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- AMD's new Ryzen 8000G Hawk Point APUs now available: from $179 to $329AMD officially launches Ryzen 8000G 'Hawk Point' APUs: 8700G costs $329, 8600G costs $229, and 8500G costs $179 with great integrated GPU performance.Jan 31, 2024 8:22 PM CST
- ASUS X690E PRO WS workstation motherboard teased: AM5 socket, for Ryzen 7000 series CPUsASUS submits new motherboards SKUs to the ECC regulatory office, with the unannounced X690E chipset and PRO WS X690E-SAGE SE, and PRO WS X690E-SAGE SE WIFI.Jan 31, 2024 6:03 PM CST
- Honda confirms a $112 charge to add CarPlay and Android Auto to older vehiclesCarmaker Honda as confirmed that older Accord owners can add wireless CarPlay and Android Auto for a surprisingly low one-time $112 retrofit fee.Jan 31, 2024 1:00 PM CST
- Windows 11's new setup interface is found out - it was actually in Windows 10 a decade agoThe setup process was changed in the latest build in the Canary channel, but it turns out this tweak has been lurking in the background for 10 years.Jan 31, 2024 12:07 PM CST
- Apple reportedly nearly canceled its entire MacBook Air lineup at the behest of Jony IveApple's MacBook Air is a hugely popular laptop but former chief designer Jony Ive reportedly wanted to cancel the entire lineup years ago.Jan 31, 2024 8:15 AM CST
- Scientists say there's a chance NASA's rover has found life on MarsScientists believe that NASA's Perseverance rover could already have evidence of past microbial life contained within its collected samples.Jan 31, 2024 4:15 AM CST
- Tencent feels like it 'achieved nothing' in 2023 despite making $21 billion from gamesTencent has made $21 billion in 9-month gaming revenues in 2023, so why does it feel so...left behind? Steep competition has ignited the games market.Jan 31, 2024 12:31 AM CST
- ASUS announces quad-slot GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER with a massive Noctua coolerASUS announces its new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Noctua Edition graphics cards, with a huge Noctua cooler and dual Noctua NF-A12x25 PWN fans.Jan 30, 2024 10:35 PM CST
- AMD's next-gen Zen 5 and new X870E motherboard detailed leaked, expected in second half 2024AMD's next-gen Zen 5 processors launching in 2H 2024, with next-gen flagship X870E motherboards and rumored support for DDR5-8000 memory support.Jan 30, 2024 9:00 PM CST
- Intel's next-next-gen Celestial and Druid GPU rumor: no discrete GPU, will be GPU Tile on APUsIntel is reportedly killing off its next-gen discrete GPUs, with next-gen Celestial and Druid GPU architectures arriving as APU Tiles after Battlemage.Jan 30, 2024 8:10 PM CST
- Redditor passively cools GeForce RTX 3080 with 10 tower heatsinks, looks incredibleRedditor starts passive cooling project using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition GPU, using 10 x tower heatsinks in his journey.Jan 30, 2024 6:30 PM CST
- Square Enix to reduce games lineup, will now focus on quality over quantitySquare Enix's new CEO Takashi Kiryu lays out the foundation for the company's mid-term future that's built around fewer game releases of higher quality.Jan 30, 2024 2:01 PM CST
- Don't expect any big iPhone 16 design feature changes, analyst warnsApple's iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models are expected to debut in September of this year and an analyst believes there won't be big design changes.Jan 30, 2024 12:00 PM CST
- Microsoft Graveyard lets you wander among the headstones of the products Microsoft has axedBrowse the headstones of products and services Microsoft has killed off, and don't forget the coffins, too - for those marked for the chop.Jan 30, 2024 11:11 AM CST
- NASA telescope photographs a cosmic bridge linking two galaxiesNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has honed its instruments on a cosmic bridge linking two galaxies hundreds of thousands of light-years away.Jan 30, 2024 9:03 AM CST
- Death Stranding Director's Cut is now available on iPhone, iPad, and MacHideo Kojima's Death Stranding Director's Cut is now available for download on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a 50% discount at launch.Jan 30, 2024 8:00 AM CST
- AMD's new graphics driver is only for one game, fixing graphics corruption with Suicide SquadIt's not the first time AMD has released an Adrenalin driver that's just for a solitary game, as the same thing happened with Alan Wake 2.Jan 30, 2024 6:33 AM CST
- Samsung's next foldables may be much cheaper if this rumor is trueSamsung is rumored to adopt Inkjet printing technology to reduce costs on its foldable devices, enabling more people to purchase smartphones.Jan 30, 2024 12:17 AM CST
- NVIDIA commands 90% of AI GPU market, competitors are 'years from catching up'NVIDIA reportedly has an estimated 90% of the AI GPU market share, with 1.5 million to 2 million AI GPUs to be sold by NVIDIA in 2024 alone.Jan 29, 2024 11:09 PM CST
