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- 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
- How Snapchat Is Using AI And Machine Learning To Thwart Drug Deals
- Intel's Not-So-Secretive Expansion Into Bitcoin Mining Hardware Is Already Paying Off
- Destiny 2 Gunsmith Materials Will Soon Disappear, What You Need To Know
- Photobombing Starlink Satellites Leave Image Trails That Disrupt Time-Critical Space Observations
- This Is What A $400 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Looks Like, You Buying One?
- Watch Intel Deliver And Unpack Its $7B Fab 34 Site's First Huge Chip Making Tool
- Why NVIDIA Just Quietly Unlocked A GPU Feature That Could Boost Graphics Performance
- Apple Just Made Trading-In Your Android For An iPhone A Lot Less Attractive
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All News for January 2022
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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Guardians, when was the last time you visited Banshee-44? A senior Bungie community manager recently stated that Destiny 2 players will want to turn in their Gunsmith materials, as they will likely be phased out with the upcoming Destiny 2: The Witch Queen expansion.
Senior Bungie community manager "dmg04" tweeted...
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As SpaceX celebrates launching its 2,000th Starlink satellite into space, astronomers are not as ecstatic about it. It seems all those satellites have began photobombing some astronomical observations.
Last week SpaceX launched 105 satellites from consumers in twenty different nations, including CubeSats, microsats...
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Let me say this right off the bat—I really don't know how much I'd be willing to spend on a keyboard, but I'm fairly confident it's somewhere south of $400. I didn't pull that figure out of thin air. Rather, it's how much Hyte expects to charge for a fully loaded version of its Keeb SR65 when it goes up preorder. How...
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Intel is in the process of installing hardware at its Fab 34 manufacturing site in Ireland, and this week it took delivery of its "first huge chip making tool," the company said. Work actually began on the facility in 2019. If all goes to plan, it will be up and running in 2023, effectively doubling Intel's...
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Computer graphics in the modern age are already a delicate dance between CPU and GPU. Throw in the power management concerns that come from operating in a constrained environment, such as a laptop, and you add on a whole further level of complexity. Historically, we allowed each component in the system to manage its...
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It’s bizarre, but it looks like Apple wants Android users to switch to iPhone less than it used to. Overnight, the top amount of money the Cupertino-based smartphone maker will give for Android devices dropped like a rock.
Chip prices are skyrocketing, so you might think that older Samsung Galaxy devices would be...
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Wi-Fi is fast these days. The current state of the art, known as Wi-Fi 6E, can top 1Gbps for multiple clients at once in real-world applications, not just on highly-theoretical spec sheets. It's no replacement for Ethernet yet, but refinements in real-world performance have been the target of the last several...
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There’s a new White Rabbit on the loose. While it does involve hackers, it’s got nothing to do with Neo. Instead, it’s yet another new ransomware family that recently appeared, targeting financial institutions.
Possibly a side operation of the FIN8 hacking group, White Rabbit was recently used to attack a US bank...
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