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- Do Gamers Need A Graphics Card? iGPU Performance Explored
- Apple's First Smart Glasses Come Into View But Can It Compete With Meta?
- Windows Is Getting An AI-Powered Notepad Upgrade And More Nifty Features
- Memorial Day Laptop Deals Are Lit, Save Hundreds Now
- Astronomers Slack Jawed As Galaxies Battle In A Violent Cosmic Joust
- Game Over: FTC Stops Trying To Defeat Microsoft's $69B Activision Deal
- 3AM Ransomware Gang Hacks Networks With Spoofed IT Calls And Email Bombing
- Netflix Goes Dark On These Fire TV Devices, Deals To Keep You Streaming
- ASUS ROG Unveils 7-In-1 Bulwark Dock & 100W Gaming Charger For Mobile Bliss
- Xbox Exclusive Hellblade 2 Is Headed To PlayStation With A Perk For PS5 Pro
- Microsoft Warns Hundreds Of Thousands Of PCs Are Infected With Data-Stealing Malware
- Here's Google's Sergey Brin On Google Glass Failures And Why Android XR Is Different
- Cryorig Lull Case Offers Zero Decibel Computing With A Side Of Radiator
- Mario Kart World Devs Answer Your Burning Questions Like, Does Mario Really Eat Mushrooms?
- Mysteriously Perfect Sphere Spotted In Space Has Astronomers Baffled
- Logitech G522 Headset Touts Comfy Upgrades For All-Night Gaming Sessions
- Fujiflim's New X Half Camera Packs Retro Vibes Into A Capable Compact Shooter
- Blowout Deal: Save $200 On LG's Sweet 480Hz Gaming OLED, Get A Free 2nd Monitor
- Drone To The Rescue: Shark Fisherman Saves Teen From Drowning In A Rip Current
- Southwest Airlines Changes Its Portable Charger Policy, What To Know Before You Fly
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All News for May 2025
The DIY PC market is in a tough spot. If we disregard older, previous-gen graphics cards for a moment, the only company currently selling anything approaching a modern entry-level GPU is Intel, and those cards are nearly impossible to find for anything approaching MSRP. Quality motherboards for under $100 barely exist, and those that do are
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Apple has some smart glasses coming, after dabbling in the augmented reality space, according to the folks at Bloomberg. The question of how it will fare against Meta and its own Ray-Ban smart glasses will be interesting to witness in this new field. Furthermore, Apple's own complicated history with its Vision Pro may...
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Microsoft is rolling out an exciting wave of updates to its core Windows 11 applications – Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad – available now for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels using Copilot+ PCs. These enhancements, focusing on generative AI (naturally) and streamlined workflows, promise to bring...
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First and foremost, we want to thank past and present military members for their service. And as Memorial Day comes into view, we want to acknowledge those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, and offer our deepest sympathies to surviving family members. There's no non-awkward way to pivot into a deals roundup ahead of Memorial Day, so we want
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Astronomers have for the first time observed a violent cosmic collision dubbed the "cosmic joust." This dramatic encounter involving two galaxies 11 billion light years away, reveals how one galaxy effectively "spears" its opponent with a beam of radiation from a powerful quasar, severely hindering the latter's...
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Some boss battles are just too daunting, which the Federal Trade Commission has discovered in its ongoing effort to defeat Microsoft's $69 billion takeover of Activision-Blizzard. Or more accurately, it was ongoing. In what can be likened to the legal version of rage-quitting, the FTC dropped its case against...
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A recent campaign by 3AM ransomware actors found the team using more proactive techniques rather than simple opportunistic hacks by pretending to be IT support. Using a combination of email bombing and spoof IT support calls, unwitting employees dropped their guards, giving the attackers access to their terminals (and...
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Turn out the lights, the party's over! That's the message certain Fire TV device owners are getting from Netflix as the popular streaming service gets ready to go dark on outdated and/or legacy Fire TV sticks and older television models with Amazon's Fire TV platform built in. That's the bad news. The good news is...
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Let's talk about gaming handhelds for a moment. Actually, first, let's introduce a new product -- the ASUS ROG Bulwark, shown at Computex 2025, which is a dock primarily (but not exclusively!) for those very same handhelds. It connects to a compatible device with USB 10Gbps, supplying up to 100W of power, and then...
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Microsoft’s efforts to become a true multiplatform publisher, including bringing its games to PlayStation, has been paying off with increased sales. The company hopes that the momentum continues as it looks to bring over Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II to Sony’s platform. Especially as the game struggled to find an...
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Microsoft has sounded the alarm on a pervasive piece of malware that has already infected hundreds of thousands of PCs. A few weeks ago, we reported on the Clop gang's involvement in the large-scale data leaks at Hertz. This time, Microsoft reports that the Lumma info stealer created by the notorious Russian malware...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in a guest appearance at Google I/O 2025, openly acknowledged the missteps of the original Google Glass launch, while passionately outlining a more promising future for smart glasses with the advent of Android XR and significant advancements in artificial intelligence. His remarks, made...
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Gen-Xers around here might remember the mighty Zalman Reserator, a literal tower of an external radiator/reservoir that you could hook up your liquid cooling setup to enjoy complete silence while your PC chugged away at full tilt. While the Reserator is a beautiful relic of days past, the concept is coming back in...
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The Nintendo Switch 2 launch date of June 5th is getting closer, and we're getting more information on one of its biggest launch titles. Mario Kart World, the successor to a long string of successful Mario Kart racing games, is at the top of the list for many gamers. Nintendo developers recently answers various...
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In a discovery that has astronomers both captivated and perplexed, a mysterious perfectly-spherical object, dubbed "Teleios," has been detected in the vast expanse of deep space. Discovered and observed exclusively through its radio emissions by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope...
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Logitech is expanding its lineup of gaming peripherals with the launch of the G522, a gaming headset that comes with the promise of extended comfort (and no paid DLC shenanigans). According to Logitech, the G522 builds upon the popular G733. While they may look similar, Logitech says the G522 "delivers a significant...
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Fujifilm has announced the global launch of a compact digital camera, the Fujifilm X-HF1 (a.k.a. X Half). Rocking full-on retro design vibes, the camera has interesting "features," such as a portrait-oriented sensor, optical viewfinder, AND rear display, plus no RAW support. We can only surmise that the X Half's...
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We're a collective sucker for a good deal around these parts, and we often pass along ones that we find interesting or particularly intriguing. Some deals are better than others, naturally, and driving that point home is an absolutely bonkers offer by LG. Not only is it discounting its awesome 27-inch Ultragear OLED...
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A day of shark fishing at Pensacola Beach turned into an extraordinary tale of heroism when a local angler, Andrew Smith, leveraged an unlikely piece of tech to save a teenage girl from a perilous rip current. Smith, known for his unique approach to fishing with drones, is now being hailed as a lifesaver after his...
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If you're planning a summer vacation and intend on booking a flight with Southwest Airlines, take heed of a new rule involving portable chargers. In an update to its policy, Southwest Airlines requires that any portable charger or power bank be out in the open and "remain in plain sight" while in use. So, no more...
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If Joss Whedon was writing the script for today's news, right about now someone would be saying "well, that just happened!" OpenAI dug in its back pocket and found enough change for a $6.5-billion-total to entirely buy out Jony Ive's AI device start-up called "io" (Io).
Here's how the story goes. After leaving...
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Regular readers will probably know this already, but AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are quite good at machine learning workloads. The company's FSR 4 AI-powered upscaler delivers excellent results, much closer to NVIDIA's DLSS in terms of image quality versus previous iterations of the technology. AMD isn't done trying to reverse...
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