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Intel's been under some fire recently for affecting its top-end Core i9 processors from both the 13th- and 14th-generation Core families. Some of these chips, even when set to "BIOS defaults", will crash or otherwise fail in certain tests, most commonly Cinebench 2024 and especially, games using Unreal Engine. The... Read more...
Escape From Tarkov players are nothing if but incredibly dedicated to their game and its developers, but that sentiment might be changing with some recent actions. Back in 2022, Battlestate Games elected to stop selling the premium game package for EFT, which gave some great perks, including access to all subsequent... Read more...
WhiteFox Eclipse Mechanical Keyboard: Starting at $140 The WhiteFox Eclipse is a beautiful, mechanical keyboard with hot-swappable switches and an innovative modular design. Hotswappable switches Excellent feel and sound Modular design that's easy to disassemble Comes with high-quality switches and keycaps... Read more...
Bang & Olufsen is bringing back the beats and vibes of the 90s with its fully restored and reimagined Beosystem 9000c 6-disc CD changer music system. The limited edition retro CD player is paired up with Bang & Olufsen’s modern Beolab 28 speakers, giving the system a powerful punch at the price of just one kidney on... Read more...
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to restore net neutrality rules that were repealed during the Trump administration. The vote passed 3-2 in favor of reinstating net neutrality regulation by reclassifying broadband service as a Title II telecommunications service, which in turn enables the... Read more...
Astronomers celebrated Hubble Space Telescope’s 34th anniversary of its launch this week by capturing an incredible image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76. The distant nebula is located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. NASA’s Hubble telescope was... Read more...
The results are in for Intel's first quarter earnings and while investors sent the stock sliding in after hours trading on a soft Q3 outlook, the chip maker remains confident in its position. We'll get to that in a moment, but first let's discuss how Intel fared in the first quarter, both overall and among its... Read more...
Frame generation isn't a solution to a stuttery, unsmooth experience. However, the ASUS ROG Ally comes with a 120-Hz Freesync display, and there are plenty of games that it can get to 60 FPS reliably, yet where it will struggle to hit the triple digits. If your favorite game falls into this category, you may be in... Read more...
Nintendo is famous—or infamous depending on your perspective—for being a bit of a buzzkill when it comes to other people using its intellectual property and technology. Of course, some of this is justified, like with the case of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu that settled with the games company earlier this year... Read more...
Microsoft has begun updating all user’s PCs to start receiving the annoying ads in the Start menu people have been dreading. Fortunately, there is a way to get rid of them. Ads in the Start menu became a conversation earlier this month when they began popping up for Windows Insiders. Surprisingly, the update... Read more...
Valve offers a rather generous return policy on its Steam platform, which allows players to return games for a refund within two weeks (14 days) of purchase and with less than two hours of play time logged. As Valve plainly states on its refund page, "it doesn't matter" if the reason is because a PC doesn't meet a... Read more...
HMD Global has finally gone solo in the smartphone business by introducing its new HMD Pulse and Vibe smartphone lineup. At present the Pulse series is exclusive to Europe, but HMD promises that its phones will be easy to repair and have low prices to boot. In fact, the Vibe that we'll get Stateside will come in at an... Read more...
The official YouTube channel for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unveiled a new phase of testing of its 12-ton autonomous RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) diesel hybrid. The new testing included an autonomous route, which was tested for mobility and demonstration, including sensor point cloud... Read more...
The U.S. CHIPS and Science is in full Oprah meme mode as of late, essentially telling chip makers, 'You get a grant, you get a grant...everybody gets a grant!' The idea is to boost US chip manufacturing with some $280 billion earmarked to bolster the domestic semiconductor industry, and Micron has emerged as the... Read more...
BMW is giving its midsize electric i4 and 4-series Gran Coupe sedans a well-deserved refresh inside and out. The 430i Gran Coupe gets a new mild-hybrid paired with its turbocharged four-cylinder engine for more power and torque, while all models get updated engines, laser lighting, revised infotainment, and little... Read more...
Synthesia, a startup that has the backing of NVIDIA, is launching its fourth generation of AI avatars it’s calling Expressive Avatars that are powered by the EXPRESS-1 model. These avatars are designed to be used in video production and deliver what the company says are “dynamic and lifelike digital personas that... Read more...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express snapped an image of Mars that will send a chill up the spine of those with arachnophobia. But don’t get too freaked out. The swarm of creepy crawlers is not what one might expect at first glance. While the image may give the illusion of thousands of spiders scurrying... Read more...
In case you haven't been paying attention, AMD's Zen 5 processors are expected to debut before long. In fact, many people are expecting AMD to announce the first wave, likely the "Granite Ridge" desktop processors sporting Zen 5 CPU cores, at Computex 2024. That's about six weeks from now, in the first week of... Read more...
The Fallout series on Amazon Prime has been well received, topping streaming charts and maintaining that position since its release. With this popularity, folks already familiar with, and those new to the world of Fallout, have been diving back into the games. This has led to some impressive new metrics for the game... Read more...
Any mouse will do if you're just pointing and clicking around the internet or toiling in Excel, but gamers demand more. Sometimes, they demand a lot more. Enter Razer and the new Viper V3 Pro. This mouse represents a major upgrade over the previous V2 edition in both features and included accessories. It's not cheap... Read more...
Apple has an upcoming event on May 7th, and it has laid out a few hints as to what we can expect. With the very obvious message by Tim Cook stating "Pencil us in for May 7th," there is no ambiguity here. While we'd fully expect a new version of the Apple Pencil, the real star of the show will likely be an entourage of... Read more...
The snowball continues to build against TikTok's presence in the U.S. as the Senate was quick to pass the so-called TikTok bill, essentially (once it's signed by President Joe Biden) requiring TikTok's China-based publisher ByteDance to either sell it to a U.S. owner or be banned from the country. This TikTok bill... Read more...
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