Zak Killian
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Regardless of what you think about AI, there are a multitude of users deploying a myriad of AI agents across many different industries and use cases. These neural networks are given a goal and a set of capabilities that they can use to...
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French-language hardware site Hardware & Co has some brilliant die shots of most of Intel's latest processors in a blog entry that was actually posted up back in July but only spotted recently in the broader international hardware...
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Can you predict how well your CPU will overclock by probing it with a multimeter? Before you start pulling out the Fluke, let's go over the details of this story, because it's both more and less interesting than you might expect from the...
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NVIDIA just published a new developer-focused blog post detailing how game makers can control DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering, and while most of the information in the post will be familiar to anyone who has been following DLSS 5...
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Do you use Discord? If you read this website, there's a pretty good chance that you do. The massive centralized chat service is extremely popular among young people and gamers, and many open source projects have moved fully to Discord for...
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Today at its Snapdragon Summit event, Qualcomm is launching its next-generation flagship smartphone silicon with not one, but two new members of the Snapdragon 8 Elite family. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite...
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That's right folks; this is an actual launch of an actual PC hardware component! A little odd to get as excited as I am over a new case, but this is where we're at in the market right now. Corsair's new Warthog case is an absolutely...
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Imagine this: you spend thousands of dollars on building a high-end gaming PC, with components like a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition and a GeForce RTX 5080. You settle in to play some games, and load up an old favorite, GTA V, to see how it...
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AMD has updated its performance estimates for its upcoming 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and the latest numbers make an aggressive case against Intel and NVIDIA in high-density data center workloads. A new AMD white paper, titled...
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If you've been fascinated by NVIDIA's DLSS 5 technology, yet lack the requisite hardware or necessary gumption to try it out for yourself, you can now see a live demo right on your PC, directly in your browser, without having to manually...
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When Grand Theft Auto V came out, GTA Online was not long behind, launching just two weeks after the base game in October 2013. Rockstar hasn't said a word about GTA 6's online component, but given the incredible cash cow that GTA V Online...
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When you're a teenager or twenty-something optimizing your PC build for maximum framerate per dollar, the case is one of the easiest things to skimp on. As an adult who can afford to treat yourself (and your PC) a little better, more expensive options become attractive for their exclusive...
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If you've kept up with leaks regarding Intel's Nova Lake processors, you'll naturally be aware that one of the more interesting SKUs mentioned by leakers has been a particular model sporting a powerful integrated GPU with 12 Xe cores...
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Valve unfortunately did not deign to deliver upon us one of its shiny new Steam Frame headsets. As a result, we've been restricted to reading reviews from other outlets just like everyone else. However, this particular writer happens to...
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A company that started out making affordable graphics cards for PC gamers is the most valuable company in the world, and a man known most for hosting a TV game show is the President of the United States. In that light, recent events don't...
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Remember over a year ago when we reported on the ClickFix malware that uses fake CAPTCHA mechanisms to dupe unwitting victims into pwning their own machines? Well, apparently not enough people shared that post, because the problem has...
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There are two new AMD CPUs on the block, and normally that would be bigger news, but both of these chips are based on previous-generation processor technology, and one of them is yet another new SKU for the decade-old Socket AM4 platform...
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Are you an overclocker? If note, you may be the exactly the audience for "Hypertune", a subscription service that promises to improve your PC's gaming performance "with one click." While some of the claims made by the company don't quite...
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A multinational team of researchers comprising mathematicians and data scientists from Spain, Italy, and the US have just published a paper called "Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus" that is making some waves in the AI community...
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PC gamers of a certain age will fondly remember the days when physical copies of PC games came in oversized boxes known simply by enthusiasts as "big boxes." These so-called big box games used oversized packaging so that they could fit...
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At this week's SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography conference in Monterey, Intel Foundry and ASML presented a status update regarding the commercialization and high-volume manufacturing (HVM) deployment of High Numerical Aperture...
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NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering offers a stunning upgrade in visual realism but the performance hit is substantial, to the point that some, including this writer, feel it doesn't justify the cost. What if you could slash that performance...
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