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- AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Price Cuts Arrive In The US, XT Now Below MSRP
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D And 7900X3D V-Cache CPUs Show Up Early At A Major US Retailer
- Google Gives Gmail Multitasking UI Chops For Foldable Devices
- Google's Pixel 7 Pro And Samsung's Galaxy S23+ Are On Great Deals Now At Amazon
- Smash Hit Hogwarts Legacy Is Warner Bros Biggest Game Launch Of All Time
- Alleged Ryzen 9 7950X3D Benchmark Leak Shows AMD’s 3D V-Cache CPU Besting Intel’s 13900K
- Jasper AI Is A ChatGPT Alternative With No Waitlist And A Chrome Extension
- OnePlus 11 Concept Tease Hints At A Liquid Cooled Gaming Smartphone
- Microsoft Sydney AI Chatbot Offers Alarming, Dark Reply: You’re Irrelevant And Doomed
- Qualcomm Demos Stable Diffusion On Android Phones For Ultra-Low Power AI Image Generation
- Rugged Motorola Defy 2 Is The First Android Phone To Support Satellite Text Messaging
- HP’s Z Workstations Bring The Fury With Up To 56 Intel Xeon Cores And RTX A6000 Graphics
- The CHIPS Act Is Our Generation’s Moonshot For The US To Regain Tech Leadership
- A Mammoth Black Hole Is Tearing Apart A Gassy Dust Cloud And Astronomers Expect Fireworks
- TeamGroup's Cardea Z540 PCIe 5 SSD Is A 12GB/s Storage Speed Demon But It's Not Cheap
- Here's A Registry Hack To Remove Windows 11's Obnoxious Watermark On Your Unsupported PC
- How Valve Set A Trap To Catch And Permanently Ban 40,000 Dota 2 Cheaters
- Half-Life 1 Got A Glorious Ray-Traced Makeover, Check Out The Trailer And Play Now
- ASUS BIOS Update Gives Users Fine Grain Control Over CCDs On Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs
- Android Device Maker Teases First Handset To Copy iPhone's Dynamic Island Feature
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All News for February 2023
Chinese tech media headlines were grabbed over the weekend when some very steep double-digit percentage AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card price cuts were observed. Happily, the RDNA 3 price cutting trend has already moved west, with US online tech retail giant Newegg offering a Radeon RX 7900 XT at $829. This...
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Tomorrow marks the retail release of AMD's refreshed Ryzen 7000 series processors with 3D V-cache, including the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D. It looks like retailers are ready to go once the sales embargo lifts too, as at least two of the three upcoming SKUs already have listings prepared at Newegg—all that's left is to...
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We have seen many iterations of Gmail come and go in its 19-year history, but other than the ill-fated attempt at a complete relaunch with the now defunct Google Inbox, we have yet to see any significant changes in its fundamental features in quite some time. For the most part, that's just fine, but it has not made...
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If you are in the market for a smartphone, Amazon might have some deals for you this weekend. Between discounts on the Samsung Galaxy S23 family, to the Google's revered Pixel 7 series, and some in between, there are certainly several good options.
First at the plate today, we have the Samsung Galaxy S23 lineup...
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Warner Bros. Games Hogwarts Legacy earned an astonishing $850 million in revenue during its first two weeks of sale, making it WB Games' highest-earning game of all time at launch. It beat out other popular WB titles, such as LEGO, Batman, Mortal Kombat, and Lord of The Rings.
Hogwarts Legacy is a game based on the...
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The AMD faithful are liekly elated, as this coming Tuesday marks the official release of AMD's Ryzen 9 7000X3D processors. That's the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X3D, both equipped with 64MB of 3D V-Cache on top of one of their eight-core CCDs. Those who bleed AMD red may have already...
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The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT it making news everywhere lately. It has caused some concern for apparently being "too smart," and its addition in the latest Bing beta ha geenrated some interesting results, to say the least. ChatGPT can be a handy tool, but it currently has some significant limits, such as...
