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Squid Surprise
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Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot
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I.e. the plot of Asimov's first two "Robot" novels of the early 1950s.
Yesterday at 9:40 PM
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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. Ryzen 7 7700X: 45 Game Benchmark
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Curious if it has any effect on productivity… I’ve got the 7980x and will be testing that in the days to come…
Yesterday at 5:46 PM
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Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot
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I feel this is a great way to commit murder without getting caught… “it was the robot”!!! I’m not sure I’d trust it to cook (do I...
Yesterday at 5:16 PM
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A whopping 80% of new US electricity capacity this year came from solar and battery storage
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He's right; you're wrong. US share electricity production (2022) Natural Gas: 39.8% Coal: 19.4% Nuclear: 18.5% Hydro: 6% Oil: 0.5%...
Yesterday at 10:49 AM
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A whopping 80% of new US electricity capacity this year came from solar and battery storage
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A bit disingenuous… what percentage of the US electric grid is “new”? The “old” electricity still powers the vast majority of US stuff…...
Tuesday at 3:24 PM
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Resellers rebrand DeepCool as Shaking Tank to sidestep US sanctions
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I don’t have any official numbers, but I’m guessing a VERY small percentage of people make use of the warranty on ANYTHING under...
Tuesday at 3:06 PM
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The OLED Burn-In Test: Six Month Update
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Well, love the update - even if it isn’t applicable to 99% of people… speaking of that - where’s the update on your 7980x machine you...
Tuesday at 10:58 AM
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Resellers rebrand DeepCool as Shaking Tank to sidestep US sanctions
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It’s not always to avoid sanctions… the inventory is often “acquired” under “questionable” circumstances and the reseller blurs out or...
Monday at 10:24 AM
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Heroes of Might and Magic rises from the ashes with upcoming Olden Era revival
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HoMM3 was the best of this series... making a game more complicated doesn't always make it better - in fact, it rarely does. This was...
Saturday at 12:21 AM
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They can milk this great franchise ad continuum, unfortunately, they have never even come close in all their iterations to the one and...
Saturday at 12:19 AM
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Pakistani government brought local internet down with its new censorship firewall
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Well, how can you distrust the words of a military dictatorship? And drawing parallels to a communist dictatorship as a defense must...
Aug 22, 2024
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AMD's Ryzen 9000 series are slightly faster on Windows admin accounts – and no one knows why
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No... it's just any account with admin privileges... it also works by simply right-clicking a game and "running as admin".. It's...
Aug 20, 2024
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AMD's Ryzen 9000 series are slightly faster on Windows admin accounts – and no one knows why
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Plenty of people run windows in admin mode… and regardless of whether the issue is Windows’ or AMD’s, it is on AMD to solve it - as...
Aug 20, 2024
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AMD's Ryzen 9000 series are slightly faster on Windows admin accounts – and no one knows why
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So if it affects all Ryzen CPUs, why did it take Steve to figure this out?!? And why can it only be fixed on the Windows end? How has...
Aug 20, 2024
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review: We've Seen This Before...
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I shouldn’t have to! Nor should anyone else! A new CPU should run everything better… not just new stuff. Then why hasn’t it? And it...
Aug 15, 2024
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