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- Check Out These Magical Tips For Faster Frames In Hogwarts Legacy On PC
- Scientists Crank UFO Research Into High Gear As Another Object Is Shot Down Over Canada
- Hogwarts Legacy Runs Like The Fat Friar, Patches Desperately Desired
- Get Bose Sunglass Headphones And Quiet Comfort Earbuds II On Great Deals Up To 45 Percent Off
- Wall Of Freaky Green Lasers Is Seen Streaking From A China Satellite Over Hawaii
- Windows 11 Expected To Soon Offer Glorious Native RGB Bling PC Lighting Control
- Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom Is The Biggest First-Party Nintendo Switch Game Ever
- Hogwarts Legacy Casts Aside Cyberpunk To Claim A Magical Twitch Viewership Record
- Nintendo Adds Retro Game Boy Games To Switch Online But Not Everyone Is Happy
- MSI Reveals Support For 192GB Of DDR5 RAM In These Motherboards And Chrome Users Rejoice
- Microsoft's Attempt To Buy Activision Turns Ugly As Sony Accuses Rival Of Obvious Harassment
- Scientists Torn On Lunar Proposal To Dim The Sun With Moon Dust To Tackle Climate Change
- Modular Laptop Maker Framework Now Sells A 2TB SSD Upgrade For Your Steam Deck
- 2.5 Geeks: Mobile GeForce RTX 4090, Intel 13th Gen Mobile, Galaxy S23, OnePlus 11
- AMD Steals More Of Intel's Lunch Money, Capturing Over 30% X86 CPU Market Share
- WFH Focused Minisforum MC560 PC Gets A Spec Bump And Discount As Preorders Open
- Reddit Tells Users To Enable 2FA After Hackers Steal Source Code Data In Security Breach
- Modder Details How To Jam With Raspberry Pico Powered Open Source Headphones
- Intel's Core i9-13980HX Usurps AMD's Ryzen 9 7845HX For This CPU Benchmark Throne
- Twitter Tests A Massive Jump In Character Limit, So Much For Keeping Tweets Short And Sweet
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As we wrote yesterday, Hogwarts Legacy is a bear of a game to run. GeForce RTX 3080 cards struggle in 2560×1440, even with DLSS enabled, and Radeon cards can't run the game playably at all with ray-tracing turned on. Arguably the real problem is the game's incredibly inconsistent performance, though. Players who have...
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A string of recent events, surrounding strange objects and occurrences in the sky, has stirred the interest of many in terms of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), also referred to as UFOs. From cylindrical to balloon-like objects or a green laser light show, more people are buzzing about UFO activity than perhaps...
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Hotly-anticipated, open-world RPG Hogwarts Legacy officially launched yesterday, and I spent most of last night testing the game on a few different video cards. The conclusion? Hogwarts Legacy is a pretty game with a lot to like, but it runs about as well as Hogwarts' jovial mendicant monk.
It's worth noting that...
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Have you been in the market for new audio gear? Perhaps some thermonuclear protection is in order as well, in addition to crystal-clear audio? You may need a new pair of buds for your workout playlist, and we've found some great deals on Bose products and more for lots of different use cases. Check these out...
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A strange occurrence was caught in the night sky in Hawaii that may have left some thinking there was a glitch in the matrix. The actual cause of the green laser light show in the night sky was a satellite, first believed to be emanating from a NASA satellite orbiting Earth. Upon further investigation, however, it is...
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When it comes to building a PC and blinging it out, one of the bigger pain points can be the sheer quantities of software of varying quality needed to control all the RGB glory. However, Microsoft might be coming to the rescue by bringing support for RGB lighting control to Windows 11 natively. PCMR members...
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Everyone loves Super Mario, and while its fanbase is smaller, Metroid fans are even more rabid. Still, there's one long-lived Nintendo franchise that arguably stands above all in terms of its beloved status, and that's The Legend of Zelda. The next main-series Zelda game, known as "Tears of the Kingdom", will be a...
