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- Google's Bard AI Spaces Out In Public Demo Knocking $120B Off Alphabet's Market Cap
- Silicon Wafers Finally Fall In Price But Does It Mean Cheaper CPUs And GPUs?
- Shocking Study Exposes Lax Security Of Online Stores Entrusted With Your Data
- Intel Sunsets 14nm Rocket Lake CPUs As It Goes All-In With Hybrid Chips
- HP Printers Accused Of Loan Shark Shakedown Of Owners With Sketchy Ink Subscriptions
- ASRock's Latest Mini PC Flexes Ryzen And Radeon Firepower Enough For Four 8K Displays
- Call Of Duty Modern Warfare II Steam Rolls A Sales Record That Stood For 20 Years
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Blows Past Apple's A16 Bionic In Benchmark Leak
- Intel 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPU Leak Hints A Delightfully Large IPC Boost
- Activision CEO Fires Death Valley Warning Shot At UK Over Microsoft Buyout Opposition
- JWST's Images of Distant Galaxy Clusters Showcases Einstein's Bending Light Prediction
- MSI Dresses The GeForce RTX 4080 And 4070 Ti GPUs In Stunning White Attire
- Why Atari's 50th Anniversary 2600 Game Cartridge Box Set Costs An Eye-Popping $1,000
- OnePlus Teases A First Look At A 'Phenomenal' Folding Phone To Rival The Galaxy Z Fold
- Accio! Intel Beats NVIDIA And AMD To Conjuring A GPU Driver Tuned For Hogwarts Legacy
- Streamer Recreates Legend Of Zelda In Minecraft Without Any Mods And It's Awesome
- How To Preload Hogwarts Legacy On Steam And When WB Games Will Flip The Switch
- Here's When You Might Be Able To Buy A GeForce RTX 4070
- Why The iPhone Isn't Likely To Drop In Price Even As Apple Misses Shipment Targets
- Nintendo Switch Defeats PS4 And Gameboy To Become 3rd Best-Selling Game Console Ever
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So here's the deal, artificial intelligence is useful for a good many things, but like humans with their squishy brains AI is not infallible. Unfortunately for Google, this was put on full display in a Twitter post promoting the company's Bard chatbot, which served up false information in a short demo. Since then, the...
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The spot price of 6-, 8-, and 12-inch silicon wafers has fallen for the first time in three years. Taiwanese business journal UDN notes that this is the first dip in wafer pricing since the start of the epidemic. These prepared silicon wafer blanks from businesses such as Global Wafers, Wafer Works and others are now...
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In a perfect world, online stores would treat your personal data with the most stringent security policies, taking extra precautions to make sure your details don't end up for sale on the dark web. And to be fair, some do (or at least come close). However, a new study reveals that many online stores are inexcusably...
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Intel has branded its 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs as having reached End of Life (EOL) status and just like that, my main PC with a Core i9-11900K processor is obsolete at the ripe old age of less than two years. Okay, not really (about the latter part)—if you own a Rocket Lake build, your system is not obsolete in the...
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When you buy a new HP inkjet printer, the setup software strongly encourages you to sign up for the company's Instant Ink service. It sounds like a good deal on the face of it—every time you print a certain number of pages, HP will send you a fresh ink cartridge without you having to go buy one yourself.
The...
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If you're putting together a PC that has to fit in a space less than five inches long in any dimension, that means you have to settle for mediocre parts with just a couple of CPU cores and weak graphics, right? Well, not necessarily. Check out ASRock Industrial's new 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 series.
These micro-PCs are, as...
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It's only been four months since launch and the remake of Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has broken yet another record. After being the fastest title in the series to reach $1B in sales, the game is now also the proud owner of the most sales in its release quarter since the very first game in the series...
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We've only just gotten the first phones with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, including the new OnePlus 11, and already an alleged benchmark of its successor has leaked. The supposed Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmark shows the ARM processor besting everything under the sun, even Apple's class-leading A16...
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According to a prominent leaks-centric TechTuber, Intel’s 15th Gen Core Arrow Lake processors are going to deliver a 45% IPC (instructions per clock) upgrade compared to the groundbreaking and still popular Alder Lake family. It sounds like a monster leap, which may be easy to feel cynical about, but perhaps we would...
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Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sends a message to UK regulators ahead of its provisional findings on the $69 billion Microsoft acquisition. Kotick believes opposing the deal would cause the UK to become a "Death Valley" for tech.
Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision-Blizzard has been a road filled with...
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For the first time ever, researchers have been able to examine very compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The research was recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Albert Einstein developed his theory of general...
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MSI has released versions of its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards in frosty white and silver livery. The specific models subjected to the winter wonderland treatment are the GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Gaming X Trio White and the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gaming X Trio White 12G. If you were waiting for a...
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My first introduction to console gaming came when my folks brought home an Atari 2600. It helped launch the golden age of gaming, and was home to many memorable titles from back in the day, like Adventure and Missile Command. Both of those happen to be part of a new limited edition 50th anniversary boxed set...
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During the Cloud 11 launch event, OnePlus confirmed that it will be debuting a pair of foldable phones called the OnePlus V Fold and V Flip at the end of this year.
Hot off the announcements of the OnePlus 11, Buds Pro 2, and OnePlus Pad, OnePlus let the cat out of the bag amidst swirling rumors and trademarked...
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At the risk of making a mountain out of a mole hill, Intel deserves a hearty pat on the back for its latest Arc GPU driver release. That's because it's optimized for Hogwarts Legacy, which is due to release in earnest later this week on February 10, 2023. Getting in front of the 8-ball on a much-anticipated game...
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Minecraft has become a cultural phenomenon. With the first development release way back in 2010, the 12-year-old title has impacted gaming quite a lot. The title has had enough effect that Microsoft decided buying Mojang for $2.5 billion was worth it. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons that Minecraft has such a solid...
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There may not be as many Harry Potter fans as there once were, but the series definitely still has legions of hardcore devotees that snap up every bit of "Wizarding World" media. Those fans are no doubt frothing at the mouth to play the new Avalanche Software title Hogwarts Legacy, which is the first big-budget video...
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NVIDIA is slowly rolling forward with its plans to release lower-tier Ada Lovelace architecture graphics cards to the masses. The next RTX 40 Series product to exit gestation looks set to be the GeForce RTX 4070 (non Ti model). According to a purported GeForce Desktop Embargo document leaked by VideoCardz, the RTX 4070 will be “on-shelf” sometime
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Apple CEO believes consumers are not only willing to pay current high-end smartphone prices, but could be persuaded to pay even more. Tim Cook made the statement during a recent earnings call.
The price of high-end smartphones has slowly been creeping upward in the last few years, with the iPhone 14 Pro Max with...
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The Nintendo Switch has a real shot of becoming the top-selling game console of all time. For now, it will have to settle for third place, as updated sales figures show it trailing the Nintendo DS (No. 2) and Sony's PlayStation 2 (No. 1), after clawing its way in front of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color (No. 4) and...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to reveal previously undetected celestial objects. This time the observatory finds an asteroid roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum.
A team of European astronomers utilizing JWST randomly detected an interloping asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter. The team...
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Do you remember playing games on a Voodoo 5 6000 graphics card? Neither do I, though only because 3dfx Interactive, a pioneer in discrete graphics accelerators, never actually released the card before the company fell on hard financial times, prompting a sale of assets to NVIDIA. However, the Voodoo 5 6000 did reach...
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