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Latest News - December 2023
- Google Unveils Gemini, Its Massive AI Model And Biggest Threat To ChatGPT Yet
- Porsche Design, AOC Release A 49-Inch Agon Pro OLED Gaming Monitor With A 240Hz Redline
- Astronomers Shocked To Discover An Extragalactic Visitor Near A Supermassive Black Hole
- Apple's Next-Gen iPad Plans Revealed And It Includes OLED, M3 MacBook Air Coming Too
- Sony Exec Talks PS5's Advantages Over PC Gaming, Console Release Strategy And More
- AMD's Latest Radeon GPU Driver Gives Adrenalin Software A Refreshed UI And New Features
- Acer Unveils Nitro V 16 Gaming Laptop With Ryzen 8040 Hawk Point And RTX 40 Firepower
- AMD Announces Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile CPUs With Revamped Ryzen AI And A Nice Performance Bump
- AMD Instinct MI300 Series Architecture Deep Dive Reveal: Advancing AI And HPC
- There's Finally A GeForce RTX 40 Series Graphics Card With A Single Slot Cooler
- Redesigned GeForce RTX 4090 Is Reportedly Still Outbound To China After US Warning
- Apple iOS 17.2 Is Packed With Features Like Qi2 Wireless Charging For iPhone 13 And 14
- Beeper Mini For Android Pops Apple iPhone’s Blue Bubble Exclusivity
- Microsoft Infuses Copilot For Windows 11 With DALL-E 3 And GPT-4 Turbo
- Microsoft Details Plan To Charge Windows 10 Users A Fee For Future Security Updates
- 23andMe Discloses Startling Data Breach To SEC Impacting 6.9M User Profiles
- A Gimped GeForce RTX 3050 Desktop Card With A Mobile GPU May Be In The Pipeline
- Valve Counter Strike 2 Ban Wave Obliterates Seemingly Innocent Accounts
- Intel Seemingly Backtracks On Slides Comparing AMD's CPU Marketing To Snake Oil
- Super Nintendo World Theme Park Gets Its First DLC And It's Donkey Kong Country
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All News for December 2023
Google introduced its most capable AI model yet, Gemini, as being the next step in its journey to make AI helpful for everyone. Gemini appears to be the most promising competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai remarked in a Google blog post, “This is what excites me: the chance to make...
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Porsche Design has again teamed up with AOC (the display maker, not the politician) on a gaming display that's "as large as a windshield" and "where sports car aesthetics meet gaming innovation." The size of the display is only a slight exaggeration—it adds to a modest but growing pile of 49-inch ultrawide gaming...
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According to a new study, astronomers were stunned to find a star that originated outside of the galaxy sitting near the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way. The find marks the first time a star of extragalactic origin has been identified so close to the supermassive black hole.
While...
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Apple is looking to strengthen sales in 2024 by making upgrades to the iPad Pro and Macbook Air, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The iPad is struggling; it’s currently the product that generates the least amount of revenue for the company and is seeing sales slip to its lowest point since early 2020, says...
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Pardon us as we feign surprise, but a Sony exec involved with the PlayStation brand thinks that the PlayStation 5 is a better option than PC for gaming. Water is wet and the sky is blue, news at 11, right? While not the least bit surprising, it's interesting to hear Sony's reasoning for proclaiming the PS5 as the...
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AMD has released its 23.12.1 update for AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, focusing on adding new features such as HYPR-RX Eco, an update to the game profile UI that allows HYPR-RX to be enabled on a game-by-game basis, and GPU hardware scheduling. Additionally, performance in a few AI applications has been improved...
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Acer's brand-new Nitro V 16 will be one of the first gaming laptops to offer AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8040 Hawk Point APUs. The Nitro V 16 can soon be had with up to a Ryzen 7 8845HS, which features eight Zen 4 cores, 12 RDNA 3 Compute Units, and the new Hawk Point NPU, which is the main selling point over the Ryzen 7040...
