AMD's cancelled enthusiast-class RDNA 4 GPU could have doubled the 7900 XTX's performance

It has long been suspected that the Radeon RX 8000 series – AMD's next generation of graphics cards – will focus exclusively on affordable mid-ran...
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Apple poached three dozen Google experts to open a secret AI lab in Zurich

Apple has allegedly hired numerous AI experts from Google's human resources roster and opened a secret artificial intelligence lab in Europe. The research and de...
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Researchers create a new circuit board material that can be easily recycled

Printed circuit boards are ubiquitous; they are used in nearly all electronic devices and constitute a significant portion of the electronic waste accumulating ...
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Refreshed Beats Solo on-ear headphones get better battery life, improved acoustics, and more

Beats has introduced an updated version of its most popular headphones. The new Beats Solo 4 are lightweight (217 grams / 7.7 ounces) on-ear he...
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MS-DOS 4.00 source code's sloppy Git dump breaks build and erases metadata

Microsoft deserves kudos for open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code , shedding light on an important milestone in computing history. But the tech giant has bu...
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Arc Browser reaches stable release on Windows, available for download

Previously exclusive to macOS and iOS, Arc Browser is now available for Windows, too

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YouTube is experimenting with showing ads when you pause a video

YouTube may soon give viewers another reason to sign up for the company's ad-free subscription service, or infuriate them enough to stop watching altogether. During its Br...
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Microsoft rolls out update to fix a bug that was installing Copilot on Windows 11 PCs

After infuriating many Windows 11 users by automatically installing the Copilot app on their PCs, Microsoft has rolled out an update that removes the ...
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As Alphabet's profits surge, Google implements further layoffs across multiple teams

Google, whose parent Alphabet recently reported a 57% quarterly profit increase to $23.7 billion, has implemented yet another round of layoffs. The lat...
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This techie created a GPU from scratch in under two weeks

Building your own graphics card is the kind of undertaking that most people wouldn't even dream of attempting. But for one enterprising engineer known as 'adammaj' on X/Twitter, ...
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Razer to refund over $1 million for misleading 'N95-grade' claims on its Zephyr masks

Remember when Razer released its Zephyr mask in 2021, at the height of the pandemic? The cyberpunky, RGB-covered respirator was N95 rated and offered ...
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FCC slaps top telecom companies with $200 million in fines for selling location data without consent

The country's top wireless carriers just got slapped with massive fines totaling close to $200 million for selling their customers' pri...
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Airline ticketing system repeatedly confuses 101-year-old passenger for a baby

For all the advancements made over the years, there are still scenarios that some computers struggle with. It appears that one of them is American Airlines' ...
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Epic will relaunch Fortnite on iPad, Apple ordered to open up iPadOS in the EU

When the European Commission passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA) earlier this year, aimed at compelling tech giants to open up their platforms, it focused p...
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Intel CPUs Are Crashing and It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark

Intel is Now Paying the Price for Power Spec Mess

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UK becomes first country to prohibit easily guessable default passwords on connected devices

No matter how many hacks we see that are perpetrated via unchanged, weak default passwords on devices, manufacturers continue to use the likes ...
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US opens investigation into Ford's BlueCruise driver assist feature after two fatal accidents

Exactly two weeks after getting the green light to allow drivers to use Ford's BlueCruise on some stretches of UK highways, the US National Hi...
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Manor Lords achieves Steam's most successful city builder launch ever

Steam's latest Early Access hit is a medieval-themed simulation game combining city building and battlefield tactics. Launching alongside Steam's Farming Fest sales e...
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NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps

NASA's Psyche mission launched on October 13, 2023, with the goal of exploring the origin of planetary cores and studying the metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyc...
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Raspberry Pi adding new memory options to its compact Compute Module 4S boards

Raspberry Pi has been offering its single-board computing devices in a flexible, extremely compact form factor since 2014. It has updated the latest iteratio...
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