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Dune: Awakening PS5 Pro Gameplay Trailer Targets Dynamic 4K/60 FPS — Cross-Play Coming Post-Launch
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Dune: Awakening PS5 Pro Gameplay Trailer Targets Dynamic 4K/60 FPS — Cross-Play Coming Post-Launch

Funcom has released seven minutes of new Dune: Awakening gameplay captured on a PlayStation 5 Pro, offering the most substantial look yet at the survi...

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Bank Of America Sees Cooperation Between SpaceX And T-Mobile Where Elon Musk Sees Conquest: SpaceX’s D2D Ambitions Require Massive CapEx, Vast Spectrum, And Years Of Infrastructure Development
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Bank Of America Sees Cooperation Between SpaceX And T-Mobile Where Elon Musk Sees Conquest: SpaceX’s D2D Ambitions Require Massive CapEx, Vast Spectrum, And Years Of Infrastructure Development

Contrary to Elon Musk's maximalist ambitions, the Bank of America believes that SpaceX's ongoing attempts to establish a viable pathway for offering d...

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Samsung’s Newest 990 SSD lineup In The 1TB & 2TB Capacities Are Now Up To 36% Off On Amazon And Can Reach Speeds Of Up To 7,150MB/s, Starting from $199.99
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Samsung’s Newest 990 SSD lineup In The 1TB & 2TB Capacities Are Now Up To 36% Off On Amazon And Can Reach Speeds Of Up To 7,150MB/s, Starting from $199.99

A new addition to Samsung’s M.2 NVMe SSD lineup after the 990 EVO series is the 990 EVO Plus, which offers the same advantages for those looking for G...

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BOSGAME M5 Review: The Cheapest 128 GB Strix Halo Mini PC
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

BOSGAME M5 Review: The Cheapest 128 GB Strix Halo Mini PC

Earlier this year, we saw a round of price hikes for Strix Halo-equipped mini PCs and laptops, especially those featuring the 128 GB LPDDR5X configura...

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 Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets

During Nvidia's Hot Chips presentation on the Rubin GPU, the company emphasized power as a hard limit on data center capacity and touted the amount of...

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 Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’

The disorderly conduct case against Lux Claridge has been dropped by the city in municipal court, making the teacher breathe a little bit easier. Howe...

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 Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming

Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media...

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 US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more — FBI moves forward with domain seizures
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more — FBI moves forward with domain seizures

The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced domain seizures related to state-sponsored hacking activities that have impacted NASA, the Senate, an...

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 Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says
Hardware
1 min read2026-08-26

Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia presents Groq 3 LPX architecture and unveils its first third-party inference benchmark — LP30-based rack already in production, company says

Igor Arsovski, now Nvidia's VP of hardware, presented the Groq 3 LPX rack's architecture and published the first third-party benchmark of the hardware...

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The Evolution of CPU Architecture
Technology
1 min read2026-06-15

The Evolution of CPU Architecture

An in-depth look at how CPU architectures have evolved over the past decade, from multi-core processing to hybrid architectures.

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John Hardware
AMD's 3D V-Cache Technology Explained
Gaming
1 min read2026-06-10

AMD's 3D V-Cache Technology Explained

How AMD's innovative 3D stacking technology is revolutionizing gaming performance.

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Sarah Tech
Intel's 14th Gen Processors Review
Reviews
1 min read2026-06-05

Intel's 14th Gen Processors Review

Our comprehensive review of Intel's 14th generation processors. Are they worth the upgrade?

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Mike Bench