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- Students Built A Robot Fish Named Eve To Solve Mysteries Of The Ocean
- Alarming AMD Sinkclose Flaw Puts Millions Of CPUs At Risk For Resilient Malware
- Apple iPhone 16: Design Changes, Launch Date And What To Expect
- Hi-Fi Rush Saved As Krafton Acquires Tango Gameworks From Xbox
- Boeing Starliner Issues Could Leave NASA Astronauts In Space 6 More Months
- OpenAI Warns ChatGPT's Voice Mode Could Make Us Emotionally Reliant On AI
- Forget The Radeon RX 7400 And 7300, AMD's Partners Reportedly Shift Focus To RDNA 4
- Top Amazon Deals: Up To 40% Off Keurig, Fire TV Sticks, Ninja Air Fryer & More
- Intel Arc Battlemage Card Breaks Cover With 12GB of 19Gbps Memory
- Samsung Offers Galaxy Z Fold6 Buyers $300 For Galaxy Watch And Buds Credit
- Score A MacBook Pro For Up To $600 Off And More Sweet Apple Tech Deals
- Intel Strives To Slam A Lid On Raptor Lake Stability Issues, Vows Ongoing Support
- Doom 1 + 2 Get Surprise Relaunch Enhanced With Crossplay, Mods And 4K 120 FPS Support
- 3D Printed Houses Priced Up To $600K Fill A 100 Home Texas Neighborhood
- AMD Steals More Share From Intel In PCs And Servers But INTC Still Dominates
- Samsung Issues Critical Security Patch For Millions Of Galaxy Devices, Update ASAP
- Intel Delays 2024 Innovation Event, Insists Arrow Lake Launch Is Still On Track
- Planning To Play God Of War Ragnarok On PC? Better Check Your SSD Storage
- China’s Messy Megaconstellation Rocket Launch Litters Space Junk In Low-Earth Orbit
- Apple's Redesigned Mac Mini To Flex M4 Chip And Super Compact Design
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All News for August 2024
A group of engineering students have developed a robotic fish to help solve mysteries of the ocean. The soft robotic underwater fish, called Eve, blends into a coral reef environment, allowing operators to take isolated eDNA samples and high resolution video for extensive data gathering.
Studying ocean life is not...
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If you're rocking an AMD build, there's a high chance you're vulnerable to a serious security flaw that's been dubbed Sinkclose. That Ryzen 7 7800X3D pictured above? It's affected, as is the entire Ryzen 7000 series range and a slew of other processor models dating back to 2006. Another tidbit that won't give any AMD...
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We're inching closer to the official announcement of Apple's iPhone 16. The first half of September has, for the most part, traditionally been the period Cupertino launches new phones. But as to what date exactly, that's still somewhat of a toss-up. Here, we look at what those possibilities could be, as well as what...
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Tango Gameworks, one of several studios that Microsoft announced it would be shutting down earlier this year, has been picked up by South Korean game publisher Krafton and will continue to operate. The Hi-Fi Rush IP, which spawned one of the more popular titles of 2023 that would also go on to win several awards, is...
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were only meant to stay onboard the International Space Station for a week or so in space after docking aboard Boeing’s Starliner. Now, the duo who have already been on the ISS for a little over two months, may end up having to extend their stay another six...
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There have been various movies and TV shows highlighting emotional bonds with artificial intelligence (AI), such as the movie Her and, if going back much further into the archives, the sitcom Small Wonder from the 1980s (yes, this author has some gray hair). While perhaps these and others like them are far fetched...
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AMD has followed in the footsteps of NVIDIA with its Radeon RX GPUs, trying to gain market share anywhere that it can. While the class-leading halo products such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX are released early in the life cycle of a GPU architecture, the entry level products often follow years later. It appears as though...
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Yesterday we posted a roundup of Apple tech deals at Best Buy, and if you haven't already, you should check that out—there are some great savings to be had on MacBook Pro laptops, iPad tablets, and several other items just in time for the back to school season. Today, we're switching our focus to Amazon and...
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In case you still carried any doubts, Intel's second-generation discrete graphics products, codenamed "Battlemage," are very real and absolutely still on the way—likely later this year. As proof, allow us to show you the latest leak: a boot log from a system in the Intel GFX Continuous Integration group that clearly...
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Samsung is offering Galaxy Z Fold6 buyers a healthy $300 credit toward the purchase of accessories or compantion devices, including the Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Buds3, which are already 25% off.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 brings subtle changes and significant refinements over its predecessor...
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School is back in session at many places around the country, and in others, the new school year will begin again very soon. If you're needing to stock up on tech, like a new laptop or set of earbuds with active noise cancellation, now is a great time. There's an 'Apple Sales Event' going on at Best Buy right now, with...
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As we noted yesterday, Intel's partners are starting to roll out motherboard BIOS updates that include the promised microcode fixes for its Raptor Lake processors. These patches should hopefully keep intact CPUs from degrading any further, although processors that are already damaged will have to be replaced. We were...
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This weekend, thousands of FPS fans, boomer shooter devotees, and many literal boomers have descended on Dallas, Texas suburb Grapevine for the yearly Quakecon event. Id Software and its parent company Bethesda like to use the event to disseminate news about their products (like last year's surprise Quake II remaster...
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As home prices continue to skyrocket, some companies are looking at new methods of building homes to hopefully reduce the strain on the market. Such is the case with ICON, a company focused on building 3D printed houses to combat the global housing crisis.
In other markets, NASA has been looking into 3D printed...
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AMD continues to gain ground on rival Intel, the latter of which has historically dominated the x86 landscape with a lopsided share of the market. Overall, that has not changed—Intel still claims the lion's share of the x86 market and even increased its lead, but the most recent gains come with a couple of important...
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While many Samsung smartphone owners may have been waiting for One UI 6.1.1 to drop this month, the company instead dropped an urgent security patch for millions of Galaxy devices. The new August security update addresses a few security vulnerabilities, and Samsung is urging its users to update ASAP.
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Intel is dealing with challenges on several fronts, and as a result, the Santa Clara chip maker announced it is postponing its upcoming Innovation 2024 chip event that was originally scheduled to take place September 24-25, 2024 in San Jose, California. Instead, it will now take place sometime in 2025, though Intel...
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God of War Ragnarök, follow up to God of War and one of the best games to come out in 2022, is making its way to PC soon. Gamers looking to join Kratos and Atreus as they journey through the Nine Realms now know what kind of hardware they’ll need to play at a variety of performance tiers. The most eye-catching part of...
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As China attempts to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, the country’s first launch for an upcoming Chinese megaconstellation ended up littering a bunch of space junk in low-Earth orbit (LEO). US Space Command confirmed the break-up of a Chinese Long March 6A rocket that launched on August 6, 2024, resulting in...
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The Mac mini, a device Apple hasn’t touched design wise since its last update in 2010, might finally be getting a facelift. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company will be introducing a new look that will make it half the size of its current form factor. Sources familiar with the matter say it’s about as...
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Gaming enthusiasts are no longer the only party in town patiently anticipating NVIDIA GPUs; investors bent on the AI craze are just as anxious. In its fourth quarter earning call, Super Micro Computer reveals that the new Blackwell GPUs from NVIDIA are simply not ready yet.
The highly anticipated NVIDIA Blackwell...
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Believe it or not, it's already been eight months since Rockstar Games delighted gamers with a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been viewed well over 204 million times, with 11 million thumbs up votes. That means we're eight months closer to launch for one of the most highly anticipated games of the decade...
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