DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes
It rolls through rough terrain like it's asphalt
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Intel CPUs Are Crashing and It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark
For years, we have highlighted Intel's loosely defined CPU power specs and the problems they pose for customers. The issue now is that some 13th and 14th-gen processors have started crashing.
Microsoft Office deal is down to $49 for a lifetime license
Over 70% off the regular price for Office. Available for Windows and macOS
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Get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for $39, no subscription required
Discounted over 80% off, available for Windows or Mac
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Who is Prabhakar Raghavan and why is he accused of killing Google Search?
When Google Search was headed by Ben Gomes, he championed the user experience and pushed against Google's "growth at any cost" strategy
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Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO
There could be "minimal" need for call centres within a year
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The Best Handheld Gaming Consoles
Out of the 12 best-selling gaming consoles of all time, 5 are handheld systems, and that's not including the Nintendo Switch. Handhelds have made a huge comeback and here are our favorite systems.
The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects
About half of the $39 billion in Chips Act incentives has been spent
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Millions of devices still vulnerable to abandoned USB worm, continues to spread globally
Researchers suspect Chinese state-sponsored hackers are responsible
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Revisit: Is this the GOAT?
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is widely regarded as the GOAT. The 7-year-old GPU marks the last time a flagship gaming GPU was offered at a reasonable price, that plus its exceptional longevity.
8BitDo updates gamepads with drift-proof hall-effect analog sticks
New Xbox/PC-compatible pads coming in May and June
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Intel has a wafer-level assembly problem, and it's hurting Core Ultra sales
Customers are hot for Intel's Core Ultra products
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Desert land in India to host renewable energy park 5 times bigger than Paris
Ironically, it's being built by a coal billionaire
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FTC distributes $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers from privacy settlement
The commission is distributing over 117,000 PayPal payments to eligible Ring owners
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Nintendo Switch 2 will likely be larger and feature magnetic Joy-Cons
It's possible Nintendo has further delayed the console to give game developers more time
Rumor mill: We've heard about estimates concerning the performance, software features, and release date of the successor to the Nintendo Switch. However, very few details have emerged regarding its appearance or input methods. A recent report suggests that Nintendo is taking extraordinary measures to keep it that way.
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Battery costs have plummeted by 90% in less than 15 years, turbocharging renewable energy shift
Predicting a sixfold increase in global energy storage capacity by 2030
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This genius tool ensures flawless thermal paste application every time
A stencil, except it's for your CPU
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FTC accuses Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Jassy of using auto-deleting messages to obstruct antitrust case
Amazon denies the claims
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NASA uses laser link to beam data 140 million miles across space at 25 Mbps
Using lasers to send data across the cosmos
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MS-DOS 4.00 source code's sloppy Git dump breaks build and erases metadata
Good intentions, poor execution?
Facepalm: 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 bungled the release in a way that may cause needless headaches for historians and archivists eager to study the decades-old code.
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Manor Lords achieves Steam's most successful city builder launch ever
One million in sales and 170,000 concurrent players on day one, more than any other city builder on Steam
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Seagate says their new Mozaic 3+ HAMR disk drives can last longer than conventional HDDs
Setting the record straight against misconceptions, myths, and industry chatter
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AMD's cancelled RDNA 4 GPU could have doubled the 7900 XTX's performance
A Radeon RX 8900 XTX would have featured 9 shader engines, 200 compute units, and up to 20 chiplets
Rumor mill: It has long been suspected that the Radeon RX 8000 series – AMD's next generation of graphics cards – will focus exclusively on affordable mid-range products. However, this wasn't always the plan. Newly unveiled code suggests that AMD canceled a flagship RDNA 4 model that might have directly competed with upcoming high-end offerings from Intel and Nvidia.
China's Loongson claims its latest CPUs are a match for Intel's 10th-gen in single-core performance
The new 3B6600 and 3B7000 chips narrow the performance gap with Intel and AMD offerings
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Intel issues statement on Raptor Lake crashes, asks mobo makers to revise extreme BIOS defaults
Intel has suggested some motherboard makers have taken performance bragging rights too far
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