- GIGABYTE has new white-colored GeForce RTX 40 Series EAGLE ICE cards comingGIGABYTE's EAGLE range of GeForce RTX cards have been a staple for years, and now the company is offering new all-white EAGLE ICE variants.Jan 29, 2024 10:04 PM CST
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 doesn't lose much performance in external GPU using OCulinkThe new OCulink connector tested with GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4070 Ti SUPER as external GPUs, which lose up to 22.6% and 9.8% performance, respectively.Jan 29, 2024 8:37 PM CST
- Sony said to bring the heat in new State of PlaySony Interactive Entertainment's latest State of Play stream has been spoiled ahead of time and leaks indicate this one will bring some heavy-hitters.Jan 29, 2024 7:28 PM CST
- Enshrouded is gaming's next mega-hit indieThird-person adventure game Enshrouded is the latest indie to tap the mega-popular crafting-survival genre, becomes a best-seller in just a few days.Jan 29, 2024 5:33 PM CST
- Rocksteady presses the beat a game button, Suicide Squad game launches with 'auto complete' bugThe new Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League launches with the worst possible bug to afflict a live service game: The game had totally beaten itself.Jan 29, 2024 3:28 PM CST
- Apple's watchOS 10.4 beta is now in the hands of developers including a new suite of emojisThe next Apple Watch software update, dubbed watchOS 10.4, is now available to developers for testing ahead of a release to the public.Jan 29, 2024 1:15 PM CST
- Intel's new Xeon W9-3595X HEDT CPU: up to 60 cores with 4.6GHz benched earlyIntel's new Xeon W9-3595X 'Sapphire Rapids' HEDT processor spotted on Geekbench, features 60 cores and 120 threads at up to 4.8GHz boost.Jan 31, 2024 7:20 PM CST
- MIT biotechnology student gets DOOM running on human E. coli gut bacteriaScience students get DOOM running on human E.coli gut bacteria, with one frame of simplified black-and-white gameplay at 32 x 48 resolution.Jan 31, 2024 5:18 PM CST
- Dead and buried: The last MacBook Pro with a CD drive is now obsoleteThe Mid 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro has been officially listed as obsolete by Apple, the last model with a CD drive inside. It was last sold in October 2016.Jan 31, 2024 12:45 PM CST
- This website highlights all the new Apple Vision Pro apps you can downloadApple's Vision Pro will go on sale on Friday, February 2 and this website is full of apps that early adopters will be able to download.Jan 31, 2024 8:45 AM CST
- GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founders Edition Unboxing... Dark and PowerfulThe GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is here and the all-black Founders Edition model looks incredible, ahead of our full review let's take a closer look at the card.Jan 31, 2024 8:00 AM CST
- Google will pay out $700 million to former employees this quarterGoogle is preparing to pay out more than $700 million to former employees at the company as part of the outgoing severance packages.Jan 31, 2024 1:47 AM CST
- Activision made $2 billion for Xbox, accounted for 30% of total holiday 2023 revenuesActivision Blizzard King contributed $2.08 billion to Microsoft's record-breaking holiday 2023 earnings, and made up nearly 30% of total revenues.Jan 30, 2024 11:35 PM CST
- Tesla will spend billions of dollars on NVIDIA AI GPUs this year, will also buy AMD AI GPUsTesla will eventually spend 'several billion dollars' on AI GPUs, with $500M+ being spent on its Dojo AI supercomputer buying 10,000 x NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs.Jan 30, 2024 10:08 PM CST
- NVIDIA rumored to switch to Intel for advanced packaging for next-gen AI GPUs, away from TSMCNVIDIA has reportedly moved to Intel for advanced packaging of its next-gen AI GPUs to stop shortages, the company is bottlenecked by TSMC's CoWoS tech.Jan 30, 2024 8:46 PM CST
- Apple has reportedly already sold 200,000 units of its upcoming Vision Pro headsetApple Vision Pro shipments hit 200,000 in just 10 days, priced at $3499 it's not a cheap buy... with sales reportedly trending downward in the months ahead.Jan 30, 2024 7:38 PM CST
- AMD powers 90% of the AI PC market so far, says AI chips are in volume productionAMD says that its Ryzen CPUs are powering 'more than 90% of AI-enabled PCs currently in the market' and it has absolutely no signs of slowing down.Jan 30, 2024 6:23 PM CST
- Apple just re-released its broken iOS 17.4 beta - does it fix everything it borked?Apple has re-released its first iOS 17.4 developer beta after the first one caused issues for those who installed it last week. Will this one fare better?Jan 30, 2024 1:00 PM CST
