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- Apple TV+ gets a painful 43% price hike - and Apple Arcade suffers a hefty rise tooOther Apple subscriptions are getting hikes, namely Apple News+ and Apple One packages, but if you move very swiftly, you might be able to avoid them.Oct 25, 2023 1:42 PM CDT
- Downloading Chrome in Edge? Microsoft may now quiz you as to why you're ditching its browserA recent report highlights that those leaving Edge for Chrome will face a poll trying to ascertain their reasons for switching to Google's browser.Oct 25, 2023 10:56 AM CDT
- University issues warning for bomb threat involving robots, 'avoid until further notice'A bomb threat warning has been issued by a university for a potential threat of danger within delivery robots located across campus.Oct 25, 2023 9:33 AM CDT
- NASA confirms mysterious 'devil comet' size of two Mount Everest's is approaching EarthA mysterious comet approximately the size of two Mount Everests stacked on each other is approaching Earth for the first time in decades.Oct 25, 2023 6:25 AM CDT
- Scientists discover massive snake head after Mexico City earthquakeA group of scientists discovered a massive snake head in Mexico City after the region was hit with a 7.6-magnitude earthquake 400 miles away.Oct 25, 2023 5:35 AM CDT
- Apple teases 'Scary Fast' event for M3 chip, new desktop M3-powered iMac would be niceApple announces its new 'Scary Fast' event for October 30, where we should see its next-gen M3 chip announced, hopefully M3-powered iMac desktop.Oct 24, 2023 10:11 PM CDT
- Alan Wake 2 hits 130 FPS on GeForce RTX 4090 in 4K with DLSS 3.5 and full Path TracingNVIDIA's deep dive on the cutting-edge visuals and ray-tracing in Alan Wake II is impressive, and it runs fine across all GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs.Oct 24, 2023 8:29 PM CDT
- Intel Core i9-14900K delidded: CPU temperatures drop by up to 12CIntel Core i9-14900K delidding: without = 93C max average, delidded = 83C max average, and delidded + Conductonaut Extreme = 81.5C max average.Oct 24, 2023 6:33 PM CDT
- Spider-Man 2 breaks all PlayStation sales recordsInsomniac does it again: Spider-Man 2 is a breakout sales success that achieves the milestone of the fastest-selling first-party game in 24 hour sales.Oct 24, 2023 2:28 PM CDT
- Criterion working on Battlefield, but Need For Speed isn't going anywhereIncluding Criterion, EA now has four studios working on the future of Battlefield, but a new Need For Speed experience is also in early planning stages.Oct 24, 2023 12:32 PM CDT
- NASA reveals its major statistical gap in knowledge for potential asteroid threatsNASA has revealed how many near-Earth asteroids it has discovered as of August 2023 while also showing how many it still expects to find.Oct 24, 2023 10:17 AM CDT
- Scientists discover evidence Planet Nine isn't a planet, but something elseA team of physicists have penned a study suggesting the mysterious Planet Nine, or Planet X, may not even be a planet at all but something entirely.Oct 24, 2023 7:50 AM CDT
- World's largest underwater telescope will hunt for spooky particles that are everywhereThe world's largest underwater telescope will sit 11,500 feet below the ocean's surface and hunt for mysterious 'ghost particles' called neutrinos.Oct 24, 2023 5:45 AM CDT
- Intel Application Optimization sees Rainbow Six Siege performance jump from 659 to 867 FPSOne new Intel Core i9 14900K owner put the new Intel Application Optimization (APO) to the test and witnesses some incredible performance gains.Oct 24, 2023 2:32 AM CDT
- ASL's new GeForce RTX 4060 has a built-in spirit level, because why notASL's new GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card has a built-in spirit level, for absolutely no reason at all... will only be available exclusively in China.Oct 23, 2023 10:05 PM CDT
