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- Minisforum Unveils $519 Ryzen 9 16-Core Motherboard For A Killer SFF Gaming PC
- Big Tech Dodges A Bullet As Apple And Microsoft Avoid Strict EU Gatekeeper Rules
- SpaceX Grounds Moon Mission Over A Fuel Issue, New Launch Date Announced
- Android 15 Preview: Scoop Up 'Vanilla Ice Cream' This Week
- Potential Walmart-Vizio Deal Could Shake Up TV Market But Will It Happen?
- Vote For Savings With These RTX Gaming Desktop And Laptop Presidents' Day Deals
- How To Run ChatGPT-Like AI On GeForce RTX Cards Using NVIDIA Chat With RTX
- Helldivers 2 Boss Apologizes For Server Issues As Game Skyrockets In Popularity
- Bank Of America Alerts 57K Customers Of Data Breach Exposing Private Data To Hackers
- Lawsuit Accuses Amazon Of Shady Buy Box Tactics That Trick Consumers Into Overpaying
- Will Smart Earrings Be The Next Big Thing In Wearables? We’re About To Find Out
- Nothing Reveals Phone 2a Launch Date In The US But There's A Catch
- NASA’s New Space Station Suit For Future Missions Just Passed A Very Important Test
- NVIDIA's Latest GPU Driver Spreads DLSS To More Games Just In Time For Skull And Bones
- Samsung Patent Hints At Game-Changing Galaxy Z Fold 6 Design Changes
- NVIDIA Unveils $625 RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU With A VRAM Boost
- AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Zen 5 CPU Details Suggest Key Architecture Upgrades
- Escape From Tarkov Is Getting Microtransactions To Go With A Flurry Of Fixes
- Will Microsoft Stop Making Xbox Consoles? What Phil Spencer Reportedly Told Employees
- Delidded AMD Ryzen 8700G Hits All-Core 5GHz Speeds, iGPU Overclocked To 3.5GHz
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All News for February 2024
We have a secret to reveal to you, dear readers. It's something that Intel and AMD are rather coy about, although if we're being honest it's not exactly a "secret". The truth is this: supposed "mobile" processors that end in "HX" from both Intel and AMD are in fact not really mobile processors at all, but rather...
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Apple and Microsoft dodged a big bullet, as the European Commission found the duo to not be designated as “gatekeepers.” The decision closed four market investigations that were first launched in September of last year following the passage of the Digital Markets Act.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) was a landmark...
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SpaceX has delayed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines IM-1 lunar mission that will attempt to soft land on the Moon’s surface. The mission aims to be the first to successfully land a US vehicle on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C class lunar lander, named...
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Google's Android 15 Developer Preview is scheduled for release February 15, meaning that if all goes well, it'll be ready for prime time when the Pixel 9 series drops sometime in the fourth quarter. As the name suggests, this is the developer-only iteration, so it's not meant for public consumption.
According to a post on Google's Android
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In what would be a surprise and potentially game-changing move, Walmart is reportedly in discussions to acquire Vizio, a popular maker of smart TVs and soundbars, for $2 billion. Nothing is set in stone, but according to The New York Times, discussions are ongoing. The appeal for Walmart isn't just to sell TVs, which...
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers may have heard whispers that work had begun on a machine at Iowa State College called the Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC), a very early and rudimentary electronic digital computer with hundreds of vacuum tubes. Without support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS, however, they...
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If you're a regular reader around here, odds are very good that you've spent some time experimenting with AI, including large language models. Even if you're not a developer yourself, you've probably dallied with DALL-E, gabbed with Gemini (née Bard), or chatted with ChatGPT—perhaps in its more pervasive form as...
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Helldivers 2 is a surprise hit for Sony, however, with that unexpected success has come increase scrutiny and several technical issues for which the game’s developer is now apologizing. In a post on the game’s Steam page, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt wrote “I know the progression issue is frustrating, especially for...
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Earlier this month, consumers were notified of a data breach at one of the United States’ largest banks, Bank of America. Serving 69 million customers and handling $1.3T in deposits, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to see such a massive, complex organization suffered a breach. However, it would appear that a...
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Amazon has come to dominate online retail, which has put its practices under the microscope. European regulators have slapped the company down for an allegedly biased algorithm that places more expensive purchase options in the coveted "Buy Box." Amazon claims it fixed that, but a lawsuit in the US says otherwise. The...
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Consumers can already suit up with a smartwatch, a smart ring, and a pair of smart glasses, and soon they may be able to add smart earrings to their list of fashionable smart accessories. Designed by researchers at the University of Washington, the Thermal Earring is a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a...
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Carl Pei is getting the internet buzzing again as he shares more information about the upcoming Nothing Phone (2a). With strong hints pointing to some kind of unveil at Mobile World Conference (MWC) in late February, a few concrete details (along with some solid leaks) have showed up to give us a better idea of what...
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Collins Aerospace is putting NASA’s latest space station suit to the test in a weightless environment on Earth. The test marked what NASA called “an important step” toward developing a suit that can be used for continuing operations and advancing scientific discovery in low Earth orbit (LEO).
NASA awarded Collins...
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Ubisoft is on track to release Skull and Bones this Friday to PC and console, and in preparation for its debut on the former, NVIDIA is rolling out a new GeForce GPU driver that's optimized for the upcoming open-world action game. Part of that includes Day-1 ray tracing Deep Learning Super Sampling 2 (DLSS 2) support...
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If a U.S. patent filing is any indicator, Samsung's next-gen Galaxy Z Fold 6 may lose the tall, slender-man shape of previous Folds, potentially replacing it with a revised hinge mechanism along with a broader, thinner device design. While it might be too soon to rejoice, patent filings usually mean companies have...
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Hot on the heels of NVIDIA's Geforce RTX 40 Super series refresh, team green has launched yet another graphics card, though this one takes aim at professionals. It's the RTX 2000 Ada Generation and while it is not intended for gaming, it could certainly be employed in workstations that are used by game designers...
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AMD's current-generation Ryzen 7000 desktop processors came out in September of 2022. That's over 16 months ago. Intel's gearing up to launch its own Arrow Lake second-generation tiled processors on the desktop, and naturally, AMD is readying its competitor: the Zen 5 architecture and the CPUs bearing it, likely to be...
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Escape from Tarkov, a “hardcore and realistic online first-person action RPG/Simulator with MMO features and a story-driven walkthrough,” has gotten a lot of love over the last year. While some might argue there are still issues with cheaters and other problems, we are on the cusp of another patch bringing many new...
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The Xbox brand has been taking a battering lately with all the rumors surrounding the status of exclusives, and it appears Xbox CEO Phil Spencer attempted to calm employees by stating that there are no plans for the company to stop manufacturing hardware, during a recent company townhall. This is according to Shannon...
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Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMD’s latest Zen 4 APU. He found that delidding the chip and replacing the stock thermal interface material with better alternatives resulted in significantly better thermals, and was able to overclock...
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PC enthusiasts of a certain age will recall the bad old days before DirectX, when developers who wanted to make use of advanced acceleration hardware in graphics processors had to use a vendor-specific API for it. This meant that your ATI Rage version of Mechwarrior 2 wasn't going to work on your fancy new Rendition...
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Sony PlayStation’s Helldivers 2 is another surprise hit for 2024, with a success story akin to smash hit Palworld. The game’s creative director, Johan Pilestedt, responded to a question on social media about the game’s sales, sharing that “we are around a million right now.” Helldivers 2 is an online co-op...
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