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Latest News - October 2021
- Delayed Ethereum 2.0 Merger Is A Crushing Blow For PC Gamers Hunting For A GPU
- Rust Now Lets You Scrounge For Body Parts And Build Your Own Frankenstein
- Facebook's Meta Rebrand Is About Its Play to Dominate The Metaverse
- Video Shows All The Ways Zelda Ocarina Of Time Looks Worse On Switch Online Versus N64
- Smoking Hot Deal: Dell's Wicked-Fast 360Hz Alienware 25 Gaming Monitor Is Half Off
- Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU Gets Cranked To 6.8GHz, Annihilates World Records
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Rocks More Tiny Single Board PC Horsepower For Just $15
- Hey Parents, Here's How To Delete Photos Of Your Kids From Google Search Results
- Quick Teardown Look At Apple's MacBook Pro With M1 Pro Highlights Major Design Upgrade
- Watch How NASA Plans To Use Fricken Lasers To Beam Data From Space To Earth
- Halloween Treat: Nintendo Releases Free Metroid Dread Demo To Switch, No Tricks
- Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake Delidding Video Lays Bare Thinner Die And A Gold Surprise
- NVIDIA GeForce NOW RTX 3080 Review: Your Killer Gaming Rig In The Cloud
- Amazon's Own Fire TVs Now Available In The US And Already Discounted, Should You Buy One?
- Play Super Mario and Zelda In Glorious High Res With AMD FSR On Latest Yuzu Emulator
- Intel CEO Vows To Keep Moore's Law Going And Will Exhaust The Periodic Table If Necessary
- G.Skill Takes Early RAM Lead With 32GB DDR5-6800 Trident Z5 To Supercharge Alder Lake
- Intel 12th Gen Core Debut: Alder Lake CPUs Are Ready For Battle
- Intel Ponte Vecchio, Sapphire Rapids To Deliver Massive 2 Exaflops Of Aurora Supercomputer Performance
- Dell Unveils Bigger And Cooler XPS Desktops And Retooled Alienware PCs With Alder Lake
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All News for October 2021
A major update headed to the Ethereum blockchain is supposed to be great news for PC gamers, as it would virtually eliminate the demand for GPUs from Eth miners. And it was supposed to happen in December. Unfortunately, the developers overseeing the full transition to Ethereum 2.0 feel the update is not quite ready...
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It's October 28th, and Halloween is nigh. Among other mischieviously-festive events, the Steam Halloween sale is on, with tons of games discounted in celebration of All Hallows' Eve.
Bubbling to the top of the pool of discounted titles, you'll find popular survival-craft game Rust. The game and all of its DLCs are...
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Facebook recently said it was looking to do a rebrand amidst the scandal that was caused from release of internal company documents. Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced that rebrand and it is simply Meta.
Zuckerberg has been talking about moving Facebook as a company into what he calls the "metaverse," So, it is no...
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Like Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo gates its online-capable video games behind a subscription service. In the case of the Nintendo Switch, it's the simply-named Nintendo Switch Online. The subscription costs $19.99 USD per year, and besides enabling access to Nintendo's online services, it also allows you to play a...
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Dell is currently offering a dynamite deal on its Alienware 25 gaming monitor (AW2521H). It's a 24.5-inch display that is built for speed and supports NVIDIA's Reflex Latency Analyzer technology, and is on sale for $449.99. That's not chump-change by any stretch of the imagination, but it's $460 below Dell's...
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Sometimes things don't go quite as planned, but the trick is to not give up. If anyone needs reminding of this, Intel's InnovatiON event yesterday should suffice. About 40 minutes into the event, Intel tried to demonstrate its newly unveiled Core i9-12900K Alder Lake processor setting a world record while heavily...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has baked up another special treat for fans of single-board computer (SBC) projects: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. It is a long overdue follow-up to the original Raspberry Pi Zero W, and looking at the specifications and and list of features, it appears to be worth the wait (we haven't gotten our...