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER: AD103 GPU would get around US sanctions and into ChinaNVIDIA's rumored GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER should use AD103 GPU, as the AD102 GPU is under US sanctions and banned from China... AD103 isn't banned.Oct 23, 2023 7:09 PM CDT
- Squadron 42 is now feature complete and entering the 'polish phase' of developmentIt's been in development for over a decade, and with this latest milestone it finally looks like Squadron 42 is entering the final phase before launch.Oct 23, 2023 1:57 AM CDT
- Intel's new 14th Gen Core processors for desktops do not support Thunderbolt 5Intel makes a correction, there will be no Thunderbolt 5 support for the new 14th Gen Core desktop processors, but it will come to laptop it seems.Oct 22, 2023 9:58 PM CDT
- SanDisk Ultra microSD UHS-I cards deliver the world's fastest 1.5 TB high-capacity card speeds1.5TB SanDisk Ultra microSD UHS-I cards offer a viable storage option and alternative to SSDs when it comes to Android devices and Windows laptops.Oct 22, 2023 8:28 PM CDT
- AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX CPU has more FP32 perf than Xbox Series X and PS5AMD's new 96-core, 192-thread Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX processor has more FP32 compute performance than the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.Oct 22, 2023 6:39 PM CDT
- You can win this gaming PC with real human blood in it, if players donate 666 quarts of bloodBlizzard falls into the darkness with its new marketing stunt: raffling off a gaming PC with 'real human blood' inside of the coolant.Oct 22, 2023 4:42 AM CDT
- Starfield was the best-earning game of September based on game sales and early access purchasesMicrosoft's new business tactic is paying off in spades as Starfield tops September's best-earning sales charts in the United States based on revenues.Oct 21, 2023 1:55 PM CDT
- The iPad Air could be about to get an iPad Pro-like glow-upApple's next iPad could be about to dramatically increase its screen size with rumors of a new 12.9-inch display matching that of the iPad Pro.Oct 21, 2023 12:15 PM CDT
- Google's YouTube Music finally works with your expensive HomePod or HomePod miniYouTube Music subscriber? Subscribers to the Premium and Music Premium tiers can now listen to your music via a HomePod with ease for the first time.Oct 21, 2023 11:30 AM CDT
- Interview - Intel's new APO tech and How It Boosts Gaming Performance on Intel Core 14th GenWe sit down with Intel's Roger Chandler to find out how the new APO multi threading tech that boost game performance on the new 14th Gen CPUs works.Oct 21, 2023 1:02 AM CDT
- Xbox owns at least 17 video game franchises with $1 billion lifetime revenueAfter integration with ATVI, Xbox actually owns the rights to at least 17 separate video game franchises that have made $1 billion in lifetime revenue.Oct 25, 2023 1:12 PM CDT
- Skyrim fan recreates the entire game inside Age of Empires 2 after 400 hours of workA super-fan of Skyrim has finally recreated the game inside the classic RTS title Age of Empires 2 after spending more than 400 hours on the project.Oct 25, 2023 10:25 AM CDT
- NASA drops update on new asteroid sample and the problem with its containerNASA's retrieval mission from the asteroid Bennu was overall successful, but the space agency has announced a problem with the container.Oct 25, 2023 9:16 AM CDT
- NASA's Webb telescope may have explained weird signals coming from a close super-Earth planetNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its instruments at a close super-Earth, and its data may answer critical questions about its signals.Oct 25, 2023 6:07 AM CDT
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PC requirements show you'll be fine with a GeForce GTX 1070Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is out soon and the minimum and recommended PC specs only present a modest increase over last year's game.Oct 24, 2023 10:58 PM CDT
