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- GPU Sag Could Shorten The Life Of Your Graphics Card, Here's How To Fix It
- Redfall Will Launch With 30 FPS Cap On Xbox And Console Gamers Are Livid
- Razer Stream Controller X Arrives At The Right Price To Challenge Elgato's Stream Deck MK.2
- Museum Offers $25K Reward For Meteorite Frags After A Fireball Scorched The Skies
- Where To Buy NVIDIA's New GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs Starting At $599
- UPDATE: AMD's First RDNA 3 Radeon Pro Graphics Cards Come With 48GB and 32GB of VRAM
- Overwatch 2 Season 4 Ranking Glitch Sparks Gamer Outrage And A Blizzard Investigation
- AMD Engineer Inadvertently Leaks First Zen 6 Morpheus CPU Details Including 2nm Node
- VLC Media Player Just Got Even Better With NVIDIA Super Resolution Support
- Behind The Scenes Building An All-AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D MG-1 Gaming PC At Maingear
- GameStop Employee Claims Nintendo Got Him Fired For Leaking Zelda-Edition Switch
- Fuzzy First Image Of A Supermassive Black Hole Gets A HIgh-Fidelity AI Makeover
- Noctua Demos Dual Fan CPU Air Cooler Chilling Out A 700W 56-Core Intel Xeon Processor
- Major Classified Pentagon Documents Leak Tracked Through A Minecraft Discord Server
- The End Of XIM? How Activision, Ubisoft And Others Are Cracking Down On Cheaters
- Tiny Minisforum NPB7 Mini PC Offers Dual 2.5G Ethernet And Raptor Lake Mobile Punch
- Google TV Adds Over 800 Free Channels As Streaming Wars With Roku Heat Up
- OpenAI Unveils A Long Overdue Bug Bounty With Rewards For ChatGPT Flaws
- AMD Coyly Disses NVIDIA For Skimping On Graphics Card Memory For Gaming
- Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Smartwatch Flexes Infinite Battery Life And LED Flashlight
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All News for April 2023
A German TechTuber has observed that some graphics cards have started to routinely fail due to the stresses imposed by their physical size and fixing orientation. KrisFix, whose day job is in computer repair, asserts that he has started to see a trend in NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards being brought in –...
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Bethesda has gamers biting mad after it announced that its upcoming title Redfall will launch on the Xbox Series X/S with a limited frame rate. The Xbox Series X will be limited to 30fps at 4k, while the Series S will be limited to 30fps at 1440p.
The highly anticipated game from Bethesda and Arkane Studios is an...
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Razer is back with another iteration of its all-in-one controller for streaming and content creation in a similar compact form factor with more than a dozen LCD buttons, but the new Stream Controller X arrives with a much cheaper price tag. As such, it's a more competitive alternative to Elgato's similar-looking...
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A $25,000 reward is being put out for whoever finds a chunk of a meteor that lit up the sky over Maine around noon last Saturday. Finding it could prove quite challenging, though.
A rare event woke the town of Calais, Maine on Saturday April 8 at around 11:56 a.m. Residents were treated a bright red fireball...
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After months of speculation, NVIDIA finally got around to releasing the GeForce RTX 4070 (non-TI model), which ranks as the least expensive Ada Lovelace card to date with a $599 starting MSRP. That also means it's lowest on the totem pole in terms of hardware and performance, though it's not slow—check out our GeForce...
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Almost four months to the day after the launch of its Navi 31-based Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards, AMD is now releasing the first Radeon Pro boards based on the same architecture. The Radeon Pro W7900 and Radeon Pro W7800 are both high-end professional graphics cards with potent compute acceleration...
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Overwatch 2 Season 4 introduced a new ranking system to the game — on top of the controversial hero Lifeweaver — that would no longer cause seasonal rank resets and rank decay. However, due to miscommunication between the community and the developers, players are seeing rank changes happening in Season 4 and...
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AMD's processor core IP for both CPUs and GPUs have separate internal code names from the final product as well as the public code names. When AMD's employees are talking about RDNA 3 or Zen 4 internally, they're not using that terminology, but rather specific code names to refer to particular designs. For example...
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The creators of the VLC Video player have announced a new update spreading NVIDIA’s AI upscaling tech from online video playback with Chrome and Edge to offline movies and video playback with VLC. The update is available now with VLC Version 3.0.19.
NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution is a relatively new upscaling...
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We had another chance to visit our friends at Maingear and build a custom gaming PC decked out with high-end hardware, including AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU. This is the first time we've done so since the boutique builder partnered with Michael "shroud" Grzesiek, a top streamer who joined the fray last...
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Nintendo seems to be sending a strong message to those who choose to leak information surrounding a yet-to-be-released title on its highly popular Switch platform. The latest example comes from a former employee of GameStop who says the gaming giant had them fired for posting on a subreddit that the game maker would...
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A team of researchers has shown off a new machine-learning technique by enhancing the Event Horizon Telescope's images of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth. The technique, called PRIMO, enhances the fidelity and sharpness of radio interferometry images.
The Event...
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Noctua has demonstrated one of its dual fan tower form factor coolers capably soothing a 56-core Intel Xeon W9-3495X as it chews through more than 700W of power. The Austrian firm has one of the best reputations in air cooling CPUs, but this chilling feat will raise eyebrows among the PC enthusiast and liquid cooling...
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Discord is an incredible service, if you think about it. Anyone, with a free account, can create their own private space to chat over text, voice, or video. These Discord "servers" allow an unlimited number of file uploads and downloads, and you can even link the resources hosted on Discord externally. It has a...
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First-person shooters may have originated on the PC, but for many years they've been most-played on game consoles. PC gamers typically use their mouse and keyboard to play the games, while console gamers are expected to use the standard controller the system ships with. Playing FPS games on a gamepad is sub-optimal...
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Minisforum has launched its first Intel 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake processor packing mini-PC. The new Venus Series NPB7 is actually powered by an Intel Core i7-13700H processor, one of Intel’s H-series mobile processors. Pricing of the barebone system has been set a reasonable looking $489, considering the Core i7...
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When Google TV launched—or rather, relaunched—with the new Chromecast, Google had big plans for live TV integration via its YouTube TV service. In the intervening years, many of Google's competitors like Roku have embraced so-called free ad-supported television (FAST). Now, Google is stepping up with the addition of...
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OpenAI, well known for its ChatGPT service, announced its Bug Bounty Program as a way for the company to recognize and reward the insights of those who report vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws in its AI technology. The company is offering security researchers, programmers, and ethical hackers anywhere from $200...
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AMD issued a blog post yesterday, right before the launch of the RTX 4070, subtly shredding NVIDIA’s “lackluster” GDDR6 and GDDR6X memory sizes on its RTX 30/40 series graphics cards. AMD says enthusiasts demand the best gaming experience possible and video memory capacities below 12GB are simply not enough to run the...
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Garmin just announced improved versions of its Instinct 2 Solar-series smartwatch, now with twice the charging capability and built-in LED flashlight, called the Instinct 2X Solar and 2X Solar Tactical Edition.
Popular GPS navigation and wearable brand Garmin has added two more solar-powered watches to its catalog...
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NASA invited the media to take a gander at its Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) facility on Tuesday, which will house four volunteers for a year beginning this summer. The facility is designed to simulate what it may be like for the first inhabitants of Mars.
CHAPEA is a 1,700-square-foot...
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You probably don't go installing software and updates willy-nilly but you may know someone who does, be it a less tech savvy friend or family member. If they surf the web using Google's Chrome browser, save yourself a potential tech support headache and advise them of a malware campaign designed to dupe them into...
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