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Google wants its Play Store users to have more control over their app account data by allowing them to delete their account and/or data directly within the app or online. Chalk that up as a nice win for personal data privacy. In an announcement yesterday, Google laid down new rules that will require Android app... Read more...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission has helped to unveil a new family of black holes, and its newest members are closer to Earth than any other known black hole. Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 are respectively located approximately 1560 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus and... Read more...
Samsung and AMD have jointly announced an extension to a license agreement to continue using the latter's Radeon graphics solutions in the former's home-brewed Exynos system-on-chip (SoC) designs. And while not specifically mentioned in the announcement, this paves the way for Samsung to leverage AMD's RDNA 3... Read more...
Sony's gaming handhelds have typically been potent portables with expansive feature sets for their time. The original PSP could play audio and video off memory sticks, and it even had a web browser—impressive stuff for a handheld device in 2004, three years before the iPhone. The PS Vita had an OLED screen and... Read more...
The ASUS ROG Ally was not an April Fool's joke after all, but that has turned out to be a very good thing. Sources claim that ASUS’ new handheld gaming console will destroy the Steam Deck in gaming performance with up to twice the performance potential, thanks to beefed-up internals running on the latest AMD CPU and... Read more...
Polish developer CD Projekt Red seems to be among the few game publishers of decent size that understand the PC market: once you release a game, it doesn't vanish from the market after a few weeks, months, or even years. It stays in shops, and people will continue to buy it if there's a reason to do so, like the major... Read more...
Samsung is making some very hefty investments in OLED display fabrication facilities. The South Korean tech giant has a big client lined up for all those luscious display panels – Apple. According to a senior analyst, the displays aren’t for tablets or smartphones either; they are destined for Apple MacBook Pro 14-... Read more...
A new TPM bug has surfaced on AMD Ryzen-based systems where the CPU’s built-in TPM module fails to be recognized in Windows 10 and 11, in spite of the module being activated in BIOS. This has been recognized by Microsoft, however, there is no fix at this time. The issue appears to be related to Ryzen 5000 CPUs... Read more...
HyperX joined forces with P.L.A.Y.'s oh-so-shareable pet toys in order to create some doggone-good plushie peripherals for your canine pals. Plushies include a pair of HyperX Cloud Arfa headsets and an Alloy Keybark Gaming Keyboard. What pet owner has not dreamed of being able to include their furry friend in their... Read more...
We've heard this before, but can Samsung's upcoming Tab S9 series take it to the iPad Pro? A new leak seems to imply as much, with top-of-the-line hardware in a rather familiar shell. Tipster Ice Universe tweeted what the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra may be like, specs-wise. It'll have the same dimensions as last... Read more...
April's full moon is set to fill the night sky on Wednesday, April 5, reaching peak illumination around 12:35am EDT on April 6, 2023. Tonight's Pink Moon is also known as the Paschal Full Moon, or the first full Moon of the spring season. Contrary to its name, tonight's full Moon will not appear pink in the night... Read more...
You know it's time to upgrade your laptop when it starts wheezing and coughing the moment you hit the power button. If you find yourself nursing an aging notebook, send it into well-deserved retirement and grab yourself a more modern machine. Not looking to spend a whole lot? Don't worry, we have you covered with... Read more...
Naughty Dog continues to make headway in stomping out bugs in The Last of Us Part I on PC and has issued another patch, its third one so far this week. In addition, the developer is advising GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card owners to download a GPU hotfix from NVIDIA, which among other things is supposed to help... Read more...
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D - $449 MSRP The new Ryzen 7 7800X3D is an 8-core / 16-thread processor with 64MB of 3D V-Cache that offers class-leading PC gaming performance at much lower power than the competition.   Stellar Gaming Performance Low Power Consumption "Overclocking" Difficulties Sometimes Trails 7700X Back in late February,... Read more...
Another HOT gaming PC giveaway has drawn to a close. We partnered with Asetek and MSI to offer up a fully liquid-cooled monster machine—and the winner has been selected! To recap what was up for grabs, not only is the CPU chilled by the MSI MEG Coreliquid S360 AIO, but the graphics card is none other than an MSI... Read more...
Are Intel's Arc GPUs dead? After all, we heard that rumor before we even had Alchemist GPUs in hand, and after the lukewarm reception that Intel's graphics products have received, as well as the departure of the father of Xe himself, Raja Koduri, surely Intel is going to can the product line? Of course not. The... Read more...
A document leak has revealed more performance numbers for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 7800X3D. But this time the leak comes from MSI, revealing benchmark results of the CPU with MSI's home-grown Enhanced Mode Boost 3 and MSI's High-Efficiency modes turned on. These modes are MSI-exclusive and boost the 7800X3D’s power... Read more...
Last week tech leaders, such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, signed an open letter asking for a pause on giant AI experiments for the next six months. This week, Bill Gates voiced his opinion on the matter, saying a pause will not "solve the challenges" ahead. In an interview with Reuters, Microsoft's co-founder... Read more...
NVIDIA’s highly anticipated GeForce RTX 4070 turned up in an online benchmarks database earlier today. The pre-release desktop graphics card appears to have been partnered by some other modern and potent components for this run. If the Geekbench OpenCL graphics acceleration result is representative of the RTX 4070’s... Read more...
Google has thankfully decided to renege on a recently (and quietly) enforced Google Drive limit that prevents users from creating more than 5 million files in Drive. This change comes after heavy backlash from its userbase, not just for the limitation itself, but over the lack of communication behind it.  Last... Read more...
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the names of the four astronauts who will be aboard the upcoming Artemis II mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to fly by the Moon in over 50 years. Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit and the first human spaceflight to... Read more...
Looking for a flagship smartphone upgrade? You're in luck assuming you're on Team Android. As we often do, we've scoured the web for bargains on the hottest tech and right now you can score a Samsung Galaxy S23 handset for up to $200 off MSRP. The best part is there are no hoops to jump through, just straight-up... Read more...
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