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- G.Skill Aims To Crown Your Zen 5 PC With Latency-Busting DDR5-6000 RAM Up To 96GB
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 To Bring 5G To Billions Of Budget Android Phones
- Google Apologizes For Chrome Disappearing Passwords For Millions Of Windows Users
- Nintendo Kawaii Is The World's Smallest Wii Console And It Fits On A Keychain
- Major Car Makers Are Selling Driver Data For Pennies, Will The FTC Investigate?
- PlayStation VR2 Gets A Big And Rare $200 Discount Ahead Of Steam PC Support
- DJI Drone Ban Stalls Out In Senate As First Responders Come To The Rescue
- Elon Musk Is Using Your X Posts To Train Grok AI But Here's How You Can Opt Out
- Intel Confirms No Recall For 14th/13th Gen CPUs, Non-K 65W Models Affected Too
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Review: Zen 5 Tested On A Gorgeous ASUS Laptop
- Xbox 360 Marketplace Closes Today Ending A Glorious Gaming Era
- Hey Stargazers, Get Ready For A Dual Meteor Shower Extravaganza This Week
- Apple Delays Intelligence Roll Out As Rival Samsung Approaches 200M Galaxy AI Devices
- AMD's Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPU Lineup Launch Delay May Be Due To A Chip Typo
- ASRock Unveils Thin Mini-ITX AM5 Motherboard To Build Your Own Zen 5 Mini PC
- Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 7 265KF Breaks Benchmark Cover At 5.4GHz
- James Webb Telescope Photos Captured These Amazing Photos In Its First Two Years
- Terrific 4K TV Deals Under $1000: Sony 75", Samsung Mini LED, LG OLED And More
- Sonos Boss Apologizes For Dreadful App Update, Vows To Fix Multitude Of Issues
- AMD Ryzen Fire Range CPU Details Leak For Next-Gen Gaming Laptops With RTX 50 GPUs
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All News for July 2024
If there's a criticism to be had with DDR5 RAM, it's that there's a latency hit compared to high-end DDR4 kits. That's the cost of taking memory speeds to the next level. In an effort to lessen the gap, G.Skill has unveiled a line of "ultra-low latency" DDR5 memory with fast speeds and high capacities designed for AMD...
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Qualcomm is aiming to turbocharge billions of affordable Android devices with fast 5G connectivity through the release of its new Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 platform. The newest system-on-chip (SoC) in the Snapdragon family is essentially a toned down version of the Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 that Qualcomm unveiled around this time...
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Google has issued an apology after passwords disappeared for millions of Windows users. The company reported a significant number of users were unable to find or save passwords in the password manager for Google Chrome for 17 hours and 51 minutes.
For nearly 18 hours, Chrome users around the world found themselves...
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It can be hard to fathom the scale of Nintendo Wii hysteria if you didn't try and fail to buy one. Nintendo's 2006 console release was so successful you couldn't reliably find a Wii in stock for more than a year after release. Many gamers still have fond memories of the device, and some like to mod the console to make...
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Pretty much any new car sold these days offers a connection to the internet in some form for fashion. This is to power smart capabilities, like onboard navigation and a plethora of other functions. However, some automakers are allegedly selling driver data to third parties at incredibly low prices, and it's not always...
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Sony's PlayStation VR2 headset (PS VR2) just got a huge discount that sees it fall to an all-time low price. Moreover, the timely deal arrives just a little over a week away from the arrival of a $59.99 adapter that will enable support on gaming PCs via Steam. The current discount more than makes up for the cost of...
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The ban of DJI drones in the US has stalled out in the Senate, at least for for now, as emergency responders came to the rescue. The Senate Armed Services Committee recently released its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA FY25), and it does not include the Countering CCP Drones Act, which aimed to...
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Social media platform X is now beginning to use data generated by its users to train Grok, the company’s AI search assistant. This update to its policy, which isn't the first policy change this year, was shared on the official X Safety account, where it says “all X users have the ability to control whether their...
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Intel saying it discovered the root cause of instability issues on its 14th Gen and 13th Gen Core processors and promising a firmware fix came as good news to affected owners last week. That said, the issue could affect more than just the top processor models. Intel said as much in an interview with The Verge, in...
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ASUS Zenbook S 16 (UM5606): Starting @ $1,399 - $1,699 As Tested The ASUS Zenbook S 16, powered by AMD's Strix Point Ryzen AI 300 Series processors, is an excellent all-around performer, built with premium materials, that offers great battery life and a strong NPU for future AI workloads. Excellent Performance...
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The console gaming landscape has changed significantly during the last two decades, including the entrance of new competitors such as Microsoft. One of the most significant changes to consoles has been the inclusion of online marketplaces, such as the Xbox 360 marketplace. Microsoft's popular GamePass is the evolution...
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The night skies will light up this week with not just one meteor shower, but two. The Delta Aquariids, known for its bright and fast meteors, and the Alpha Capricornids, known for producing slower, more colorful shooting stars, will peak simultaneously on Tuesday, July 30.
Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons...
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Apple’s rollout of Apple Intelligence looks to be delayed, missing the planned launch alongside the company’s next set of devices that will release in the Fall of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Users will now need to wait until iOS 18.1 and iPad OS 18.1 to get a taste of Apple’s vision for AI, which...
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AMD raised a few eyebrows last week when it announced a short delay to its desktop Ryzen 9000 series processors based on Zen 5, a decision the company said it made "out of an abundance of caution." This was followed by AMD SVP and GM Jack Huynh somewhat clarifying on X/Twitter that the unnamed cause of the delay was...
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While not quite small enough to build a traditional 4x4 NUC, ASRock's new X600TM-ITX motherboard is small enough to build a mini PC, and a bleeding edge one, too. According to ASRock, the X600TM-ITX is the only 'thin mini ITX' form factor motherboard to utilize the AM5 socket, and with it comes support for AMD's Ryzen...
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All the excitement in the enthusiast scene lately has been aimed at AMD's new Zen 5-based processors. That's "Strix Point" for mobile, comprising the Ryzen AI 300 series, and then "Granite Ridge" for desktop, making up the Ryzen 9000 series, and both are launching soon—albeit not quite as soon as intended. However...
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Since NASA shared the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, the space observatory has continued to amaze with its ability to capture deep space in exquisite detail, such as the Penguin and the Egg image (seen at top) that celebrated Webb’s second anniversary. From “Cosmic Cliffs,” to an...
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If you're like me, then you're old enough to remember when big screen TVs were absolutely massive units with monstrous price tags to boot. Remember those unwieldy front projection models, followed by slightly sleeker but still bulky rear projection sets? TVs have come a long way, not only in form factor and...
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As a fan of Sonos products and its ecosystem, I have witnessed the growing discontent amongst similar owners grow across social media during the last few months. It all started with an errant software update, that seemed to break everything it could for users on May 7, 2024.
In response to this fiasco, the CEO has...
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Look, we know—AMD's got too many different chips with too many different codenames to keep track of. This one's easy: Fire Range is simply Granite Ridge (that is, the Ryzen 9000 desktop processors) for mobile, just as Dragon Range was Raphael (Ryzen 7000 desktop) for mobile. These parts have barely-there integrated...
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Fans who have been patiently awaiting the release of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, will have to wait a little bit longer than anticipated...again. In a statement posted to X/Twitter, Ukranian video game developer GSC Game World said it was pushing back the release date a couple of months in order to "fix more...
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Epic Games is taking what it describes as a “quantum leap” to bring its games to players on mobile platforms. The new path forward includes taking advantage of new regulatory realities to launch its own store, bringing its games to stores with favorable terms, and leaving platforms that introduce new...
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