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- Melinda Gates Leaves Gates Foundation With $12.5B For Her Own Philanthropy
- Scientists Discover A Sweet, Giant Planet That's As Light As Cotton Candy
- Huge Pixel 9 Leak Reveals Alleged New Design And Specs Ahead Of Google I/O
- AMD Unveils Ryzen 7 8700F And Ryzen 5 8400F Zen 4 CPUs For Budget Gaming Rigs
- Google Pixel 8a Review: Possibly The Best Midrange Phone Yet
- Aurora Supercomputer With 21K Intel CPUs Breaks Exascale Barrier For AI Dominance
- Super Mario 64's Secret Door Is Finally Opened After 28 Years Without Any Mods
- Apple’s Working On A Deal With OpenAI To Supercharge iPhone With ChatGPT
- Apple AirPods Max Are Up On A Great Limited Time $100 Amazon Discount Deal
- Steam Deck Update Delivers Overclocking Toggles And A Ton Of Bug Fixes
- Dell Confirms Data Breach Exposed Customer Details To Hackers, Millions Affected
- Huge God Of Chaos Asteroid Apophis Hurtles Towards Earth For A Friday The 13th Flyby
- Google Sounds Warning For Major Chrome Zero Day Flaw, Patch ASAP
- ThundeRobot’s Gorgeous QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Flexes 240/480Hz Mode Switching
- NASA Guide To Phone Astrophotography Shows How To Capture The Northern Lights
- Sole Indie Developer Hit Animal Well Is Being Proclaimed A Top Game Of 2024
- Space Weather Prediction Center Details Where You Can See Spectacular Northern Lights
- Forget Fancy NPUs, Watch A Retro Commodore 64 Generate AI Images
- Razer Firefly V2 Pro Mouse Mat Review: Slick, Rigid, With RGB
- GeForce RTX 5090 Could Sport A Massive 600W GPU Cooler To Chill Blackwell
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After a long meaningful run, Melinda Gates, ex-spouse of Bill Gates, has decided to resign from her role as co-chair at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Upon her departure, she will receive $12.5 billion for the purpose of charity work among women and families. Melinda Gates ends her time at the foundation on June...
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Out of the more than 5,000 exoplanets detected, only a handful have a density that is comparable to cotton candy. Exoplanets like these may bring to mind the iconic movie Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and the cotton candy cocoon guns the Klowns used.
The latest of these exoplanets to be discovered, WASP-193b, is...
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A slew of photos showing the entire Google Pixel 9 lineup plus some details on specifications have been leaked via a Russian tech site. At the very least, this new information confirms the existence of the XL model and all but confirms the shape of the rear camera hump (or should it be "pill"?).
A Russian-language...
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Following a somewhat stealthy launch in China in earlier this year, AMD is bringing its Ryzen 8000F series processors to the US market to give budget gaming builds a kick in the pants, while being relatively easy on the wallet or purse. What makes these Hawk Point CPUs relatively affordable is they're a BYOG—bring...
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Google Pixel 8a - Starting At $499 The Google Pixel 8a is sleek, speedy, and shoots better photos than virtually any other budget phone. Solid build quality Gorgeous OLED display Excellent camera performance Same processor as flagship Pixels Lots and lots of AI features Seven years of guaranteed updates Sharp, bright...
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The Aurora supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory, powered by Intel’s Xeon Max series of processors, is the new AI king with the ability to reach 10.6 AI exaflops of compute. On top of taking the AI crown, it also managed to break the exascale barrier, hitting 1.012 exaflops for scientific applications. The...
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Super Mario 64 is one of the most beloved video games of all time, and it's also one of the most thoroughly dissected video games of all time. There's a complete recompilation for PC including dozens of mods that allows players to add new areas, entities, and mechanics, play the game with ray-traced graphics, or even...
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A new report states Apple is closing in on a deal with OpenAI to supercharge its iPhone with AI via ChatGPT. The upcoming AI features are expected to reach iPhones with the Cupertino-based company’s iOS 18 update.
