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- AMD's Latest Radeon GPU Driver Promises Huge Gains In Dead Island 2, Fixes These Issues
- SK Hynix Unveils First-Ever 12-Layer HBM3 Chips To Feed Memory-Hungry GPUs
- Indie Cop Game Unrecord Looks So Stunningly Realistic Its Gameplay Trailer Is Freaky
- How Microsoft's DirectStorage 1.2 Update Can Speed Up Your Crusty Old Hard Drive
- Elon Sets Starship Ablaze On 4/20 To Conclude An Exciting Test Launch Gone Wrong
- Acer Announces Wild Orion X SFF Gaming PC With Liquid Cooled RTX 4090 And 13900KS
- GPD's Next-Gen Gaming Handheld Gets Tipped With Zen 4 And External GPU Support
- NASA Denies A Bizarre, Blinding Flash That Lit Up The Skies Was A Falling Satellite
- Google's Bard AI Slammed As A Pathological Liar And Worse Than Useless In Scathing Report
- Google Issues Another Emergency Security Patch For Billions Of Chrome Users, Update Now
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Against Ubuntu Linux
- Valve's Proton 8.0 Update Is A Big Win For Linux And Steam Deck Gaming
- RedMagic 8 Pro Review: A Hot Android Gaming Value Phone
- Adobe Lightroom's AI Upgrade Arrives To Fix Your Grainy Photos Taken In Poor Light
- China Plans To Build A Moon Base Using 3D Printed Bricks From Lunar Soil
- Myst Developer's Steampunk Game Nears Release And You May Need A RAM Upgrade To Play
- MSI Afterburner GPU Utility Gets A Long Overdue Update With These Upgraded Features
- Netflix Is Killing Its DVD Side Hustle, Delays Password Sharing Crackdown In The US
- ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld Manifest Hints At Zen 4 And RDNA 3 Firepower
- Capcom Addresses Perplexing Disappearance Of Ray Tracing In Resident Evil 2 And 3
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All News for April 2023
AMD has issued a timely graphics driver update coinciding with today's release of Dead Island 2, the third installment in the franchise that was initially planned for a 2015 release but ultimately took a backseat to Dying Light. It's finally here, though, and with it comes an Adrenalin Edition 23.4.2 drive update with...
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SK hynix has announced the world’s first 12-layer HBM3 product featuring capacities of 24GB, representing a 50% increase in memory capacity over the company's previous 12GB products. This will greatly accelerate the growth of storage capacity for enterprise GPUs and boost application performance in many HPC workloads...
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Every now and again, an indie game developer comes out of nowhere with a concept trailer or demo that looks too good to be true, prompting skeptics to investigate and shoot down the promising project with harsh reality. We sure hope that doesn't happen with the just-revealed Unrecord, because it's one of the first...
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Most of the discussion around Microsoft's DirectStorage API has been centered around games and how it can drastically reduce their load times when paired with fast NVMe SSDs. DirectStorage as an API actually works on any kind of storage device, though, and it offers reduced overhead even on old spinning rust. However...
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Elon Musk and SpaceX consider the Starship rocket launch on 4/20 a success, even after the spacecraft had to self-destruct minutes into the flight. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported an "anomaly" occurred during the ascent and prior to stage separation, resulting in the loss of the spacecraft.
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At the Acer Spring Global Press Conference today, the company announced a wild new Predator gaming PC packing Intel and NVIDIA’s flagship computer hardware in a tiny 15.4-liter mini ITX chassis, called the Predator Orion X. The case features three chambers, for the main components, and includes a 240mm AIO that cools...
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Handheld gaming PC pioneer GPD is looking to add another compact portable device to its portfolio, bolstered by AMD’s latest Phoenix APUs. The upcoming GPD Win Mini attempts to break from the Nintendo Switch-like form, which is becoming dominant thanks to the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally. Instead, GPD’s upcoming AMD...
