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- Windows 11 Battles Windows 10 In A CPU-Focused Content Creation Benchmark Showdown
- Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU Trounces Alder Lake And Zen 3 In Early Benchmark
- AMD Navi 31, 32 And 33 RDNA 3 APUs And GPUs Break Cover In Linux Patch Notes
- Intel Powered Raspberry Pi Rival UP 4000 SBC Is Ready To Rock With A Preorder Discount
- Google Pixel 6 Owners Complain Of Dead Pixels By The Camera Cutout As Problems Pile Up
- This Sweet Raspberry Pi Dice Bomb Roller Is The Ultimate DnD Accessory
- Beastly AMD Zen 4 Genoa EPYC CPUs Smile For The Camera With Huge SP5 Socket
- Watch ISS Astronauts Discard 172 Pounds Of Space Trash Hurtling It Towards Earth
- Searching In Microsoft Outlook Is Broken On Windows 11 Again, Here's A Workaround
- NASA Reveals Stunning Cosmic Targets For Its Space Telescope's First Color Images
- Samsung Allegedly Drops Exynos For Galaxy S23 In Favor Of Qualcomm Snapdragon
- Amazing Smart Watch Deals: Amazfit GTR 3, Garmin, Samsung, Apple Up To 43 Percent Off
- Watch AMD's Threadripper 5990X Overclocked At 4.82GHz Shred Over 100K Cinebench Points
- Apple TV 4K Slashed To $150, Fire TV Cube Just $60, Fire 7 Tablet $30 In Early Prime Day Deals
- AMD’s RDNA 3 Chiplet Patent Details A Cutting-Edge Shader-Optimized Architecture
- NASA Says This Asteroid Is Like A Chuck E Cheese Ball Pit For Spacecrafts
- Government Whistleblowers Could Get Immunity For Coming Forward With UFO Close Encounters
- Apple Lockdown Mode Is A Panic Room For iOS And Mac That Thwarts Mercenary Spyware
- AMD Ryzen 7 6800U Powered GPD Win Max 2 Crushes Intel Model In Early Gaming Benchmarks
- HotHardware Falcon Northwest Tiki Gaming PC Giveaway Winner
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All News for July 2022
Windows 11 has been a contentious launch for Microsoft. Historically speaking, when users are dissatisfied with the latest Windows release (Windows 95, Windows ME, Windows Vista), the next release is usually met with relative enthusiasm. Yet, while Windows 10 isn't exactly beloved by most users, Windows 11 isn't...
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We highly doubt that Intel will slap a picture of a carnivorous Velociraptor on its 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, but if newly listed single-core and especially multi-core scores on Geekbench turn out to be accurate, the chip maker might want to consider it. Both scores, purportedly obtained from a soon-to-be flagship...
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There are a great many advantages to working with free and open-source software (FOSS), and your author here is an outspoken supporter of such source-sharing ways. We probably don't need to explain the advantages, but suffice to say that software developed as a community effort can end up more secure and much more...
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Like many people, we're big fans of the various Raspberry Pi single-board computers (SBCs) and the many projects they have enabled. Just today, for example, we wrote about a nifty 'Dice Bomb' dice roller that could be particularly handy for DnD sessions. If you need a bit more processing power and/or a x86 foundation...
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Woes for owners of the Google Pixel 6 continue to pile up, as new reports of dead pixels by the front camera begin rolling in. Google's flagship smartphone has not seen much of a break in terms of things going wrong since its launch last year.
The Pixel 6 launched last year with high expectations, as Google has...
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Update July 12, 2022:
The creator of the project has posted up their GitHub with the code and diagram for the "Dice Bomb"
Original Story:
As you walk through an airport security checkpoint you might need to roll for charisma or persuasion. You could take out your D20 set and make a roll, or you could cause a...
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Sometime later this year, AMD will release a new round EPYC server CPUs based on its Zen 4 architecture, codenamed Genoa (EPYC 9000 series). While we stand by and wait for the next-gen chips to manifest, photos of engineering samples and AMD's accompanying massive SP5 socket have found their way to the web, giving us...
