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- Intel Struts New Sapphire Rapids HBM, Rialto Bridge, And Falcon Shores Supercomputing Firepower
- Actively Exploited Microsoft Office Security Flaw Has No Patch But Here's A Workaround
- Netflix Streaming App Has An Annoying Spoiler Problem, Here's How To Fix It
- Sony PlayStation VR2: Specs, Sense Controller And Everything We Know So Far
- 30TB And Larger HDDs Will Be Here Soon To Solve Your Digital Pack Rat Problems
- Leaked AMD Mendocino Block Diagram Reveals Its Unique Chip Architecture
- Why France Just Banned Esports, Streaming And Other Popular English Gaming Terms
- Diablo Immortal Launch Blocked In Belgium And Netherlands Over Loot Box Laws
- A Trove Of Massive Black Holes Hiding In Plain Sight Is Blowing Astronomers’ Minds
- Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR5-6600 Lays Claim To Fastest RAM You Can Actually Buy
- Ultra Rare Apple-1 With Woz's Autograph On The CPU Is Headed To Auction
- US Claims Top Supercomputer Rank With AMD Powered Frontier And It's Totally EPYC
- AMD Ryzen 7000 Could Have A Memory Speed Edge Over Intel Raptor Lake 13th Gen
- Windows Subsystem For Linux Malware Feasts On Your Browser Auth Cookies
- Grab An Xbox Wireless Headset For $50 Off And Other Awesome Memorial Day Gaming Deals
- NVIDIA GeForce And AMD Radeon Graphics Card Prices Drop Again Approaching MSRP
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 Specs Leak In Full And It's A Flagship Beast
- AYA Neo Air Plus Takes On Steam Deck At $289 Powered By AMD RDNA 2 Infused Mendocino
- A Skillful Zelda Player Discovered This Stunning Breath Of The Wild Secret
- Stunning Hubble Image Captures Two Galaxies Dancing With A Cannibalized Cosmic Cadaver
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All News for May 2022
When we start talking about processor performance, it's important to understand that various applications have a variety of needs. It goes beyond simple "latency vs. throughput" considerations. There are many factors that go into actually executing a program that all have an effect on how it performs.
While we tend...
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Malware and virus threats are practically commonplace, even a daily occurrence for some users these days. Unfortunately for many users in the Microsoft ecosystem, leveraging popular Office applications is a common security attack vector for many of the ne'er-do-wells of the Internet.
In that regard, Microsoft's...
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The final season of Ozarks is available to watch on Netflix, as is the fourth season of Stranger Things, two excellent and popular shows. And don't worry, you won't find any season and/or series ending spoilers in this article. However, you might run into spoilers when scrolling through Netflix's menu, prompting a bit...
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Fan's of Sony's PlayStation Virtual Reality (PSVR) headset have been patiently waiting on an updated version. Here is what we know so far about that long awaited upgrade for the PlayStation 5 console.
Design
The PSVR 2 headset will have the same black and white color scheme as the PS5 console, and will feature a...
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The mechanical hard disk drive (HDD) has survived decades of innovation in storage and a seismic shift to solid state drives (SSDs), which offer much faster speeds and no moving parts to worry about. No end to the HDD is in sight, either. That's because HDDs still offer a superior bang-for-buck for raw storage...
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Hardware enthusiasts of a certain vintage will become misty-eyed and nostalgic when they hear the word "Mendocino." That might be exactly why AMD picked that codename for its own cut-down, low-cost Ryzen processors. Officially announced at Computex and intended for applications where cost is the most important factor...
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Parlez-vous anglais? Not among French government workers. France has banned certain English gaming terms such as “esports” and “streaming” among government officials. The changes have been published in the French government journal and therefore apply to all government workers.
Why has the French government banned...
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Diablo: Immortal is set to release in just a few short days. However, fans of the series in certain countries will be unable to play the game. Specifically, Diablo Immortal will not be available in the Netherlands or Belgium due to laws that prohibit loot boxes.
An Activision Blizzard spokesperson confirmed earlier...
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Researchers led by a team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have detected a wealth of previously unnoticed supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies. The new information could lend valuable insight into the origin story of our very own Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy is believed to have...
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It's not taking long for memory makers to crank out DDR5 kits that blast way past the initial wave of 4,800 MT/s offerings that arrived when Alder Lake debuted. How high they'll go remains to be seen. In the here and now, however, Corsair is offering up for the sale the world's fastest DDR5 memory kit under its...
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Almost half a century ago, Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak demonstrated and then released the very first Apple computer, which later became known as the Apple-1. Only 200 of the hand-built machines were ever made, 175 of which were sold to a computer shop in Mountain View, California. Out of those, it's...
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Supercomputing changed in the late 90s. It used to be that the biggest and fastest computers were all completely custom jobs, with proprietary everything and exotic hardware running esoteric architectures. In the late-90s, someone figured out that you could achieve supercomputer performance on some tasks simply by...
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On Socket AM4, it took a few generations for AMD to get its memory controller performance all maxed-out. The original Ryzen struggled with DDR4 memory faster than about 2667 MT/s, and it wasn't really until Zen 2 (the Ryzen 3000 series) that we started to see wide support for memory faster than 3000 MT/s.
That's...
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Another week, another malware attack vector has become increasingly popular amongst malicious software distributors. The vector has existed since late 2021, but it is potentially bad for Linux enthusiasts who use Windows.
Said attack vector that has gained in popularity is a utilization of the Windows Subsystem for...
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There are about a million and one different gaming headsets on the market (rough estimate, slight exaggeration), and aside from affording you a whole bunch of different choice, it increases the chances of finding one at a discount. That's the case right now with a popular wireless headset for the Xbox Series X being...
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For a frustrating minute (figuratively), it seemed like graphics cards would never be in stock at anywhere close to MSRP levels ever again. It's been depressing, to say the least. But over the course of 2022, prices have been steadily falling and are now at the point where the average cost for both GeForce RTX 30 and...
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Samsung's upgrades through the first three generations of its Z Fold smartphone have been modest at best. But leaks are pointing at the fourth iteration of the foldable phone including true flagship worthy upgrades.
The foldable phone market continues to grow and evolve as new generations continue to be released...
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The landscape of relatively affordable handheld PC gaming consoles is beginning to expand. Up to this point, Valve's popular Steam Deck has largely flown solo in this space (other handhelds on par with its power and capabilities have been priced much higher up to this point), but just within the past week at least two...
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in 2017 but there is still apparently more to explore in the game over five years later. There continue to be a few secrets, especially for those who like to push games to their limits. A gaming YouTube channel recently posted a way for players to explore an...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a tempestuous gravitational dance between two companion galaxies. NGC 3226 and NGC 3227, together known as Arp 94, are located somewhere between 50 and 60 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Leo.
Hubble continues to send back stunning images ahead of the...
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Many of us receive nearly constant notifications on our devices. It is nice to set aside our smartphones, but sometimes we need to at least quickly see a few notifications. Rumor has it that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will feature always-on displays similar to those seen in the Samsung Galaxy S22.
The always-on...
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It may seem hard to fathom but much faster solid state drives (SSDs) are on the horizon, with sequential read and write speeds on pace to double over today's fastest solutions. In a brief demonstration posted to YouTube, Phison showed off an engineering sample SSD ripping off reads just shy of 12.5GB/s and writes...
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