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- Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Brings Experimental Mesh Shader Support To Arc Alchemist
- Next-Gen PCIe 5 Power Connector Delivers 600W, Works With GeForce RTX 30 FE Cards
- Valve's Steam Deck Has Game Developers Already Gushing Over How Well It Works
- Microsoft Allegedly Kills Hololens 3 Mixed Reality Headset In The Midst Of Metaverse Mania
- Microsoft Warns This Sophisticated Mac Trojan Is Getting More Sinister
- 2022 Moto G Stylus Flaunts A 50MP Camera, Huge Battery And 90Hz Display For Just $299
- Facebook Claims It Will Take A $10B Revenue Hit From Apple's iOS Privacy Lockdowns
- Intel Larrabee Prototype GPU Scores Over $5,200 On Ebay And Yes It Still Works
- NASA Interstellar Probe Mission Could Shed Light On The Mysteries Of Dark Matter
- Former Microsoft Engineer Says Disable These Windows 11 Features That Eat RAM
- Hacker Pulls Off A Massive $324M Crypto Heist Then Gets Offered A $10M Reward
- These EVGA GeForce RTX 30 Series Bundles Are In Stock At Better Pricing While Supplies Last
- Switch Shipments Top 100M To Eclipse Wii As Nintendo's Best Selling Game Console Ever
- Valve Steam Deck Gets A Major Performance Boost Feature And It Hasn't Even Shipped Yet
- Security Firm Warns These Major UEFI BIOS Security Flaws Affect Millions Of Devices
- This Windows 11 Update Aims To Fix Sluggish SSD Performance For Good
- Gmail Is Getting A Slick Makeover You're Going To Love, Here's What It Looks Like
- How To Play Wordle For Free Forever Even If It Gets Plopped Behind A Paywall
- WD Black SN770 SSD Review: Killer Gen 4 Storage For Gamers
- Tesla Recalls 54K Self-Driving Cars For Disrespecting The Stop Sign
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All News for February 2022
Mesh shaders are one of the more interesting recent developments in computer graphics technology, despite that many users are very likely not heard of them, or only heard the name. In essence, mesh shaders are a programmable shader type that allows a GPU to shift some of the workload from fixed-function hardware over...
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If you're a hardware enthusiast, you might remember that back when NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3000-series cards launched, its Founders Edition cards came with a funky little power connector and an adaptor in the box. We've since learned that connector is (or at least based on) the peripheral power connector from the PCIe...
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There is no shortage of hype and excitement surrounding Valve's Steam Deck handheld, but is it all warranted? Nobody can truly answer that until the first units ship out to customers. However, one very encouraging sign is that game developers are apparently super stoked for the Steam Deck's arrival, and surprised at...
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Microsoft's HoloLens 3 future appears to be uncertain, as reports indicate a lack of direction when it comes to the future of the mixed-reality headset. At least one source believes plans for the headset have been scrapped altogether.
Virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) headsets have taken the stage front and...
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A trojan known as UpdateAgent began infecting Mac computers back in September 2020, but this infection was relatively innocuous at the time, doing nothing other than collecting some basic system and device information and broadcasting its presence to the command-and-control (C2) server. However, Microsoft has been...
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Premium smartphones are great and all, but they also can cost upwards of $1,000 (sometimes way upwards). Then almost at the polar end of the spectrum, Motorola's refreshed Moto G Stylus for 2022 brings some intriguing upgrades and a premium aesthetic (in a plastic shell) for $299. That's on the high-end of budget or...
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Most would argue that privacy features are good for users, but media platforms have a different perspective. Facebook claims that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature will cost it $10 billion in revenue this year. Meta CFO Dave Wehner remarked the loss in revenue the company expects to see in 2022 is based on...
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If everything goes to plan, Intel this year will launch Arc Alchemist and finally have a dog in the discrete GPU fight, battling AMD (Radeon) and NVIDIA (GeForce) for gaming dollars. In the meantime, someone has sold a blast from past from Intel's last attempt to make a discrete GPU, with a Larrabee prototype fetching...
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How much dark matter is actually in our solar system and the Milky Way Galaxy? A recent study that was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society calculated approximately how much the gravitational pull of dark matter impacts our solar system. The study further proposed a potential...
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Since its launch, Windows 11 has had a slew of performance issues. Much like Pac-Man eating power pellets, Microsoft’s latest operating system does have a habit of gobbling up extra RAM. Now a former Microsoft engineer has provided his insight on how to stop the buffet.
Michael Niehaus, former Microsoft Engineer...
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In one of the largest DeFi hacks ever, a hacker is being offered a $10 million bug bounty for the return of stolen money. Wormhole, one of the biggest bridges between Solana and other blockchains, was hacked for approximately $324 million.
Cryptocurrency is one of the hottest assets going right now. So hot that...
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One place that has been fairly consistent with hardware restocks is Antonline. As many vendors are apt to do, however, the retailer likes to package hard-to-find tech gear in bundles, essentially forcing you to buy multiple items even if you're only after the main item. And as such, there are now several EVGA GeForce...
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Remember the skepticism surrounding Nintendo's strategy to release a hybrid console powered by an NVIDIA Tegra chip? I was among those who wondered if that was the right move. Not anymore, of course. We all now know the Switch is a huge success, and lest there remains any doubt, Nintendo has shipped over 103 million...
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Folks who had experience with the old version of SteamOS might recall that it was little more than Ubuntu with a Steam-flavored coat of paint. The upcoming release of SteamOS, initially shipping with the Steam Deck, however, is not going to be that. Though the new edition of SteamOS is derived from Arch Linux, Valve...
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A team from Binarly, a firmware protection company, recently discovered several repeatable anomalies on twenty different enterprise machines in the course of a job for a midsize enterprise company. After looking further into these anomalies and digging all the way down into the disassembly code, the team found 23...
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Whatever you think about Microsoft, it's clear that the Windows 11 launch has been a bit of a bumpy ride for Redmond. There have been issues with buggy start menus, stability problems, HDR issues, incompatibilities with various devices (including certain network adapters and printers), poor performance particularly...
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At more than 20% of the worldwide market share in email servers, Gmail, Google’s e-mail service, is currently the number one provider of email on the planet according. As such, Google actually updates the system fairly frequently, and the coming months will be no different—Gmail is getting a makeover and it looks...
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There was a bit of a freak-out when it was learned that John Wardle, developer of the viral hit Wordle, sold his word game to The New York Times for a sum in the "low seven figures." While Wardle can now deservedly relish in being a millionaire, the question is, how long with Wordle remain free to play before it gets...
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WD just launched a brand new series of PCIe Gen 4 solid state drives that target gamers on a budget, the WD Black SN770. As its names suggests, the new WD Black SN770 sits ahead of the previous-gen SN750 drives in WD’s line-up, but a tick behind the flagship, top-performing SN850. Like the WD Black SN850 though, the SN770 is a PCIe Gen...
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Some drivers like to play it safe while other drivers tend to be a tad more aggressive. Tesla recently released various self-driving modes to accommodate both driving styles. However, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has taken issue with some of the self-driving mode behaviors...
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If you fancy yourself an elite hacker, there could be an Intel event in your future. The chip maker announced it is expanding its bug bounty program with Project Circuit Breaker, which will provide capable hackers with opportunities to win prizes and swag by hunting for bugs in firmware, hypervisors, GPUs, chipsets...
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An Earth Trojan asteroid has been confirmed by scientists, and it doesn't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. The asteroid is more than a kilometer wide and is only the second known of its kind orbiting along with Earth around the Sun, and is the bigger of the two.
Scientists in Chile using the SOAR...
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