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GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas

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Tom's Hardware · 07/18/2026 13:48 EDT

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously. Read more ›

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Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling — 'Meta Compute' would put company in direct competition with AWS

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 09:01 EDT

Meta is reportedly weighing two service models: selling developers access to AI models hosted on its own infrastructure, or selling raw computing capacity. Read more ›

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Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 09:00 EDT

Asus' B850-Creator Wifi Neo offers fast dual 5 GbE, 3x video outputs, and loads of EZ PC DIY/AI features, but lacks enough USB ports (no 40 Gbps at all) and is expensive for the B850 platform. Read more ›

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Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50 — official Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus product pages now recommend prices of up to $349 and $229, respectively

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 08:58 EDT

Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh processors remain among the company's strongest desktop offerings, but newly updated pricing makes both CPUs noticeably more expensive than when they debuted in March. Read more ›

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OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 08:06 EDT

Altman is understood to have raised the idea with President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Read more ›

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Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:58 EDT

Valar Atomics claims to be the first startup to produce nuclear power, and it demonstrated that ability on stage by using its Ward 250 microreactor to power an RTX Spark unit. It also announced a partnership with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI data center that does not use water from surrounding communities. Read more ›

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Save $521 on this 4K-capable RTX 5070 gaming PC from CyberPowerPC, now just $1,349 — huge price drop for budget-friendly rig with impressive Intel Core Ultra 250KF CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:06 EDT

Save over $500 on this powerful CyberPowerPC gaming machine with an RTX 5070 and brand-new Intel Core Ultra 5 250KF CPU, alongside a 1TB SSD and 16GB of DDR5 RAM, all for only $1,349. Read more ›

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HP has slashed $1,300 off this colossal 5080 gaming laptop for July 4 — 34% discount gets you 32GB of RAM and 24-core Arrow Lake mobile gaming for $2,499

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:05 EDT

Get $1,300 off this HP Omen Max Gaming laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5080, and 32GB of RAM. Read more ›

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Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:00 EDT

It seems like a never-before-seen engineering sample for AMD's last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX has just popped up online, featuring specs that indicate it's a binned down model. Read more ›

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Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 07:00 EDT

Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them. Read more ›

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The best tech deals this July 4th — save on gaming desktops, laptops, GPUs, gaming chairs, monitors, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:58 EDT

See our favorite tech deals over July 4th — the best prices on gaming PCs, gaming laptops, monitors, and components. Read more ›

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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:40 EDT

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem. Read more ›

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Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:20 EDT

Intel begins expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara to produce more photomasks in-house, which is set to be crucial as process technologies get more sophisticated. Read more ›

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Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you're human — testers beat it with a stock photo

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 06:00 EDT

Google is testing a reCAPTCHA check that switches on a user's camera and asks them to wave or hold up an open palm. Read more ›

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Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false'

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 05:48 EDT

SpaceX is reportedly working on a handheld device that runs a proprietary operating system and features advanced AI capabilities from xAI, but Elon Musk denies existence of the product. Read more ›

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32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 is $359 in this Woot sale — the lowest standalone RAM price in months, thanks to $80 discount

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Tom's Hardware · 07/02/2026 05:45 EDT

Get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for just $314 at Woot. Read more ›

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Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 15:19 EDT

Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc. Read more ›

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Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 10:07 EDT

Tesla hires an Intel veteran, who most recently was responsible for installing advanced tools at Intel's Arizona fab that is now ramping production of chips using 18A fabrication process. Read more ›

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Get 32GB DDR5 for less than $260 in this B&H RAM bundle deal for an AMD AM5 build — save $119 on this PC parts kit that includes a Ryzen 5 CPU and an Asus B650E motherboard

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 10:01 EDT

Save 18% on a solid AMD AM5 starter bundle with a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and an Asus B650E motherboard, a solid and affordable foundation today with an easy path to future Ryzen upgrades tomorrow. Read more ›

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Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028 — shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita systems

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 09:56 EDT

While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming. Read more ›

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Starlink offers 50% discount, free hardware rental for residents surrounding its data centers — move comes as Elon Musk faces lawsuits from residents complaining about noise and air pollution from developments

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Tom's Hardware · 07/01/2026 09:45 EDT

SpaceXAI is trying to win residents living close to the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers by giving them discounted internet access. However, critics say that this is just a PR stunt to help win the community, even as it battles two lawsuits based on air and noise pollution complaints from people living near its data centers. Read more ›

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