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I visit South Korea almost every year. Seoul is great, but I recommend visiting these 4 lesser-known cities instead.

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Justine Lee @ Business Insider 1 place · today 07:54 EDT

I was born in South Korea and have gone back to visit every year. Skip Seoul to see some of my favorite lesser-known cities, like Suwon and Incheon. Read more ›

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Taiwan is getting plenty of missiles and drones from the US. A top business leader says the arsenal is out of balance.

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Chris Panella @ Business Insider 2 place · today 07:26 EDT

Recent US weapons packages to Taiwan have largely been asymmetric capabilities, but Taiwan needs more advanced systems as well, an official said. Read more ›

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Lucky Brit scores flagship PC worth almost $5,000 for just ~$2,400 at Costco, even comes armed with $700 worth of DDR5 memory — Marked-down build also has an RTX 5090 and Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 08:41 EDT

Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist — only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own. Read more ›

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Samsung's CES monitor lineup includes 6K 3D display with eye-tracking — plus a dual-mode QHD panel with a blistering 1080p 1040Hz option

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 07:30 EDT

Samsung announced new 27-inch and 32-inch displays for gamers featuring refresh rates from 165 Hz to 1,040 Hz. Read more ›

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52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · today 06:30 EDT

The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›

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You can now buy OnePlus’ latest affordable tablet in the US

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Pranob Mehrotra @ Digital Trends 1 place · today 07:16 EDT

The OnePlus Pad Go 2 is now up for sale in the US, and you can grab it from the company's website for $399.99. Read more ›

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Toyota's Prius Prime saved me gas money but probably not the environment

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Steve Dent @ Engadget 1 place · today 08:30 EDT

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to own a plug-in hybrid, and recently, fate handed me that opportunity. On a recent trip to Vancouver, I rented a 2024 Toyota Prius Prime for nearly two months — the ideal scenario to try out North America’s most popular PHEV. My experience with the Prius Prime Previously, the words "Prius" and "sexy" were rarely used in the same sentence. However, I... Read more ›

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Eccentric Battle Royale-meets-Ace Attorney series Danganronpa romps to 10 million sales

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Robert Purchese @ Eurogamer.net 1 place · today 06:52 EDT

Danganronpa, a game series I can never reliably spell, has just passed 10m sales, maker Spike Chunshoft has announced. Read more Read more ›

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In 2025, AI became a lightning rod for gamers and developers

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge 1 place · today 08:00 EDT

2025 was the year generative AI made its presence felt in the video game industry. Its use has been discovered in some of the most popular games of the year, and CEOs from some of the largest game studios claim it's being implemented everywhere in the industry including in their own development processes. Meanwhile, rank-and-file […] Read more ›

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The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025

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Bryan Walsh @ Vox 1 place · today 08:00 EDT

As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — a quick way to see what landed with you when you had the whole internet to choose from. Looking over the list, two themes dominated. One is intensely everyday: what we eat and drink, what […] Read more ›

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Samsung to delay its planned DDR4 end-of-life due to signing a long-term 'non-cancellable, non-returnable' contract with key customer — agreement will not alleviate consumer shortage, supply earmarked for server clients

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Tom's Hardware · today 08:57 EDT

Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›

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Logan Paul says young investors should consider nontraditional assets over stocks as he auctions a $5.3 million Pokémon card

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Joshua Nelken-Zitser @ Business Insider 3 place · today 06:22 EDT

Logan Paul bought a $5.3 million Pokémon card. He said young people should consider investing in nontraditional assets over the stock market. Read more ›

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US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules

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Financial Times 1 place · today 05:00 EDT

France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’ Read more ›

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The AI scaling debate: What the industry's top minds are saying

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Brent D. Griffiths @ Business Insider · today 05:15 EDT

Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," said he's "not convinced" the age of AI scaling is over, like his former student Ilya Sutskever recently said. Read more ›

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Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?

