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The last full moon of 2023, often referred to as the Full Cold Moon, will brighten the night sky and the holiday festivities. This months Cold Moon got its moniker after a Mohawk name that referenced the chilly conditions during this time of year.
Decembers full moon will be at its fullest on December 26, and is...
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The Ursid meteor shower will be the last chance to catch a falling star to wish upon for the wanted gift to be left under the tree on Christmas morning. That's because the celestial light show is the final meteor shower of 2023, and it's predicted to peak during the early morning hours of December 23, 2023.
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A Scottish couple has completed a 10-month long journey from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an EV (electric vehicle). The husband and wife veteran adventurers wanted to prove that a mostly-stock EVin this case, a Nissan Ariya e-4Forcewas more than up to the arduous 18,000-plus mile task.
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After a family of GPUs are released, some models stay the same without much ado for the lifetime of the product. Typically, higher-end models such as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 will get special treatment with unique enthusiast versions. Lower-priced GPUs are also fair game, such as theGeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX...
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Meta just upgraded its Ray-Ban-collaborated smart glasses with a multimodal AI (artificial intelligence) that can identify and act on what you're seeing. The system is available via a US-only early access program currently with early signs pointing to something quite a bit more useful than Ray-Ban Stories back in...
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Virtual reality can be an immersive way to play games, experience new environments, or consume and learn new content for anyone of any age. With that philosophy in mind, scientists have expanded the use cases of VR to rodents to enable new pathways and possibilities in neuroscience with tiny mouse-sized VR...
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The original Doom and Doom II games have a rich and thriving mod community that continues to this day. The title just celebrated its 30th anniversary yesterday, and to commemorate the occasion, one of the very best "megawads" of all timethat's community parlance for a level set with a full game's worth of mapshas just...
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Out in the wild, you'll typically find a few types of gamers. The first one is a fan of boosting the visual eye candy to the maxwe're talking ultra settings at a 4K resolution, with path tracing to boot. Alan Wake 2 is a great example of leading edge technology that focuses on the visual aspect of the game. The...
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After a surge in desktop and laptop shipments during the pandemic when working from home became the norm, it's been a bit of a tough landscape for the PC industry as things settled down. However, a rebound is in sight. According to the fortune tellers at Canalys, "worldwide PC shipments are on the verge of a recovery"...
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, yet there are still great deals you can take advantage of to build a get entry level PC for just around $600. Though this PC build guide doesn't make use of the latest hardware, it certainly will offer great performance for a very economical price point. Additionally...
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For every action, there is a an opposite action that is expected. Why do we bring this up? AMD has been competing fiercely with NVIDIA in the desktop discreet graphics card market this generation. With impressive performance-to-price ratio GPUs such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the mid-range Radeon RX 7800 XT, NVIDIA...
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Who doesn't want to play Alan Wake 2 with maxed-out path and ray tracing, right? If you happen to be a mobile gaming enthusiasts, you may even wish to do so from the comfort of your hotel room. With the current generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series laptops, this feat is surely possible. While the mobile...
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Minecraft is one of, if not the, most popular game of all time, with the recent crossing of 300m copies sold in 15 years. One of the many beauties of the game is the ability to do just about anything you want to, including using the Force. Minecraft has now introduced a new STAR WARS adventure in Minecraft Marketplace...
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It's almost impossible to imagine it now, but city builders were once PC gaming royalty with Maxis' SimCity 2000 moving over 4 million copies. These days, the mantle of SimCity has almost entirely been handed off to Colossal Order's Cities: Skylines. That game just got a sequel, but unfortunately instead of the wide...
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Alan Wake 2has been impressing gamers since its release, with its gripping story and visuals. PC gamers had to rummage through a rough year of gnarly, unoptimized titles such as Arkane Studio'sRedfall. The subsequent release of patches and apologies seemed to follow an alarmingly familiar pattern after a few duds came...
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NASAs Lucy probe cuts its teeth with its first up-close encounter with an asteroid named Dinkinesh before moving on to observe 10 other asteroids on its 12-year journey. Lucy had been tracking the asteroid since September 3, 2023.
According to NASA, the encounter was the first time that Lucy got a close look at an...
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Apple has given its Revolutionary Touch Bar its walking papers. The iconic Touch Bar debuted to much hype on the 13-inch MacBook Pro during the companys 25th anniversary of Apples first notebook.
During Apples Scary Fast event on Monday, the company unveiled its new M3 lineup of chips. It then announced the release...
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AI processing is a super heavy computing task that requires tens of thousands of dollars of graphics cards, right? Well, no, actually. AI tools come in all kinds of forms and sizes, and there are plenty that can run in real-time on a phone SoC. One of the most popular client applications of generative AI is local...
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Performance is one of the most important considerations for many people buying or building a desktop PC. Faster CPUs and GPUs can hit higher framerates with better image quality settings, a speedy SSD can launch apps quicker, and more memory can keep a system humming along while multi-tasking with nary a hiccup. But...
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All Hallows' Eve might be when the kids go out trick-or-treating, but the night before this night is when we all bob for Apples. In a spooky themed, online-only event, Apple CEO Tim Cook led a cavalcade of corporate VPs announcing a new family of processors named M3 and a series of Macs sporting the latest in Apple...
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Alan Wake 2is just on the horizon, and its bone-crushing recommended spec sheet doesn't so much recommend powerful hardware as much as it does demand it. Even the minimum requirements to run the game call for pretty midrange GPUs, and that's just to play at 1080p and 30 FPS with DLSS or FSR enabled. The recommended...
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Remedy Entertainment's Control was one of the first games to really showcase the potential of real-time ray-tracing with its gorgeous reflections and excellent ray-traced shadows. The company's next game, a sequel to 2010's Alan Wake simply titled Alan Wake II, promises to up the ante in terms of graphics technology...
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