- WhatsApp is testing passkey support on the iPhoneIf you're a WhatsApp user on an iPhone you could soon be able to sign into the app using a passkey rather than any of the more familiar options.Jan 30, 2024 11:45 AM CST
- NVIDIA beta GPU driver spotted boosting Cyberpunk 2077 frame rates by 23%, but there's a catchA frame rate boost to rival Intel's Arc GPUs? We shouldn't get carried away, though, as there's a sizeable caveat in this tale of faster performance.Jan 30, 2024 10:25 AM CST
- NASA drops treasure trove of epic images snapped by world's most powerful space telescopeNASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured multiple spiral galaxies lurking out beyond the perimeter of the Milky Way galaxy.Jan 30, 2024 8:34 AM CST
- These are the six new emojis coming to your iPhone in iOS 17.4Apple's iOS 17.4 update will arrive within the next few weeks and these are the six new emojis that are already available in the first beta release.Jan 30, 2024 7:45 AM CST
- Unreal Engine 5 is powering the adaptation film of the Rogue Trooper comicThe director of Moon will be adapting a classic sci-fi war comic called Rogue Trooper in the form of an animated adventure powered by Unreal Engine 5.Jan 30, 2024 6:02 AM CST
- Extremely rare 'green flash' coming from Venus captured by a lucky photographerA very lucky photographer has captured the extremely rare phenomenon of green light flashing from one of our closest planetary neighbors.Jan 30, 2024 12:02 AM CST
- Leaked footage from canceled Call of Duty 'NX1' shows gameplay from a mission set on the MoonFootage from a canceled futuristic Call of Duty game has appeared online, and it shows gameplay from a cinematic mission that took place on the Moon.Jan 29, 2024 10:36 PM CST
- AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT price drops to below MSRP, models available for as low as $479With some stiff competition in the mid-range GPU market, AMD's Radeon RX 7800 XT sees its price drop - with select models being sold for as little as $480.Jan 29, 2024 9:29 PM CST
- Rebellions is a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, building Rebel AI chip with SamsungRebellions is a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, which just closed on $124 million in Series B round funding, for its third AI chip called Rebel.Jan 29, 2024 8:01 PM CST
- Japanese government no longer requires businesses to submit information with floppy disksThe Japanese government no longer requires businesses to submit official documents using floppy disks, CD-ROMs are also slowly being phased out.Jan 29, 2024 7:02 PM CST
- Samsung to show off the world's fastest GDDR7 memory at 37Gbps for next-gen GPUs at ISSCCSamsung will showcase its next-gen GDDR7 memory at 37Gbps bandwidth, for next-gen GPUs with 384-bit memory buses capable of 1.7TB/sec memory bandwidth.Jan 29, 2024 5:01 PM CST
- Embracer cancels new Deus Ex game, lays off Eidos developersThe Embracer Group has reportedly cancelled a new Deus Ex game after two years of development, and laid off staff at game dev studio Eidos Montreal.Jan 29, 2024 2:32 PM CST
- Hit Apple TV+ show Severance is officially (finally) filming its second seasonThe hit Apple TV+ show Severance has had its problems during production of its second season, but now it's confirmed to be back on track.Jan 29, 2024 1:00 PM CST
- NVIDIA's new GeForce 551.31 drivers add support for new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPERNVIDIA's new GeForce Game Ready 551.31 drivers add support for new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card, and the usual bug fixes and updates.Jan 31, 2024 6:39 PM CST
- Palworld's Xbox player count revealed, console and PC hits 19 million combinedPalworld has amassed 19 million players in just 10 days and becomes the most-played game on Xbox with 3 million daily active users signing in every day.Jan 31, 2024 2:03 PM CST
- This Vision Pro unboxing shows exactly how big it is, and what comes insideApple's Vision Pro AR/VR headset goes on sale on Friday. February 2 and this unboxing video shows buyers what they should expect inside the box.Jan 31, 2024 12:32 PM CST
- Sony readies PlayStation Network passkey support for more secure sign-insSony is getting ready to add support for passkeys to the PlayStation Network, allowing people to ditch their usernames and passwords for the first time.Jan 31, 2024 8:30 AM CST
- Amazon can deliver cookies to you by drone in just 15 minutesAmazon is upping its delivery service in select areas with speedy drone deliveries as the company announced it delivered cookies to someone in 15 minutes.Jan 31, 2024 4:45 AM CST
- Gigantic solar eruption captured blasting into space in stunning 4K videoA professional photographer has captured the moment of a massive solar prominence erupting on the surface of the Sun in stunning quality.Jan 31, 2024 1:21 AM CST
