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- Ring's New Affordable Battery Doorbell Adds Key Weapons To Thwart Porch Pirates
- Lunar Lander Proves An Ancient Ocean Of Magma Once Covered The Moon
- AMD Explained Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 Benchmark Discrepancies, So We Tested It
- NVIDIA And MediaTek Team Up To Make G-SYNC Gaming Monitors Much More Affordable
- Razer Releases Kraken V4 Headset Line For Gaming On Every Platform
- 2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet Pierces A $113K MSRP
- Flagship Fight: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Beats AMD Ryzen 9 9950X In Early Benchmarks
- Microsoft Apps For MacOS Leave Mac Users Vulnerable To Security Threats
- Indiana Jones And The Great Circle: Release Date, PS5 Availability And A New Trailer
- Borderlands 4 Will Attempt To Regain Franchise Footing After Movie Flop
- NASA Denies Boeing Astronauts Are Stranded In Space, Provides Updated Details In An FAQ
- Samsung's New 4K Odyssey Gaming Monitor Lets You Play In 3D Without Glasses
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D Budget Gaming CPU Is Reportedly Launching Next Month
- Back-To-School Gaming Gear Blowout: Up To 71% Off Corsair Bundles, Keyboards & Headsets
- The First Ever NVIDIA ACE-Powered AI Game NPCs Are Coming To Mecha BREAK
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X's AVX-512 Performance Gets Put To The Test
- Suit Up For Tesla To Train Its Humanoid Robot And You Could Earn Up To $48 An Hour
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 To Make On-Device AI More Affordable
- Black Myth: Wukong Surges Past 2M Players On Steam To Claim Single-Player Record
- Final Fantasy XVI PC Release Date Confirmed, Demo Available Now
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All News for August 2024
If you already own a Ring doorbell, then you know how brazen some package thieves can be, even in broad daylight and with the risk of being glitter-bombed. And if you don't, now is a good time to think about getting one, with Ring announcing a new $99.99 Battery Doorbell equipped with features that were previously...
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New findings by India’s Chandrayaan lunar probe seem to validate an idea called the Lunar Magma Ocean theory concerning how the Moon formed. Scientists have hypothesized that when the Moon formed some 4.5 billion years ago, it started to cool and a lighter mineral called anorthosite rose to the top, forming the Moon’s...
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Zen 5 is out, and AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors are distinctly last-generation now. Only, a lot of reviewers produced benchmark data that makes Zen 5 look less like a step and more like a stumble. AVX-512 performance is fantastic, and the chips do well in Linux overall, but Windows numbers, particularly in gaming...
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These days, virtually every monitor—certainly every gaming monitor—supports at least some form of variable refresh rate technology. NVIDIA's G-SYNC was the pioneer, but AMD's FreeSync is far more ubiquitous largely due to its lower costs and less stringent requirements. Essentially, FreeSync simply requires a monitor...
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Razer’s iconic Kraken gaming headset is evolving once again with two new versions, the Kraken V4 and V4 X. Razer touts the new Krakens as building on a legacy spanning over 12 years since the first Razer Kraken headset, and celebrating over 20 million units shipped worldwide.
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Dodge is marking its 20th anniversary of Hemi-powered Durangos with two special edition models: the Durango R/T 20th Anniversary Edition (natch) and the Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet. The latter can be had for $113,000+ for starters, which seems either like highway robbery or that Dodge's marketing team is...
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In the lead up to Intel's eventual Arrow Lake launch, rumors and leaks are starting to pile up with increased plausibility, as tends to happen the closer we get to a product's official release. The latest source of leaks comes from a familiar source—Geekbench's benchmark database—and it hints that Intel's flagship...
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Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a set of vulnerabilities affecting macOS users who have Microsoft applications installed on their computers, providing more attack vectors for malicious actors. The researchers say that “an attacker could bypass the operating system’s permission model by using...
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There were rumors circulating about an Xbox exclusive title being destined for the PlayStation 5, with several games being thrown around as potential candidates. This rumor was confirmed at Gamescom’s Opening Night Light event when Xbox and Bethesda revealed that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is headed for Sony’s...
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Well, that was quick. Game developer Gearbox Software screened a teaser trailer for Borderlands 4 at Gamescom, perhaps to quell any uprising by fans of the franchise following the horrible Borderlands live action movie earlier this month. To say the trailer was cryptic (even for a teaser) would be an understatement...
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While it may seem like NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams have been stuck in space since arriving at the International Space Station, the space agency is making it clear they are not. Williams and Wilmore arrived at the ISS on June 6, and have been integrated into the Expedition 71 crew while they await...
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Samsung is evidently unbothered by the lack of embrace for 3D display solutions from consumers over the years, as evidenced by a new display announced at Gamescom 2024 in Germany. Called the Odyssey 3D, it's Samsung's first 3D gaming monitor, and the "groundbreaking" monitor does not required any special glasses...
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AMD recently launched its Ryzen 9000 lineup of Zen 5 CPUs, including the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X. If you have a tighter budget and wish to remain focused on gaming performance, there is another CPU potentially coming soon. No, it is not the anticipated 3D V-Cache versions of the Ryzen 9000 series, which are likely to...
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We don’t need an excuse to buy gaming products; it doesn’t take much arm-twisting to convince us to stock up, just some good deals. But if you’re looking for both (an excuse AND deals), Corsair has you covered with a whole bunch of back-to-school specials. These are real discounts, and some of them are pretty...
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When we talk about technological advancements in video games, there are a few things that always spring to mind: new rendering techniques or paradigms, advanced physics simulation, or perhaps new ways of presenting the game, like streaming. There's an area where nothing has really changed in 40 years, though, and...
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So the reviews are out, the dust has largely settled, and the conclusion of the community is that AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 processors are more of an iterative step than a groundbreaking leap forward. Some reviews have found excellent performance gains from Zen 5, though. Linux-focused benchmark sites like...
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Tesla wants to pay humans up to $48 an hour to suit up in a motion capture suit to help train its Optimus humanoid robot. Candidates need to be able to walk 7+ hours a day while carrying up to 30lbs, and need to be within a certain height range in order to work with the motion capture suit.
Humanoid robots have...
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You may have noticed a persistent buzz surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, both on the hardware and software side. If not, we'll send help removing you from under that boulder. Partially in an effort to make on-device AI more accessible, Qualcomm today announced its Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, which is the...
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The highly anticipated, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong has taken Steam by storm, surging past 2 million concurrent players to claim a single-player record. The action RPG surpassed the all-time peaks of games such as Palworld, Elden Ring, Dota 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Counter-Strike 2, representing a mix of...
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A little over a year after releasing on PlayStation 5, Final Fantasy XVI is now coming over to PC, and players can check out a demo of the game’s opening prologue on both Steam and the Epic Games Store. Any progress made while playing the demo will carry over to the full game. There will two versions available, the...
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Gamescom doesn't official begin until tomorrow (August 21-25), but the announcements are already starting to pour in. Among them are a handful of new gaming and streaming gear from HP, including its Omen 35L desktop and the HyperX QuadCast 2 S, which the company is pitching as the world's first gaming microphone to...
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Large-scale data breaches are a dime a dozen nowadays, but that doesn't make them any less serious or consequential. Automaker Toyota faced yet another breach of its network, this time with around 240GB worth of files. The data reportedly includes personal and staff data, financial documentation, emails, and Toyota's...
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