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A group of researchers who measured the orbital period of asteroid Dimorphous around a month after NASA's DART mission impacted it concluded that an unknown force was causing the asteroid's orbit to continue to slow. NASA determined it had slowed the asteroid's orbital period, decreasing it by about 33 minutes, but...
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Between the rise of asset virtualization and the emergence of real-time ray-tracing, video game graphics technology is on the cusp of a revolution. Leading the charge forward is Epic Games with its Unreal Engine software, a package that just got its version 5.3 update.
Unreal Engine 5 has two major rendering...
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A YouTube streamer has shown the way to vast riches within Starfield that has fans of Skyrim reminiscing about looting chests hidden throughout the world repeatedly. Before players get too excited, a couple of prerequisites must be met before this cash cow glitch can be achieved.
Bethesda is well known for hiding...
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As you probably already know if you read this sitewe've covered it a few times already"Phantom Liberty" is the name of the first and likely only major expansion for Cyberpunk 2077. According to CD Projekt Red (the game's developer), it is the company's largest expansion to dateimpressive, if you played The Witcher 3's...
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We tried to tell you, dear readers: FromSoftware's latest release, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, is absolutely awesome. It stays true to the classic Armored Core gameplay and themes while integrating a few elements and ideas from the developer's more recent (and more popular) fantasy role-playing game franchises...
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Surpriseexactly as rumored, AMD has just announced its mid-range RDNA 3 Radeon graphics cards. They've been a long time coming. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT launched way back in December of last year, more than nine months ago at this point. For the one-tier-down GPUs to have taken this long is quite unusual...
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If you want to know how ray tracing works, it's all in the name: the renderer simulates ("traces") the bouncing of light "rays" to determine how the scene should be lit and colored. This is great, but objects are huge and light particles are very, very small. To get truly simulated lighting, you would need billions...
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If you're a PC hardware enthusiast of a certain ageand if you're reading this site, you probably areyou are likely to recall that back around 2010, GPU overclocking was a big deal. Folks were doing overclocks by 25% or more, something that's basically impossible now. Around that same time, there was a practical...
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Quake II is the latest classic first-person shooter to be remastered by Night Dive Studios, and the company did a bang-up job on the title, subtly improving the lighting, assets, and gameplay in ways that remain faithful to the original and patch up problems in the 1997 game's design while adding extra content. Like...
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Is your PC mouse starting to cough and wheeze when you push it around your desktop? Or maybe the cries of fatigue are coming from inside your PC. Whatever the case might be, if it's time for an upgrade or two (or three, or four, or...) you're in luck. There are several PC gaming hardware bargains on Amazon right now...
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Twenty-eight years ago, Microsoft was faced with the rapid expansion and commercialization of the Internet. Then-CEO Bill Gates saw this change coming and sent out an internal memo calling this phenomenon The Internet Tidal Wave. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that artificial intelligence might be on the...
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Intel's efforts to improve its graphics drivers continue apace. We probably don't have to tell an audience of enthusiasts that Arc launched in a less than ideal state, and that lead to a sub-optimal first impression for the brand. Intel has been working hard ever since to correct course, and its regular driver...
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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...
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It should probably come as no surprise to fans of so-called "boomer shooters" that Night Dive Studios has just published another KEX-engine re-make of a legendary title. Since you read the headline, you know that the title in question is Id Software's Quake II, from December of 1997. Released as part of a surprise...
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SK hynix is showing off a sample of its 321-layer 1-terabit (Tb) triple-level cell (TLC) "4D" NAND chips, which is notable because it's the first time a chip maker has stacked over 300 layers of NAND flash memory. The demonstration took place this week during the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023 event in Santa Clara...
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Rockstar has said basically nothing about the next Grand Theft Auto game beyond that it's being worked on. Despite that, we know a little bit about the game, partially thanks to the massive leak last year. It's going to be set in and around Vice City, it's going to have multiple playable protagonists like GTA V, and for the first time since
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NASA is preparing to send a trio of miniature rovers to the Moon in order to test how well they can cooperate with one another with little to no direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. The Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) program looks to make future missions to the moon more...
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This one's a bit of a weird one, and it's going to require some analysis to understand, so pay close attention. The rumor this time around is that AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card line-up "will not have any high-end GPUs." The leaker compares the situation to RDNA 1 (the Radeon RX 5700 XT) and Polaris (the Radeon RX 480)...
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Mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) are alive and well as a bulk storage medium with companies like Seagate paving an HAMR path to 50TB and beyond, but as with any piece of tech, not all models are created equal. Fortunately, cloud backup firm Backblaze frequently shares drive failure stats for its fleet of HDDs (and SSDs), and its latest storage
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AMD's current-generation desktop and laptop processors are fundamentally based on two designs: Raphael, also known as Dragon Range in laptops, and then Phoenix (or possibly Phoenix Point), created specifically for portable PCs. The former is a chiplet processor that offers up to 16 cores, while the latter is a...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Threads app has lost more than half of its 100 million users since its launch. The Meta CEO shared the news at a meeting with employees last week.
Threads started off strong, with more than 100 million people signing up for the social media app within the first week or so. The app is Zuckerberg's...
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For the last eight years, internet service providers (ISPs) in the US have enjoyed a very liberal definition of "broadband." The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to rain on their parade. The commission may update the definition of what constitutes broadband, raising the minimum speed requirement by a...
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