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Residents in Kyiv were left baffled after a bright object was observed in the sky around 22:00 local time. The object was at first thought to be a NASA satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere, but the space agency responded that the satellite in question was still in orbit at the time of the sighting.
The Ukrainian...
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Several Google employees who tested the company's Bard AI tool prior to its release raised serious concerns to the search giant, with one person calling it a "pathological liar" and another deeming it "worse than useless," according to a concerning report. The employees even warned that Bard's advice could cause...
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For the second time this year (and in less than a week) Google has issued an emergency security patch for billions of Chrome browser users. Left uninstalled, the browser is vulnerable to a zero-day security flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. Suffice to say you'll want to install this one sooner...
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Staunch Linux advocates have been saying for some time that the Unix derivative's application performance outstrips that of Windows, assuming all other factors are equal. Valve even proved it back in 2012 by porting Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux as part of its original Steam Machine push.
How gaming performance compares...
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The Steam Deck doesn't run Windows. That's right: a gaming handheld based on PC-equivalent hardware, much closer to a full PC than the Xbox or PlayStation, runs Windows PC games on a non-Windows operating system. This is achieved through the herculean efforts of the developers behind myriad open-source software, most...
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RedMagic 8 Pro - Starting at $649 The RedMagic 8 Pro is a powerful, stylish, and affordable Android gaming phone that packs a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and a healthy 6,000mAh battery. Solid value Cool design Beautiful 120Hz display US 5G support Blazing performance Outstanding battery life Sharp, bright display with 120Hz refresh ×Fast...
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Adobe is adding new AI innovations to its coveted Lightroom ecosystem. The new AI integrations, including new features Denoise and Curves, are being touted as making it easy to edit photos like a pro.
The company has been rolling out new features utilizing its new Adobe Sensei GenAI and generative AI, such as its...
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Chinese scientists discuss the best method for building a moon base at the first-ever Extraterrestrial Construction Conference. Topics ranged from how to build basic infrastructure on the surface of the moon, to ways of simulating the lunar environment here on Earth.
The conference at Huazhong University of Science...
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Nearly 30 years ago, a game called Myst helped boost demand for CD-ROM drives, which at the time were still expensive and not yet ubiquitous. It's only fitting, then, the developer of Myst is putting the final touches on another adventure game with a somewhat steep system requirement—you'll need at least 16GB of RAM...
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MSI has launched the first new stable release of its popular Afterburner graphics card utility in years. The tool facilitates a host of graphics card tweaks, with the latest ‘4.6.5 stable’ version most notable for adding compatibility with the latest architecture GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA. Yes, this update is long...
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It was inevitable that Netflix would eventually abandon its DVD-by-mail business and that day is fast approaching. The streaming service announced it would ship out its final discs on September 29, 2023, ending a remarkable DVD run that saw the fall of Blockbuster (save for a lone store in Bend, Oregon), the rise and...
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A new leak from a shipping manifest has confirmed the core specs and name of the mysterious Zen 4 SOC packed inside ASUS’ new ROG Ally handheld gaming console. The SoC is reportedly a custom variant of the Ryzen 7 7840U APU known as the Ryzen Z1, featuring a 3.3 GHz clock speed and Radeon RDNA3 780M graphics.
When...
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The relatively-recent re-makes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 were updated recently, and the patched version appearing on Steam seemed to remove the ray-tracing and 3D audio options for most, if not all, users. It was a big enough bungle that we even reported on it, commenting that it could be just as easily...
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Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) have created the world’s first fully edible rechargeable battery. Key foodie ingredients of the new battery may include extracts from almonds, pomegranates, mushrooms, capers, seaweed, charcoal, and beeswax. The electrodes also make use of food-grade gold leaf...
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Modern games are getting big, in terms of storage space. Too big, arguably. Entry-level PCs and game consoles typically have 1TB or less of solid-state storage, and most newly-released games these days aren't satisfied with being installed on spinning rust. Tack on operating system files as well as overhead from...
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