It is no secret that Apple has been hard at work preparing its jump to bring AI features to its...
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Did you totally space on Mother's Day and forget to buy a gift? Well hey, a belated gift is better than no gift at all. Provided your mother or wife, or whoever you're shopping for has an appreciation for headphones and earbuds, then you're in luck—there are all kinds of audio products on sale at Amazon right now...
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The Steam Deck has endeared fans the world over with its uncanny ability to power through demanding PC games in a competent and portable fashion. Part of this capability stems from the excellent support on the software side that Valve has consistently shown towards the Steam Deck. The latest preview update, SteamOS...
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It has been a little while since our last major data breach, with the latest being back on April Fools' with AT&T having the information of 73 million accounts appear on the dark web. However, hackers never rest so it was simply a matter of time before another breach would happen, this time with Dell. A threat actor...
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First discovered in 2004, Asteroid Apophis, also known as “God of Chaos,” has been watched closely by astronomers and scientists. The large space rock has become the center of focus because of its expected close flyby of Earth on what is projected to be none other than Friday 13, 2029.
Asteroid 99942 Apophis is...
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Billions of Google Chrome browser users around the globe are urged to apply the latest security update, which contains a fix for a nasty exploit with a high severity rating. Dubbed CVE-2024-4671, the security flaw is described as a "user after free" vulnerability Chrome's Visual component that handles rendering and...
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A Chinese company called ThundeRobot is readying a bodacious QD-OLED gaming monitor that is one of a rare (and newer) breed of displays that feature dual refresh rates. The dual mode display falls under its 'Silver Wing' lineup of gaming monitors, and offers gamers the option to play at 4K resolution (3840x2160) with...
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After recent solar storms lit up the night sky across the Northern Hemisphere the last two nights, some may be wondering how to best capture the dazzling Aurora Borealis (Aurora Astralis in the Southern Hemisphere) lights with a smartphone. Well, NASA has a few tips and tricks up its sleeve for capturing not only the...
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When video game satirist videogamedunkey announced that he was opening a game publishing house, most people were understandably skeptical. Was this another bit? Was he really calling his nascent publisher "BIGMODE"? What kind of games would he publish? It turns out that yes, BIGMODE was in fact for real, and its first...
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If you were paying any attention at all yesterday, you probably noticed that the internet was ablaze with news of the incoming solar flares and the comensurate geomagnetic storms. It has since arrived, creating supercharged Northern and Southern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, which delivered dazzling light shows, most...
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Generative AI processing is highly complex, such that doing it in a performant fashion requires mountains of parallel processing power. This is the reason everyone's buying up expensive GeForce-adjacent GPUs for their datacenters, and why companies are focused on adding power-efficient NPUs to their SoCs. You can do...
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Razer Firefly V2 Pro Illuminated Mouse Mat: MSRP $99 Razer's new Firefly V2 Pro RGB-enabled mouse mat looks wild and offers a ton of customization options via Razer's Synapse app. 16.8M color customizable RGB lighting Near frictionless mouse movement Rubberized base holds mouse mat secure Expensive Fairly large We're...
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The ASUS Strix GeForce RTX 4090 has one of the most gloriously massive coolers ever attached to a powerful GPU. It is long, wide, tall, and expansive in every other direction you can imagine for the simple sake of overkill-tier cooling. According to some recent murmurs from BenchLife, NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX...
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There have been some epic fights over the years, such as Sugar Ray Leonard clashing with Thomas Hearns, Muhammad Ali knocking out George Foreman, and Buster Douglas defeating Mike Tyson in a shocking upset, to name a few. One of the longest-running grudge matches, however, is between AMD and Intel. It's too early to...
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NASA wants to build the first lunar railway system providing payload transport on the Moon. The autonomous railway system could be a vital part of building a sustainable lunar base in the 2030s.
It is no secret that NASA wants to create a lunar base as part of its Moon to Mars plan. The space agency also knows that...
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