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- HDMI 2.1a Spec Revision Aims To Solve Your Short High Speed Cable Woes
- NVIDIA's Hungry GeForce RTX 4080 Power Draw Is Allegedly 100W Higher Than RTX 3080
- Diablo Immortal Reveals Itself As A Microtransaction Money Grab
- Microsoft Claims Edge Browser's Sleeping Tabs Saved 274 Petabytes Of RAM In 28 Days
- Samsung's Odyssey Neo G8 Mini LED 4K 240Hz Gaming Monitor Is Finally Available
- Sorry Apple But You Will Have To Embrace USB-C On Future iPhones And AirPods
- Apple Unveils MetalFX Upscaling To Rival DLSS, FSR And XeSS For Games
- Why Astronomers Are Sniffing Around The Methane Gas Of Uranus
- HP Releases A Supercharged AMD Ryzen Laptop For Linux Developers
- OnePlus Nord Buds Review: Great Sound, No-Frills Value
- Early Intel Arc A730M Benchmarks Show It On Par With These Mobile GeForce RTX GPUs
- Intel LGA1851 Meteor Lake Socket Diagram Hints At Cooler Compatibility With Raptor Lake
- Apple Reveals Its Completely Redesigned MacBook Air With Curious M2 Silicon Branding
- Apple Unveils M2 Silicon With Big Performance Gains But Don't Call It A Flagship
- Elden Ring Survival Mode Dials Up The Difficulty With Hunger Pains, Diseases And More
- Apple iOS 16 Brings Better Lock Screen Controls And A Huge iMessage Upgrade For iPhone
- Urgent Microsoft Office Security Alert: All Applications Vulnerable To Homograph Attacks
- This Sweet Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Mod Turns A Wii Nunchuk Into A Wireless Mouse
- How Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves Could 3D Print Implants Directly Inside You
- DDR5 Memory Prices Are Freefalling Just In Time For AMD's Zen 4 CPU Launch
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All News for June 2022
HDMI and DisplayPort both keep increasing the peak transfer rates of data signals across their cables. This is necessary to support higher resolutions and refresh rates, as well as the extra signaling required for things like HDMI Deep Color and High Dynamic Range video, so if you want fancy video signals, you need...
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It's not really news to tell you that the next generation of graphics cards is going to be power-hungry. Truth be told, we don't have any official information on that point whatsoever, neither from AMD nor NVIDIA. The writing is on the wall, though; besides the constant leaks implying that the next GPU releases from...
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Blizzard made a lot gamers happy when it released Diablo Immortal on mobile (Android and iOS) a day early. Not that it would have been a huge deal to wait one more day, but little moves like that can build up goodwill with a fan base. Unfortunately for Blizzard, it's erasing some of that goodwill with backlash over...
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Do you ever think your browsing habits may be what are causing a bit of your system to slow down? Well, Microsoft thinks so, and that's why the Redmond outfit designed sleeping tabs for Microsoft Edge.
The idea behind sleeping tabs, which we talked about in September of 2020, is to make it so that the tabs that are...
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It was at the Consumer Electronics Show in January that Samsung caught our attention with its Odyssey Neo G8, the world's first 4K curved gaming monitor with a screaming fast 240Hz refresh rate and mini LED technology to make scenes pop. Then a couple of weeks ago, Samsung began accepting reservations for the monitor...
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In an attempt to reduce electronic waste and make consumer's lives easier, the European Union has a new rule that requires companies to provide a single charging solution for certain electronic devices. The change will directly impact Apple, as it will have to start utilizing USB-C over its proprietary lightning port...
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The global games market is already bigger than movies and music combined, and some estimates have it skyrocketing to a $257 billion business by 2025. It's no wonder Apple wants a bigger piece of the gaming pie. Lest there was any doubt, Apple announced a couple of gaming technologies for the Mac at its WWDC 2022 event...
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While Neptune and Uranus are similar in many ways, new observations have revealed why Uranus might be the paler of the two. The new research suggests the reason for the difference in color lies in a haze that exists on both planets and is thicker on Uranus.
