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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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ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes world's largest fab tool maker: analyst

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 14:52 EDT

ASML's revenues in calendar 2023 are by $3 billion dollars higher than Applied Materials's revenue in 2023. Read more ›

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Microsoft confirms four Xbox exclusives coming to PS5 and Switch, sees a future 'Where every screen is an Xbox'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 14:37 EDT

Facing industry rumors of Xbox bowing out ahead of leaked exclusives being ported, Microsoft Xbox executives double down on the future of Xbox. Some questions remain on Xbox console hardware in the long-term, but the brand is here to stay. Read more ›

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U.S. chip fab construction is among the slowest in the world -- a complex web of regulations is to blame according to study

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 14:13 EDT

A research paper has concluded that the slow pace of fab construction in the U.S. is largely down to suboptimal regulation. Read more ›

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Qualcomm reveals 'Sound of Snapdragon' audio logo — similar Intel's Jingle, Netflix's 'ta-dum'

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 14:07 EDT

Leading mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon brand has finally arrived in the audible realm. It hopes its new sonic logo will become as iconic as the sounds associated with NBC, Netflix, and McDonald's. Read more ›

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The best Presidents’ Day 2024 deals on gaming laptops, CPUs, gaming monitors, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 13:29 EDT

Presidents' Day weekend is here. Stock up on tech without breaking the bank, thanks to some of our great deals. Read more ›

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ASML explores Hyper-NA chipmaking tools as the next step in shrinking transistors — tools would debut in 2030, but significant technology and cost hurdles remain

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 12:44 EDT

ASML mulls Hyper-NA lithography with a higher than 0.7 numerical aperture in 2030s. Read more ›

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Prototype LaserDisc HD media sells for $1,000 -- despite disc rot and unknown contents

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 12:14 EDT

A very rare LaserDisc prototype has been sold on eBay for the eye-watering sum of $1,000. Yet there is no content description for the Philips-made HD Mac 12 Glass Plate N.66733 - Laserdisc Prototype, which looks old and possibly deteriorating. Read more ›

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Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers -- FBI deactivated Moobot by taking control of impacted routers

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 11:49 EDT

A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords. Read more ›

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Existing workarounds fail with new Windows 11 requirement that invalidates older CPUs — Microsoft's PopCnt restriction appears to be unbreakable

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 11:17 EDT

PopCnt is a CPU instruction that will be required to run Windows 11 starting with 24H2. But unlike TPM or Secure Boot, enthusiasts have found that the PopCnt requirement cannot be bypassed. Any attempts to bypass it lead to boot failure. Read more ›

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OpenAI Sora text to video generator debuts – results can be amazing, but bugs admittedly remain

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 10:11 EDT

Artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI announced a new generative tool dubbed Sora (the Japanese word for sky). It is OpenAI’s most ambitious development to date, able to generate complex high-definition videos up to a minute long from a text or image prompt. Read more ›

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Meteor Lake seemingly struggles against AMD's Phoenix APU in early MSI Claw review

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 09:52 EDT

The Meteor Lake-equipped MSI Claw was trounced by the Phoenix-powered ROG Ally in an early review, especially at low TDPs. Read more ›

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Wait times for Nvidia's AI GPUs ease to three to four months, suggesting peak in near-term growth — the wait list for an H100 was previously eleven months: UBS

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 08:15 EDT

UBS says that lead times of Nvidia's H100 shrink from 8-11 months to 3-4 months and this may impact its growth. Read more ›

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Cooler Master Tempest GP2711Gaming Monitor Review: High Brightness and High Performance

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 08:00 EDT

Cooler Master makes Mini LED affordable with the Tempest GP2711. It’s a 27-inch QHD VA panel with 576 dimming zones, 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR 1000 and extended color. It also supports accurate color with selectable gamuts. Read more ›

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Now you can 3D print a custom, modular, stackable ITX NAS PC

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2024 07:40 EDT

A recent Tweet from Printables.com highlights a Modular ITX PC Case designed by Haydn Bao, available on their website. We discuss in more detail. Read more ›

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Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 02/16/2024 07:16 EDT

Over 2,600 benchmark runs in SPEC CPU 2017 on Intel CPUs have been invalidated because of a very specific compiler optimization. Read more ›

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Best Ultrabooks and Premium Laptops 2024

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2024 20:19 EDT

Our picks for the best ultrabooks (super thin and light notebooks), along with other premium laptops now. Read more ›

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Nvidia provides the first public view of its fastest AI supercomputer — Eos is powered by 4,608 H100 GPUs, tuned for generative AI

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2024 17:29 EDT

Nvidia's Eos supercomputer can offer 18.4 ExaFLOPS of FP8 AI performance. Read more ›

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Lian Li's protoype desk PC case has a transparent OLED screen built into it

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2024 16:21 EDT

Lian Li showed off a prototype of its next standing PC desk case project. The desk features a huge 30' transparent OLED display from LG that sits right above your PC components below. Read more ›

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Google proposes users of older Windows 10 PCs to migrate to ChromeOS Flex — 600 devices certified

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2024 15:17 EDT

Want to keep your old Windows 10 PC, but maintain support after October, 2025? Google says to use ChromeOS Flex. Read more ›

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Grab Corsair's fantastic HS55 stereo gaming headset for only $39 — a touch of quality for a great price

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2024 13:36 EDT

With a third knocked off the price of this Corsair HS55 wired stereo gaming headset, you're getting a pair of fantastic gaming cans for just $39 - superb value. Read more ›

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