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- 2.5 Geeks: Dell's 64-Core Threadripper Pro Workstation, Intel Xeon W, Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra And More!
- NASA's Space Telescope Spots Huge Galaxies Too Big To Exist And Scientists Are Stumped
- AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX Mobile CPU Battles Intel's Core i9-13980HX In Benchmark Leak
- NVIDIA Shares Surge As AI Powerhouse Rakes In Billions On Strong Data Center Earnings
- Meta Quest 2 Hand-Tracking Patch Brings VR Closer Than Ever To Minority Report Inputs
- Maingear Commits To Carrying Arc Graphics Cards As Intel Talks Up Battlemage GPUs
- Intel Engineer Gives Inside Scoop On Die Thinning, CPU Temps And Liquid Metal
- Microsoft Backpedals On Bing Chatbot Just Days After Putting AI In Timeout
- Download Angry Birds To Your Android Device Before It Disappears From Google Play
- Planetary Scientist Issues Desperate Plea For NASA To Probe The Icy Depths Of Uranus
- Samsung Shoots Down Claims Of Galaxy S23 Ultra Display Defect With This Explanation
- Gigabyte Shows Off Aorus PCIe 5 SSD Racing At 10GB/s And Boosting Game Load Times
- Windows 11 Preview Build Tests A Major Taskbar Upgrade And A Host Of Other Changes
- 2023 Motorola Razr Folding Smartphone Renders Look So Good You'll Flip Out
- Apple's iPhone 15 Pro May Finally Catch Android Phones In This Key Spec
- Meteor Lake Desktop CPUs Allegedly Based On Laptop Silicon But You May Never See Them
- Microsoft Readies Big Guns For Activision Merger, Signs Major Nintendo And NVIDIA Deals
- Google's Pixel Fold Tipped For A Massive Battery Upgrade But There's A Caveat
- Dell Precision 7865 Workstation Review: Cool & Quiet 64-Core Powerhouse
- AMD Ryzen 7000's RDNA 2 Shows A Massive Performance Gain When Overclocked To 3.1GHz
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In this latest episode of our 2.5 Geeks livestream, we go hands-on with Dell's beastly Precision 7865 workstation powered by a 64-core Threadripper Pro and NVIDIA RTX A6000. We also take a look at Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon W offerings...
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Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have astronomers questioning current cosmological models. The images contain a half dozen galaxies that existed 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, with more mass than was thought...
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Another of AMD’s powerful Ryzen 7045 Series ‘Dragon Range’ laptop processors has been spotted in the wild, in online benchmark results. This time, some Geekbench 5 scores for the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX have been prematurely exposed. What you...
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Investors are upbeat following NVIDIA's fourth quarter and fiscal 2023 financial results, with the company's share price surging after it beat out Wall Street's expectations. That's a despite a 21 percent year-over-year drop in quarterly...
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After 21 years, this Meta Quest update may finally bring us the type of interface interaction we remember from the 2002 film Minority Report. Facebook parent company and VR hardware manufacturer and developer, Meta, has rolled out its Meta...
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If your heart doesn't set a-flutter when you hear "Intel Arc," well, that's understandable. The extant parts based on Intel's Alchemist architecture are squarely mid-range or entry-level GPUs, and they suffered significant issues on launch...
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Earlier this week overclocking expert Roman ‘der8auer’ Hartung continued his series of vlogs documenting his time at Intel’s R&D and overclocking labs in Oregon. In this latest half-hour episode he interviewed Mark Gallina, a Senior System...
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Just days after Microsoft placed limits on its Bing AI chatbot, the company announces that it intends to bring back longer chats. The software giant made the decision to limit conversations with the chatbot after some disturbing and...
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Last year, Rovio re-released the original Angry Birds as a homage to the early days of smartphone gaming. Now, it's un-releasing the game, and the reason may surprise you. Rovio has essentially admitted that the classic Angry Birds is so...
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A planetary scientist is urging NASA to send a probe to Uranus in order to learn more about the icy planet. Kathleen Mandt of Johns Hopkins University says that there is a launch window for such a probe opening in 2032, when Jupiter's...
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A growing number of Samsung S23 Ultra owners are reporting supposed bubbles or ripples near the corner of their phone displays. Should you be concerned? Samsung claims that you shouldn't.
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Gigabyte’s Aorus Gen 5 10000 SSD has hit retail at last, albeit for pre-order or back-order, depending upon where you prefer to purchase. To celebrate the device’s near-availability, Aorus Middle East has shared an unboxing, product...
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Having access to a search option in Windows 11 is great and all, but what's not so nifty is that it's basically just a glorified button that brings up a separate window to actually perform a search. Why can't we just type our query into...
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Motorola is rumored to be taking its next Razr flip smartphone to the next level by incorporating more external screen area than you can shake a stick at.
If you haven't yet noticed, OEMs don't see necessarily see slab phones as...
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One of the biggest shortcomings of Apple's iPhone range is the amount of memory, and that's held true through the latest generation iPhone 14 series, which otherwise launched with some big upgrades. As a longtime iPhone owner, the RAM...
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Back in 2021, Intel had two different architectures going for its 11th-Generation mobile and desktop Core processors: Tiger Lake was handling laptops, and Rocket Lake was rocking desktops. According to rumors, we'll see the same thing...
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Microsoft has announced two 10-year deals today that have been signed, sealed, and delivered. The first is between itself and Nintendo. In a tweet, Smith confirmed that deal had been closed between the two tech giants as part of...
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Insider sources indicate that the Google Pixel Fold design is nearing a finished state. According to 9to5 Google, the device is going to be one of the largest of the large folding smartphones available, as well as the heaviest. However, it...
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Dell Precision 7865: As Configured - $15,840 The Dell Precision 7865 chews through workstation-class workloads with a 64-core AMD Threadripper Pro CPU and NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU, while remaining cool and quiet. 64-Core AMD Threadripper CPU...
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Modern graphics processors have thousands upon thousands of shader processors, and that's because they're expected to run intense 3D games and do massively-parallel math. You don't typically expect integrated graphics processors to do...
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Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile discovered a Jupiter-like exoplanet in the AF Leporis system. The system is said to be similar to our own Solar System, with a star roughly the same mass, size, and temperatures as...
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Google's web browser, Chrome, has not been particularly memory efficient in the past and has long been the subject of scrutiny for over-use of memory. In December, Alphabet Inc.'s subsidiary promised that there would be greater emphasis...
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