Neptune and Uranus are similar in mass, size, and...
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HP has begun accepting orders for its Dev One, a laptop developed in collaboration with System76 that comes with Pop!_OS Linux preinstalled instead of Windows. It's a fairly powerful machine, based on its list of specifications, and is intended for developers. The system also sports a keyboard that's been tuned for...
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In just two years, OnePlus has managed to launch four pairs of TWS (true wireless) earbuds: the excellent OnePlus Buds ($79), the affordable OnePlus Buds Z ($49), the higher end OnePlus Buds Pro ($149) with ANC (active noise canceling) and wireless charging, and the mid-range OnePlus Buds Z2 ($99) with ANC. Now, OnePlus is capitalizing on...
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As times goes on, we're getting a better look at Intel's first foray into discrete graphics in decades, as more Arc-powered laptops get released into the wild. It's been a staggered roll out with Intel starting the Arc party at the entry-level segment. However, higher end configurations have begun popping up overseas...
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As an enthusiast, you have a great many concerns when moving to a new platform. One of those is what you'll need to do about cooling. Some hardcore types have hundreds of dollars invested in thermal solution systems and hardware, like heatsinks and waterblocks. The ability to move those solutions over to a new PC...
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Apple has unveiled an all-new MacBook Air that is thinner and will ship with the latest M2 chip that was also introduced today. The newly redesigned MacBook Air will also come equipped up to 18 hours of battery life and MagSafe charging, among other things.
The tech giant has been busy today announcing its upcoming...
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Apple made a handful of announcements at its WWDC 2022 keynote today, not the least of which is a next-generation addition to its custom Arm-based silicon. As was expected, Apple announced its M2 system-on-chip (SoC). It's a refined slice of silicon that packs 25 percent more transistors than its base M1 silicon...
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When we talk about modding third-person fantasy RPGs on the PC, you almost assuredly will start thinking about the Elder Scrolls series, and particularly Part V: Skyrim, with its enormous library of user mods. Those games have official modding tools straight from Bethesda, and they're built in such a way that they're...
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Apple kicked off its WWDC 2022 event today with a prolonged preview of iOS 16, which promises the "biggest update ever to the Lock Screen" and a bevy of other changes. Some of the updates are rather minor, like editing the font on the Lock Screen text. But others are more impactful, such as being able to edit an...
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It’s a new week, and there’s another proof of concept for a phishing technique. Last week, we covered a phishing technique for hijacking WhatsApp accounts, and the week before that we reported on a phishing campaign targeting Intuit QuickBooks users. This new proof of concept leverages an established phishing...
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Do you have an old Nintendo Wii sitting around collecting dust? At the very least do you have a Wii Nunchuk Adapter for the Wii-mote? You might be able to get just a little more use out of it thanks to products like the Pi Zero 2 W.
In the Raspberry Pi subreddit, Redditor tonystark29 decided to share a fun little...
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Researchers at Concordia University have devised a way to solidify liquid into plastic, creating a 3D-printing option that could be used to implement medical implants directly inside a patient's body. Direct sound printing (DSP) utilizes high-frequency sound waves to accomplish its intended use.
3D-printing has...
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One of the challenges Intel faced when it launched Alder Lake was the high introductory cost of DDR5 memory modules. Perhaps for that reason, Intel opted to also support DDR4 memory with Alder Lake. AMD is taking a different path—it's going all-in with DDR5 when Zen 4 arrives later this year, which is a potentially...
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Kids these days will never understand the joys and horrors of America Online (AOL) and Instant Messenger. However, they can now understand a bit of what we experienced in the late 90’s/early 2000s. A team recently successfully reverse engineered the aolserver for AOL 3.0 to make it possible to sign onto the...
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If you're wondering what wattage power supply you will need to bring to the RDNA 3 party, it's best to wait for an official announcement from AMD. That will come at some point. In the meantime, Seasonic has updated its handy online PSU calculator with three next-gen RDNA 3 models, including the Radeon RX 7900 XT...
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