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You may not have realized it, but 'tis the season of teasers, apparently. There's no mistaken what NVIDIA's GeForce LAN 50 announcement last month was foreshadowing, but it's not the only one with new GPUs on the horizon. AMD recently posted a series images on Reddit to promote its CPU and GPU hardware during the...
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With its latest rebranding video, Jaguar has leaped into the mouths of netizens (plus the general public) in a big way, but probably not in the way the car company had envisioned. After the haloed brand exited stage left from selling internal combustion cars and taking a one year hiatus, many have been holding their...
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It's only Tuesday, but it feels like Apple is going to be trickling out updates this week. Hot on the heels of the company's iMac M4 announcement yesterday, today we are treated to a huge upgrade to the smallest Mac, the Mac mini. This thing is packed to the gills with either an M4 or an M4 Pro SoC, a minimum of 16 GB...
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The discovery of a second universe-defying megastructure in the remote universe is making astronomers rethink some of the basic assumptions about cosmology. The Big Ring is the second of these ultra-large structures to be found by PhD student Alexia Lopez.
The Big Ring is located 9.2 billion light-years from Earth...
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By the year 2026, there will be nearly 5 billion graphics chips sitting pretty in PC systems, a figure that includes integrated graphics as found on many AMD and Intel processors. As for discrete GPUs, including add-in boards that gamers jam into their PCI Express slots, market penetration in the PC is expected to...
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A frog, astronaut, and physicist walk into a low-gravity research facility? Chinese scientists have recently developed an artificial moon setting that will be used to test technology and train astronauts in a low-gravity environment. The facility is already unique, but its origins make it even more so. The Chinese...
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On Sunday, Virgin Galactic founder and owner Richard Branson took off to the edge of space with several other specialists from Virgin Galactic. Now that he has returned, Branson announced something very exciting to give more people a chance to become astronauts: a giveaway for two seats on a Virgin Galactic flight to...
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quite a bit of egg on its face this evening after a tweet that it posted went viral. The Washington, D.C. based agencys mission as stated on its Twitter profile is to [Secure] our nation's borders facilitating lawful international travel & trade.
As part of this...
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Borderlands 3 fans have a second campaign add-on that is available now to download. The campaign is called Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock. The launch of the new campaign coincides with a free level cap increase that raises the maximum Vault Hunter level to 57. The campaign focuses...
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Perhaps the most significant role that Sir Patrick Stewart ever played was the one of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. That series ran for many years and was among the most popular of all Star Trek franchises. The series spawned multiple movies for the big screen. After many years away...
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Epic Games has been teasing fans about Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 2 set to kick off this week on February 20. Ahead of the official launch, many fans are wondering what exactly the new season will bring. Rumors have suggested that the theme for Season 2 will have something to do with gold and possibly King Midas, who...
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Sir Jony Ive, who has been with Apple for nearly three decades, is officially saying goodbye to the company. Ive landed at Apple in 1992, took over the reigns as head of the companys design efforts back in 1996, and has been instrumental in Apples iconic designs like the original iPod, the iPhone and the Apple...
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At the risk of jumping the gun, it sure looks like a Borderlands 3 game is finally coming, and very soon. In a new trailer for "Mask of Mayhem" that was posted to YouTube, Gearbox teases a new Borderlands game, without specifically announcing Borderlands 3. An official unveiling is likely to come tomorrow at Pax East...
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We sense a great disturbance in the [Alexa] force. Unfortunately for Amazon, Alexa voice services are down for a growing number of Echo users across the United States. Quite comically, Amazon's Super Bowl commercial revolved around the premise that Alexa had lost its voice, forcing stand-ins like Gordon Ramsey and...
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We have been hearing quite a bit about Sony's Xperia XZ2 and Xperia XZ2 Compact handsets leading up to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade show in Barcelona, just none of the information prior to today was official. Now it is, with Sony unveiling both new smartphones at MWC, along with a set of Xperia Ear Duo...
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Amazon has a history of releasing some rather hilarious Super Bowl commercials, and this year is no different. Amazons Alexa AI voice assistant is at the forefront of this year's commercial, and in this case, the digital voice assistant seems to have lost her voice.
Amazon's energetic CEO, Jeff Bezos, is visibly...
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The space above Earth is about to get a little more crowded. The FCChas recently granted approval to OneWeb to launch over 720 Internet-beaming satellites into orbit. OneWeb is the first satellite constellation of its kind to receive approval from the full commission. The low-Earth orbit satellites will employ...
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T-Mobile just changed the amount of data its customers are allowed to consume before they face potential throttling, depending on network usage. The limit now sits at 30 gigabytes per billing cycle, whereas previously T-Mobile's network management policy listed the ceiling at 28GB. Obviously that is not a ginormous...
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Apple design guru Jony Ive has just received a big promotion from his boss, CEO Tim Cook. Following a management shakeup a few years back that saw the ouster of Steve Jobs shadow, Scott Forstall, Ive took over the reigns as Apples Senior Vice President of Design. Now, however, Ive has been given the newly-created position of Chief Design
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Don't sweat it if you've never heard of the Oslo until now. It's a forthcoming handset from BlackBerry that the Canadian company quietly announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC), and it hasn't made many headlines. Well, until now, that is. And the reason it's in the news now is because a supposed leaked image of the...
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In a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker, Apple Senior Vice President of Design Sir Jonathan Jony Ive, talked about topics ranging from the development of the Apple Watch, to automobile design, to his relationship with the late Steve Jobs, to his views on competitors products. Its that last point that...
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It appears that Sir Paul McCartney is joining The Who in providing a virtual experience. But rather than relive history, VR enthusiasts will be able to experience McCartneys final concert, which took place earlier this year, at San Franciscos Candlestick Park in 3D. VR startup company Jaunt has released the 3D...
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