fourths of US commercial fleet have been cleared for landing at airports where wireless companies have deployed 5G C-band, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced. The expanded approvals (up from less than two-thirds earlier this week), which now include some regional jets, comes on the...
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set to launch its USSF-8 mission today for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC). The mission is set to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2pm EST.
Today's launch will include two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program...
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You might not of known there exists a place called Licking County, which based on a quick peek on Wikipedia is named after the Licking River, itself believed to be coined for the area's salt licks. Going forward, however, that location in Ohio will be recognizable as the home of Intel's biggest fab site as...
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The performance of the just-released Radeon RX 6500 XT may not quite be what people were hoping for from a brand-new graphics card in 2022. Technically speaking, solid 1080p gaming performance in under 100 watts really isn't all that bad, but the historically-low prices of Polaris-based products like the Radeon RX 470...
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Several months ago, Microsoft began testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs. Those who run Windows 11 can already download and use apps from the Amazon App Store, but Google Play isn’t officially supported. However, the Android-maker announced in December it would bring Google Play Games to PC. Now, it’s launched a...
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You may not realize it—especially if you're an American, and younger than about 25—but Hello Kitty is a cultural force to be reckoned with. The image of the feline toddler has appeared on virtually every kind of product to date, including wallpaper, jewelry, firearms, computer parts, automobiles, adult novelties, and...
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PCI Express 5 is expected to usher in new found levels of solid state (SSD) storage performance for next-generation computing platforms, and Phison is at the forefront of the SSD controller technology that will enable it. Watch our live discussion with Phison's own Chris Ramseyer for a deeper dive on all of the...
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Sure, that Twitter verification badge might be cool, but if you're a game developer you might be more interested in a Steam Deck Verified rating. This lets gamers know a title has been tested and found to work exceptionally well on the Steam Deck with little or no user intervention for a "start and go" experience. If...
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Now that Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, it is fair to wonder what that means for the future of iconic franchises on Sony's PlayStation hardware. Games and franchies like Call of Duty: Warzone, Spyro, and Crash Bandicoot are all at risk of becoming Xbox exclusives, if Microsoft wanted to go...
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Snapchat is taking a proactive approach in fighting drug deals taking place on its social media platform. The company shared an update concerning its most recent efforts to halt the push to sell drugs through connections on its app.
Snapchat typically makes the news when the social media platform goes dark, sending...
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At the upcoming 2022 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel is scheduled to talk about its entry into the potentially lucrative world of Bitcoin mining with Bonanza Mine, an ultra-low-voltage (ULV) energy-efficient Bitcoin mining ASIC it will soon offer. It's not clear how close Intel is to...
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