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- Linux Has Grown Into A Viable PC Gaming Platform And The Steam Stats Prove It
- You Can Game With GeForce NOW RTX 3080 Performance On Google’s Pixel 6 Pro
- Log4j2 Java Security Exploit Slams Intel, NVIDIA And Microsoft But Spares AMD
- Gaming Monitor Deals Deliver Big Savings Up To 26 Percent Off Alienware, Samsung And More
- NASA Values Its Partnership With Russia As Tensions On Earth Complicate Space Relations
- NVIDIA's Minecraft Winter World Map Is A Massive RTX Extravaganza For Charity
- ADATA XPG Gammix S70 Blade SSD Review: Super-Fast NVMe Storage
- T-Mobile Blocked Over 21 Billion Scam Calls In 2021 As Robocalls Get Out Of Hand
- Intel Arc Alchemist GPU Looks Strong In Leaked Benchmark But Let's Not Overreact
- Ursid Meteor Shower Is The Last Celestial Light Show Of 2021, How To See It
- Aya-Neo Teases Next-Gen AMD Ryzen Cores For Potent Handheld Gaming
- Two Retro Classics Gloriously Unite As Sega's Sonic Spins Onto The Commodore 64
- Intel Core i9-12900K And AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Now Share A World Record Cinebench Score
- NVIDIA Game Ready Driver Update Brings Flight Simulator Fixes, Improved Horizon Zero Dawn DLSS
- That Ridiculous Necklace Claiming To Offer 5G Protection Might Be Radioactive
- Mysterious Dark Samples From Ryugu Asteroid May Hold The Secrets To Our Solar System
- ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Retail Box Smiles For The Camera
- Hot Deal: Build A OnePlus 9 Phone And Buds Z2 Bundle, Save $140
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake On PC Has A Major Stuttering Issue But This Setting Could Help
- This Google Play App Just Hit 100M Downloads And Every Android User Should Have It
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All News for December 2021
When was the last time you tried using Linux as a desktop OS? Sure, some high-profile YouTubers have been having a lot of trouble recently, but they're trying to make a point out of love. For enthusiasts, the transition from Windows is surprisingly smooth these days, and on the vast majority of consumer PC hardware...
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Streaming game services have proven hugely popular, and NVIDIA continues to lead the market in a number of key areas. In October, NVIDIA's GeForce NOW launched a tier that allows gamers to enjoy RTX 3080-class graphics on their PC, Mac, Shield TV, and select Android devices. Even more recently, the service added...
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The Log4shell exploit in the widely-used Apache Log4j package has had just about every single sysadmin in the world working nights and weekends to desperately get their internet-facing servers updated. The problem isn't simply patching and updating Log4j itself—that was done before the problem even hit the mainstream...
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Kids these days have no idea of the struggle of trying to lug a large, unwieldy, and heavy CRT monitor up a flight of steps, or choosing from an extremely limited range of options. And that's how it should be. These days, selecting a monitor for gaming (or any task, really) is a much more enjoyable experience with an...
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When the US and Russia first launched the International Space Station, it was a partnership that boosted ties between the two nations. Now, as US-Russia relations slide, it’s the astronauts who suffer. Despite the importance NASA sees in the partnership with Russia, the future of that collaboration is in serious...
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NVIDIA has teamed up with renowned Minecraft artist Ushio Tokura to create the "world's largest virtual wonderland experience" using the company's GeForce RTX hardware. Called RTX Winter World, the massive map is available now, and don't worry about dressing warm—just crank the dial on your thermostat or whip up a cup...
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This past year was a tough one for PC enthusiasts. It was exceedingly difficult to acquire some of the most sought after components, like the latest and greatest CPUs and GPUs for example, and if you were lucky enough to score one, you often had to pay through the nose for it. Solid state storage, however, continued...
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"Hi, I am calling you about your car's extended warranty," has become a meme, but scam calls have been increasing over the past year according to new data from T-Mobile. The cell phone company released some interesting statistics concerning those scam calls on its website.
Most everyone that owns a smartphone has...
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We are incredibly eager for Intel to launch its first modern discrete graphics card, if for no other reason than to put all these leaks and rumors to rest. That day will come, just not today. Instead, an alleged Arc Alchemist entry has been added to the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database, and at first glance...
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The Ursid Meteor shower is the last chance for everyone to see a celestial light show this year. So get ready for the Little Dipper to pour out some shooting star soup into our night sky.
The night sky has been a busy place as of late. Recently the Geminid and Leonid meteor showers have sent shooting stars dancing...
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Aya-Neo is promising "innovations never seen on a Windows gaming handheld" and that evidently includes next-gen AMD cores of some kind, according to a teaser the company posted on Twitter. While finer grain details are not yet available, Aya-Neo is planning to make an announcement on December 28, 2021. The timing is...
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For gamers of a certain age, Sonic the Hedgehog is synonymous with blazing speed, intricate two-dimensional platforming, and of course Blast Processing on the Sega Genesis, which was reborn on the Genesis Mini. However, gamers on the go who opted for Sega's handheld Game Gear got a very different version of Sonic in...
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It is often said that records are meant to broken, like when Steph Curry overtook Ray Allen to become the NBA's all-time three-point leader last week. Every once in a while, however, records end up in a tie. Such is the case with Cinebench R20. One of the world's top-ranked overclockers, Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch...
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It's Monday, and you know what that means, kids: well, absolutely nothing, actually. There's a new GeForce driver update that just dropped, though. GeForce WHQL driver version 497.29 is Game Ready for Horizon: Zero Dawn—which just got a patch adding DLSS support—and GTFO, a cooperative horror FPS game that's finally...
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There are more than a few people who think 5G transmitters are bad for your health. Some have gone so far as to claim the transmitters cause COVID-19. To protect themselves and others from the purported ill effects of 5G cellular networks, they’ve developed a number of products to purportedly shield you from the...
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Samples that were collected from the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission were received just over one year ago back here on Earth. Scientists have been busy trying to unlock some mysteries to the origin of our Solar System ever since.
Space agencies and scientists have been searching for clues to unlock the origin story of...
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After seeing a purportedly unaltered photograph of an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card (shown above, click to enlarge), we are more convinced than ever that NVIDIA will be unveiling a new flagship SKU very soon. That's not to say we have any inside information (we don't) or that there's been an...
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We received an email from OnePlus today about a neat bundle on its website where you can purchase the OnePlus 9 and Buds Z2 together for $729, and in your choice of colors to boot. However, we did some online shopping and found you can piecemeal the same bundle on your own for a little bit cheaper, saving $140 from...
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Final Fantasy 7 ranks as one of the biggest game releases of all time. Originally conceived for Nintendo's MSU-1 CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, it was moved to the PlayStation when Nintendo canceled that product at the last second. One can argue that it was the top killer app for the PlayStation and that it ultimately...
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With data breaches and malware on the rise, millions are turning on two-factor authentication (2FA) to try and protect themselves from an attack. One of the most popular apps to use with 2FA, Google Authenticator, has just hit a very big milestone because of it.
People have been bombarded with headlines about...
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As time goes on, we can expect memory makers to release DDR5 kits with increasingly higher data rates, as well as lower latencies. In fact, it's already starting to happen. Corsair has added a DDR5-6400 Dominator Platinum RGB memory kit to its lineup, which is faster than anything you can buy on Amazon or Newegg right...
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Scientists are sending human muscle cells into outer space in order to try and find ways to combat muscle loss as you get older. As people are surviving longer, the effects muscle loss have on our aging population becomes more important.
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are required to workout 90...
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