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Apple is preparing for its next big event where it will reveal the new iPhone family of smartphones and its highly-popular next-gen Apple Watch. While the Apple Watch is set to celebrate its tenth-anniversary next year, this year's version will probably seem lackluster in terms of anything new. It is no surprise... Read more...
Tesla is reintroducing the "Standard Range" trims for its popular Model S and Model X models. The new trim costs $10,000 less than before, but they do come with a possible downside, depending on your point of view. Austin-based EV company Tesla just soft-launched a couple of new lower-priced trims that could fit... Read more...
Giant megastorms unique to the planet Saturn have scientists pondering what causes the storms to leave impacts on the giant gas planet for a hundred years or more. A new research paper dives into the dilemma utilizing data from the Cassini mission and the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope. In 2020, NASA stated that... Read more...
UL Solutions, the creators behind 3DMark, have launched a new 3DMark ray tracing benchmark called Solar Bay that is designed to stress test and benchmark GPUs. This new benchmark is different from 3DMark’s other ray tracing benchmarks, like Port Royal and Speed Way in that it supports both Android and Windows PCs. As... Read more...
If you have not done so already, check out our Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5 review for our in-depth analysis and benchmarks of both new handsets. Then if you decide that either phone is right for you, pivot to checking out these offers on Samsung's latest gear with various bonuses on tap. Same goes for the... Read more...
Japanese game developer FromSoftware might seem like it came out of nowhere in the last few years if you aren't a particular type of hard-core gamer. However, the company's first game was King's Field, a fantasy RPG released for the then-brand-new PlayStation console way back in 1994. FromSoftware remained a mid-level... Read more...
NVIDIA Research has built and released an open-source AI model that can reconstruct 2D videos into detailed 3D structures, complete with intricate details and textures. Creators can then take these 3D objects and inject them into various design applications for further manipulation, be it a video game asset, robotics... Read more...
When news breaks that a 1972 Ferrari Dino 246 GT once belonging to Rolling Stones' Keith Richards goes up for sale, you can expect plenty of attention. The car will be up for auction this weekend—just be sure to check with your spouse first. The 1972 Dino 246 GT is one of the most emotive and desirable cars ever... Read more...
Intel's 12th-generation Alder Lake CPUs aren't that far from its 13th-gen Raptor Lake chips. There are lots of changes, of course, but from an end-user perspective, the biggest difference is the upgrade in L2 cache. Raptor Cove P-cores sport 2MB, and the E-core clusters have 4MB. That's up from 1.25MB and 2MB on Alder... Read more...
A German YouTuber with a penchant for PC video card repairs has published a new video underlining his skills in this tricky technical niche. KrisFix recently published a video where he fixed an MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT which was incapable of displaying an image. That’s a simple but fundamental issue for a graphics card... Read more...
The next couple months are absolutely jam-packed with big game releases. On September 26th, Cyberpunk 2077 will get its Phantom Liberty expansion, which is not only CD Projekt Red's biggest expansion ever, but also overhauls most of the base game, too. Twenty days earlier, on September 6th, is Bethesda's hotly-awaited... Read more...
Physicists believe they have found more evidence to support a fifth force of nature existing with a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment which improves the precision of a previous result by a factor of two. An international collaboration of scientists is working on the... Read more...
Rumors percolated for years that Google would release its own smartwatch, but year after year, Android wearable fans were left with dwindling options. Google finally got it together in 2022, releasing the Pixel Watch (above). That device is coming up on a year old, and its replacement, presumably the Pixel Watch 2... Read more...
OnePlus China's President just showed off a cool display ability where it seems to allow users to reliably use the touchscreen with wet hands compared to a struggling iPhone. In a Weibo post, Louis Li Jie, the China President of OnePlus boasts that Ace 2 Pro owners will get to enjoy a new display technology called... Read more...
Ford has issued a statement confirming that some of its Mustang sports cars and several other vehicles have a Wi-Fi vulnerability that could theoretically allow a hacker to launch a remote code execution attack. However, Ford is ensuring owners of affected vehicles that the security flaw doesn't present a safety risk... Read more...
Imagine being able to walk up and unlock your front door or start your car with a simple wave of your hand like Obi-Wan Kenobi mind-tricking his way through Stormtroopers. One such person took that idea seriously and implanted (and programmed) 25 under-skin chips. Miana Windall, a software engineer, walks around... Read more...
It's been a bit of a rough stretch for the PC processor market, with CPU shipments falling to the lowest point in a decade during the first quarter of 2023. The thing about hitting rock bottom, though, is there's no way to go by up. Or so the saying goes—sideways is another possible direction. Looking at the latest... Read more...
Faster space travel has been the holy grail of space agencies for decades and a UK-based aerospace company says it might have a viable solution in the form of nuclear fusion. If all goes well, a working fusion prototype could happen as soon as 2027. Pulsar Fusion, a UK aerospace startup is claiming that it's in the... Read more...
NASA is seeking out the help of the public to keep an eye on the ice giants Uranus and Neptune as its New Horizons spacecraft observes the duo from deep space. The mission team is inviting all amateur astronomers to help make "a real contribution to space science." New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, and has since passed Jupiter Read more...
It's still going to be a while before Apple introduces its fourth generation iPhone SE, but when it does arrive the lower cost handset will look pretty familiar with an overall design that is based on the current generation iPhone 14, according to the latest leak. The iPhone SE 4 will also tout some interesting... Read more...
Blizzard is putting teeth behind its warning against cheating in Diablo IV, and thousands of players have since been banned. One of the better-known examples of players cheating involves an exploit called the "Seasonal Exploit," which allows players to transfer items between the Eternal and Seasonal realms. Most... Read more...
NVIDIA internal GPU codenames typically go something like this: first a G (for "graphics" or "GeForce"), then the first letter of the architecture name, and then three digits. The first digit indicates the architectural revision, the second digit marks the chip revision, and then the last digit suggests the specific... Read more...
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