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Latest News - October 2023
- Webb Discovers Quartz Crystals In Clouds Of A Giant Gas Planet And NASA Is Stunned
- Why Best Buy Is Blaming Taylor Swift And Funflation For Sagging Tech Sales
- Netflix Wants A Grand Theft Auto Game To Compete With PlayStation And Xbox
- This Awesome Diablo IV Xbox Series X Console Could Be Yours Without Selling Your Soul
- A 4K Nintendo 64 Console Is Coming To Relive Your Retro N64 Games In High Resolution
- Intel 14th Gen Core Raptor Lake Refresh Benchmarks: MOAR Power
- Galax's GeForce RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition With Hidden Connector Breaks Cover
- GeForce RTX 3080 FE Cooler Teardown Exposes An Odd Defect, Should You Be Concerned?
- GeForce NOW Prices Are Going Up For Some Gamers, How To Lock Your Current Rate
- Super Mario Bros Wonder Running At 4K On PC Leaks Online But Beware Of Spoilers
- GeForce RTX 4080 Mod Drastically Reduces Footprint To Fit Inside An SFF Gaming PC
- Minecraft Crosses 300M Copies Sold As The Best-Selling Game Of All Time
- Pixel Camera Quietly Replaces Google Camera In Play Store With Key Changes
- Steam Deck Is Getting Undervolting Controls, Here's How To Access Them Now
- Google Pixel 8 Is Getting A Sweet Upgrade That Audiophiles Will Love
- Stunning Mars Flyover Tours The Red Planet's Incredible Labyrinth Of Night
- Logitech Zone Wireless 2 Headset Means Business With AI Smarts And 40-Hour Battery
- 2024 Corvette E-Ray Is A Hybrid Juiced Speed Demon That’s Simply Gorgeous
- Intel Unveils 14th Gen Core Rocket Lake Refresh Processor Lineup
- Leftover Prime Day Deals On JBL Speakers Up To 34% Off Are Music To Our Ears
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All News for October 2023
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected evidence of quartz nanocrystals in a Jupiter-like exoplanet's atmosphere 1,300 light-years from Earth. The first-ever detection of silica particles in an exoplanet's atmosphere was made possible by Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).
WASP-17 b, also known as...
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Best Buy thinks that Taylor Swift and "funflation" are both bad for business. Why is that? Because potential consumers would rather spend money on watching her concerts than buy big ticket consumer electronics, according to Best Buy CEO Corie Barry.
The CEO blames the whole "funflation" phenomenon—where consumers...
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Remember when Netflix was a DVD-by-mail subscription service? It recently shipped its last DVD after successfully pivoting into a streaming juggernaut, and for its next trick, Netflix has set its sights set on getting into gaming in a big way. Efforts are already underway, though Netflix is apparently wanting to make...
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Now that Microsoft has cleared all the regulatory hurdles that stood in the way of its Activision-Blizzard acquisition, it can focus on how best to put its newly-acquired IP to good use. One of those IPs is Diablo and as such, it's offering up a custom Diablo IV-themed Xbox Series X console that it designed in...
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We're big fans of retro gaming here in these parts. Whether it's 8-bit and 16-bit classic recreations of our childhood favorites in the Sega Genesis 2 Mini or playing on original retro consoles with fancy upscalers, we just can't go wrong with revisiting the classics. In recent years, the cutting edge of retro...
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Intel Core i9-14900K - $589, Intel i7-14700K- $409, Intel Core i5-14600K - $319 Intel’s 14th Gen Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors fit in the same socket as 13th Gen CPUs, but crank up the clocks, in some cases cores, and power. High Performance Single Thread Leadership More Cores...
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If you're into PC hardware, you're probably familiar with Galax whether under that name or as one of its sub-brands, like KFA2 and Gainward. Galax has been known as a global seller of graphics cards and other PC parts. Indeed, it actually began operations in 1994 in Hong Kong, but it's celebrating 2023 as its "20th...
