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The Best PC Games (You Should Be Playing)

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The Best PC Games (You Should Be Playing)

Amid flawed AAA ports, PC gaming shines with standout titles worth every gamer's attention. Our top picks in this 2023 update focuses on single-player games, sprinkled with indie gems.

Amid flawed AAA ports, PC gaming shines with standout titles worth every gamer's attention. Our top picks in this 2023 update focuses on single-player games, sprinkled with indie gems.

Computex 2023

Nvidia shows off in-game AI tech that allows spoken conversations with NPCs

Jensen unveiled Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games during his Computex keynote speech, a custom AI service that Nvidia says brings intelligence to non-playable characters through...
Jensen unveiled Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games during his Computex keynote speech, a custom AI service that Nvidia says brings intelligence to non-playable characters through...

Tech Culture

The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet

There are few things as infamous as The Dark Web in the world of technology, but what is it, and why does it have such a bad reputation?

There are few things as infamous as The Dark Web in the world of technology, but what is it, and why does it have such a bad reputation?

Out of this World

James Webb telescope used to spot a "larger than expected" supermassive black hole

The James Web Space Telescope (JWST) is once again providing scientists around the world with never-before-seen discoveries about how the universe works. A team of researchers from...
The James Web Space Telescope (JWST) is once again providing scientists around the world with never-before-seen discoveries about how the universe works. A team of researchers from...

Verify, Maybe?

ChatGPT found guilty of fabricating cases and citations for a Manhattan lawyer's Federal Court filing

Attorney Steven A. Schwartz was retained by a client to represent them in a personal injury case against Avianca Airlines. According to the claim, Schwartz's client was...
Attorney Steven A. Schwartz was retained by a client to represent them in a personal injury case against Avianca Airlines. According to the claim, Schwartz's client was...

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HP has found a new way to add ink cartridge DRM to your printer

When HP is not bricking its printers with poorly-coded firmware that stays unpatched for weeks, the company is hard at work finding new ways to prevent its...
When HP is not bricking its printers with poorly-coded firmware that stays unpatched for weeks, the company is hard at work finding new ways to prevent its...

Science

Japan is on a mission to beam solar power from space by 2025

An American physicist first proposed the concept of launching solar panels into space to generate electricity in 1968. The idea is to turn the captured solar power...
An American physicist first proposed the concept of launching solar panels into space to generate electricity in 1968. The idea is to turn the captured solar power...

Computing

Nvidia unveils GH200 super chip and DGX GH200 computing platform for AI

By now it's no secret that Nvidia has gone all-in on the idea of selling shovels to companies big and small that are manically digging in the...
By now it's no secret that Nvidia has gone all-in on the idea of selling shovels to companies big and small that are manically digging in the...

Tech Culture

This app lets people rent their swimming pools, causing anger

Swimply was founded in 2018 for people looking to use a swimming pool. It gained a lot of traction after many public pools closed down due to...
Swimply was founded in 2018 for people looking to use a swimming pool. It gained a lot of traction after many public pools closed down due to...

Clean Energy

Researchers discover how to harvest electricity from humid air using nearly any material

Jun Yao, the paper's senior author, reminds us that air contains an enormous amount of energy. Yao points to a cloud, which is nothing more than a...
Jun Yao, the paper's senior author, reminds us that air contains an enormous amount of energy. Yao points to a cloud, which is nothing more than a...

Look Ma, No Cables

Asus demos concept RTX 4070 graphics card that doesn't use any power cables

The RTX 4070 showcased by Asus sports two PCIe connectors, including a standard PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 slot on the bottom alongside a secondary one that delivers...
The RTX 4070 showcased by Asus sports two PCIe connectors, including a standard PCIe Gen 4.0 x16 slot on the bottom alongside a secondary one that delivers...

