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- Linux Beats Mac In Latest Steam Survey, Radeon RX 7900 XTX Finally Shows Up
- Intel Arc A580 Desktop GPU Benchmark Leak Follows Launch of A570M, A530M Mobile GPUs
- PCI-SIG Is Developing An Optical Interconnect To Supercharge PCIe Performance
- Intel Beats AMD And NVIDIA To Releasing GPU Drivers Optimized For Baldur's Gate 3
- Google's Generative AI Search Overview Is Adding Videos To Image And Text Results
- Lenovo's First 14" Legion Gaming Laptop Rocks OLED Display, RTX 40 GPU And AI
- NASA's Webb Telescope Shares A Thrilling New Image Of El Gordo Cluster's Hidden Features
- Back Up Your Data ASAP If You Own This Capacity Hard Drive
- AMD Radeon Pro W7600 And W7500 Review: Value-Driven Pro-Vis Graphics
- Alienware Aurora R16 Gaming PC With Radical Redesign Available Now
- RISC-V AI Startup Tenstorrent Gets Another $100M Infusion From Samsung And Hyundai
- NVIDIA, Apple, Adobe, Pixar And Autodesk Team Up For An Open Source 3D Alliance
- Baldur's Gate 3 Launch: Cross-Saves, DLSS, Steam Deck Support And All You Need To Know
- AMD Reveals When It Will Launch New Enthusiast-Class RDNA 3 Radeon RX 7000 GPUs
- Microsoft Selling Xbox Controller Replacement Parts Scores A Big Win For Right To Repair
- Google Assistant Is Getting An AI Overhaul To Behave More Like ChatGPT
- 8BitDo's First Mechanical Keyboards Are Retro Tributes To The Glorious NES With A Twist
- Xbox Gamescom 2023: Dates, Times, Upcoming Games And What To Expect
- Asteroid-Hunting Algorithm Spots A Potentially Hazardous 600-Ft Near-Earth Space Rock
- Solidigm D5-P5336 SSD Review: Monster 61TB Data Center Storage
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All News for August 2023
Windows is by far the most popular platform for playing games on PC, including titles on Steam, but what about Mac and Linux? For a long while, Mac ranked second on Steam, though that just changed and probably for good. According to the latest Steam hardware and software survey results (for July 2023), Linux now has a...
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When Intel originally introduced the Arc graphics card family to us, it was described as including three tiers of cards, just like the company's Core i- family of CPUs originally did. The Arc 3 were to be entry-level GPUs, the Arc 5 were to be mid-range gaming parts, and the Arc 7 were to be performance-class parts...
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The technology behind PCI Express interface looks set for a significant technological revamp. Signs of big changes afoot come via a press release from the PCI Special Interest Group, or PCI-SIG, which has just announced that it is going to explore delivering PCIe over optical connections.
The blistering transfer...
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Baldur's Gate III has just exited a lengthy early access period, and it already runs well on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. That may be why neither company bothered to release a graphics driver for the game's 1.0 release today. We didn't hear any specific complaints about BG3 on Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards, but we bet...
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Google is improving its generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE) by adding videos to image and text results. The company says it wants to help users make better sense of a sea of content by providing faster and easier ways to find what they are looking for.
Internet users have long used browser search engines...
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Lenovo has a new gaming laptop on the horizon with some features that are a first for its Legion line. Chief among them is form factor—the Legion Slim 5 (14", Gen 8) is the first-ever Legion gaming laptop to feature a 14-inch class (14.5-inch) display, with a redesigned keyboard to accommodate the compact size. It's...
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A new image from NASA's Webb telescope captures an alluring image of the galaxy cluster known as 'El Gordo' has unveiled tantalizing new objects never seen before. The image gives more clarity to a variety of distant objects that the Hubble Space Telescope could only hint at in the past.
El Gordo is considered to...
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Mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) are alive and well as a bulk storage medium with companies like Seagate paving an HAMR path to 50TB and beyond, but as with any piece of tech, not all models are created equal. Fortunately, cloud backup firm Backblaze frequently shares drive failure stats for its fleet of HDDs (and SSDs), and its latest storage
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AMD Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: SEP $429 (W7500), $599 (W7600) The new Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500 are affordable single-slot, low-power RDNA3-based professional workstation GPUs for content creators and graphics pros. Efficient, Low Power Affordable Price Points Good Performance Quiet Operation Single-Slot Form...
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The Alienware Aurora family has been among the best-selling gaming desktops on the market for a long time. These systems are particularly popular among those who just want to play games without having to fret too much about component selection or building their own rig. The mass market approach leverages parent...
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Jim Keller is a man who should need no introduction to an audience of tech nerds. He was part of the team that developed the legendary DEC Alpha microprocessors back in the 1990s, was the lead architect of AMD's groundbreaking K8 processors, helped out with Apple's A4 and A5 SoCs, went back to AMD to supervise the...
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I am not a digital artist, but am a PC gamer, and like so many others I've tried my hand (with varying levels of success) at modifying my favorite games. One of the biggest pains when making game mods is dealing with format conversions, especially for 3D models and animations. Throughout the decades there have been...
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If you read that headline and thought, "didn't Baldur's Gate 3 come out like three years ago?", you're thinking of the Early Access version of the title. Like most games in Early Access, Baldur's Gate 3 was extremely incomplete on its original launch into EA in 2020. Tomorrow marks the actual release date for the...
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AMD shared some exciting news about the expansion of the Radeon RX 7000 series of consumer graphics cards yesterday evening. During a call with investors, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said that the company plans to release new “enthusiast-class Radeon 7000” GPUs in Q3 this year. No specific model names were mentioned, but the...
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Microsoft has begun selling replacement parts for its Xbox controllers that will allow tech-savvy owners to make much-needed repairs to their beloved gamepad. Parts include things such as a replacement input PCBA to buttons, triggers, and bumpers.
Anyone who has ever used a controller for gaming for any extended...
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A couple of years ago, voice assistants were all the rage—Google, Apple, and Amazon all have their own personified virtual helpers, though most have scaled back spending on these systems. Now, generative AI is all the rage, and Google says via an internal memo that it's going to infuse Google Assistant with that tech...
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It may seem like mechanical keyboards and the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) have nothing in common, but that's not actually true. The NES is a retro system from a bygone era, while mechanical decks hearken back to a time before squishy membrane keyboards became the unfortunate norm. Plus they're both...
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Gamers and fans can a expect quite a lot of good things at the Xbox booth at Gamescom this year, with much-anticipated sequels to some endearing franchises.
In a recent Xbox Wire news article, the Xbox team shared that it would be bringing its biggest-ever and flashiest booth to Gamescom, scheduled to be held later...
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A relatively new algorithm designed to discover asteroids has spotted its first space rock—a 600-foot-long asteroid classified as potentially hazardous (don't worry, it's not going to smash into Earth). The algorithm was designed to be used with the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will scan the night sky in...
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Solidigm SSD D5-P5336: $<0.08 - $0.10 per GB (Estimated) The new Solidigm SSD D5-P5336 targets read-heavy workloads and features the company's latest QLC NAND flash memory to achieve massive storage capacities up to 61.44TB. Massive Capacities Targeting Lower Price Points (per GB) Mulitple Form Factors...
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Tesla is yet again under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stemming from a dozen customer reports concerning steering issues on select cars.
According to a recent NHTSA filing, a probe has been opened to investigate reported steering issues on 2023-model year Tesla Model 3...
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Shares of AMD rose in after-market trading hours last night and are down slightly this morning this morning after the chip designer posted better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter of 2023, including $5.36 billion in total revenue (down 18% year over year and flat sequentially) and net income of...
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