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- Why GTA 6 Carries A Heavy Burden And Could Be The Most Important Game Launch Ever
- StopCrypt Ransomware Evolved: Most Widespread Threat Now Avoids Detection
- ASUS Unveils Zenfone 11 Ultra With A Giant OLED Display And Snapdragon Inside
- OpenAI’s Figure 01 Talking Robot Demo Is Eerily Mind-Blowing
- Calling All Gamers, Pong Creator’s Auction Features Unreleased Atari Cosmos Prototype
- Maingear Is Selling Delidded Core i9-14900KS Gaming PCs And Yes, With A Warranty
- Google Just Upgraded Chrome's Real-Time Security On PC And iPhone, What About Android?
- Apple Buys AI Startup DarwinAI Ahead Of iOS 18 And Next-Gen iPhone Launch
- FCC Raises Minimum Broadband Speed By 300% And It's About Time
- OpenAI's GPT-4 Can Play Doom But Your Grandma Could Give It A Beat Down
- Helldivers 2 Boss Explains Why Third-Person Format Was Key To Game's Huge Success
- DarkGate Exploit Targets Full Control Of Unpatched Windows PCs So Update ASAP
- SpaceX Starship Test Flight Ends In Wild Reentry Loss With Amazing Plasma Views
- Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Fastest Desktop CPU Yet
- Epic Games Wants Apple Held In Contempt Over 'Blatant' App Store Ruling Violation
- Waiting For Apple's 11-Inch OLED iPad Pro? Brace Yourself For A Possible Shortage
- Hospital Scrubs In Apple Vision Pro For Spine Surgery, Is This The Future Of Healthcare?
- AAA Veterans Launch Emptyvessel, New Studio Focusing On Immersive Shooters
- Key Member Of Lockbit Ransomware Gang Gets Jail Sentence And $860K Fine
- Star Wars Jedi Director Forms Giant Skull Game Studio, Teases AAA Adventure Games
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All News for March 2024
Grand Theft Auto 6 is still a year away assuming it doesn’t encounter any delays, but the gaming industry is pinning an absurd amount of hope on it. Less than three months in, 2024 has been a rough year for the games industry, with various studios closing and thousands of layoffs across companies big and small. It’s...
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StopCrypt ransomware is one of the most prolific yet underreported ransomware families due to its usual target of individuals rather than high-profile businesses or larger entities. We may not see this strain of ransomware in the United States as much, but it is still a threat regardless, and an evolving one at that...
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The ASUS Zenfone line has been fulfilling the dreams of small phone lovers in recent years, but that's over with the release of the Zenfone 11 Ultra. This is a giant Android 14 smartphone, packing the latest Qualcomm silicon, a beefy battery, and an expansive 6.78-inch OLED screen. If the latest Zenfone looks...
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Attention all humans: Figure AI, in collaboration with OpenAI, is well on its way to developing a humanoid robot capable of taking over the world. OK, while it may not be ready to take over the world (yet) the company’s Figure 01 robot running a new Visual Language Model (VLM) does put on a mind-blowing demonstration...
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An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a handful of other iconic Atari video games, such as a Pong arcade game, and a Space Race arcade game.
While games like Space Invaders and Pong are extremely simplistic by...
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Intel's latest flagship processor, the Core i9-14900KS, is a beastly slice of silicon as we discovered in our review. It also needs ample cooling to take full advantage of the binned chip's full potential. To help with that, boutique builder Maingear is offering a delidded option on some of its desktops when...
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Google Chrome users are about to get a more secure browsing experience thanks to some updates coming to desktop and iOS. Google Safe Browsing will be getting real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection, while useful additions are coming to Password Checkup. Android users will need to wait a little bit, as these...
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Apple has acquired DarwinAI, showing a relentless push into the segment for what will be a very competitive future in the space. In years past, performance expectations were all based on the brute force that hardware could produce. Faster CPUs, more powerful GPUs, and increased capabilities for components such as RAM...
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At long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed a vote to raise the minimum high-speed fixed broadband speed threshold, increasing the baseline download benchmark from 25 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100Mbps. That's a fourfold increase, or a whopping 300%, and quite frankly it's a long overdue bump...
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When DOOM came out in 1993, Id Software had all kinds of companies coming around asking to license the engine to use it in various types of software for which it was completely unsuited. John Carmack said that vendors of CAD programs and home designers wanted to make use of his amazingly-performant 3D engine, but...
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Johan Pilestedt, CEO & Creative Director at Arrowhead Studios spoke at length about the design choices his team made that led to the success of Helldivers 2. Helldivers 2 is defying expectations in terms of popularity and sales, which forced the development team to put out mulitple fires during the first days of its...
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This week, researchers have reported that earlier this year, threat actors leveraged a vulnerability in Windows to deploy DarkGate malware after phishing the victim for initial access. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-21412 led to users running fake Microsoft software installer (.MSI) packages that looked like...
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SpaceX’s third flight test of Starship is deemed a huge success by the company, even though the spacecraft was lost during reentry. The intent was never to recover Starship, but the hopes were it would survive reentry and then be destroyed as it slammed into the Indian Ocean.
Starship launched from SpaceX’s...
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Intel Core i9-14900KS: MSRP $699 Intel just released its fastest desktop processor yet, the 24-core / 32-thread Core i9-14900KS, which is capable of running at up to a blistering 6.2GHz. Single-Thread Dominance Great Overall Performance Drop-In For Existing Platforms Highest Clocked CPU To Date Powerful Cooler Is A Must Outgoing Platform High...
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Even the Hatfields and McCoys eventually settled their differences and ended their long-running feud, which lasted from 1863 to 1891 (a truce signed by both families in 2003 officially put the matter to rest). In the modern era, we get to witness a different kind of feud, between Epic Games and Apple. Fortunately it's...
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An independent report is suggesting that production of the OLED displays for Apple's upcoming 11-inch iPad Pro is falling behind as we speak, possibly leading to shortage at launch. The 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models are expected to be announced somewhere between March and April.
In a recent X post for paid...
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As much as Apple may envision its $3,500 Vision Pro headset being adopted by consumers on a mass scale, it's priced more like a development kit or a professional tool, be it in an enterprise setting or, as is the case in the UK, a hospital. More specifically, Cromwell Hospital recently employed Apple's fancy spatial...
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Things have been rough in the AAA gaming space over the last few years, and arguably the last decade. There's been a lot of turnover, as a good number of legendary studios have closed their doors and many others were shuttered before they even got a chance to shine. A high rate of turnover combined with a failure to...
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Over the past few months, the infamous ransomware group LockBit has faced significant turmoil, including threatening a forum administrator with murder. All while this was happening, members of the group like Mikhail Vasiliev were sitting in jail, awaiting trial for their cybersecurity crimes. Now, Vasiliev has been...
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Game director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Stig Asmussen, has announced the start of a new game studio called Giant Skull. Asmussen, who left Respawn and EA last year, also reported that the company is already hard at work developing a new AAA narrative-driven single player...
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Motorola's budget phone division has injected the North American market with a couple of new devices—the $200 Moto G 5G and $300 Moto G Power 5G. On paper, they offer some positive specification bumps for very little of your hard-earned cash. Let's dig dipper.
Recent Moto G offerings have, how shall we kindly say...
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When Tim Berners-Lee transformed the early internet with the invention of the World Wide Web while at CERN, it was a much different time. It started in earnest in 1989 with a memo proposing a global hypertext document system, though as he readily admits now, the web's "trajectory was impossible to imagine" at the...
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