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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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MSI's Intel-powered Claw gaming handheld starts at $700 — VRR screen confirmed

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2024 10:34 EDT

The MSI Claw will start at $699.99 with configurations going up to $799.99. Also, the device's 7-inch 1080p screen has been confirmed to feature 48 - 120Hz VRR technology. Read more ›

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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Review — 1080p-Capable Gaming Comes to Integrated Graphics

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2024 10:31 EDT

We put AMD's new $329 Ryzen 7 8700G and $229 Ryzen 5 8600G "Phoenix" chips through our test suite to see how they rank against the Intel competition. Read more ›

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Raspberry Pi appoints London based bankers for IPO listing, possible big win for UK financial capital

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2024 09:42 EDT

Raspberry Pi has appointed Peel Hunt and Jefferies to prepare an IPO for the London Stock Exchange Read more ›

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Big price reduction brings Antec's Performance Series P20C high-airflow case down to just $71

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2024 09:16 EDT

With a metal mesh front panel for high airflow performance, the Antec Performance Series P20C is just the ticket for a budget PC build. Read more ›

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Say cheese! This optical mouse is now a camera

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Tom's Hardware · 01/30/2024 08:55 EDT

YouTuber Doctor Volt has repurposed an optical mouse to create a camera. The project relied principally on the mouse’s optical sensor, a third-party controller, some software wrangling, and a little bit of 3D printing to tidily secure a Raspberry Pi wide-angle lens in place of the prism. The photos weren't great, though. Read more ›

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Maxsun has another wide "YTX" motherboard for Intel CPUs — Terminator H770YTX D5 arrives with backside connectors and DDR5-8000 support

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 15:27 EDT

Maxsun has launched the Terminator H770YTX D5 motherboard with a "YTX" form factor for Intel Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh processors. Read more ›

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Samsung's upcoming 280-layer QLC flash could allow for 16TB M.2 SSDs — claims up to 50% higher storage density than the competition

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 15:10 EDT

Samsung is getting ready to announce its next-generation QLC V9 NAND flash that will reportedly be nearly 50% denser than the competition, with potentially improved performance as well. Read more ›

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MIT researchers demonstrate a new technique for rapid 3D printing using scrap metal and beds of sand-like glass beads

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 13:53 EDT

Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for 3D printing that could be beneficial for construction, design, architecture, automotive, and other applications, as it's fast and makes use of aluminum scraps. Read more ›

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Raspberry Pi smart fridge uses Chat GPT4 to keep track of your food

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 13:03 EDT

Mimobeano is using a Raspberry Pi to drive their Chat GPT smart fridge, which looks for food and notifies you when something is going to expire soon. Read more ›

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Samsung to demo higher-bandwidth, lower-power GDDR7 VRAM next month at ISSCC

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 12:56 EDT

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference will be host to many major industry players, including Samsung showing off two different versions of GDDR7. Read more ›

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High-end external GPUs still suffer a performance hit — OCuLink tests show up to a 23% drop with an RTX 4090

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 12:37 EDT

A Weibo user evaluates the performance hit using OCuLink on a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and a GeForce RTX 4090. Read more ›

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Samsung opens next-gen 3D DRAM research lab in the United States

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 10:37 EDT

Samsung opens a new, Silicon Valley-based research lab for developing the next generation of 3D DRAM. Read more ›

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MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway — company listed admin job for 30-year-old operating system

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 01/29/2024 09:19 EDT

A German railway firm posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator just ahead of the weekend. In addition to possessing skills in wrangling Windows for Workgroups, the recruiter wants a candidate with MS-DOS experience. Read more ›

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China's first natively built supercomputer goes online — the Central Intelligent Computing Center is liquid-cooled and built for AI

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Tom's Hardware · 01/29/2024 09:18 EDT

China Telecom claims to have launched the country's first supercomputer built entirely on top of domestic hardware and software. Read more ›

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Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language

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Tom's Hardware · 01/28/2024 13:32 EDT

YouTuber successfully built a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel, featuring a custom Instruction Set Architecture, 128 KB RAM, and a 128x128 16-color display. Read more ›

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Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 01/28/2024 13:23 EDT

YouTuber successfully built a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel, featuring a custom Instruction Set Architecture, 128 KB RAM, and a 128x128 16-color display. Read more ›

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Microsoft axes WordPad after 28 years of duty - Windows 95 stalwart has been removed from the new Windows 11 Canary Build

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Tom's Hardware · 01/28/2024 12:36 EDT

WordPad has been a pre-loaded word processor since Windows 95 but the latest Windows 11 Insider Version shows it will finally removed, as was promised a few months ago. Read more ›

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Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company

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Tom's Hardware · 01/28/2024 11:17 EDT

A smuggling operation carried out by the unnamed South Korean 'Company A' involved 53,000 chips worth nearly $12 million. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab issues A1 Printer heat bed recall: Here’s how to get a free replacement part

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Tom's Hardware · 01/28/2024 11:06 EDT

Bambu Lab has issued a recall on its A1 print beds. The built-in power cable seems to be prone to damage, which could lead to incorrect temperature readings, or worse in one case. Read more ›

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First gaming PC motherboard made entirely with China tech comes with integrated homegrown CPU — $700 buys the claimed world's first totally China-made board

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Tom's Hardware · 01/28/2024 09:57 EDT

Beijing Jite Intelligent Technology claims it has made China's first completely domestic motherboard with a Chinese Arm CPU onboard. Read more ›

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