- Amazon's Fallout TV series will commence streaming in April 2024The Fallout TV show is right around the corner and right now you can save big on classics like Fallout: New Vegas games as part of the Fallout Day Sale.Oct 24, 2023 9:32 PM CDT
- IBM unveils NorthPole AI chip is 4000x faster than TrueNorth, with 8 years in the makingIBM Research unveils its first-ever AI-dedicated chip: NorthPole, which the company says is 22x faster than any other offer in the AI chip industry.Oct 24, 2023 8:05 PM CDT
- Xbox hits record-breaking $3.92 billion Q1 thanks to Starfield, first-party games, Game PassStarfield's huge blockbuster release and continued Xbox Game Pass momentum helps Microsoft deliver a record-breaking Q1 period for the Xbox games division.Oct 24, 2023 4:06 PM CDT
- Final Fantasy XVI is crossing over into FF14 with 'introduction' collabSquare Enix's Yoshi-P announces a bunch of new info about Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Dawntrail expansion, including two new jobs, activities, and more.Oct 24, 2023 1:31 PM CDT
- Elden Ring player finds a sword that was thought to be removed from the gameThere are two other swords that were possibly dropped from Elden Ring - which we only know about thanks to data miners - that might be out there, too.Oct 24, 2023 11:25 AM CDT
- Scientists discover new way to create oxygen on MarsResearchers have discovered a new way to create oxygen in the Martian atmosphere, and it all links back to a specific bacteria that eats carbon dioxide.Oct 24, 2023 9:59 AM CDT
- SpaceX shares video of Starship being fired up ahead of second orbital launchSpaceX has fired up one of the engines powering the world's largest and most powerful rocket, Starship, ahead of its second orbital test flight.Oct 24, 2023 7:28 AM CDT
- Scientists discover evidence on a dwarf planet near Mars that'll help find alien lifeA group of researchers have discovered the presence of extensive organic material on the surface of a dwarf planet called Ceres, located close to Mars.Oct 24, 2023 5:31 AM CDT
- Star Citizen's new StarEngine tech demo is one of the most impressive we've ever seenStar Citizen has been in development for what feels like forever, but this new demo of the StarEngine tech powering the game looks incredible.Oct 24, 2023 1:58 AM CDT
- Lenovo's new LEGION 9000K Gaming PC: Core i9-14900K + custom Lenovo GeForce RTX 4090 LEGION GPULenovo beefs up its LEGION 9000K and LEGION 7000K 2024 Gaming PCs with Intel's new 14th Gen Core CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs.Oct 23, 2023 9:26 PM CDT
- Alienware teases 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor: early 2024Alienware teases 32-inch 4K 240Hz and 27-inch 1440p 360Hz QD-OLED gaming displays, the world's first 4K QD-OLED and world's first 360Hz QD-OLED designs.Oct 23, 2023 6:10 PM CDT
- Banned in China, GeForce RTX 4090 prices could see a significant increase... globallyWe've seen this before, GPU prices suddenly spiking, but this time it looks to be limited to the high-end GPUs like the GeForce RTX 4090.Oct 23, 2023 1:32 AM CDT
- According to Remedy, Alan Wake 2 isn't meant to run on GeForce GTX 10 or Radeon RX 5000 SeriesWith DLSS and FSR 2 required to play Alan Wake II on Low settings, it also requires a GPU that supports Mesh Shaders - a double-whammy for GTX 1080 owners.Oct 22, 2023 9:32 PM CDT
- GPUs are massive these days, so of course, there's the Cooler Master Atlas ARGB GPU SupportThe new Cooler Master Atlas ARGB GPU Support offers a stylish and versatile solution for those looking to ensure their GPU remains stable.Oct 22, 2023 7:57 PM CDT
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite: 4.6 TFLOPs = more GPU power than Xbox Series SQualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC detailed: 4nm 12-core Oryon CPU, 4.6 TFLOPs from its Adreno GPU, supports up to 64GB of LPDDR5-8533 memory, 5G of course.Oct 22, 2023 6:12 PM CDT
