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It's not too often that I do a double-take when looking at a deal, but today it happened. What caused the unexpected reaction is a deeply discounted ASUS ROG gaming laptop that's brimming with desirable features, such as a fast OLED display powered by Intel's flagship Meteor Lake processor, the Core 9 Ultra 285H. The...
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If you've ever rebuilt a PC, you know the struggle: the GPU is locked in the slot, and you can't get your fat adult fingers down next to the oversized CPU cooler you installed to press the retention lever down. In the words of many classic infomercials, "there has to be a better way!" Some motherboard...
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These days, virtually every monitorcertainly every gaming monitorsupports at least some form of variable refresh rate technology. NVIDIA's G-SYNC was the pioneer, but AMD's FreeSync is far more ubiquitous largely due to its lower costs and less stringent requirements. Essentially, FreeSync simply requires a monitor to...
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Zen 5 is out, and AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors are distinctly last-generation now. Only, a lot of reviewers produced benchmark data that makes Zen 5 look less like a step and more like a stumble. AVX-512 performance is fantastic, and the chips do well in Linux overall, but Windows numbers, particularly in...
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We dont need an excuse to buy gaming products; it doesnt take much arm-twisting to convince us to stock up, just some good deals. But if youre looking for both (an excuse AND deals), Corsair has you covered with a whole bunch of back-to-school specials. These are real discounts, and some of them are pretty...
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The amount of gamers in the world seems to increase drastically year-over-year. There are now a myriad of ways you can game, from consoles, PCs, to mobile devices like smartphones. It is only fitting that attention is drawn to the mental health and practical aspects of such a heavily practiced genre.
There is some...
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The highly anticipated, Tencent-backed game Black Myth: Wukong has taken Steam by storm, surging past 2 million concurrent players to claim a single-player record. The action RPG surpassed the all-time peaks of games such as Palworld, Elden Ring, Dota 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Counter-Strike 2, representing a mix of...
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Given unlimited budgets, there would be little reason to buy anything but the latest generation products (with some exceptions, like a buggy release for an item that needs to mature). If you're in that position, more power to you, For everyone else, however, the trick is finding value in older generation items that...
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You know, 3D printed houses are cool and all, but a do-it-yourself (DIY) "designer and maker of things" and "3D printing tinkerer" has concocted a delightfully nostalgic project that will appeal to anyone with fond memories of playing with PCs back in the 1990s. His name is Salim Benbouziyane, and to oversimplify his...
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An app designed for Verizon in-store demos, identified as Showcase.apk, has left several generations of Pixel smartphones vulnerable to a number of different types of attacks. The app has been around since 2017, and places nearly every Pixel device sold during that time at risk. However, Google remarked it is...
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This one's important, so let's get right to it: a new security flaw in all versions of Windows opens the door for a wormable remote code execution vulnerability. That means it can be exploited by an automated worm with zero user interaction required, and it gives the remote attacker the ability to execute code on the...
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When people talk about the AI race, most folks' thoughts immediately go toward large language models powering functions like ChatGPT or Google Assistant. There's a lot more going on in the AI space than just language models, though. Before convincingly-human language models became commonplace, everyone was...
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An international group of astronomers may have solved an 843-year-old mystery surrounding the origins of a zombie star. The researchers connected ancient records from China and Japan, which spoke about a supernova event near the constellation Cassiopeia in the year 1181, to a zombie star seen today, called guest star...
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These days, Apple has a firm grip on the tablet market with its iPad lineup accounting for more than a third of all tablet in the wild (35.8%), according to the latest audit by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Apple didn't invent the tablet, of course, but it did play a significant role in...
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were only meant to stay onboard the International Space Station for a week or so in space after docking aboard Boeings Starliner. Now, the duo who have already been on the ISS for a little over two months, may end up having to extend their stay another six...
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Tango Gameworks, one of several studios that Microsoft announced it would be shutting down earlier this year, has been picked up by South Korean game publisher Krafton and will continue to operate. The Hi-Fi Rush IP, which spawned one of the more popular titles of 2023 that would also go on to win several awards, is...
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School is back in session at many places around the country, and in others, the new school year will begin again very soon. If you're needing to stock up on tech, like a new laptop or set of earbuds with active noise cancellation, now is a great time. There's an 'Apple Sales Event' going on at Best Buy right now, with...
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This weekend, thousands of FPS fans, boomer shooter devotees, and many literal boomers have descended on Dallas, Texas suburb Grapevine for the yearly Quakecon event. Id Software and its parent company Bethesda like to use the event to disseminate news about their products (like last year's surprise Quake II remaster...
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As we noted yesterday, Intel's partners are starting to roll out motherboard BIOS updates that include the promised microcode fixes for its Raptor Lake processors. These patches should hopefully keep intact CPUs from degrading any further, although processors that are already damaged will have to be replaced. We were...
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As home prices continue to skyrocket, some companies are looking at new methods of building homes to hopefully reduce the strain on the market. Such is the case with ICON, a company focused on building 3D printed houses to combat the global housing crisis.
In other markets, NASA has been looking into 3D printed...
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Reddit bills itself as "The Frontpage of the Internet," and it leveraged that reputation earlier this year when it went public. The company has just issued its second earnings report, and CEO Steve Huffman gave some hints about where the social news aggregator will go next, but you might not love it. Reddit users can...
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All the hype around new AMD products right now is surrounding CPUs like the Ryzen AI 300 family for mobile machines and then the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPU family launching tomorrow. One-Netbook may have just leaked another new AMD product on the way, though -- the Radeon RX 7800M, something AMD hasn't said a word...
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