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It's probably not an exaggeration to say that AI may be the biggest tech buzzword since the invention of the integrated circuit—bigger than blockchain, bigger than cloud computing, bigger than IoT, and so on. Unlike a lot of buzzwords, however, AI isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and it's critical for a processor...
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At its Advancing AI event that just concluded, AMD disclosed a myriad of additional details regarding its next-gen Instinct MI300 data center accelerators. It also discussed the company’s momentum as it relates to AI hardware, software, and partner engagements. AMD has previously shown off its Instinct MI300A...
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GALAX has launched the thinnest RTX 40 card thus far with its RTX 4060 Ti Unparalleled Max, a single-slot graphics card that's just 20mm thick. The single-slot form factor is usually reserved for professional or workstation cards, and GALAX's new model is (as far as we know) the first single-slot RTX 40 card. Even...
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It appears as though enthusiast gamers are not the only ones with a keen-eye on every potential GPU release from NVIDIA. Due to recent turbulent waters in the Chinese market leading to the banning of various powerful GPUs, the United States Government has apparently also become hardware enthusiasts, in some respects...
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Apple's incoming iOS 17.2 stable release is jam-packed with new features, as well as unlocking Qi2 wireless capabilities for iPhones 13 and 14. Unfortunately, you'll have to wait a while to actually use the new protocol since you can't buy Qi2 chargers just yet.
This week, Apple shared the release candidate beta...
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As Android smartphone owners wait for Apple to implement RCS support to its iPhones, they can take advantage of an app called Beeper Mini that will get rid of the green bubbles when texting with an iPhone user. Beeper Mini: Chat With iPhones brings many of the features of iMessage to an Android phone, and without...
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Microsoft continues to go all in with AI, announcing that Copilot will be receiving the addition of a new DALL-E 3 model and GPT-4 Turbo along with several other features. Windows 11 users can expect to see these improvements in 2024. Moreover, Microsoft will also be making Copilot available to anyone with a web...
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If you're still rocking Windows 10, don't panic, fee-based security updates are not imminent. However, they are coming once Windows 10 officially reaches End of Life (EOL) status, which barring any reprieves will happen on October 14, 2025. If by chance you're still running what will then be considered a legacy OS...
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Popular genetic testing company 23andMe has revealed the possible true impact of its recent October data breach. Contrary to an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filing on Friday by the company, the breach is now said to affect 6.9 million individuals worldwide.
On Friday, 23andMe stated that only a small...
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What exactly makes a graphics card a GeForce RTX 3050? Simply put, it's the name on the box. From there, NVIDIA can dictate what specs constitute the model name, and those specs can be revised over time (a concept that's not unique to NVIDIA, by the way). We bring this up because NVIDIA is reportedly preparing some...
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Counter-Strike 2 has been out for a little while now, providing an updated and perhaps a more fun experience than the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. However, in the time since the game’s launch, some nefarious players have found way to cheats, which diminishes that experience in general. As such, Valve has...
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Have some sympathy for marketers. They're on the front lines of the brand wars, fighting for mindshare as part of the eternal battle for market share. Like any soldiers in a war zone, sometimes marketers make risky decisions if they think it will give them a leg up on the enemy—questionable decisions like "comparing...
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Universal Japan’s Super Nintendo World will be getting its first new area, based on the Donkey Kong Country franchise. This new area will come to the Osaka, Japan based theme park in the Spring of 2024. It will be a space with a lot of greenery, pulling inspiration from the jungle themes found throughout the popular...
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A couple was sadly robbed and had their truck stolen in a pair of brazen thieves right outside their Washington D.C. apartment. While occurrences like this happen way too often, what's bizarre about this theft was in the midst of the robbing, the perpetrators took one look at the victim's Android phone and decided to...
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You can always leave it to the eagle-eyed gamers to uncover the most subtle hints of new products coming. No, we're not talking about the ridiculously hyped GTA 6 and its treasure trove of surprises. The next best thing is in new hardware tidbits, and in this case, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX Super refresh. While it seems to...
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