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- Take-Two Acquires Zynga For $12.7B In Huge Mobile Gaming Power Play
- Microsoft Unveils Snapdragon Powered Project Volterra Mini PC For AI Developers
- AMD FSR 2.0 Takes On NVIDIA DLSS In Deathloop, Believe The Hype
- NVIDIA DLSS Adds 12 Games And Claims 2X Boost In Hitman 3 At 4K
- Apacer Unleashes First Consumer PCIe 5 SSDs Running At A Blistering 13,000MB/s
- ASUS ROG Swift 500Hz G-Sync Gaming Monitor Is Here To Turn You Into An eSports Pro
- Here's How To Enable Google Assistant On Your Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
- V Rising Vampire Survival Game Sinks Fangs Into 500K Sales In 3 Days Topping Steam
- NVIDIA's Beastly Grace CPU Superchip Arm Servers To Thrash AI And HPC Workloads In 1H 2023
- Google Is Recruiting Android Users To Study The Impact Of Smartphones On Mental Health
- NASA Outlines Moon To Mars Mission That Will Fly Astronauts To The Red Planet For 30 Days
- NVIDIA Unveils Liquid Cooled A100 GPU For Huge Energy Efficiency Uplift In Data Centers
- Destiny 2 Season Of The Haunted, Solar 3.0 And A Favorite Old Villain, What You Should Know
- Intel To Talk 3D Foveros For Meteor Lake And Arrow Lake CPUs At Hot Chips 34
- Clearview AI Slapped With A Huge Fine For Illegally Scraping Facial Recognition Images
- AMD Ryzen 5800X3D Shines In Star Wars Benchmark Even With Pedestrian Single Channel RAM
- Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 4K 240Hz Gaming Monitor Is Available To Reserve With A Sweet Bonus
- Top Tips For Locking Down Privacy Settings On Your Facebook Account
- Snake Keylogger Slithers Onto PCs With Malicious Word Docs In Sinister Malware Campaign
- Xiaomi And Leica Are Building A Flagship Camera Phone To Rival Pixel 6 And Galaxy S22 Ultra
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All News for May 2022
It seems to be the era of gaming acquisitions as of late. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind a couple of games you just might have heard of, has decided to take a page from Microsoft's playbook in that regard. Take-Two has completed its acquisition of mobile developer and publisher Zynga.
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Microsoft's Build 2022 event is underway, and while there have not been any surprise consumer hardware launches (not yet, anyway) like a tri-folding Surface or anything of that nature, the company did announce something special for developers. Called Project Volterra, it's a mini PC and development platform designed...
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AMD's original implementation of its FidelityFX Super Resolution technique, while good, was not quite on the same level as NVIDIA's DLSS solution in many circumstances. FSR has its advantages, to be clear—it's super-easy to implement and it has a low performance cost—but it wasn't a massive visual upgraded over the...
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Right now, NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is still the most effective method for taking low-resolution gameplay and turning it into high-resolution display output without impacting interactive performance. That may change with future updates to AMD's open-source FSR 2.0, but for now, DLSS is king, with...
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Anyone who says storage is getting too darn fast is a blasphemer. Sure, not everyone can fully utilize the transfer speeds that today's top solid state drives (SSDs) deliver, but some can and more will as time goes on. Drive makers seem to agree because they're already looking ahead to next-gen models, two of which...
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ASUS and NVIDIA have jointly announced the fastest gaming monitor on the planet, the ROG Swift 500Hz. As revealed in the model name, the display rocks a wicked fast 500Hz refresh rate, so if you lose an intense esports competition, it won't be because the display was holding you back. It refreshes nearly 39 percent...
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Samsung and Google have announced that owners of a Galaxy Watch 4 can now download Google Assistant onto their smartwatch. The addition of Google Assistant gives users an added option to Bixby in terms of a voice assistant.
The update allows Google Assistant to co-exist peacefully with Samsung's Bixby assistant...
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Are vampires back in style? A rather unexpected game in early access has taken Steam by storm. 500,000 copies of V Rising were sold on Steam within three short days.
The game has not only sold over 500,000 units, but it peaked at over 150,000 concurrent players within a 24-hour period. These numbers do not quite...
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We tend to think of NVIDIA as a gaming GPU company because of its robust and constantly evolving GeForce lineup, but it's data center business is nearly as big, in terms of revenue. So it should come as no surprise that at Computex 2022, NVIDIA was eager to talk about its Grace CPU Superchip and Grace Hopper Superchip...
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One very hot topic of discussion right now is the impact of smartphone usage on mental wellbeing. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of data on this subject at the moment and much of the existing studies are flawed. A research team is currently requesting Android users help to determine whether or not smartphones are...
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NASA is calling on U.S. industry, academia, international communities, and other stakeholders to provide feedback and input on its Moon to Mars strategy. The feedback will provide valuable insight into the space agency's Moon and Mars missions for the next 20 years.
The Artemis program is currently preparing to...
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In response to customer demand for high-performance, green data centers, NVIDIA is releasing a liquid cooled version of its A100 Tensor Core PCIe accelerator based on its Ampere GPU architecture. This will be the first in a growing line of GPUs with direct-chip cooling for mainstream servers, which has the potential...
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Bungie's Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted trailer dropped a little early. The season will feature Solar 3.0 and the return of a fan-favorite villain. Here is everything we know about Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted.
Season of the Haunted witnesses the return of the Leviathan. Rumor has it that the Leviathan may...
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"Hot Chips" sounds like a nice side dish, but is in fact a technological symposium held yearly in Silicon Valley. It's a place for processor vendors to talk about their latest innovations, and while branded-and-shipping products generally don't get announced there like they do at Computex or CES, companies like AMD...
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Earlier this month, Clearview AI reached a settlement agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the company’s usage of Illinois citizens' biometric data without their consent. Clearview AI sells its recently patented facial recognition technology to both private companies and government agencies...
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When we tested the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, it came out ahead of the Core i9-12900K in every gaming benchmark. You've probably already heard that story, but you may not have considered the implications: Intel's Alder Lake CPUs are double-digit-percentages faster than AMD's original Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000-series processors...
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Samsung caught our attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year when it introduced the Odyssey Neo G8, a 32-inch gaming monitor with a 4K resolution. Not only that, it had the distinction of being the world's first 4K monitor to have a 240Hz refresh rate, and if you've been patiently waiting for...
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Facebook does not have the best track record when it comes to its privacy. However, there are a few things you can do as a user which can help protect your account and personal information from other users.
Social media apps have become the hub where people go to connect to both old and new friends alike. Being...
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It seems that every day a new malware threat rears its ugly head. Every once in a while though, the new threat is a version of an old threat. For example, PDFs as a method of malware delivery.
That's what researchers at HP Wolf Security have recently found. A less common, but seemingly effective method of malware...
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Xiaomi and Leica have announced the first imaging flagship smartphone to be developed jointly by the two companies. The smartphone is expected to launch this July, with neither brand saying much about design or specs thus far.
Rumors have been floating around about a possible collaboration between Leica and Xiaomi...
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ASUS wasted zero time teasing a handful of socket AM5 motherboards for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 series processors, following AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's keynote at Computex 2022. She took to the stage to reveal more details about Zen 4 and also formally introduced a trio of next-generation chipsets, which in turn paves the...
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The tau Hercluid meteor shower could provide an epic display in the late night sky at the close of May this year. If predictions come to fruition, the nights of May 30-31st may provide for a rare meteor outburst, or there may simply be nothing at all.
The comet responsible for all the hype is...
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