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- Listen To Google's Gemini Live AI Voices That Are Set To Challenge ChatGPT
- Game Collector Sets Guinness World Record By Connecting 444 Consoles To A TV
- Ryzen 9 9950X And 9900X Review: AMD’s Flagship Zen 5 Chips Tested
- Game Devs Reportedly Share Disappointing Update On Nintendo Switch 2 Launch
- NASA InSight Lander Sparks Excitement At Hidden Water World On Mars
- Black Myth: Wukong Official Benchmark Brings Beautiful Ray-Traced Visuals To Steam
- Massive Data Breach Leaks 2.7 Billion Records Including Social Security Numbers
- Google's Entire Pixel 9 Family Unveiled With Pixel Watch 3 And Pixel Buds 2 Pro
- TikTok Slides Into Your DMs With New Features To Challenge Messaging Apps
- Check Your Toyota: Recall Issued For 33,800 Vehicles Due To A Sticker Error
- Mars And Jupiter Are Set To Dazzle Stargazers In Rare Event Tonight
- Testing Intel’s Raptor Lake CPU Microcode Fix Yields Encouraging Results
- Doom 2 Modded With Ray Tracing? Oh Hell Yeah!
- LG Wants Compensation After Apple Cancels MicroLED Plans For Apple Watch Ultra
- Assassin's Creed Game Lead Explains Why You'll Wait Longer For Next Installment
- Parents Beware: Tablet Study Suggests Screen Time Fuels Toddler Tantrums
- Bid On Steve Jobs' Bomber Jacket, Rare iPad 1 Prototype And More Apple Collectibles
- GPD Unveils Pocket 4, A Zen 5 Handheld Rocking Strix Point And 144Hz Display
- Valve's Secret New Hero Shooter Deadlock Attracts 17K Players Before Launch
- SteamOS Patch Notes Hint At Support For ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld
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All News for August 2024
As AI continues to rule the roost in the tech world, Google is reimagining its digital assistant with Gemini Live, a mobile conversational experience that allows users to have “free-flowing conversations” with Gemini. Gemini Live is expected to rival OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode on ChatGPT, which recently rolled out...
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In a world where playing classic games on consoles is usually left to emulators (and/or maybe an older console or two we have laying around), there's someone like Ibrahim Al-Nasser who can pull off playing those games on their OG consoles anytime he wants, because he owns hundreds of consoles, controllers, and games...
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X - $499, Ryzen 9 9950X - $549 AMD's enthusiast-class Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X are the highest performance Zen 5 processors in the line-up, and we've got the full scoop. Strong All-Around Performance Better Power Efficiency Socket + Cooler Compatibility Forward Looking Architecture...
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Back in May, Nintendo spilled the beans on its Switch 2 launch plans, saying a "successor" to its wildly popular handheld game console would arrive "within this fiscal year." Nintendo's fiscal year runs through March 2025, so any time before or by then is fair game, right? Maybe not. Game developers are seemingly...
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A group of researchers have concluded the most probable explanation concerning data collected about Mars’ planetary crust from the Mars InSight Lander is the crust has stores of liquid water. If true, the group believes it sets the stage for new research considering the planet’s habitability and continuing a search...
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Beautiful ray-traced visuals, that is, if your PC can handle it. Chinese developer Game Science's long-awaited action-adventure title Black Myth: Wukong is finally nearing release, so the newbie studio has released a stand-alone benchmark utility that users can use to gauge whether their machines are ready for the...
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Yet another leak of stolen data has made its way to Breach Forums, a popular site for bad actors who traffic in this kind of data theft. The data originates from the breach of National Public Data, which is a service that gathers information from separate sources to form profiles on individuals located in several...
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Google has historically announced its new Android hardware in October, even if it didn't have much new to show. For instance, in 2020 it released the solitary Pixel 5, a basic mid-range phone—but 2024 is the polar opposite. Google has moved up its Pixel unveiling, and the company has a cornucopia of new hardware...
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TikTok has been under fire from the US government for a while over the platform being owned by Chinese company ByteDance. While the US government aims to force the popular platform to sell to a US-owned company, or face being banned in the country, the platform itself continues to focus on its users and bringing new...
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If you purchased or own a Toyota with added OEM accessories installed by North American Toyota dealer Gulf States Toyota, you might want to check whether your vehicle is part of a recent recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) explains that the recall is—believe it or not—due to a simple...
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Mars and Jupiter are set to dazzle stargazers in a rare event tonight, as the two planets appear just a third of a degree from one another in the night sky. The close conjunction of the two planets has not occurred since 2015, and won’t happen again until 2033.
All of the major planets in the solar system orbit the...
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As soon as the broader discussion about the Raptor Lake stability issues began, many people were already speculating that the potential "fix" would have a deleterious effect on performance. In essence, the thought process was that Intel had achieved its chart-topping performance by pushing the chips too far along the...
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Last week Doom fans got a nice surprise when Doom and Doom II got upgraded with a re-release that brought several quality-of-life improvements to these classic titles. However, there was one modern update that was missing -- ray tracing. Well, that’s no longer the case after Shirokii released a mod that includes realtime path tracing for Doom
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The Apple Watch has been a successful product, adorning the wrists of those fashioned to the ecosystem. The advanced Apple Watch Ultra has garnered the praise of those wanting a more robust watch, but trouble is brewing behind the senes.
LG, who provides Apple with many of its displays, wants compensation for the...
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With one of the longest incubation periods of any Assassin's Creed titles, the next one called Assassin's Creed Shadows will only be released when the Ubisoft development team feels like they've struck the "right balance." At four years since its announcement, the November-bound title, if done right (and assuming...
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If you're a parent of a young child who is suddenly prone to angry outbursts, you may want to limit their time in front of an iPad (even one of the new M2 iPads) or other tablet. No, we're not offering up parenting advice, but passing along the insinuation of a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics, which links...
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These days, Apple has a firm grip on the tablet market with its iPad lineup accounting for more than a third of all tablet in the wild (35.8%), according to the latest audit by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Apple didn't invent the tablet, of course, but it did play a significant role in...
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Have you ever wished you could use your smartphone as your primary PC? There are various ways to achieve that, but how about this instead: the GPD Pocket 4. This is a handheld PC with an 8.8" screen. That puts it on the high end of "phablet" size, yet still arguably pocketable. Despite the small size, it comes...
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While the dream of Valve blessing gamers with Half-Life 3 is seemingly dead, it doesn’t mean the company isn’t working on new game projects alongside improving the Steam Deck. Deadlock, which is one of the worst kept secrets in gaming, is one such project. Even though it hasn’t even been so much as acknowledged by...
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If you've read reviews of various PC gaming handheld systems, you've probably noted that almost all of them compare the machine against the Steam Deck and come to the conclusion that using Windows is a downside. In other words, most reviews will tell you that being saddled with Windows (instead of using Linux as the...
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An expedition to visit the sunken wreck of the Titanic ended in tragedy last year when the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded, killing all five people aboard. The company still exists, despite the death of founder and CEO Stockton Rush in the Titan incident. The estate of another Titan victim has filed a lawsuit...
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Grand Theft Auto 6, one of the most highly anticipated titles of 2025, probably won’t be launching on Xbox Game Pass. During an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that big games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 debuting on the subscription service won’t change his company’s strategy...
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