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- ISS Coolant Leak Forces NASA To Abandon Spacewalk, What Happens Next
- Intel Arc GPU Driver Pilots A Massive 159% Uplift In Starfield And More Big Gains
- Study Claims AI Is An Energy Hog Consuming As Much Electricity As A Country
- Forget Prime Day, This RTX 40 PC Is The Best Gaming Desktop Deal Under $1K
- Valve Bolsters Security After Hackers Infected Steam Games With Malware
- Firefox Tests A Great New Security Tool To Expose Fake Product Reviews, Try It Now
- NVIDIA Roadmap Hints At An Annual GPU Architecture Release Cadence
- Pixel 8 And Pixel 8 Pro Review: Artificially Intelligent, Naturally Elegant
- Micron Starts Shipping Blistering 7200MT/S DDR5 Built On Cutting-Edge 1-Beta Tech
- Adobe Teases AI-Powered Project Stardust To Make Photo Editing A Breeze
- RISC-V Issues Open Standards Warning As US Lawmakers Mull Restrictions
- Kiss Your Passwords Goodbye As Google Shifts To More Secure Passkeys
- Save Up To 41% Off Gaming Laptops From ASUS, MSI, Razer And More For Prime Day
- Save Your Quarters And Build The Ultimate Home Arcade With These Arcade1Up Deals
- Intel Unveils Arc A580 GPU For $179, A New Budget Gaming Champ?
- Sony's PS5 Slim Will Arrive In Time For Christmas With Some Key Changes
- Logitech Launches Wireless Ergonomic Keyboards To Level Up Your Work Space
- Intel Panther Lake CPU Breaks Cover In App Update, What We Know So Far
- Valve Shoots Down Hopes Of Playing Counter-Strike 2 On Mac, Here's Why
- Amazon Prime Day TV Blowout Sale, Deals Up To 47% Off LG, Samsung, Sony And More
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All News for October 2023
NASA engineers and flight control teams are reviewing data and video associated with a coolant leak that postponed two US spacewalks initially scheduled for today and October 20, 2023. The leak is from a backup radiator on the International Space Station's Nauka multipurpose laboratory module (MLM).
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Hot on the heels of releasing the Arc A580 for gamers on a budget, Intel has released a new WHQL-certified Arc GPU driver (version 31.0.101.4887) that's tuned for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III beta, as well as Total War: PHARAOH and Lords of the Fallen. However, beyond the 'Game On' designation for those titles...
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A researcher out of Amsterdam is asserting in his recent study that our love and growing dependence on all things AI (artificial intelligence) will draw enough electricity to power a country the size of Sweden in less than five years.
Alex de Vries from the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, in his...
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Amazon's second Prime Day of 2023 has concluded, but as it turns out the best bargain for a gaming desktop was not a Prime Day deal, or even a discounted PC for that matter. Instead, it's a sub-$900 setup with some surprising hardware inside, including current generation parts from Intel (13th Gen, otherwise known as...
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Threat actors and malicious hackers have been targeting gamers with malware for quite some time, as they can be easy targets who download and run strange things from the internet all the time. Such was the case with a trojanized Super Mario game earlier this year that could have stolen information, run ransomware, or...
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With the recent acquisition of Fakespot, Mozilla is looking to improve Firefox's user experience by tracking fake reviews on popular online shopping sites such as Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. Reports reveal that Mozilla has integrated this capability into Firefox and testing it currently. The feature will become...
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Folks who have been around the hardware scene for a while will likely recall that NVIDIA used to release new GPUs every year, even if they weren't necessarily a new architecture. This went on for quite some time, but in the last decade or so, ever since the relatively-long gap between the Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 900...
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Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro: Starting at $699.99 and $999.99 Google's latest Pixel phones are the smartest smartphones in town, and there's better battery life, brighter displays, new cameras, sleeker designs, new AI features, and more on tap here. Brighter, flatter screens Seven years of OS updates Useful AI...
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If you saw that headline and thought, "but wait, DDR5-7200 has been around a while now," remember that almost all of the DDR DIMMs that you buy as an end user are overclocked. When you buy a G.SKILL or Teamgroup memory kit that's rated for DDR4-4000, DDR5-6400, or DDR5-7200, you're almost assuredly buying a kit with...
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Adobe shared a sneak peek at its upcoming AI-powered Stardust project that aims to make photo editing a breeze during its MAX conference this week. Stardust is powered by Firefly Model 2 and is available to try out now.
Adobe has been making advancements by incorporating AI into its products, creating software that...
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The technological cold war between the US and China has seen massive trade restrictions placed on electronics, particularly high-end GPUs for datacenters but even components as basic as memory. This has naturally led the US and China to close off their respective computing markets, and one of the next targets appears...
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Earlier in the year, Google implemented support for passkeys in its products to help move folks away from traditional passwords. In theory, this should make people more secure and have an easier time signing into their accounts, and as such, Google is making it the default means of signing in across personal Google...
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Amazon Prime Day deals are underway, and gamers have reason to rejoice as gaming laptops are on the list for big savings. Save on great deals from companies like ASUS, MSI, and Acer.
ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop
The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15-inch gaming laptop is a beast for gaming and productivity. It has an...
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Do you know what would have gotten my 15-year-old me totally jazzed? Having my own home arcade rather than lugging a fistful of quarters to the local co-op joint (RIP Malibu Grand Prix in Rowland Heights, CA). I'm a fistful of decades older now, but the concept of an in-home arcade still gets me jazzed. If it does you...
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The budget gaming GPU space has been the last to add some interesting options this generation, with emphasis going towards the pricey high-end from manufacturers. Things are changing for the better, though, with the $179 MSRP Intel Arc A580 adding to the family line of the Arc A750 and A770. This new sub-$200 GPU...
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It finally happened—Sony took the wraps off a new PlayStation console, though it's not a more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro. Instead, Sony launched the inevitable PlayStation 5 Slim refresh in both Blu-ray and Digital (disc-less) form, both of which are built around a thinner and lighter form factor while retaining the...
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Logitech has launched two ergonomic wireless Bluetooth keyboards that seek to reduce typing discomfort and injuries in a compact form factor. Besides a personal-use model, there will also be a business-focused version that is touted to make the life of IT teams easier.
If you're looking for an ergonomic wireless...
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Long-lived system information and benchmark app AIDA64 just received a beta update featuring a plethora of new hardware support, ranging from new GPUs, motherboard sensors, and CPUs. One of the most noteworthy additions in the patch is preliminary support for Intel's future CPU lineup codenamed Panther Lake.
AIDA64...
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Do play Counter-Strike? If you read this website regularly, there is a very good chance that, even if you don't play CS anymore now, you probably did at some point. However, there's a pretty low chance that you frequently played Counter-Strike in any of its incarnations on a Mac.
That's the ultimate reason that CS2...
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Amazon Prime deals are out, and the company is bringing the rain across the board, especially in the electronics department. If you need a new TV for a den or living room, right now might be a great time to grab one at any size and price point.
55”-Class
Kicking things off in the 55” class of TVs we have the TCL...
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A lot of truly awesome PC games have come out over the last two years. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, Baldur's Gate 3, Lies of P, the System Shock remake, Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, the Dead Space remake, Elden Ring, Remnant 2, Street Fighter 6...
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Qualcomm is introducing a new naming convention under its Snapdragon brand, as it looks to make a more aggressive entrance into the intelligent PC space. It's called Snapdragon X series and while details are light at the moment, we can expect new architectures and platforms geared towards always-connected (5G) mobile...
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