- Half-Life 2 RTX news: HEV suit has 34x more polygons than original versionNVIDIA's upcoming Half-Life 2 RTX project has major visual improvements: new HEV suit has 34x more polygons than Valve's original HEV suit in Half-Life 2.Oct 22, 2023 3:46 AM CDT
- Apple's iOS 17.1 update could fix a significant location data bugThe upcoming iOS 17.1 update will apparently fix a privacy bug that reset a vital location services permissions option on iPhones.Oct 21, 2023 12:45 PM CDT
- Apple isn't sure about iOS 17.1 - second Release Candidate now available for iPhone 15 ownersThe iOS 17.1 update is likely to arrive within the next few days and Apple has now released a second Release Candidate update for testers.Oct 21, 2023 12:00 PM CDT
- Samsung provides update on next-gen GDDR7 memory: 50% less stand-by power than GDDR6Samsung provides small update on its next-gen GDDR7 memory: 50% less stand-by power used than GDDR6, explains why it used PAM3 encoding and not PAM4.Oct 21, 2023 4:44 AM CDT
- World record memory frequency of 5809.2 MHz or DDR5-11618 recorded live by Team AU and HicookieIntel and Team AU brought a live DDR5 overclocking demo for the new Intel Core i9 14900K to SXSW Sydney and set a new world record.Oct 20, 2023 11:27 PM CDT
- Starfield players get fed up waiting and fix the game themselves with hefty unofficial patchThere's been frustration at Bethesda only releasing a drip of more minor patches for the game, so this unofficial mod has been welcomed by the player base.Oct 25, 2023 11:27 AM CDT
- NASA telescope photographs hypnotizing 'eyes' lurking in deep spaceWhen astronomers peer into space, they typically don't expect to find something peering back at them, but in this case, they certainly did.Oct 25, 2023 10:10 AM CDT
- Windows 11 could soon get another dose of AI - this time with the Paint app's AI CocreatorMicrosoft is working hard to get Paint Cocreator out, and it has progressed through testing channels swiftly, with a new intro feature just added.Oct 25, 2023 8:54 AM CDT
- NASA telescope photographs two objects in deep space merging into oneNASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed two astronomical objects in deep space merging into one.Oct 25, 2023 5:51 AM CDT
- HYTE Y70 Touch is a stylish new PC case with a high-resolution 14-inch '4K' touchscreenIt's not everyday where a PC case launches with a sizable high-resolution touschscreen, which makes the new HYTE Y70 Touch a genuine head turner.Oct 24, 2023 10:34 PM CDT
- NVIDIA rumored Arm-based CPU: Qualcomm, AMD, Intel territory for GeForce GiantNVIDIA has been secretly designind CPUs that would run Windows, powered by ARM... could really shake up the laptop and desktop PC market.Oct 24, 2023 9:15 PM CDT
- GeForce RTX 4090 might not be banned in China as the U.S. immediately halts AI GPU salesUpdated U.S. restrictions on GPU hardware for AI are now in effect, but the good news for PC gamers in China is that the GeForce RTX 4090 looks to be okay.Oct 24, 2023 7:28 PM CDT
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite dev may be working on another third-person sci-fi Alien gameAliens: Fireteam Elite developer Cold Iron Studios is working on a new project, and it could be another game set in Ridley Scott's horror franchise.Oct 24, 2023 3:33 PM CDT
- Want a freebie game as a Halloween treat? The Evil Within is free on the Epic Games StoreEpic continues its tradition of giving away some smart games with this survival horror outing - and the sequel is to follow for free, too.Oct 24, 2023 1:01 PM CDT
- Scientists intercept mysterious radio signal that took 8 billion years to reach EarthA team of researchers has intercepted an ancient radio signal that traveled more than 8 billion years before it finally reached Earth.Oct 24, 2023 10:53 AM CDT
