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Interpreting Amazon listings is as much art as science, but the e-commerce giant is adding an unmistakable signal you should take into account. Amazon is placing a warning label to products that have a high return rate, giving you a hint there may be something wrong or misleading about it. This could mean less hassle... Read more...
An open letter concerning the future of AI development has garnered the attention and signatures of some very powerful people. So far it has received the signatures of high-profile leaders in the tech industry, such as Elon Musk, Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, Skype Co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and Pinterest Co-founder... Read more...
Those waiting for mainstream Ada Lovelace cards are in for a treat today. A reputable Twitter leaker has shared some purported box art for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, as well as its launch date, and a launch window for the RTX 4050. The packaging speaks for itself. Atop of this article you can see some GPU box... Read more...
We all know someone who operates without a filter. Sometimes what they have to say can be comical, other times it comes off as diarrhea of the mouth. In extreme cases, it can be toxic and offensive. In real life, certain language can get a person punched in the mouth (we don't condone punching anyone, just stating the... Read more...
The number of dedicated gaming phones is getting thinner by the day. Today, we say goodbye to Lenovo: it has decided to end the Legion gaming phone business all in the name of business consolidation. If you've been holding out for Lenovo to follow up its Legion Phone Duel 2 powerhouse, we're sorry to say that what you have there in your Read more...
After a short delay from its original launch target (around three and a half weeks), the much-anticipated PC port for The Last of Us Part I released to PC this week, but it's unfortunately not living up to expectations. After just a day on Steam, it's racked up a "Mostly Negative" impression out of more than 6,400... Read more...
Astronomers detected a gamma-ray burst so bright, it effectively blinded most gamma-ray instruments in space. The pulse of intense radiation traveled for about 1.9 billion years to reach Earth. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions of light in the known Universe. The one that was detected on October... Read more...
Ookla, the company that created Speedtest.net, has put together an international list of 5G bandwidth results, comparing Galaxy S22 and S23 speeds from actual user reports in twelve different countries. This list was made to see whether or not the S23’s newer Snapdragon X70 5G modem is faster than the S22’s (slightly... Read more...
A computer mouse created by computing legend Douglas Englebart sold for an astounding $179k in a recent auction. It was said to have been used in 1968 in the "Mother of All Demos," and an inspiration for Steve Jobs. The early three-button compute mouse uses two metal discs on the bottom that correspond to the... Read more...
A Reddit thread has confirmed the existence of Microsoft's DirectStorage API in the Diablo 4 beta. This revelation was found in the game’s internal files where a direct storage DLL file was found. If this isn’t chalked up to a mishap by the developers, Diablo 4 could see some massive loading time improvements in the... Read more...
The key specifications of Razer’s upcoming Blade 14 refresh appear to have been divulged. Razer’s Blade 14 (2023) is thought to be due shortly and, like its predecessor, it is expected to mix the charms of AMD Ryzen and NVIDIA GeForce processors. Specifically, a Twitter hardware leakster says that the smallest Blade... Read more...
Can you believe that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D have already been out a month? Yes, indeed—the launch date for the eight-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, arguably the most exciting member of its family, is just nine days away now. What seemed like an eternity last month now seems all too soon, although we suppose... Read more...
NASA's Perseverance rover captured a fantastically eerie video of drifting clouds just before sunset on the Red Planet. The series of images were collected by one of the Martian rover's navigation cameras on March 18, 2023, the 738th Martian day. Since Perseverance made its landing on Mars, scientists and... Read more...
A highly malicious malware is infecting Intel- and M-powered Macs, stealing sensitive information such as user passwords, credit card info, and cookies. Uptycs researchers recently uncovered a new malware that targets macOS desktop and laptops and shared details on their blog. It's called MacStealer and can infect... Read more...
Valve shared some disheartening news for anyone still happily rocking a Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 gaming PC. Effective January 1, 2024, Steam will no longer support those operating systems. That still gives gamers nine months to make preparations, but once the calendar flips over to 2024, the Steam client... Read more...
Samsung Display is stepping in to save Apple's early screen production woes for the standard iPhone 15 models. Apple had contracted BOE to produce the first batches of OLED panels in May for the base iPhone 15 and Plus models, whereas Samsung was slated to begin supply their own panels a month later. However, BOE has... Read more...
If the only thing holding you back from building a new Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake or AMD Ryzen 7000 series PC is the cost of DDR5 memory, you're in luck. Pricing on DDR5 modules has fallen precipitously since the launch of Alder Lake, which is when DDR5 first stuck its foot through the mainstream doorway, and further... Read more...
HP announced its newest lineup of gaming laptops and monitors at its Amplify Partner Conference 2023. The upcoming lineup has a plethora of options that will surely fit every gamer's wants and needs. HP Omen Transcend 16 Laptop The Omen Transcend 16 laptop is designed to not only meet the needs of gamers, but is... Read more...
AMD’s first true entry-level AM5 motherboard has been pictured, carrying the all-new A620 chipset. The motherboard featured is known as the ASRock A620M-HDV/M.2 and is a baseline micro-atx motherboard with minimal rear I/O, just two DDR5 slots and no VRM heatsinks. A620 is believed to be AMD's first entry-level... Read more...
Anticipation for NVIDIA’s newest and most affordable GeForce RTX 40 desktop graphics cards continues to build. Today, some new Gigabyte and MSI leaks, via governmental trade regulators, appear to re-confirm the GeForce RTX 4070 memory configuration at 12GB. Moreover, the sizable MSI spill gives us a taste of the broad... Read more...
Rumors detailing several new specifications of Intel’s upcoming Battlemage GPU architecture have been published by RedGamingTech. The new rumors point toward Battlemage having double the core capacity on the top die compared to Intel’s Arc equivalent and will subsequently have GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to RTX 4080 grade... Read more...
If you're trying to game on a budget, Microsoft's Game Pass is a pretty decent deal. As long as you stay subscribed at $10 a month, you get to play quite a few PC games to your heart's content, and they're not just Microsoft's own games, either. The company has been running a promotion for years that would let... Read more...
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