- MSI Claw gaming handheld is official: features 7-inch 1080p 48-120Hz VRR displayMSI's new Claw gaming handheld is now official: Intel Core Ultra 5 135H processor for $699, faster Core Ultra 7 155H processor for $749.Jan 30, 2024 11:09 PM CST
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU: biggest architecture improvement in Intel history, on TSMC 2nmIntel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will be the biggest architectural uplift in Intel history, bigger than the Core architecture, made on TSMC 2nm node.Jan 30, 2024 9:33 PM CST
- Xbox delivers historic $7.11 billion revenue in holiday 2023Microsoft's gaming revenues skyrocket by billions of dollars as Xbox starts to recognize Activision Blizzard King's quarterly earnings contributions.Jan 30, 2024 8:35 PM CST
- NVIDIA moves up GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER reviews to January 31, gives reviewers another 24 hoursNVIDIA delays the review embargo of its new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card from January 30 to January 31, as some reviewers only JUST got their card.Jan 30, 2024 7:02 PM CST
- Can a mouse become a webcam? This clever mod shows what can be done with an optical sensorHere's a quick riddle: when is a mouse not a mouse? When it has been modded to become a camera, that's when - this is some really nifty work.Jan 30, 2024 2:32 PM CST
- You can't rearrange the $3,499 Vision Pro's apps or hot-swap its batteries, reviewer notesApple's Vision Pro goes on sale at the end of the week and new reviews have given us some interesting tidbits surrounding batteries and apps.Jan 30, 2024 12:30 PM CST
- Here's what to expect from the Vision Pro's battery performanceApple's Vision Pro is here soon and early reviews have given us an idea of what to expect in terms of battery life when it goes on sale this week.Jan 30, 2024 11:30 AM CST
- Scientists claim they've discovered Amelia Earhart's plane wreckageOne of the greatest mysteries of all time, the disappearance of the American aviator Amelia Earhart, may have finally come to an end.Jan 30, 2024 9:25 AM CST
- H.P Lovecraft and Dead Space inspired underwater horror game gets new eerie trailerDeep Dark Sea, a horror game inspired by the godfather of horror, H.P Lovecraft, and is a mixture of Subnautica and Dead Space, has received a new trailer.Jan 30, 2024 8:16 AM CST
- Apple's mystery homeOS software breaks cover again, this time in tvOS 17.4The existence of Apple's homeOS software was first leaked back in 2021 and now it has again appeared in the first tvOS 17.4 beta, but details are sparse.Jan 30, 2024 6:45 AM CST
- Creators of George Carlin AI special get sued by Carlin estate despite their admissionThe Carlin estate has sued podcasters Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen for creating the 'George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead' comedy special.Jan 30, 2024 12:33 AM CST
- COLORFUL intros 'Loong Edition' series GeForce RTX 40 GPUs and Z790 motherboardsCOLORFUL announces its new Loong Edition graphics cards and motherboards inspired by the Year of the Dragon, traditional art and modern technology infused.Jan 29, 2024 11:45 PM CST
- Elon Musk confirms the first human has received a Neuralink brain implantElon Musk has announced that the first human received a brain implant from Neuralink yesterday and is currently 'recovering well'.Jan 29, 2024 10:21 PM CST
- KIOXIA SSDs are headed to the International Space Station, tune to watch the launch on NASA TV!KIOXIA joins HPE to send cutting edge storage into space to accelerate research in a number of fields, and you can watch the launch live.Jan 29, 2024 9:01 PM CST
- James Gunn confirms Milly Alcock from House of the Dragon will play SupergirlJames Gunn has confirmed that Milly Alcock, who played Rhaenyra Targaryen in the 1st season of HBO's 'House of the Dragon,' will play Supergirl.Jan 29, 2024 7:45 PM CST
- Xbox 720 was almost Microsoft's first profitable Xbox consoleMicrosoft's Gen8 Xbox One was originally pitched as the Xbox 720, a system that would have technically been the first Xbox console sold at a profit.Jan 29, 2024 6:29 PM CST
- New Blizzard president announced as Call of Duty general managerFollowing the departure of previous lead Mike Ybarra, Blizzard Entertainment has named its next president and it's ex-Call of Duty GM Johanna Faries.Jan 29, 2024 4:31 PM CST
- Apple releases macOS Sonoma 14.4 beta to developers before a public release within weeksApple's upcoming macOS Sonoma 10.4 software update is now in the hands of developers ahead of a release to the public within the next few weeks.Jan 29, 2024 1:30 PM CST
- Zoom is coming to the Vision Pro because there's no escape from workApple's Vision Pro will debut on February 2 and there will be a new Zoom app ready to go when the big day arrives, including Persona support.Jan 29, 2024 12:45 PM CST
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