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- Pixel 9 AI Leak Reveals A Recall-Like Feature Is Headed To Android
- LG Unveils 2024 Gram SuperSlim OLED Laptop At A Shockingly Low Price
- iPhone 16 Performance Parity? Code Leak Hints At A18 Chip For Every Model
- Watch Modders Turn NVIDIA's Flagship GPU Into A GeForce RTX 4090 Super
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 Leak Reveals 12GB Of RAM And More Great Specs
- NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Captures Dazzling Cosmic Fireworks Display
- Heads Up Budget Streamers, Netflix Has Started Nuking Its Cheapest Ad-Free Plan
- Noctua's Flagship NH-D15 G2 CPU Air Cooler Arrives Just In Time For Ryzen 9000
- Why And How PlayStation 5 Runs Some Games Better Than The More Powerful Xbox Series X
- NASA's Space Telescope Unravels Jupiter's Atmosphere And It's Not What Anyone Expected
- Intel Arrow Lake CPU Crushes i9-13900K In Single-Threaded Benchmark Leak, Is It Real?
- Meta Backtracks On Made With AI Labels For Real Photos Following Angry Backlash
- Detroit Police Now Banned From Solely Using Facial Recognition To Arrest Suspects
- Apple May Charge For Apple Intelligence After Getting Users Hooked On AI
- Micron Claims GDDR7 Will Give Gaming GPUs A Huge 30% FPS Performance Uplift
- Memory Price Hikes Are Inbound And Could Drive Up The Cost Of Graphics Cards
- Intel LGA 1851 Platform Diagram Breaks Cover Revealing Major PCIe 5 Lane Upgrade
- AceMagic Starship M2A Review: Speedy, Sci-Fi Inspired Mini PC
- US Treasury Cracks Down On Crypto Tax Evasion With New Digital Asset Rules
- Apple’s Future AirPods Could Usher In An Era Of Earbuds With Built-In Cameras
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All News for July 2024
A new leak suggests Google may bring a Recall-like feature to its upcoming Pixel 9 smartphones. While the new feature will take on-device screenshots like Microsoft’s Recall on PCs, it will do it in a less threatening (and less controversial) manner.
Microsoft came under fire in recent weeks after it announced its...
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It's not often that I do a double-take when looking at a press release or product announcement, but I sure did one with LG's 2024 Gram SuperSlim laptop. Yes, it's incredibly thin as the name suggests, at around a mere 0.43 to 0.49 inches (depending on where you measure), and it's feather-light at a scant 2.18 pounds...
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It appears as if Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16 lineup will all be sporting the same A18 chip, according to a snippet of code that X/Twitter user Nicolás Álvarez (@nicolas09F9) shared with MacRumors. This would be a change in strategy by Apple, which used faster chips in last year’s iPhone 15 Pro models to differentiate...
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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 is currently the top gaming GPU on the market, and will stay that way until the inevitable GeForce RTX 50 series releases within the next year. Not satisfied with the moniker of current best, however, a group of modders at TecLab from Brazil have taken NVIDIA's current flagship GPU to the...
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We're just a week out from Samsung's annual Galaxy Unpacked event and the barrage of leaks for the latest Galaxy Z Fold and Flip phones just keep coming. This latest leak potentially gives us more technical specifications of the smaller, yet no less important Flip 6 clamshell. Some major takeaways are the latest...
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A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a cosmic firework display just ahead of the 4th of July, otherwise known as Independence Day in the US. At the center of the celestial pyrotechnics is a protostar surrounded by a molecular cloud, named L1527.
As Americans prepare for all the cookouts...
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As we reported at the beginning of the year, Netflix has every intention of phasing out its cheapest ad-free streaming plan, Netflix Basic, which costs subscribers $11.99 USD per month in the US and $9.99 CAD in Canada. Lest you were hoping Netflix would change its mind, Netflix has begun letting some subscribes know...
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If you're reading this site, Noctua almost assuredly needs no introduction to you. It's rare that Austria's premiere purveyor of puissant cooling apparatus actually launches a new product, and rarer still that it replaces its top-end, flagship cooler. That's exactly what's happening here, though: after many delays...
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When the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 launched four years ago many expected that the difference in hardware between the two systems would be apparent as time went on. However, that supposed gap never materialized, with Sony’s system keeping up with it’s more powerful counterpart. The pixel peeping gurus at Digital...
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As Webb continues changing how astronomers and scientists view the Universe, its ability to capture objects in high-resolution has aided in unveiling new features in spots studied for decades. Such is the case with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and a new feature that took astronomers by surprise.
In an image captured by...
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There's evidence to suggest that Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs are out in the wild in engineering sample form (early ES chips recently showed up for sale in China for $14 a pop), which is to be expected at this stage. Purportedly, someone has posted a couple of benchmarks with mixed results from one of those chips, with...
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Meta is changing its “Made with AI” label to “AI info” following recommendations from its Oversight Board. The decision comes after the mega tech company came under fire from outraged creators who found their real-life images being marked with the “Made with AI” label.
While AI continues to be the biggest buzz word...
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Detroit's Police Department has been banned from relying on facial recognition results alone to conduct arrests or lineups (i.e. identity parade). It's not an outright ban on the technology, but now requires the DPD conduct actual investigative processes on top of that. This comes following the fallout from the city...
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Apple unveiled its AI plans at this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, bringing a slew of new features to Macs, iPads and iPhones. Well, now it appears as if the company hopes customers will like the AI features so much that it can turn some of them into a paid subscription, according to a report from...
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As GPU enthusiasts prepare for the next generation, one key aspect that drives excitement comes down to VRAM. Micron, one of the biggest memory manufacturers, is touting GDDR7's improved performance. With as much as a supposed 30% uplift in frames per second performance possible, this is exciting news for gamers and...
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At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, there are developments happening within the memory supply chain that are expected to introduce price hikes on a variety of DRAM products, including chips used in high-end graphics cards. Depending on how the situation plays out, the price hikes could affected future graphics...
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On Intel's current platforms, if you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD connected directly to your CPU for the most optimal performance, it's going to split off of the PCIe x16 slot normally meant for graphics. That's because the only PCIe 5.0 lanes on the LGA 1700 platform are dedicated to that x16 slot—unlike AMD's 16+4+4...
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AceMagic StarShip M2A Mini Gaming PC: As Tested - $1,039 The AceMagic StarShip M2A is a mini PC with a retro-futuristic design, which packs in potent but previous-gen processors that can keep up with many of today's top gaming laptops. Good Performance Quiet And Cool Operation Relatively Small Form Factor...
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In years past, cryptocurrency enthusiasts who correctly navigated the volatile ups and downs of the market could net a lot of money without paying a dime in taxes. Those days are over. The US Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced new rules to ensure crypto traders pay taxes on...
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Apple may be looking into adding built-in cameras to its highly-popular AirPods, but not for the reason one may think. If cameras are added to Apple’s earbuds, it would more than likely be for enhancing the audio experience for those wearing Vision Pro goggles, or for adding “in-air” gestures to AirPods.
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It took a few generations, but AMD's stacked 3D V-cache may now be at the point where it can withstand the rigors of overclocking. So goes the latest rumor, which claims that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000X3D processors based on Zen 5 will up the overclocking ante with full support for manual tweaks that extend beyond PBO...
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Helldivers 2 was a surprise smash hit when it launched earlier this year, contributing to the record of concurrent players seen on Steam back in March. However, these days the game’s PC audience has significantly diminished with the number of concurrent players sitting at 45,315, which is a mere 10% of its peak (and...
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