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Following Google's big ChromeOS to Googlebook shift and subsequent hardware drop in September, some folks were wondering when a detachable tablet-style Googlebook will break cover. Well, not long as it turns out: Lenovo's Googlebook Duet m...
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If you thought the punishing price increases on PC components, smartphones, and consumer hardware in general would ease up anytime soon, prepare for another gut punch. As bad as it has been, the worst is yet to come, which is starting to...
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After termination of operation on October 23, NASA’s 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere around November 4.
Launched in November 2004, the 3,200-pound spacecraft transformed our...
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If you remember Project Larrabee, don't forget to take ibuprofen for your sore back and aching joints (a reminder for myself as much as anyone else). Project Larrabee was actually an earlier attempt by Intel to challenge AMD, which was...
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New information has come to light over the 2025 cybersecurity breach at Harvard University whereby a reported 851,000 accounts within its alumni and development systems were exposed.
The intrusion originally unfolded from a...
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Hey, you there, the one with a PlayStation 5 console collecting dust in your entertainment center. Sony would like a word with you. As the highly-anticipated launch of Grand Theft Auto VI is now just a couple of weeks away, Sony is...
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ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20: MSRP $1,299
Created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Gamers brand, the ROG XBOX Ally X20 applies some premium upgrades to a previously-released product, which enhance the user experience significantly.
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A major criticism of AMD was that the graphics architecture in its integrated GPUs lagged behind its latest graphics technology found in its discrete GPUs. Those days are mostly past; the firm's current integrated graphics are a generation...
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The latest October 28th cumulative update build for Windows 11 versions 26H2 and 25H2 has shipped, and with it comes numerous improvements to Windows 11, including Cloud Rebuild functionality. If you find yourself in a situation where Windows
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Nintendo just recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., and speedrunners are still chipping away at the game trying to achieve a perfect run. Niftski, who holds several world records for the game, got tantalizingly...
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It’s been a little over eight years since Bethesda gave gamers a brief first glimpse of the next installment in its long running Elder Scrolls franchise, tentatively titled as The Elder Scrolls VI. Since then, all fans have gotten are...
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If you've been following Valve news this past year, you may recall the 12TB Steam Leak that occurred in August. When that leak happened, it revealed the existence of a scrapped "F-Stop" project intended as a prequel to Portal, that was...
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Anthropic has put up new restrictions to Claude Code in a bid to clamp down on software attempts to clone, reverse-engineer, and/or recreate existing video games. And legitimate developers are furious.
We added two sentences to Claude...
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Over the weekend, we highlighted a deal on Woot (owned by Amazon) whereby you can score a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 console for $469, which is $30 below the revised MSRP following Nintendo's price hike earlier this year. That deal is...
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A Chinese startup has introduced an AI-based laser turret designed to track, target, and incinerate mosquitoes mid-flight that goes for $1,100. That's a whole lot of OFF! spray.
And so the war against our blood-sucking insect enemies...
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Qualcomm has announced validation its first-generation High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) silicon in the company's San Diego labs, with testing showing 18 times greater bandwidth over DDR5 and five times the efficiency of HBM4.
Computing...
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In this week's episode of 'How the GPU World Turns', NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 from two generations ago picked itself up by the bootstraps and retook the top spot on Steam, one month after having conceded the position to the...
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Well, that didn't take long. Just a few days after rumors suggested NVIDIA was preparing to launch a GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card with 24GB of GDDR7 memory by January 2027, a new report is throwing cold water on that timeline. The...
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If your mobile device is running Android 12 or 13, or some newer versions without the latest security updates, you're likely vulnerable to an "SMS of Death" exploit that can soft-brick your phone and render it unusable without a factory...
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It's the first day of November, and that means retailers will begin ramping up their holiday sales pitches as we get closer to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In recent years, the November-December period (and into January, really) has...
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There are some performance challenges in computing that exist because the workload is just that heavy, and ray-tracing is one of them. You can tackle something like this in two different ways: either build a bigger and badder processor to...
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Microsoft Edge is now the first browser to support Windows 11's new "accelerated app launches" feature, which can improve launch speeds by 15-33%, depending on how intensely you're multitasking. If you're on Microsoft Edge version 150 or...
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