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- 2.5 Geeks: New GeForces And Radeons, Fresh Consoles, Windows 11 And Hot Tech News
- Google Claims Its AI Tech Can Design Computer Chips Much Quicker Than Puny Humans
- Tesla's Lightning Fast Model S Plaid Gets A $10K Price Hike Just Hours Before Launch Event
- Microsoft To Produce xCloud Game Streaming Sticks, Integrate Xbox Game Pass Into TVs
- Xbox Chief Phil Spencer Smacks Sony Over PlayStation To PC Game Port Strategy
- Intel's Hybrid CPU Roadmap Rumored To Feature Alder Lake, Raptor Lake CPUs With Up To 24 Cores
- Samsung Announces Groundbreaking 50MP Phone Camera Sensor With World's Tiniest Pixels
- Here's How Fortnite Loot Llamas Have Significantly Changed For Season 7
- GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Cards Now 'Available' But Insane Retailer Pricing Leaves Us Flummoxed
- SK Hynix Next-Gen HBM3 Memory Primed To Deliver A Blistering 665GB/s Of Bandwidth
- Minecraft 1.17: How To Find Axolotl And Amethyst, Grow Glow Berries And Craft A Lightning Rod
- Facebook Wants To Leverage AI To Beat Notoriously Difficult 1980s Game NetHack
- The OnePlus 8T Is A Smoking Hot Deal At $549 With This One Day Sale Event
- Android 12 Beta 2 Now Available To Download With Revamped Connectivity And Privacy Controls
- Arcade1Up Revives Simpsons Arcade Machine To Relive 1990s Gaming Without The Quarters
- Battlefield 2042 Jaw-Dropping Reveal: Here’s Everything We Know Of EA’s Futuristic Shooter
- SK Hynix Downplays Scale Of Widespread Defective DRAM Wafer Allegations From Customers
- Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G Debuts With Huge 5,000 MAh Battery And Enticing $399 Price Tag
- U.S. Army's Rollout Of HoloLens AR Headsets For Soldiers Begins This Fall
- Samsung's Roadmap Outlines PCIe 4.0 And 5.0 SSDs Leveraging 176-Layer V-NAND
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In this latest episode of our 2.5 Geeks webcast, we chat about the new AMD Radeon Pro W6800, yesterday’s launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, and a bunch of the hottest topics from our news feed this past week, including Windows 11...
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For years, we have known that AI can beat humans at games like Go, Starcraft, and up to 57 different Atari 2600 games. However, it is commonly believed that AI cannot beat humans at designing things, but that is not necessarily the case...
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In less than a week, Tesla has dropped two bits of bad news for customers looking to purchase the fastest version of its redesigned Model S flagship electric sedan. Earlier this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the Plaid+ version...
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Gaming is one of the fastest-growing forms of media we have today, thanks in part due to the pandemic that has kept people at home. However, people would typically need a console or PC to game on, but that becomes less of a problem with...
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There's no love lost between Sony and Microsoft on the console front. The companies are fierce competitors, and things are heating up now that the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 have been battling it out on the market for the past six...
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Heterogeneous CPU architectures could underpin the future of x86 computing, with Intel giving it a go starting with Alder Lake later this year followed by Raptor Lake sometime after, and AMD rumored to be following suit further down the...
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Remember when we used to carry around point-n-shoot cameras and Polaroids for taking photos? Some people still do (and DSLR cameras for serious photography), but for the most part, pictures posted to Instagram and other places are largely...
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Loot Llamas are a great way to load up on supplies during a Fortnite match. However, they will now run away if you get too close to them instead of remaining motionless as of the latest season. Here is what you need to know about the...
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Another GeForce RTX 30 Series launch from NVIDIA means another exercise in frustration for gamers. We had a chance to review NVIDIA's latest mid-range GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition yesterday and came away generally impressed with...
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High bandwidth memory (HBM) has always lived up to its name, it just has not been as widely adopted in mainstream graphics cards as GDDR memory chips. Maybe that will change when HBM3 arrives. Regardless, whatever products do end up...
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Minecraft 1.17, AKA part one of the Caves And Cliffs update, was released yesterday and with it came new flora and fauna to see in the wild. Now that we have been able to explore a little bit, let's take a look at some of the cool stuff...
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Games are one of the best testbeds for AI as they require problem-solving, forward-thinking, and other skills that normally only humans possess. So far, AI has gotten a handle on games like Go and up to 57 different Atari 2600 titles, but...
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The OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro are currently the flagships of OnePlus' smartphone family and come packing the mighty Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. However, the OnePlus 9 starts at $729, while the OnePlus 9 Pro is squarely in rarified air...
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Google launched the first Android 12 beta last month at Google I/O, and now the company is following up with Beta 2. All the new features that we first discussed in our original article are at play here in Android 12 Beta 2, but Google...
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Konami had a hit on its hands when it released a licensed arcade game based on The Simpsons way back in 1991, when arcade dens were still thriving. Now three decades later, Arcade1Up announced at E3 2021 that Bart Simpson and his family...
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In the last few months and even hours, we have seen numerous leaks and rumors about the upcoming Battlefield title, and it all comes to a head today. The trailer is now out there, and the store page is now live, so let's look at all we...
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SK Hynix suddenly finds itself in the midst of damage control (both literally and figuratively) over a batch of defective DRAM products that shipped out to customers. In a statement on the matter, the South Korean chip maker confirmed that...
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Motorola's pen-equipped smartphone family is alive and well, and the latest releases debuted today as the Moto G Stylus 5G. Of course, you won't mistake the Moto G Stylus 5G for anything but a budget device given its specs. But it should...
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The United States military and Microsoft have been working together over the last few years to create a headset with HoloLens technology. They recently provided an update about their contract and the development behind this headset...
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Samsung finds itself in a braggadocios mood over the continued development of its vertical NAND flash memory chips, and in a blog post spanning nearly 1,400 words, the company talked about what makes it so special, and where it is headed...
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Prime Day 2021 festivities won't kick off until June 21st, but Amazon is already rolling out many deals on its hardware products. In this case, we're talking about smartphone devices from Amazon smart home brands Ring and Blink.
First up...
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Anticipation is running high for the next major installment in the Battlefield franchise. As we wait for today's official reveal, more information has leaked out, seemingly confirming the game that has often been referred to as Battlefield...
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