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Windows 10 reaching end-of-life has apparently breathed new life into optical disc drives, which have seen a sudden rise in demand in shops across Tokyo. People upgrading to Windows 11 want internal Blu-Ray (BD-R) disc drives to continue using their physical media, even if they're being forced to upgrade systems.
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The Sims 4 community is in turmoil. Its biggest stars are distancing themselves from the game with the support of their millions of subscribers. Then there are creators in the middle: those big enough to be known, but not big enough to be insulated. And they are struggling with a difficult choice of whether or […] Read more ›
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Samsung teases the AM9C1 E1.A Detachable AutoSSD and PM9E1 M.2 22x42 SSDs that will be revealed at CES 2026. Read more ›
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An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to Linux through emulation with Vulkan. Read more ›
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The impact of the massive AI demand for storage and memory is now hitting retail stores in Japan. Read more ›
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The best romantic comedies streaming on Netflix, including "Love at First Sight," "Wedding Season,"" "Emily in Paris," "Bridgerton," "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," and more. Both movies and TV shows. Streaming guide. Read more ›
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Active development on Halo Infinite will end on the same day that Operation: Infinite kicks into gear: 18th November. Read more Read more ›
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This week, we discuss Google Assistant’s demise, Android’s big app store changes, and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 benchmarks. Read more ›
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Here is a diagram of major ports, headers, and slots common on today’s motherboards, plus a guide to expansion slots, RAM and form factors. Read more ›
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While there's plenty for voters to be worried about right now, rising utility bills have become a hot-button issue. The success of Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia, and Georgia in this week's elections can be seen as something of a referendum on the state of energy policy and infrastructure in the US as power grids […] Read more ›
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Android 16 makes it harder for apps to infer the locations of rural users from their devices’ approximate locations. Read more ›
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Nothing brings people together in uncertain times quite like food. Get to talking and laughing and reminiscing over a meal, and suddenly things don't seem so bleak anymore, even if only temporarily. A Pizza Delivery is all about rediscovering the spark through these little moments of human connection — just strangers bonding over a slice of pizza, and regaining a bit of hope in the process. It's wistful and heartfelt... Read more ›
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In a Friday ruling, the Supreme Court blocked an order requiring the Trump administration to provide food stamps during the government shutdown. Read more ›
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When Kara Nortman was looking to start a women’s professional soccer team in Los Angeles, she and her co-founders—actress Natalie Portman and entrepreneur Julie Uhrman—took meetings with sports experts in their hometown. The advice they received? It would be unwise to enter a market crowded by the MLB’s Dodgers, the NBA’s Lakers and a half-dozen other franchises. “We talked to everyone who knew sports,” Nortman told me this week, “and... Read more ›
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He also had strong opinions about people's "god-given" rights to eat a hotdog and flirt with someone who isn't their spouse. Read more ›
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In March, I visited the Lowell Observatory — the astronomical research site where Pluto was first discovered — in Flagstaff, Arizona. I stood in line to squint through telescopes at Jupiter and the surface of the moon before the night turned cloudy and drove me inside the Astronomy Discovery Center museum. And like all museum […] Read more ›
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As AI datacenters scoop up limited wafer supply, both DRAM and flash prices skyrocket. Read more ›
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The next major update for Halo Infinite will also be its last. Halo Studios, which is part of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, has announced that it’s rolling out Operation: Infinite on November 18. It’s going to be the last major update for the first-person shooter, because the whole team will now be focusing on the “multiple Halo titles” under development. Xbox previously announced that it’s releasing Halo: Campaign Evolved, a... Read more ›
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As someone who lives in Las Vegas, I think the best places to stay on the Strip are family-friendly resorts and local favorite hotels like the Wynn. Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that China will win the AI race because of its abundance of power and the fact that the U.S. is losing out on the chance for its hardware to become the standard tool that Chinese AI developers use. Read more ›
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YouTubers have discovered terrible performance on The Outer Worlds 2, so much so that the game's maximum settings with ray tracing can only be run at below 60 FPS at a 540p internal resolution on an RTX 5090. Read more ›
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AMD's Bulldozer-era FX-9590 CPU from 2013 managed to run Battlefield 6 at over 30 FPS at 1080p resolution, boosting to 40+ FPS at lower resolutions on smaller maps. FX-9590, despite being more than a decade old, does support SecureBoot, which was enough for BF6 launch, confirming TPM is not neccesary. Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that he has some AI chips in inventory that he cannot use because he has nowhere to plug them in. Read more ›
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With the help of complete CPU domination in the consumer/gaming marketplace thanks to chips such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, AMD has achieved a record breaking $2.8 billion in client revenue. Read more ›
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You might be able to buy PlayStation games once and own them across PC and PS5 together, similar to Microsoft's Xbox Play Anywhere. A new "Cross-Buy" feature has been datamined inside PlayStation Store, added only a few months ago, hinting that it's been in the works for quite some time and might be releasing soon. Read more ›
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DRAM prices are skyrocketing out of control, with contract prices increased by a whopping 171% for the year. Read more ›
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Redditor puts the DGX Spark to the test in gaming, specifically CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified on Thursday that the company does not "have or want government guarantees" for its data centers. Read more ›
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The foundations of internet communications were set 56 years ago, when 'LO' was transmitted from UCLA to SRI on the ARPANET. Read more ›
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