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- NVIDIA-Backed Astrocade Raises $12M For A Promising AI Game Creation Platform
- EU Accuses Apple Of Violating DMA Rules With App Store’s Walled Garden
- Get Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II For $100 Off And Other Great Audio Tech Deals
- Square Enix Asks Early Access Gamers Not To Post Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail Spoilers
- Really Amazon? $10 A Month Just To Ask Alexa?
- NASA Hit With $80K Lawsuit After ISS Space Debris Crashes Into Florida Home
- Seagate Starts Selling Refurbished HDDs On Ebay, But Should You Stick With New?
- Apple Seeks Key Alliances With Meta And Google To Bolster AI On iPhone
- Security Researchers Discover RAT Android Malware For Espionage And Ransom
- Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra Leak Gives Us A First Look At Samsung’s Next Big Slate
- OpenAI CTO Says AI Could Kill Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn’t Have Existed
- NASA Simulation Explores Fending Off A Catastrophic Asteroid Impact Threat
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU Tested Revealing Zen 5 IPC Uplift And Design Details
- Intel Slips Battlemage Support And Power-Saving Features Into Linux 6.11
- Get A Great Deal On The Powerful OnePlus 12 And 12R, $100 Off At Amazon
- Softbank CEO Says AI That's 10,000X Smarter Than Humans Is Inevitable
- BIOS Security Vulnerability Affects Intel CPUs In Hundreds Of Devices
- Minisforum DEG1 GPU Dock Adds Discrete Graphics Power Via OCuLink
- NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Mesmerizing Images Of Baby Stars In Distant Nebula
- Grab A Desktop APU On Discount: Ryzen 8000G And Other AMD Chips Get Price Cuts
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Astrocade AI has raised $12 million in funding from several companies, including NVIDIA, according to a report in VentureBeat. The company describes itself as a “platform that makes the creation of games and interactive experiences easy enough for a world of creators to share their ideas in minutes.”
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The European Commission (EC) made it official today that Apple has been informed of being the first company to breach the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The violation comprises Apple preventing app developers from “freely steering customers to alternative channels for offers and content.”
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Every so often, we remind our readers that it's rarely a good idea to pay the full asking price for an audio product, as things like speakers, headphones, surround sound receivers, earbuds, and more routinely sell for less than the manufacturers suggested retail price (MSRP). This is another one of those times. On tap...
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The hotly anticipated Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail expansion is getting closer to its early access period, and Square Enix is asking those participating to be mindful of spoilers. The company says that it’s not imposing any restrictions on what players can share or stream so long as it adheres to the “Material Usage...
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Amazon wants to graduate Alexa's basic digital assistant skills into a more capable and intelligent conversational generative AI. However, according to Amazon's CEO, the upgrade will be stuck behind a paywall, possibly ranging from $5 to $10. While details haven't been set in stone (apart from the announcement), it looks like the new Alexa
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NASA is being sued by a family in Florida after a piece of space debris from a battery pallet crashed through their home. Lawyers representing the family remarked this could be “a precedent setting case that sets the standard for the future of space debris claims in both the public and private sectors.”
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Seagate announced it has teamed up with eBay to expand its 'Hard Drive Circularity Program' to reduce e-waste and HDD shredding. What this collaboration essentially entails is a new Seagate storefront on eBay to sell recertified storage drives that come factory sealed and backed by a two-year warranty, at discounted...
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The AI arms race is in full swing, and some companies are opting to aim for strategic partnerships instead of all out dominance (or in pursuit of dominance). Apple has recently introduced its anticipated Apple Intelligence at its recent WWDC 2024 Developer Conference. Since AI development is apparently resource...
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Cybersecurity firm Check Point Research has discovered a potent piece of Android malware, called Rafel, being utilized by threat actors. The malware is an open-source remote administration tool (RAT) and Check Point Research says that it has already observed “an espionage group leveraging Rafel in their...
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With Samsung Unpacked just around the corner, leaks are coming in hot and heavy in regard to new Samsung devices. One device that will most likely not be making its debut at Samsung Unpacked next month, but is still making headlines, is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra. New leaked images of the device have found their...
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OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Mira Murati, didn’t mince words when discussing possible job losses in creative industries, as AI continues to become more prevalent in the creation of art. During an AI event held at Dartmouth University, Murai said, "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't...
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NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), conducted the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise this week. The tabletop exercise gathering aimed “to inform and assess the ability as a nation to respond effectively to the...
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There's ample reason to be excited for Zen 5. After all, AMD says that it is the largest re-architecting of its CPU core since the original Zen. However, the company also acknowledged at Computex that the generational performance gain between Zen 4 and Zen 5 is only around 16%. That's a pretty solid gen-on-gen uplift...
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"The year of the Linux desktop" is a long-standing meme among PC enthusiasts, but thanks to controversial decisions by Microsoft, continual development effort from Linux lovers, and the massive success of Valve's Steam Deck, Linux is seeing greater adoption than ever among consumer PC users.
Intel has had excellent...
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OnePlus has made a name for itself in the smartphone market by delivering high-end features for less than other premium handheld brands. The OnePlus 12 and the OnePlus Open are no different, delivering outstanding performance with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, and a fourth generation Hasselblad Camera System for...
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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son remarked, during a shareholder’s meeting, that he believes AI will be 10,000 times smarter than human intelligence 10 years from now. Son also remarked that he saw Softbank’s mission to be the “evolution of humanity,” while also stating he had finally discovered his own purpose in...
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A few years ago, PC firmware switched from the aging BIOS system to the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface standard, more commonly known as UEFI. This system is more secure than the legacy BIOS was, but it's not perfect. Cybersecurity firm Eclypsium reports the discovery of a serious bug in UEFI that could affect...
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If you've followed the market of handheld machines out of Asia as well as recent mini-PC releases like Minisforum's own MS-A1, you've probably seen an OCuLink connector. This port is a standard connector from PCI-SIG that offers internal or external routing of regular old PCIe on a cable. This makes it much better...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently celebrated its 21st anniversary of deployment into space. Even after so many years of service, Hubble is still astounding those back on Earth with beautiful images. Such is the case with one of Hubble’s latest, a mesmerizing photo of baby stars in a distant nebula.
Nebula RCW...
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AMD's Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) are desktop CPUs based on mobile silicon. These laptop-derived chips have fewer CPU cores and lower clock rates than the full-on desktop models, but they also include powerful integrated graphics parts that are probably faster than you think. For a small-form-factor system, a...
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Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to acquire game publisher Bethesda Softworks, giving it access to a raft of popular franchises and whatever the company was working on. To Microsoft's dismay, it owns Redfall first-person shooter crashed and burned upon release last year. Microsoft opted to shut down developer Arkane Austin...
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Despite the fact that it's only add-on content, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is still one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Gamers from across the globe have been replaying the campaign and running extra missions to level up their characters, as hype builds for the return to the Lands Between. Now, players know exactly when
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