The OLED Burn-In Test: Six Month Update
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WTF?! Chinese-made chips used in popular contactless cards contain hardware backdoors that are easy to exploit. These chips are compatible with the proprietary Mifare protocol developed by Philips spin-off NXP Semiconductors and are inherently "intrinsically broken," regardless of the card's brand.
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First mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 benchmarked, can run most AAA titles at 1080p60
Dedicated GPU? What's that for?
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LG solves the "last piece of the OLED puzzle" by improving blue pixel efficiency and lifespan
Power savings, plus the benefit of less OLED burn-in damage
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Black Myth: Wukong Optimization Guide - Boost FPS by 50% or More
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Next-generation motherboards will make swapping SSDs and GPUs easier
Asus and Gigabyte demonstrate easy release mechanisms at Gamescom
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PlayStation 5 Pro could be revealed as soon as next month, possibly for $600
Multiple developers were discussing the console at Gamescom
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Microsoft confirms (then negates) it is finally killing the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app
The Control Panel was introduced with Windows 1.0 in 1985
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A whopping 80% of new US electricity capacity this year came from solar and battery storage
The number is set to rise to 96% by the end of the year
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Intel accidentally leaks monstrous 9,324-pin socket for "Diamond Rapids" Xeon CPUs
Intel's next move in the server CPU wars
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Steam reaches 37 million concurrent-player record with help from Black Myth: Wukong
And with absolutely no help from Sony's Concord
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Breakthrough 820 Wh/kg battery ditches nickel and cobalt for manganese
No decay over time paired with outstanding fast-charging capabilities
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Ryzen 9000 Threadripper leaked in shipping manifest with 96 cores and 192 threads
Flagship Zen 5 Threadripper might maintain the same core count as its predecessor
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Apple is ready for September launch of iPhone 16, new wearables, and new Airpods
Cupertino is also working on four new Macs powered by M4 processors
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Neuralink study participant plays Counter-Strike 2 using only his mind
"I can think about where to look and it goes where I want it to. It's insane."
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Any successes by the company have been overshadowed by the disastrous redesign
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Astronomers make highest-resolution observations ever from Earth's surface
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Former bank CEO sentenced to 24 years after being scammed into collapsing a bank
Some $47 million may never be recovered
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AMD's $5 billion ZT acquisition: Strategic play or overpriced gamble?
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Historic IBM 7090 mainframe hits Christie's auction block
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Nvidia's AI and data center roadmap, and more use cases for the Blackwell tech stack
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Google's Reimagine AI tool works well, perhaps too well, so it can be easily abused
Looks like the safeguards aren't safe enough just yet
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Report: 80% of AI projects fail, doubling regular IT project failure rates
Executives can take most of the blame
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