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Internet safety continues to be a concern for parents when it comes to their children. Anyone with internet access can simply do a quick internet search of your child's name and be able to view photos you may have intended only for your Facebook followers. Google is now providing parents with more control over those...
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Historically, teardowns of Apple's MacBook Pro laptops have not gone all that well, to put it nicely. Apple has not exactly been a champion of the right-to-repair movement, and more like a begrudging participant. Is the new MacBook Pro with Apple's upgraded M1 Pro and M1 Max processors any different? We'll have to...
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Since the beginning of space exploration, radio frequencies have primarily been the method of data communication. All of that is about to change as NASA hearkens in a new age of laser space communications. And no, Dr. Evil fan club members, sharks will not be used for the frickin' lasers (we're still waiting on...
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Halloween is almost here and it is time for a little virtual trick o’ treating. Nintendo has a treat for you and it promises that there are no tricks up its sleeve. Nintendo just released a free demo of Metroid Dread.
Nintendo Switch users can either download the free demo from Nintendo.com or the Nintendo eShop...
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In what could very well be the coolest thing you see today, a notorious modder delidded a Core i9-12900K processor from Intel's newly announced Alder Lake stack, and provided a detailed video tour of the chip's makeup. That in and of itself is geektastic, but adding to the awesome-sauce, he also took some...
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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW is not a new product, but today the company's game streaming service is expanding in a couple of key ways to bring more performance and better visuals to gamers everywhere. Announced last week, NVIDIA is bringing a whole new tier of graphics horsepower to its service, dubbed GeForce NOW RTX...
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Up to this point, the selection of Fire TVs on Amazon in the US has been served by the likes of Toshiba, Insignia, JVC, and Pioneer. Not anymore—Amazon announced last month that it was debuting its own brand Fire TV models, and those sets are now available in a variety of sizes spanning 43-75 inches at aggressive...
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Super Mario Odyssey, downscaled from 4K.
To legally play console games in an emulator on a PC, you have to own both the game and the required hardware, which might leave some folks scratching their heads as to why you would even bother. Just play that games on the real hardware, right?
Of course, PC gamers know...
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During today's Intel InnovatiON event, the chip maker covered a variety of topics across a range of product and service categories. Alder Lake is of course the major news today, as it gets off the ground with the first batch of desktop SKUs. But one of the more interesting nuggets from the event was the state of...
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The big news today is Intel's 12th Gen Core Alder Lake launch, which kicked off a bevy of product announcements from various system builders and hardware partners. G.Skill is among them. To avoid getting lost in the noise, G.Skill today came out swinging with a high-end Trident Z5 DDR5-6800 memory kit designed for...
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At its inaugural InnovatiON event, which kicked off this morning, Intel revealed a number of additional details regarding its upcoming 12th Gen Core processors, codenamed Alder Lake. We’ve been covering leaks, rumors and whatever else emerged regarding Alder Lake for ages. And after Intel’s recent...
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The talk of the day might be centered on Alder Lake, but Intel made another notable announcement today, regarding the performance potential of Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer. We already knew that Intel's next-gen Xe-HPC GPU codenamed Ponte Vecchio would help power Aurora, but revealed today, Ponte...
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Once Intel lifted the curtain on its Alder Lake processors, it took Dell all of a nanosecond to introduce upgraded desktop systems built around the chip maker's latest silicon. This isn't just a motherboard and CPU swap, though. Looking beyond the foundational components, Dell retooled its new XPS Desktop with a...
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Apple is looking into how it may change how you view AR (augmented reality) altogether...literally. Instead of projecting an image onto a lens, which is viewed by someone wearing an AR headset or glasses, Apple envisions beaming the image directly onto the user's eyeball itself.
Apple recently unveiled its upcoming...
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You may not be able to mosey into Best Buy or Walmart and walk out with an Xbox Series X or S console tucked underneath your arm, but it's not because Microsoft is dragging its feet on shipments. During an earnings call this week, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood indicated the company was able to ship more consoles than...
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