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Paresh Dave @ Wired 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away. Read more ›

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World’s oldest Bitcoin Mining Pool celebrates 15th anniversary, has mined 1,311,339 bitcoins worth $115 billion — group has 255 billion times more hash power than at inception

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Tom's Hardware · today 06:00 EDT

15 years ago, the first Bitcoin mining pool was introduced by coder Slush. Read more ›

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The best streaming deals: Get 50 percent off MasterClass subscriptions, plus save on Starz, Audible, Crunchyroll and others

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Valentina Palladino @ Engadget 2 place · today 07:01 EDT

If you’ve been shocked by how much you spend on streaming services lately, you’re not alone. Companies like Netflix, Disney, HBO Max and others have been consistently raising prices to the point where you may question if streaming is even worth it anymore. We at Engadget still think it is, but we also think you should be smart with your money — and that’s where streaming deals come in. Yes,... Read more ›

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Samsung Wide Fold vs iPhone Fold: New renders show the battle for the perfect aspect ratio

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Aamir Siddiqui @ Android Authority 1 place · today 07:00 EDT

Renders reveal a head-to-head match up between wider folding phones from Apple and Samsung set for 2026. Read more ›

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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains how to use AI without letting it do your thinking for you

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Thibault Spirlet @ Business Insider · today 07:03 EDT

Leading physicist Saul Perlmutter warns AI can create a false sense of confidence, urging skepticism and constant error-checking. Read more ›

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We're cofounders who left Amazon to build our own startup. We learned the hard way why Big Tech habits don't always translate.

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Agnes Applegate @ Business Insider · today 05:11 EDT

Former Amazon employees detail their journey launching an AI startup, and explain how they adapted to startup life. Read more ›

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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/22/2025 10:03 EDT

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 12/18/2025 08:29 EDT

A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Read more ›

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AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory

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Tom's Hardware · 12/18/2025 12:55 EDT

As DDR5 memory prices skyrocket, demand for AMD's two-generation-old Ryzen 7 5800X3D has increased, causing second-hand prices to climb as high as $800 on eBay. Read more ›

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Windows 11 rockets SSD performance to new heights with hacked native NVMe driver — up to 85% higher random workload performance in some tests

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Tom's Hardware · 12/22/2025 12:32 EDT

Windows 11 users rave about lightning-quick SSD performance uplifts from the native NVMe driver from Windows Server 2025. Read more ›

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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage — Boulder servers 'no longer have an accurate time reference'

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Tom's Hardware · 12/21/2025 12:17 EDT

NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus. Read more ›

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Corsair ships customer $35 decorative memory sticks instead of $1,000 worth of 96 GB of DDR5 memory — buyer accidentally receives dummy RAM in unlucky warranty claim

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/23/2025 06:28 EDT

In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35. Read more ›

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Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:50 EDT

Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›

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Moore Threads unveils next-gen gaming GPU with 15x performance and 50x ray tracing improvement — AI GPU with claimed performance between Hopper and Blackwell also in the works

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 12/21/2025 06:00 EDT

Moore Threads has just revealed its next-gen GPU architecture coming in 2026, dubbed "Huagang," which will bring new gaming and AI GPUs. The "Lushan" gaming GPU is promising up to 15x increase in AAA gaming performance, while the "Huashan" AI GPU is gunning for a spot between Nvidia Hopper and Blackwell lineups. Read more ›

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Taiwan considers TSMC export ban that would prevent manufacturing its newest chip nodes in U.S. — limit exports to two generations behind leading-edge nodes, could slow down U.S. expansion

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Tom's Hardware · 12/19/2025 10:09 EDT

Taiwan's government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC's advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas. Read more ›

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Three year test shows OLED is significantly more reliable than LCD, with most lasting more than 10,000 hours — 20 TVs failed out of 102 tested

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Tom's Hardware · 12/20/2025 11:23 EDT

After 18,000 hours of simulated use, RTINGS' longevity test reveals fascinating insights into the TVs that dominate our markets today. While OLED has clearly overcome its reliability woes to become the least vulnerable panel type, LCDs with local dimming are still competitive and fare better than their unified-backlight brethren. Read more ›

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