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In early February, OnePlus revealed the OnePlus 11, which we looked at here, and it's a solid new affordable flagship Android phone with plenty of muscle, for just $699. However, OnePlus is potentially looking to up the ante with the OnePlus 11 Concept, a new device set to be unveiled properly at Mobile World...
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Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot launched earlier this month and quickly came under heat for giving some quite disturbing answers. Answers varied from telling a New York Times journalist he was not happily married, to stating its desire to steal nuclear codes. The exchanges prompted Microsoft to quickly limit the number of...
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AI has been a ubiquitous buzzword for years, and it's everywhere. Mobile SoCs and desktop processors alike have been including AI acceleration for a couple of generations already, but what can an individual do, locally on their own device, with AI? Until relatively recently, not much, at least directly. Within the...
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Today's mobile networks are more widely available than ever before, offering high-speed data in some areas that don't even have wired broadband. But terrestrial connectivity might not be enough—satellite communication may be the next big thing with Apple, Google, SpaceX, and T-Mobile all working to help your phone...
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HP has announced the Z by HP Performance Desktops, which are claimed to break new boundaries for creators, engineers and data scientists. Inside the new Z by HP Z4, Z6, Z8, and Z8 Fury desktops you will find the latest Intel Xeon W processors and NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs. Of particular note is the all-new Z8 Fury G5...
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo recently delivered a speech at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service recently on the importance of the CHIPS Act and its long-term vision for America.
Raimondo opened the speech by listing other historic investments past presidents have made, including President...
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Following two decades of monitoring a dusty gas filament (known as X7) from W. M. Keck Observatory, astronomers believe the cloud will eventually get pulled toward Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) and later "cause some fireworks" as it gets consumed by the supermassive black hole. Astronomers project that Sgr A* will...
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Wondering where all the blistering-fast PCI Express 5.0 solid state drives are at? So are we, though good news—they're finally starting to show up, and they bring to the table next-gen data transfer speeds that hit 10GB/s (10,000MB/s) or even higher. Such is the case with TeamGroup's newly unveiled T-Force Cardea Z540...
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One of the requirements to run Windows 11 is your PC is must be equipped with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 security chip, and it also has to be enabled in the BIOS. You can get around this if you really want to, but in doing so, you may be forced to look at a watermark stating, "System requirements not met. Go...
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Cheating in online games is an epidemic, and it's a big business, too. You've gotta be a pretty smart feller to make game cheats, but you don't have to be that clever to use them. Nothing lately has evinced that as well as this week's ban of some 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters that were caught using third-party software to...
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It seems like every game is getting the ray-tracing treatment these days. We are not complaining because, so far, these improvements have made games that may not have aged well otherwise look gorgeous. One of the first was for Quake II, which breathed new life into the genre-defining arena shooter. Now, fans of...
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When AMD first announced the Ryzen 7000 processors with 3D V-Cache, we noted that the boost clocks on the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D were the same as their non-X3D siblings. It turned out that this is possible because only one of the two CCDs under the IHS actually gets 3D V-Cache applied; the other one is...
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A Chinese smartphone maker looks set to copy the chicanery of the Apple iPhone 14 ‘Dynamic Island’. Images have leaked showing that Realme has developed a feature it calls the ‘Mini Capsule’ – a moving UI section which disguises the presence of a selfie punch hole camera on the device. The images are the first...
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A metal sphere has become the focus of some humorous and wild claims as to what it might be on Twitter. Tweets have speculated that it might be a UFO, as well as a Godzilla egg.
The huge metal ball has left police and residents in a Japanese coastal town perplexed as to its origins. Authorities have said they have...
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Intel is resetting its dividend policy with its first cut in over two decades. It's a significant one with the quarterly dividend getting slashed more than 65 percent, from 36 cents to 12.5 cents per share (or 50 cents annually). In broader terms, this will save Intel around $4 billion in payments to shareholders this...
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