- AMD's 12 and 16-core Ryzen mobile CPUs could get new versions that make gaming laptops cheaperFiery top-end Dragon Range CPUs could get new spins that make powerful gaming laptops a bit more affordable, or that's the hope anyway.Oct 24, 2023 8:22 AM CDT
- NASA's new moon rover overcomes lunar 'obstacle course'NASA's new lunar rover that aims to explore the lunar south pole has successfully completed an obstacle course simulating the lunar surface.Oct 24, 2023 7:08 AM CDT
- Intel Arc graphics driver adds support and improvements for Alan Wake 2 and Cities Skylines 2Intel keeps the timely driver update train going for Arc graphics with the latest offering support for some of the most visually intensive games of 2023.Oct 24, 2023 2:59 AM CDT
- Rumor - Western Digital and Kioxia merger will create world's largest NAND flash memory companyKIOXIA is potentially merging with Western Digital, with the resulting company set to become the biggest player when it comes to flash memory and storage.Oct 24, 2023 1:28 AM CDT
- The very first single-slot GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, blower-style cooler teasedThis new single-slot NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB graphics card measures in at just 20mm wide, with a blower-style cooler to keep it chill.Oct 23, 2023 7:55 PM CDT
- NVIDIA RTX 4080 GPU sales are reportedly dire so prepare for price cuts? No, quite the oppositeNVIDIA purportedly has some kind of plan to sneak up pricing of the RTX 4080 to make breathing room for the RTX 4070 Super when it arrives.Oct 23, 2023 2:19 PM CDT
- XPG LANCER DDR5-8400 coming soon thanks to Intel 14th Gen CPUs, DDR5-9900 via XMP possibleThe new Intel Core 14th Gen desktop processors have launched are we're going to start seeing faster DDR5 memory modules hit the market.Oct 23, 2023 12:32 AM CDT
- GTA 6 graphics rumor: greater gap between GTA 6 and RDR2 than GTA 5 and RDR 2Grand Theft Auto 6 details on RAGE version 9 for GTA 6: water physically simulated in real-time, better car crashes, AI, rendering, and more.Oct 22, 2023 9:10 PM CDT
- Remedy says Alan Wake 2 is optimized for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, but PC is 'as good as it can be'Remedy Entertainment's Thomas Puta is 'really happy' with how Alan Wake 2 has turned out on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles.Oct 22, 2023 7:14 PM CDT
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER rumored with 20GB GDDR6X on wider 320-bit memory busNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER rumored with 20GB of GDDR6 memory on a 320-bit memory bus, AD102 GPU -- same as RTX 4090, while AD103 powers RTX 4080.Oct 22, 2023 5:03 AM CDT
- MaxSun's new GeForce RTX 4090 MegaGamer GPU launched, costs $1999MaxSun officially launches its new GeForce RTX 4090 MegaGamer (MGG) graphics card, featuring 5 cooling fans in total, and a price of $1999.Oct 22, 2023 3:09 AM CDT
- The iPhone 16 could get a brand new chip of its own, but it won't be Pro enough for someApple's iPhone 16 is almost a year away but a new report suggests it will get a new A18 chip, skipping the A17 lineup of chips entirely.Oct 21, 2023 12:30 PM CDT
- Pack it up - no new Apple Macs or iPads expected before 2024Apple's 2023 looks set to come to an end with a whimper rather than the big bang that would have brought new iPads and Macs to the lineup.Oct 21, 2023 11:45 AM CDT
- GIGABYTE's new TRX50 AERO D motherboard detailed, ready for 96C/192T CPUs from AMDGIGABYTE's new TRX50 AERO D motherboard its for next-gen HEDT workstations, handling AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper PRO + regular Threadripper 7000 CPUs.Oct 21, 2023 4:12 AM CDT
- Team AU Overclocking breaks Counter Strike 2 performance record, 1310 FPS on new Intel 14th GenCounter-Strike 2 running at over 1300 FPS on the new Intel Core i9 14900K at SXSW Sydney, with people from the crowd jumping in to play.Oct 20, 2023 10:42 PM CDT