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- Netflix Bolsters Streaming Arsenal With Android Games In Battle Royale Versus Apple Arcade
- Steam Data Shows Gamers Adopting GeForce RTX 30 GPUs Faster Than Last Gen
- Intel Drops Huge Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt Clue For When Next Question Drops
- Real-Life Bowser Pleads Guilty To Selling Nintendo Hacks, Could Score 10 Years In Prison
- Researchers Warn Trojan Source Attack Infects Open Source Code With Ghost Bugs
- Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs Lap Preorder Circuit Starting At $320
- Join Us For An Intel Alder Lake 12th Gen Core Livestream With Marcus Kennedy
- LG UltraGear GP9 Review: Bluetooth Gaming Soundbar With Grunt, Lacks Grace
- Pixel 6 Fingerprint Scanner Not Fast Enough For You? Here's A Super-Easy Fix
- Here's A Glimpse Of Microsoft's Metaverse And It Starts With Teams
- G.Skill Showboats Hitting DDR5-7000 On Its Lower Latency Trident Z5 RGB RAM
- MacOS Monterey Update Bricks MacBook Pros Leaving Angry Users With Overpriced Apple Coasters
- Shiba Inu Mounts Dogecoin As Top Crypto Dog Because It's More Fun Than Your Leg
- Epic Is Shutting Down Fortnite In China This Month Amid Crackdown On Gaming
- Elon Musk Pledges To Sell $6B Of TSLA If The UN Proves Billionaires Can Solve World Hunger
- Apple Allegedly Working On 8K AR Headset With Wi-Fi 6E And The Usual Ridiculous Price Tag
- 5D Storage Breakthrough Stuffs A Massive 500TB Of Data On A Tiny Disc With Amazing Endurance
- Apple's Next iPhone And Smartwatch May Auto-Dial 911 If You Get Into A Car Crash
- MSI Says Alder Lake’s Hotspots Need Specific Cooling Configs To Maximize Performance
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX And AMD Radeon RX GPU Prices Trending Back To Record Highs
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All News for November 2021
Netflix officially announced its intentions to enter the extremely lucrative gaming industry this past July. Following up on that, Netflix yesterday tooks it is first step into the already very competitive mobile platform that will include five mobile games at the outset.
Netflix will begin its mobile gaming...
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Nope, the depressing graphics card shortage is not yet over, and that could be the case throughout 2022 as well. Be that as it may, gamers are actually getting their hands on NVIDIA's latest generation GPUs, as evidenced by latest Steam Hardware and Software survey data. Looking at the numbers, it even appears that PC...
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For all those who have been following Intel's Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt, it has been filled with a few days of some periodically checking to see if the second question of the contest has dropped yet. Well on Tuesday, Intel dropped a pretty big clue as to when contestants need to be on their toes for question number 2 and...
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When you think of "video game piracy," you probably think immediately of PC games. That's not really a fair association, though; console game piracy has been going on as long as there have been video game consoles, and it's a bigger market than you likely realize. Perhaps not as big as it once was, though, as famed...
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Remember the old days of code pages and customized OSes for specific languages, like DOS/V? Unicode has more or less solved the biggest issue with displaying non-ASCII glyphs on computers, although it's still up to the operating system to implement support, of course.
Did you know you can write source in Unicode...
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It took a few days following Intel's Alder Lake announcement, but there are now a handful of places where you can preorder a 12th Gen Core processor, if that's what you want to do. We always recommend waiting for reviews, but hey, if you want to get a jump and/or take a leap of faith that Alder Lake will bring the...
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Heads up we're going to have a special guest from Intel join us on Wednesday for a lively discussion on the chip maker's latest processor launch, Alder Lake. Marcus Kennedy, General Manager for Gaming and the Client Computing Group, will hop on our livestream to discuss the architecture and answer our questions, and...
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This past Summer, LG created a new product category with its UltraGear Gaming Speaker (GP9), though not entirely from scratch. The GP9 combines aspects of a soundbar with a portable Bluetooth speaker, and also serves as an external USB soundcard with a built-in Hi-Fi Quad DAC (ESS9038 Pro) to bring your headphones to...
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Google's flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Pro have launched with with the lineups first under-display fingerprint scanner, but the company's first attempt at using a fingerprint to unlock the phone has some users feeling around for a fix.
The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro officially hit the market last week for sale. The reviews have...
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Remember when having an online presence meant coming up with a clever nickname? It's been that way since the AOL days (these days it's better known as a 'gamertag', depending on the platform), but as companies push the idea of a so-called metaverse, you better think about what kind of avatar you want to represent you...
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Slowly but surely, memory makers have begun announcing DDR5 memory kits for Intel's Alder Lake platform. Most of them have been relatively modest in speed, at or around DDR5-4800. Meanwhile, G.Skill is doing what it does—focusing on enthusiast kits and seeing how far it can push its own memory products. The best...
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Any time you update the operating system on your PC or Mac, it is usually followed by a few days of holding your breath as you wait to see if there are any major bugs that will crash your or otherwise disrupt your system. As such, owners of some older Mac computers are finding themselves gasping for breath following a...
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Each Shiba Inu token in the land of cryptocurrency is only worth a tiny fraction of a penny, but collectively, it is the ninth most valuable crypto by market cap. Just as notable, Shiba Inu has raced ahead of Dogecoin, fetching a larger overall valuation. It's lost some ground since leapfrogging the other doggie coin...
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Western video games are increasingly unwelcome in China. Even major video game publishers are being pressured to back down. This includes Epic Games, the publisher and developer behind Fortnite. Epic Games is shutting down Fortress Night, the Chinese version of Fortnite, later this month.
Fortress Night will...
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The United Nations is challenging the world's richest individuals—billionaires like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk—to allocate a portion of their vast wealth to make a sizable dent in world hunger. By the UN's math, around $6 billion would have a huge impact. In response, Musk issued a challenge...
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When consumer virtual reality made a resurgence with the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, many people dismissed it as a short-lived gimmick, with widespread comparisons to the brief hype period surrounding 3D TVs. Those people have not been paying attention to the last two decades' determined efforts to use...
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With any type of creative or engineering project, you have to be aware of your target, whether that's the audience for a joke, the landscape for a building, or the use-case for a piece of hardware or software. All practical attempts to create anything have to start with a list of project goals or intentions.
There's...
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Today's smartphones and smartwatches heavily emphasize health features, with heart rate monitoring, sleep diagnostics, step counters, and the so forth. Relatively soon, however, Apple may add a new feature to its iPhone and Apple Watch devices—crash detection, which would then dial up 9-1-1 for you if you're in an...
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According to MSI, it will be more important than ever to select the right cooler for Intel's new Alder Lake CPUs, and to make sure it is being mounted correctly. The reason? In short, the hotspots on different Alder Lake CPUs could be located in slightly different areas due to the hybrid makeup of the chip, and...
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I had not intended on writing about the continued upward trend of GPU prices at the conclusion of October, because it is starting to feel like beating a dead horse. It's not something I particularly enjoy pointing out, and by now, we all know the situation. So why am I? What I had not necessarily anticipated is that...
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Ever wonder what kind of motherboard Zeus would build a PC around? If he opted for an Alder Lake rig, he would probably go for MSI's upcoming MEG Z690 Godlike, a massive slab of silicon traces that qualifies as the biggest motherboard the company has ever built, if some leaked schematics and measurements end up being...
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Roblox took to Twitter to announce that its servers were finally back online everywhere. This followed a long weekend of rumors that the outage was perhaps caused by some gassy side-effect initiated by a free Chipotle "boorito" that players could claim in-game and redeem in real life.
The server issues seemed to...
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