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- US Lawmakers Propose Internet Kill Switch To Sink Online Piracy Sites
- Uber Files Racketeering Lawsuit Alleging Elaborate Car Crash Fraud Scheme
- Video Game History Foundation Posts A Treasure Trove Of Rare Gaming Mags For Free
- Intel Falcon Shores GPU Won't Launch To Market In AI Chip Strategy Shift
- Ford's New Megazilla 7.3L V8 Engine Is A Supercharged 1000 HP Beast
- Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Is $220 Off For A Limited Time Deal
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 And Flip 7 Leak Reveals Processor, RAM And Storage Specs
- Intel Earnings Beat Guidance Ahead Of 18A Volume Chip Production
- Xbox Exclusive Forza Horizon 5 Gets Ready To Drift To PS5, Will Halo Follow?
- GeForce RTX 5090 Shortage Has Retailers Resorting To Silly Games
- Meta Will Pay Trump $25M To Settle Lawsuit Over Facebook And Instagram Ban
- Comcast Teams With NVIDIA, Meta, And Valve On Game-Changing Low Lag Internet
- AMD Readies RDNA 4 Radeon Desktop GPUs But What About Gaming Laptops?
- Blizzard Says Groundbreaking Gameplay Changes Are Headed To Overwatch 2
- Astronomers Spot An Asteroid Hurtling Towards Earth With A Chance Of Impact
- ASUS Blames Damaged GPUs On User Error, Offers Guidance On Q-Release
- Porsche Taycan GTS Sets Another Ice Cold Guinness World Record
- Xbox CEO Laments Similarity With PS5, Wants True Innovation For Next-Gen Console
- GeForce RTX 5090 Releases To Retail…Annnd, It's Gone
- Spider-Man 2 Swings To PC: Required Specs To Play In Glorious 4K With Ray Tracing
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All News for January 2025
A new bill proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), aims to grant rights-holders the power to obtain court orders that block access to foreign websites accused of copyright infringement. The bill, introduced by Representative Zoe Lofgren of California (D-18), amends...
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Uber has initiated a fraud and conspiracy lawsuit against a network of professionals comprising doctors, lawyers, and other specialists. The lawsuit alleges that fraudulent car crashes were orchestrated and then unnecessary or excessive medical treatments were prescribed with the intent of exploiting New York's...
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After beginning its efforts in 2017, the Video Game History Foundation is opening its virtual doors to the public, offering access to its digital archive. There is a treasure trove of materials available that will make retro gamers swoon, including memorabilia, game development documentation, behind-the-scenes...
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Intel is officially shelving its Falcon Shores GPU, marking another shift in the company's tumultuous AI hardware strategy. In its Q4 2024 earnings call, Interim Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus confirmed that the chip will not see a commercial release. Instead, Falcon Shores will serve as an internal test platform...
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Ford Performance has unveiled two new crate motors for your next project car: one is the supercharged 7.3-liter 1,000+ horsepower Megazilla 2.0 V8, while the other is the supercharged 5.0-liter 810 hp Coyote V8. One is completely street legal and even comes with a two-year warranty; unfortunately it's not the...
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Time is ticking if you're hoping to score a deal on a premium smartwatch, and if you strike while the iron is hot, you can save a significant amount of money on a fancy new wearable. To that end, Best Buy's 'deal of the day' is a big $200 discount on Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra. However, we found an even better deal...
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Samsung is still months away from revealing its latest family of Galaxy Z foldables, but leaks have emerged presenting specs on both the Z Fold 7 phablet and Z Flip 6 compact flip phone. One piece of good news is that there will be no price change from the Z Fold/Flip 6 (memory and storage configuration dependent, of...
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Intel posted its first earnings report since Pat Gelsinger retired from his post as Chief Executive Officer, and it largely shows the continued efforts of a major restructuring strategy that began before he left. For example, fourth quarter revenue declined 7% year-over-year to $14.3 billion, while the full year tally...
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If you've been waiting for some of Microsoft's Xbox exclusives to finally make their way to Sony's PlayStation 5 console, you're in luck. The ever fun Forza Horizon 5 is headed to the PS5 sometime this springtime, opening up the game to an entirely new group of players. With a stunning open-world design, this game is...
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It's become clear that there are not enough GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards to meet demand, and while we can debate the reasons why until we're blue in the face, it won't change the fact this now ranks as one of the most difficult-to-obtain tech products in a long time. What was a borderline silly situation, however...
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Nearly all of social media took action against President Trump and either restricted or suspended his accounts following his comments on January 6, 2021, which spawned a number of lawsuits.
President Trump argued that suspending his accounts and censoring his posts on Meta's social media platforms constituted an...
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Comcast just dropped a press release touting its latest technological breakthrough: "pioneering open standard low latency tech" that purports to deliver snappier gaming, smoother video calls, and better virtual reality performance for Xfinity customers. It turns out that Comcast is teaming up with Meta, NVIDIA, and...
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AMD is gearing up to launch its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series, but if you're a Red Team faithful hoping for new Radeon GPUs in gaming laptops, you might be waiting a while. The company officially announced the first desktop GPUs in the lineup—the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT—at CES 2025, but conspicuously absent...
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The Overwatch franchise has been a mainstay in the hero shooter genre, though it has slowly lost a significant portion of its player base and hasn't returned to prominence with Overwatch 2, in part because of some poor management. The landscape has only gotten more difficult with the highly successful release of...
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Yes, there's a chance that a recently spotted asteroid named 2024 YR4 could strike Earth in 2032, but experts are deeming the 196-foot wide small-body a low 1-in-83 strike risk, although others believe the closeness of the approach path to our planet in eight years still warrants some due caution. Still, we're usually...
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Around this time last week, reports began to surface that the nifty quick release mechanism ASUS implements on many of its motherboards was causing physical damage to graphics cards. Called Q-Release Slim, it's intended to make removing graphics cards a cinch. But does it come at the expense of too much harsh grinding...
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Porsche took the Taycan GTS to the frigid climes of Finland to attempt another Guinness World Record. This time, the car, in the hands of Porsche instructor Jens Richter, successfully drifted the electric sports sedan around the company's Artic Center circuit for a total of 132 laps for 46 minutes, covering 17.5...
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Microsoft's Xbox console is having a serious introspection moment, questioning its own reason for existence (at least by those in charge of the system). We've grown accustomed to the console wars dating back decades, and the assumption was they'll always continue as such. In a recent interview with Destin on YouTube...
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After a months of leaks and rumors followed by weeks of anticipation, NVIDIA's much-ballyhooed GeForce RTX 5090 released to retail this morning, and then sold out in a nanosecond. Maybe even faster. It was a 'blink-and-you-missed' it retail launch, though not an unexpected one—NVIDIA this week warned that it was anticipating "significant demand"
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Happy launch day, folks! Not just for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards (which release to retail today), but also for the much-anticipated PC port of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 after launching exclusively to Sony's PlayStation 5 console two years ago, to much acclaim. The port brings some...
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Before we get started, let's clarify this headline. "DeepSeek" is the name of a Chinese AI startup that has produced some very impressive AI models, given the limited resources at its disposal. It is also the name of that startup's mobile app, and it's the latter that we're specifically concerned about today. That is...
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In September 2022, Apple introduced the "Emergency SOS" feature, which relies on Globalstar's satellite network. There are now indications, however, that Apple is exploring support for Starlink's satellite network. Following the release of iOS 18.3 two days ago, a report suggested that the update included support for...
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