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Nanoracks Bishop Airlock has provided astronauts a way of disposing of their waste on the International Space Station (ISS), without contributing to more space debris. Astronauts successfully disposed of 172 lbs of waste from ISS on Saturday, July 2, 2022.
As we begin to look at going back to the Moon, and...
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An annoying Outlook bug has seemingly crawled out of the woodwork again, after having pestered users around this same time last year. In a recently posted support document, Microsoft said it is investigating an issue that is preventing Outlook Desktop on Windows 11 from displaying recent emails in search results. The...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most highly anticipated missions in the space agency's recent history. It is set to capture deeper images of our universe than ever before. Even though the spacecraft has traveled nearly one million miles into deep space, its intended journey is just...
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Samsung will be using Snapdragon processors worldwide for its next-gen Galaxy S23 smartphones, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Samsung has typically shipped Galaxy phones to the U.S. market with Snapdragon chips, while those in Europe and other international markets often housed Samsung's own Exynos...
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Smartwatches and other wearable devices have gotten significantly more popular in recent years, not only for their basic utility but for the ever increasing number of helpful features. In addition to being interesting and customizable timepieces, today's smartwatches feature a myriad of tools for professionals and...
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If you read that headline and thought, "wait, what is that model number?" then you're exactly the audience for this post. Indeed, there is no Ryzen Threadripper 5990X. AMD quietly canceled the consumer version of its Threadripper processors, and the chips codenamed "Chagall" only came to market in "PRO" form. Those...
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Prime day is almost upon us, but that does not mean you have to wait for it to be here for some amazing tech deals. There are already some great deals out there at the moment, especially on some popular streaming devices.
Apple TV provides a plethora of online media streaming options, including access to services...
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Ever since the first rumors started swirling about AMD using a chiplet-based design for its GPUs (just as it had done for its Ryzen processors), knowledgeable folks expressed concern about exactly what that would mean for said GPUs' performance. Nobody's ever done a chiplet-based GPU before, and it's a lot different...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft came upon an unsettling circumstance when it attempted to retrieve a sample from asteroid Bennu back in 2020. After analyzing data gathered by its instruments, the team was astonished to ascertain that the spacecraft would have sunk into Bennu had it not fired its thrusters to back away...
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Rep. Mike Gallagher has proposed an amendment that would give immunity to anyone who comes forward with information concerning unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP). The amendment is aimed at increasing the number of reports by providing whistleblower-like protections for those doing so.
Over the years, many have...
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Last week, we wrote about spyware that researchers gave the name “Hermit” and attributed to the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs. Hermit falls within the same class of spyware as NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, which infected at least nine phones belonging to US State Department employees. This sort of spyware is usually...
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We're fans of GPD around here. The Shenzen-based startup has been successfully selling super-portable micro-PCs running full-fat Windows for half a decade now, and its latest model, the Win Max 2, looks to be its most powerful yet—even if it stretches the bounds of "portability" a bit.
As you could surmise from the...
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To kick of the summer, we partnered up with the good folks at Falcon Northwest for an awesome gaming PC giveaway.
We know many of you have been dying to get your hands on some of the latest and greatest CPU and GPU muscle from AMD, including the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and powerful Radeon RX 6950XT, and thanks to the generosity of Falcon Northwest,
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We love to watch a good dogfight, especially when the two opponents can be considered rivals. You know, Celtics versus Lakers (go Celtics!), Red Sox versus Yankees (go Red Sox!), and so forth. In the realm of tech, there's Windows versus Linux on the software side, and a new set of benchmarks pit the two against each...
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While CPU performance typically grows in terms of percentage points with each successive generation, GPU performance increases tend to come in the form of whole-number multipliers. There's a few reasons for this, but the biggest one is simply that GPU workloads are a massively-parallel task, and it's easy to...
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