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- Fall Guys Devs Ask Gamers For Patience To Fix Frustrating Matchmaking Issues
- Microsoft Scraps Facial Recognition Tools As Part Of An AI Ethics Overhaul
- NASA Releases Breathtaking Photos Of Neighboring Galaxies As They've Never Been Seen Before
- Qualcomm AI Stack Arrives To Unleash A New Era Of Intelligence From The Cloud To The Edge
- Uber And Lyft Run Into Rideshare Price Fixing Lawsuit But Will It Go The Distance?
- PCI Express 7.0 On Track For Massive Bandwidth Fueling Ridiculously-Fast 64GB/s SSDs
- Montblanc Summit 3 Luxury Smartwatch Gets A Timely Upgrade To Snapdragon Wear 4100+
- This B660 Motherboard Will Let You Overclock Locked Intel Alder Lake 12th Gen CPUs
- Microsoft Seems To Be Blocking Windows 11 And 10 Downloads In Russia
- Intel Arc Alchemist A380: Memory Spec Change, HDMI 2.1 Clarification, And GPU Photo Shoot
- Early Amazon Prime Day Deals Bring Huge Savings Up To $700 Off 4K Smart TVs
- These Cisco Routers Have An Unpatchable Critical Security Flaw, Upgrade ASAP
- AMD-Xilinx Kria KV260 Starter Kit: Exploring Machine Vision AI
- AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 Zen+ APUs Double The Core Count For A Huge Performance Lift
- Flagstar Bank Security Breach Exposed Personal Data Of 1.5M Customers To Hackers
- Crytek Threatens Ban If Caught Using LeMat Revolver Glitch In Hunt: Showdown
- Radeon Graphics Card Prices Plunge Below MSRP Amid Crypto Crash, GeForce Dropping Too
- Tesla Slapped With Class Action Suit Claiming Mass Layoffs Violated US Federal Laws
- Massive Sunspot Threatens A Solar Flare Event That Could Knock Out Comms On Earth
- AMD Confirms You Can Soon Build Your Own Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 Many Core Monster PC
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The highly popular Fall Guys game from Mediatonic suffered matchmaking issues as it was added to Xbox, Epic Games Store, and the Nintendo Switch as a free-to-play game. The company issued a couple of tweets asking for players to be patient as it worked through the issues.
Fall Guys released on Steam and PlayStation...
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Facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly becoming more common. Nevertheless, there are various issues associated with AI that must be considered by those who develop and use it. Microsoft plans to retire its facial recognition tool and other technologies as part of its goal to...
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Four retired telescopes are proving being old does not mean being useless, as they produce some breathtaking photos of neighboring galaxies. The new images are from data collected from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA missions showcasing the gas and dust that fill the space between stars.
The dust created...
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In case you haven't noticed, artificial intelligence in one form or another has emerged as a key cog in all kinds of devices and machines, from smartphones and mixed reality headsets, to a plethora of IoT devices and automobiles (and everything in between). AI has even found its way to toasters, a seemingly simple...
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Many of us have sighed or rolled our eyes when we see our high Uber or Lyft fare. However, these prices may be more of a problem than we might initially think. A recent lawsuit accuses Uber and Lyft of anti-competitive practices, especially price fixing.
The heart of the issue is that Uber and Lyft drivers are...
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PCI-SIG (Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group), the standards body responsible for overseeing the development of the PCI Express specification, announced that PCIe 7.0 is on track to bring another huge jump in bandwidth by 2025. As such, we could see solid state drives (SSDs) scale to around 64GB/s...
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Wondering where all the smartwatches built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 4100+ platform are at? It's not just you—these elusive timepieces are few and far between. As such, luxury smartwatch maker Montblanc is joining rare company with the launch of its Summit 3, a high-end wearable powered by Snapdragon Wear...
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Some of the older overclockers will recall the days when the biggest gains to be had were by overclocking a processor's "FSB", or "Front Side Bus". FSB overclocks haven't died, exactly, they're just not called that anymore because we don't have FSBs anymore. On modern systems, there's a "base clock" (often shortened...
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Shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, many tech companies announced that they would be suspending sales to the country. Among the companies that made these announcements were AMD, Intel, TSMC, NVIDIA, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, IBM, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Microsoft. Since this initial flurry of...
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When we saw Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs in the figurative flesh last week, there were a few oddities in the presentation. Some of them can be explained as confusing Chinese-to-English translation issues, but differences in numbers stick out rather readily, and there were a couple of those, too.
Chief among them was...
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This year's annual Prime Day sales event is right around the corner, but you don't have to wait to score a deal on a big screen TV or an Echo Show, or a few other items. That's because Amazon has unlocked some bargains early. As such, you can find several smart TV models marked down by anywhere from 38 percent to 50...
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If you're in the business world you've heard of Cisco. If you're in the consumer world, you probably still have heard of Cisco, or at least have probably used one of the company's products, especially considering it acquired about 218 organizations since 1993. The most well known consumer product organization acquired...
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Machine learning is everywhere. It's an integral part of our smartphones and smart home appliances, running customer service chat bots for big retailers, and hard at work recognizing people and actions in security systems, among numerous other applications. Neural networks are the backbone of the robotics and...
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AMD is adding to its growing line of APUs with its Ryzen Embedded R2000 series, a second-generation mid-range SoC family with some key upgrades over the R1000 series. One of them is an upgrade to 12nm Zen+ CPU cores, versus the original Zen architecture that powers the first-gen models. AMD also took the opportunity...
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Would it truly be 2022 if we were not informed of at least one data breach each week? Sadly, no institution is safe from the hands of bad actors. Flagstar Bank recently disclosed that 1.5 million of its customers were impacted by a data breach.
The data breach occurred between December 3rd and December 4th, 2021...
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Some Hunt: Showdown players have been taking advantage of an exploit players found with the game's LeMat Mark II revolver that makes the gun overpowered. It has left other players angry, and Crytek saying if you are caught using the exploit you may end up being banned.
Hunt: Showdown is a popular first-person...
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It's taken a minute or three, but graphics card prices are finally starting to normalize. In some cases, you can even find a GPU selling for below its launch price, something that was unheard of over the past year or so. This is all happening as the cryptocurrency market finds itself in a bit of a tailspin. That's not...
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What is happening at Tesla’s factories? Rumor has it that Tesla has been terminating a large number of its employees and these rumors may now be confirmed. Two former Tesla employees are filing a class action lawsuit that claims Tesla’s mass layoffs violated federal law.
John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield formerly...
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A gigantic sunspot that doubled in size in just 24 hours, is now facing Earth with the possibility of emitting a solar flare that could knock out communications on our humble rock.
Sunspots are darkened patches on the Sun caused by its magnetic field, according to NASA. These spots are often precursors to solar...
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AMD is making a change to its Ryzen Threadripper launch strategy, and with it comes an expansion of its Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX series processors to more PCs, including the DIY segment. There will not be any non-Pro models, as AMD has chosen to unify its Threadripper and Threadripper Pro product...
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Lenovo is rolling out its smallest workstation to date, though don’t be fooled by the diminutive size of its latest iteration. The new ThinkStation P360 Ultra crams some seriously impressive hardware into a chassis that is less than 4 liters in volume, or around half the size of traditional small form factor (SFF)...
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Three years ago, Capital One Financial Corporation suffered a massive data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. Rather than being the victim of social engineering or a ransomware attack, it turned out that Capital One had misconfigured its web application, leaving its system vulnerable to a breach. The...
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