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- Nintendo Confirms Switch 2 Battery Bug And Here's The Official Fix
- Apple Unveils MetalFX Frame Interpolation, Hops On AI Game Rendering Bandwagon
- Checkmate: Atari 2600 Console From 1977 Pummels ChatGPT In A Chess Match
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Gets Ready To Shred With This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
- MSI Unveils MPG B850I EDGE TI WIFI To Build An Elite Compact Ryzen Gaming PC
- June's Spectacular Strawberry Moon Is Coming, Where And When To Catch It
- Qualcomm Accelerates AI Data Center Expansion With Huge $2.4B Alphawave Acquisition
- Gigabyte Unveils Beastly Ryzen Threadripper PC With RTX 5090 And 768GB Of RAM
- AMD's New Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme Brings NPU Horsepower To Gaming Handhelds
- This OLED Gaming Monitor With An LG Panel Hits An Insane 720Hz Refresh
- Alienware And LEGO Want To Brick Your Gaming PC In The Best Way Possible
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Teases Mind-Bending Gameplay In First Trailer
- ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Revealed: Specs, Store Support And More
- Is Your Apple Mail Broken On iOS 18.5? Here’s A Quick Fix
- Nintendo Switch 2 Blows Out Launch Day Sales In Record Fashion
- Here Are The Top 7 Games To Look Forward To From Summer Games Fest 2025
- Windows 11 Is Getting A Cool Trick That Could Boost Your Laptop's Battery Life
- Score Apple AirPods Pro Or AirPods 4 For Low Father’s Day Prices
- Sinister BADBOX Malware Infected Over 1M Android Devices, Is Yours One?
- Doom: The Dark Ages Gets Its First Major Patch, Here’s What To Expect
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Okay, here's the situation, your parents went away on a week's vacation and...wait, my brain went elsewhere for a moment and it's not even throwback Thursday! The actual situation (which as nothing to do with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince) is that you managed to snag a Switch 2 console (contributing to it setting...
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We have to say we are quite the fans of metal around here. Apparently some folks at Apple are too, as the company has released version 4 of the Metal API for game developers to take advantage of. There are lots of improvements, but the most relevant is probably is Apple's introduction of DLSS- and FSR-like upscaling...
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ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console. That's the ultimate finding of Robert Caruso, a Citrix engineer who pitted the venerable console that started it all against one of the...
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Remakes continue to be a safe bet for publishers, with classics such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion achieving strong sales numbers. Microsoft is looking to keep the momentum of these revivals going with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. With the game’s launch approaching, the company gave another another glimpse of the...
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Way back when VIA introduced the Mini-ITX standard in 2001, it was initially aimed at low-power systems and highly-integrated machines. VIA's designers probably never imagined a future where you could slap a 150-watt 16-core CPU and a 575W 32GB GPU into a Mini-ITX machine. That's exactly the use case for something...
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June's full moon, affectionately known as the Strawberry Moon, is set to illuminate the night sky this week, reaching its peak illumination on Wednesday, June 11, at 3:44 a.m. EST. While the exact moment of fullness may occur in the pre-dawn hours for those on the East Coast, the moon will appear full and bright for...
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In a big move set to significantly bolster its presence in the burgeoning data center and AI infrastructure markets, semiconductor giant Qualcomm announced today its agreement to acquire UK-based Alphawave Semi, a leading provider of high-speed wired connectivity and compute technologies. The deal, valued at...
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Gigabyte is rolling out an ultra-burly desktop built around AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors, though curiously enough, it opted to stick with the previous generation Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 series lineup rather than the recently-introduced Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Pro series based on Zen 5. Even so, this is...
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AMD has just unveiled a couple of new additions to its next-gen Ryzen Z2 series of processors, namely the entry-level Ryzen Z2 A and a top-spec'd Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme. Along with the rest of the Z2 lineup, these new AMD sytem-on-chips (SoCs) are built specifically with handheld gaming in mind, promising to deliver...
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Your monitor might be fast, even exceptionally speedy with a crazy-high refresh rate. But can it hit 720Hz? The answer is no, because no monitor on the market can achieve such a blistering refresh rate. Not yet, anyway, but perhaps soon—a Chinese display maker called Super Display Company (SDC) has lifted the wraps on...
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Forget virtual worlds for a second, because Alienware is bringing its legendary Area-51 desktop to your desk in a brand new, tangible form! In a move that's sure to excite PC gaming aficionados and brick-building enthusiasts alike, Alienware has announced the "Area-51 Brick Kit," a NUC-sized replica of its iconic...
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When the original Call of Duty game released in 2003, little did we know it'd be one of the longest running game franchises in history. The latest iteration is Black Ops 6, which is now in its fourth season. However, Microsoft has just announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is releasing later in 2025, and that it...
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Following weeks of anticipation filled with leaks, rumors, and teasers, Microsoft and ASUS have jointly revealed the first official Xbox gaming handhelds called ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. At first glance, it may seem like these are simply re-badged ASUS ROG Ally / Ally X handhelds with Xbox branding, but...
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If you've updated to iOS 18.5 and Apple Mail app is broken, you are not alone. Many iPhone users have taken to social media to report problems after the update. Common complaints include the app opening a blank page, which remains until it is minimized or closed. Others observed that the app only works briefly before crashing.
While there
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The Switch 2 has a very long way to go before it can become a contender for Nintendo's best-selling game console of all time (an honor that currently belongs to the Nintendo DS, followed by the original Switch family), but it's off to a hot start. How hot, exactly? Reportedly, the Switch 2 has outsold every other...
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Summer Games Fest 2025 was last night, and North American game industry hype man Geoff Keighley was on the scene to promote over fifty different games from a wide variety of publishers and developers. Actually, there were even more games than this in the "Day of the Devs" show that proceeded immediately afterward. We...
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Windows enthusiasts and mainstream users both have a pleasant bit of new technoiogy coming their way. A fresh new development build of Windows 11, available in the Insider channel, includes what Microsoft calls "User Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management", a feature with the potential to extend your laptop's battery...
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Father's Day is only a week away at this point, and if you're struggling for a gift idea to show your pops how much he's appreciated, we have a suggestion—how about a fancy new set of AirPods? Yes, premium earbuds costs more than a tie and/or a 'World's Greatest Dad' mug, but with some models discounted to all-time...
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A new variant of the BADBOX malware campaign has taken root in over a million Android-based devices worldwide, and if you’ve picked up a cheap smart TV box or projector off Amazon or AliExpress lately, you might be part of the problem. BADBOX 2.0 is a sprawling botnet targeting Android Open Source Project (AOSP)...
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Doom The Dark Ages quickly became one of the most played entries in franchise history, as gamers were intrigued by several of the changes and enhancements the new sequel brings to the Doom formula. Now, a little over two weeks after its initial release, Bethesda is pushing out the game’s first big update. Players can...
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The number of lawsuits filed against AI companies training their models on data posted to the internet continues to grow. The ongoing legal battle between Meta and a group of authors over copyright infringement is perhaps the most prominent, but Reddit has also filed a lawsuit against Anthropic (an AI firm), accusing...
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ASUS may have just released the one gaming router to rule them all. Instead of the usual mecha-arachnoid shape though, the new ROG Strix GS-BE18000 is a dark-gray monolith packed with goodies for super-fast home networks.
The number in the model name describes the router's main feature: full WiFi 7 (802.11be)...
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