Industry

Dolphin emulator's Steam launch blocked by Nintendo DMCA notice to Valve

It was back in March when we heard that the open-source Dolphin, which after its release in 2003 become the first emulator that could successfully run commercial...
It was back in March when we heard that the open-source Dolphin, which after its release in 2003 become the first emulator that could successfully run commercial...

Science

Paralyzed man walks again after brain and spinal computerized implants

A spinal cord injury during a biking accident over a decade ago left Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, unable to walk due to limb impairment. An experimental neurorehabilitation program...
A spinal cord injury during a biking accident over a decade ago left Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, unable to walk due to limb impairment. An experimental neurorehabilitation program...

Car Tech

New BMW 5 Series softens charging wait times with in-car multiplayer gaming

BMW unveiled its new all-electric 5 Series sedan, the BMW i5, this week. One of the EV's new infotainment features pulls back the curtain on a partnership...
BMW unveiled its new all-electric 5 Series sedan, the BMW i5, this week. One of the EV's new infotainment features pulls back the curtain on a partnership...

Industry

Lenovo profits are down a staggering 75% in the 'new normal' PC market

The current PC market is melting Lenovo's profits. The Chinese manufacturer recently published its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022/23, choosing to highlight...
The current PC market is melting Lenovo's profits. The Chinese manufacturer recently published its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2022/23, choosing to highlight...

The FDA gives Elon Musk's Neuralink permission to put brain implants in humans

Musk has on several occasions said that Neuralink was getting closer to starting human trials that will see a device implanted in a human brain.

LOTR: Gollum developer apologizes after game is universally panned

Published by Nacon and developed by its subsidiary, Daedalic Entertainment, Gollum's development was announced back in March 2019 and accompanied by a much anticipated 2021 release date....

It's now possible to activate Windows XP offline, algorithm gets cracked

The Register points to a blog post from tinyapps highlighting semi-recent developments on the matter. Of course, folks have been cracking Windows XP for decades but it...

Global funding for solar power will outpace oil production in 2023

Global investment in clean energy production will keep growing in 2023, the IEA said, further outpacing funding in fossil fuel production. Energy projects related to solar power...

Tesla will open its Supercharger network to Ford EV owners in 2024

Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said widespread access to fast-charging is vital to their growth as an EV brand, adding that the announcement comes as they...

Mozilla apologizes for unskippable VPN ads shown in Firefox

Mozilla officially promotes ad blockers on Firefox as a "best friend" for users forced to watch too many unsolicited advertisements while browsing the web. The average person...

Minnesota passes landmark right-to-repair law for electronic devices

The Minnesota law is part of an omnibus appropriations bill (SF 2774) that goes into effect on July 1, 2024, and contains a "digital fair repair" clause...

Tesla employee leaks thousands of safety and privacy breach reports

A Tesla employee recently leaked thousands of internal documents to the German business newspaper Handelsblatt, revealing the massive scale of safety complaints the self-driving EV company has...

Google ordered to pay $32.5 million in Sonos patent infringement decision

The verdict, issued on Friday in a San Francisco courtroom, was based on the jury's decision that Google did in fact infringe upon U.S. patent number 10,848,885,...

Avid Telecom sued by multistate task force for making billions of unauthorized robocalls

The 141-page lawsuit was filed against Avid Telecom by the nationwide Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, alleging the company sent 7.5 billion unwanted messages to consumers. The...

Hot Pixels attacks exploit power management in modern SoC and GPUs to leak data

Hot Pixels is a new side-channel attack conceived by an international team of researchersposing a theoretical security threat that exploits Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) techniques...

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt passes 50 million sales

CD Projekt CFO Piotr Nielubowicz revealed the new figures in the company's Q1 financial results video. "I would like to make an announcement which fills us with...

Fallout: New Vegas is free on the Epic Games Store until June 1

Fans often cite Fallout: New Vegas as the best in the franchise, with many attributing the success to Obsidian Entertainment's return to development duties. If you haven't...

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The AI chip boom is propelling Nvidia to new heights, gamers be damned

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Microsoft will automatically upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users after support ends next month

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