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The NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU is one for the record books, with its $699 MSRP enticing gamers to splurge. It also came during a turbulent time of the great GPU shortage, causing its street price to sky rocket. This likely means we also have many gamers still using this fantastic graphics card in 2023, due to its still...
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Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service has taken on new importance in the wake of Stadia's untimely demise. Some of those who fled Google's failed streaming platform for Nvidia are in for a rude awakening, though. Nvidia has announced a price hike for select markets, one of which will see the base subscription...
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Surprise, surprise: an upcoming first-party Nintendo game has leaked to the internet ahead of its launch date. Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the long-awaited new traditional-style side-scrolling title in the famous franchise of everyone's favorite video-game plumber, has found its way to pirates through the usual...
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This generation of graphics cards calls for some insanely powerful behemoths, like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080. With great power, usually comes great heat, too. That will mean beefy coolers that are typically large will be the modus operandi - especially since the RTX 4080 shares a lot of designs with the RTX 4090. If...
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It seems like it was just yesterday that Minecraft hit 10 years old, but that was actually a half a decade ago. Since then, much has changed as the popular block-based game has continued to grow in popularity. However, with those changes come more eyes on the game overall and recent events surrounding Minecraft...
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The Google Camera app has been quietly replaced with the Pixel Camera app in the Google Play Store. The Pixel-exclusive app also received a new app description with a few hints at what Pixel owners will be able to do with the newly labeled app, suggesting there's more than just a name change afoot.
One of the...
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Valve's latest preview update for the Steam Deck's SteamOS, version 3.5.1, is largely a patch for bugs but includes one big ticket feature enthusiasts have been clamoring for: undervolting. This is thanks to the version 118 BIOS firmware that this preview update also introduces, and while it gets rid of the old...
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Audiophiles on Pixel 8 and other Android phones may have a reason to rejoice—support for lossless USB audio is coming to a future Android 14 version. While it's not a huge deal for most consumers, we think that this initiative is a potential win for Google over the competition.
The Pixel 8 series will add support...
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The European Space Agency's Mars Express takes adventurers on a gorgeous ride across Mars's 'labyrinth of night'. The spacecraft has been exploring the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of the Red Planet since 2004.
ESA shared footage captured by the Mars Express spacecraft as it flew over the eastern part of...
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Most of the headsets that make headlines are geared towards gamers, save for the occasional exception. Logitech's new Zone Wireless 2 is one of those semi-rare exceptions. It's pitched as a "top-of-the-line business headset," which is due in large part to a clever AI-powered tactic designed to suppress background...
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If you thought Chevrolet couldn't make the C8 Corvette even more bonkers, out comes the highly anticipated (and divisive) 2024 Corvette E-Ray, complete with a hybrid powertrain and all-wheel drive (AWD). In other words, a Corvette that won't run away from you in inclement weather, while making you feel good about...
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After months of speculation, Intel today formally introduced its 14th Gen Core processors, otherwise known as Raptor Lake Refresh. Exactly as the name implies, this is a refresh of Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, as opposed to a brand new architecture, which for consumers means the newly minted silicon can slip...
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With Prime Day now gone, there are still a few left-over deals that net you savings on things to have around the house, such as speakers to blast some tunes. Whether you are doing some work, cleaning up, cooking, or anything else, having music in the background will make it go faster no matter what, and hopefully, JBL...
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Don't fret if you missed out on Amazon's recent Prime Day sales event because there are still a bunch of lingering deals. Moreover, it won't be long before the Black Friday and Cyber Monday bargains begin rolling into view, which seems to happen earlier and earlier every year (think: early November through December). Deal events aren't the
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Whether you need to deck out a home office, spice up a gaming battle station, or enhance your workflow, adding an extra monitor or two will certainly do the trick. Thankfully, Amazon still has some left-over deals from Prime Day, which can net you some big savings on a number of Samsung monitors geared towards gaming...
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