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- Microsoft Accuses Sony Of Dirty Tactics To Keep Games Off Xbox Game Pass
- Google Fiber Expansions Gloriously Revived With Multi-State Roll-Out Planned
- Google's Camera-Hiding Wallpaper Contest Could Net You A Free Pixel 6
- Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Known Planet In The Galaxy Orbiting A Juvenile Star
- AMD's Zen Architecture Is Vulnerable To A New Insidious SMT Security Flaw
- Intel Graphics Lays Out Arc A750 Performance Expectations Across Nearly 50 Games
- Microsoft Patches DogWalk Zero-Day Flaw That Cruised Past Windows Defenses
- Google Tells Apple To #GetTheMessage And Implement RCS To Fix Texting Woes
- Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake At 5.8GHz Pummels 12900K Alder Lake Latest Leak
- Fan Made Half-Life 2 VR Mod Finally Getting Beta Release This Fall
- Elon Musk Dumps Nearly 8 Million Tesla Shares For Possible Twitter Resolution
- Splatoon 3 Direct Livestream Jots Down New Moves, Weapons, Stages, And More
- Scientists 3D Map Energy Jets Blasted Into Atmosphere By Unusual Lightning Storms
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 And Z Flip4 Impress In Hands-On At Unpacked
- Galaxy Watch5, Watch 5 Pro And Buds2 Pro: Cutting-Edge Swanky Wearables Unpacked
- AMD Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 Processors May Stumble With Memory Speeds North Of DDR5-6000
- Micron Invests A Cool $40 Billion In US Memory Manufacturing Spurred By CHIPS Act
- How To Catch The Full Sturgeon Supermoon And Delightful Perseids Meteor Showers This Week
- Chinese Chip Company Releases 77 Billion Transistor BR100 GPU To Rival NVIDIA Hopper H100
- New Parallels Desktop 18 Update Improves Your Windows Experience On Apple Silicon
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All News for August 2022
Microsoft is trying to buy Activision-Blizzard in what would be the largest game developer acquisition to date. The merger would give Microsoft control over an enormous swath of the "core" game demographic, at least from a Western...
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It's official, Google Fiber is finally expanding to new locations. Cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Nevada are all slated to get access to the fiber internet provided by the tech giant out of Mountain View, CA. This comes...
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Google has launched a contest for the artistically minded among us to create a new wallpaper for its Pixel 6 smartphone. Google wants entrants to “celebrate” the front-facing camera by hiding it in plain sight. A panel of judges will then...
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Astronomers may have discovered the youngest planet ever found in our galaxy. The planet is thought to be orbiting AS 209, a young star in the Ophiuchus constellation estimated to be just about 1.6 million years young.
Research recently...
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Researchers have detailed the SQUIP attack, which is particularly worrisome for users of AMD Zen 1, Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors. Researchers were able measure the precise degree of Scheduler Queue Usage (i.e., occupancy) via Interference...
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Intel's Tom Petersen and Ryan Shrout have given more performance marks for the anticipated Arc A750 in a video released late yesterday, August 10, 2022. The new performance encompasses both Intel's testing on the A750 and an NVIDIA RTX...
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Microsoft has finally released a security update that addresses a zero-day vulnerability that went unpatched for more than two years. The vulnerability, known as DogWalk, appears in the national vulnerability index as CVE-2022-34713...
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Some rivalries seem eternal. The tech sector alone hosts several feuds including a mobile tug-of-war between Apple’s walled-garden iOS and Google’s more open Android operating systems. Fans of either approach love dunking on the other...
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Leakers are having a heyday right now over impending hardware launches from AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel. Intel in particular has had its 13th generation Raptor Lake processors exposed in various benchmarks which highlighted its single-threaded...
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If you have ever wished to walk in Gordon Freeman's shoes, soon you can. Half-Life 2: VR is a fan made VR implementation of the now 18-year-old game. This release is designated as a mod and will require players to own a copy of the...
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By most measures, Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and he's got more liquid assets at his disposal today. Recent regulatory filings show that Musk has sold off millions of Tesla shares worth billions of dollars. He needs those...
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If you came to me in the early 2000s and told me that one of the top-selling Nintendo franchises in the 2020s would be a competitive multiplayer shooter game, I would have asked you where you acquired the intoxicants you are currently...
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A massive electrical charge that blasted 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm was part of a detailed 3D study that has given scientists new data concerning an enigmatic atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The bolt...
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Samsung's Unpacked 2022 event is set to show off the company's latest foldable devices, watch and Galaxy Buds2 Pro earbuds. The Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip lines have gained in popularity the last couple of generations, as the quality of the...
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Samsung’s 2022 Galaxy Unpacked event kicks off today. The company is announcing the new Galaxy Watch5 and Watch5 Pro as well as the Galaxy Buds2 earbuds alongside their foldable phones.
Galaxy Watch5 And Watch5 Pro - Premium And...
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If you're reading this, you're probably a PC hardware enthusiast, and if you're a PC hardware enthusiast, there's a strong possibility you've built a Ryzen system recently. AMD's Ryzen processors have become very popular, particularly in...
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As the chip shortage continues and tensions between China and Tawian rise, industry leaders and US lawmakers are looking to expand US semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Taiwan is home to the world’s largest chip maker, TSMC, but the...
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2022’s final supermoon is bringing some pizazz as it coincides with the Perseids meteor showers this Thursday. August’s so-called sturgeon full moon will reach its peak at 9:36 p.m. Eastern on the 11th.
Supermoons are not perfectly...
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China's very eager to not only rid itself of dependence on foreign silicon but also to display dominance of its domestic processors. That's likely the impetus behind some of the more bombastic claims we've seen from Chinese chipmakers...
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The latest iteration of the Parallels Desktop application, Parallels Desktop 18, has a massive change log that includes better support for Apple Silicon and Windows 11. That better support also includes an easier install process, and even...
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There is widespread concern over the amount of personal data siphoned off by Google, Facebook, and other big tech companies, but that's nothing compared to what your mobile carrier knows. A startup called Invisiv aims to address that with...
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Unity wants to make it easier than ever to build and distribute immersive 3D experiences. By partnering with Microsoft Azure, Unity is able to empower real-time 3D (RT3D) experiences and games using the cloud which would not be feasible on...
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