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The Harry Potter franchise—known more generally as the "Wizarding World" now—is the 10th largest media franchise on earth. 10th place may not sound that great, but it sits among storied company like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Shonen Jump, and Super Mario. In that context, it really shouldn't be any surprise that...
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Nintendo released its latest "Nintendo Direct" full of announcements and releases on February 8th. While fans were excited about the newest trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there were some mixed feelings when Nintendo announced the availability of classic portable titles for Nintendo Switch...
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MSI has announced that its MEG, MPG, MAG, and PRO Series Intel motherboards with DDR5 slots can support 24GB and 48GB memory modules. No BIOS updates are necessary for this expanded memory support, says MSI. It will enable systems with up to 96GB of system RAM (2-slots), or 192GB (4-slot motherboards). This should...
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The bid for Microsoft to buy Activision-Blizzard continues to devolve as Sony accuses its biggest competitor of obvious harassment. The accusation comes on the heels of the U.K.'s competition regulator provisionally concluding that the deal would harm gamers and competition in the gaming market.
The accusations...
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Astrophysicists propose using moon dust to block radiation from the sun as a means of combating climate change. The trio of researchers were not initially looking for a climate solution, but found inspiration along the way.
Bromley, a theoretical astrophysicist who primarily studies how planets form, remarked...
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Framework has ambitious plans to revolutionize the laptop market by selling a modular notebook for easy DIY repairs and upgrades that extend way beyond just the usual bits (storage, RAM, and Wi-Fi cards). However, it also jumped at the opportunity to offer Steam Deck owners a viable storage upgrade by securing a batch...
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In our latest episode of 2.5 Geeks, Dave, Marco, and Ryan cover big launch tech from the desktop, laptops, and smartphones! NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 mobile is here, along with Intel Raptor Lake 13th Gen Core mobile, Samsung's Galaxy S23 series and the OnePlus 11 5G, plus a quick sidetrack to talk about a beautiful...
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AMD is now within striking distance of claiming a third of the CPU market, as the company benefited from inventory corrections and price increases by rival Intel, according to the latest data from Mercury Research. The gain in share also came as the processor market as a whole suffered the largest quarterly and annual...
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Hong Kong-based mini PC maker Minisforum has put its smart-speaker styled MC560 up for pre-sale. The firm is pitching the work from home market targeted video-conferencing friendly device at an attractive discount, for now, and also revealed that it has implemented a (slight) spec bump in the final shipping version of...
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Hackers recently managed to infiltrate Reddit and gain access to internal documents, source code, and internal business systems, an admin for the site disclosed. According to Reddit, the cyberattack was the result of a "sophisticated phishing campaign" against the site's employees. In a post detailing the security...
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The concept of "open source" originates with software, of course, but that doesn't mean it has to stop there. Open-source hardware is a thing now, and you can also find all kinds of other projects becoming "open source." That means that they're sharing schematics, plans, and diagrams for producing the product yourself...
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If you looked at that headline and thought, "I didn't even know either of those CPUs were out yet," don't be distressed, because they aren't. While both the Core i9-13980HX and Ryzen 9 7845HX have been announced by their respective manufacturers, you can't actually buy a laptop with either processor yet. Despite that...
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Since its beginning, Twitter has been known for its short and sweet Tweets. Many have appreciated not having to read Uncle Bernard's lengthy explanation of why he wears his tinfoil hat. When someone needed more characters to fully express themselves, they simply created a thread to do so. However, those days may be...
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The Legend of Zelda fans have been excited for the direct sequel to Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and we have to admit that we are, too. While there have been direct sequels in the series, it's rare. Even then, many direct sequels have significant gameplay changes. Thanks to a new...
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) were astonished to detect a ring around a dwarf planet. The dwarf planet, Quaoar, is a trans-Neptunian object that lies within our own Solar System.
A group of researchers detected the ring around Quaoar using a series of...
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