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- Want To Game On Your Ceiling? Preorder Samsung's Portable Freestyle Gen 2 Projector
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX Benchmark Leak Reveals 96 Cores And 5.1GHz Clock
- Crabby Apple Prepares To Pay Throttled iPhone Users In $500M Batterygate Settlement
- NASA Collaboration Will Seek Out Near-Light-Speed Particle Jets Fueled By Black Holes
- Judge Greenlights Class-Action Suit Against HP's Controversial Printer Ink Tactics
- Watch Dell's 24-Inch USB-C Monitor Transform Into A Giant Tablet
- Starfield Devs Talk Religion, Smuggling, Jail Time And More In Enlightening Q&A
- Snapchat Dismisses AI Chatbot's Freaky Antics As A Glitch But Are You Buying It?
- GeForce NOW KovaaK's Challenge Proves Gaming At Glorious 240 FPS Matters
- Why NVIDIA Shifting Desktop GPU Supply For Gaming Laptops Could Benefit Gamers
- AMD Teases Major Radeon Product Announcement At Gamescom Next Week
- Intel Releases XeSS 1.2 With Key Upgrades But What Happened To Going Open Source?
- Future Intel CPUs May Dump Hyper-Threading For Partitioned Thread Scheduling
- ASRock BIOS Update Teases Performance Uplift For Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs
- This Frosty AirJet Storage Enclosure Is Where 64TB Of SSDs Hang Out And Chill
- Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Reveals First Game Patch Will Have A Whopping 1,000 Fixes And Tweaks
- Don't Have Time To Read A Long Article? Chrome's AI Will Highlight The Key Points
- NASA's Europa Probe Just Got A Massive Upgrade To Explore One of Jupiter's Icy Moons
- New Intel GPU Driver Boosts Arc A750 To Sack GeForce RTX 3060 In Madden 24
- Why Intel Is Walking Away From $5.4B Deal To Acquire Tower Semiconductor
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The mind tends to race when we're laying in bed and can't fall asleep. Things like, 'If nothing is impossible, then something being impossible is possible' and 'Why are boxing rings called rings if they're square?', to borrow from a couple of memes. But have you ever laid in bed and wondered what it would be like to...
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A Geekbench 5 benchmark listing has appeared, revealing the existence of a new Zen 4 Storm Peak Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPU known as the 7995WX. The specs do not disappoint, apparently this new chip will have a whopping 96 Zen 4 cores and a blisteringly high 5.1GHz single core turbo frequency. The benchmarking results...
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Smartphones have improved by leaps and bounds over the past 15 years, but there's one thing lagging behind: batteries. Apple got in hot water a few years back when it throttled iPhone performance on devices with degrading batteries. Now, the Silicon Valley tech giant is preparing to pay up to the tune of $500 million...
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NASA is collaborating with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on the upcoming X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). The mission aims to utilize spectroscopy to take a closer look at things such as near-light speed particle jets that are powered by black holes, adding to the story they have to...
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Anyone who has ever owned an inkjet printer, or worked in IT for any amount of time, is almost certainly aware of this reality: when the ink runs out in your multi-function printer-scanner-copier thingamajig, you can't use it—even if you just want to scan a document, which has nothing to do with the remaining...
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Dell has launched a new 24-inch display, dubbed the Dell 24 Touch USB-C Hub Monitor - P2424HT. The product name is a mouthful, but it still doesn’t manage to do justice to the extended functionality available with this product. Key features to highlight are this monitor’s simple single-cable connectivity appeal, its...
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Thirsty for information about Bethesda's Starfield ahead of its September 6th release date? Good news! Starfield developers Will Shen (lead quest designer) and Emil Pagliarulo (overall design lead) took time off from polishing up the title to do a community question & answer event on the official Bethesda Studios...
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My AI launched a few months ago as Snapchat's new AI-powered chatbot. The company says that over 150 million people have sent over 10 billion messages to My AI, making it one of the most used consumer chatbots available. However, the chatbot which is meant to lend a hand to users in times of need, seemed to take on a...
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NVIDIA says the jury is in and members have seen the distinct advantage of being able to stream at 240fps with a GeForce NOW Ultimate membership during QuakeCon's Ultimate KovaaK's challenge. For Ultimate members who could not attend QuakeCon, they can still compete in the KovaaK's challenge for some sweet prizes that...
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The GPU shortage during the height of the pandemic and when cryptocurrency mining was fashionable has left us all more than a little jaded. Remember what it was like trying to a find a graphics card from a first-party seller? Not fun. Same can be said for trying to score a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X (or even...
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AMD is evidently chomping at the bit (technically champing, for your grammar purists—look it up!) to unveil a "major product" at Gamescom, which is just around the corner, but is keeping mostly mum until the event. We say "mostly" because Scott Herkelman, Senior Vice President of AMD Radeon Technologies Group...
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All of the intelligent upsamplers that we have now—including NVIDIA's DLSS, AMD's FSR, and Intel's XeSS—are fundamentally algorithms at their core, and like any algorithm, they can be tuned and optimized. All three companies continue to do so, which is why game modders and enthusiasts frequently tell folks to update...
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Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point of it is. In short, simultaneous multi-threading (SMT)—the academic name for what Intel calls Hyper-Threading—isn't...
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ASRock has provided some updates regarding Intel’s upcoming 14th-Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPU lineup, including motherboard support for the new chips and new memory performance upgrades on the platform.
The motherboard manufacturer has confirmed that its Intel 600 and 700 series chipset motherboards will support...
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Frore Systems, the company behind the pioneering AirJet solid state cooler, has teamed up with Other World Computing (OWC) to create a new 64TB SSD storage device. The former's silent cooling technology, plus the latter's device-led solutions expertise has precipitated the new 64TB OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual storage...
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Baldur's Gate 3 was in Early Access for a few years, but that effort seems to have paid off. With the game now officially released, many feel it's one of the best RPGs to ever grace the PC. Larian Studios isn't done yet, though. Studio head Sven Vincke says that more updates are coming, including a patch that will...
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Google Search is being rolled out with new generative AI capabilities that will help people better understand, digest and make sense of information on the web. The update comes just months after Google launched its generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE).
Google Search has recently seen some major changes in...
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NASA's Europa Clipper received a massive upgrade in preparation for its launch scheduled for October 2024. The space agency added a high-gain antenna, one ET would have loved to have had to phone home with, that will enable the spacecraft to communicate with ground control back here on Earth from hundreds of millions...
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The NFL season is just around the corner and so is the release of Madden 24 with some exciting upgrades, including smarter AI for more realistic player behavior, niftier passing and catching, and more. To get ready for the release, Intel has made available a new Arc graphics driver—versions 31.0.101.4644 WHQL—that...
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Intel and Tower Semiconductor have mutually agreed to abandon plans for the former to acquire the Israeli chip manufacturer at $53 per share in cash, which would have valued the now-nixed deal at $5.4 billion. However, it's not as simple as just parting ways—as part of the merger agreement that was signed in February...
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AMD Radeon Pro W7900 & W7800: $2,499 (W7800), $3,999 (W7900) The RDNA 3-based AMD Radeon Pro W7900 And W7800 pack a ton of memory and are the company's most powerful and feature-rich professional GPUs yet. Excellent Performance Lots Of Memory Competitive Pricing Quiet Operation Class-Leading Display Outputs W7900...
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You don't need to refresh; you read that correctly: ten minutes. A speedrunner known as Mae on YouTube has beaten Larian's epic new Dungeons & Dragons-based CRPG in almost exactly ten minutes, and it doesn't take mods, glitches, or unintended exploits. It does require a somewhat-flexible definition of "beat,"...
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