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Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: All you need to know is that it’s cheaper than a 4080

PNY's version of the RTX 4080 Super. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ] Nvidia's new RTX 4080 Super is technically faster than the regular 4080 , but, by an …

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YouTube TV starts testing customizable 2×2 multiview options

Enlarge / For the NBA YouTube launched "Multiview," which is coming to Sunday Ticket. It's four games in a split screen. (credit: YouTube) YouTube T…

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Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks

Enlarge (credit: Getty ) The Japanese government is finally letting go of floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It recently announced amendments to laws requiring the use of …

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Ryzen 8000G review: An integrated GPU that can beat a graphics card, for a price

Enlarge / The most interesting thing about AMD's Ryzen 7 8700G CPU is the Radeon 780M GPU that's attached to it. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Put me on the…

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Amazon’s $1.4B Roomba bid fails, leading to iRobot layoffs and CEO resignation

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Amazon will no longer pursue a $1.4 billion acquisition of iRobot, maker of Roomba robot vacuums after the companies announced today…

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Review: Framework’s Laptop 16 is unique, laudable, fascinating, and flawed

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 16. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Specs at a glance: Framework Laptop 16 OS Windows 11 23H2 CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7940HS (8-core…

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The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds.

Enlarge / The Chrome nightly download page with an important section highlighted. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Chrome is landing on a new platform: Windows on Arm. We don…

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I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx

Enlarge / Ish is on fire, yo. (credit: Tim Macpherson / Getty Images ) Since 2017, in what spare time I have (ha!), I help my colleague Eric Berger host his Houst…

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Apple announces sweeping EU App Store policy changes—including sideloading

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 lineup. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple's other operating sys…

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The Pixel 8 Pro can now read body temps, if you swipe it across your face

Step 1: get the phone as close to your face as possible. [credit: Google ] Most Pixel 8 Pro owners have probably forgotten that there's an infrared tempera…

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4070 Ti Super review: Faster GPU for the same $799, but not Nvidia’s best value

Our specific RTX 4070 Ti Super is a PNY model, the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB Verto. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ] Of all of Nvidia's current-generation GPU lau…

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Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson ) It's almost hard to believe this is happening again, but Pixel users are reporting that an OS update has locked them out of th…

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Netflix, hungry for more growth, signals more price hikes

Enlarge / Jason Bateman and Laura Linney in the Netflix original series Ozark . (credit: Netflix/YouTube ) Netflix subscribers can expect more price hikes as the …

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Google’s Pixel 9 gets its first render, looks a lot like an iPhone

Enlarge If Google sticks to the usual cadence of device releases, the Google Pixel 9 will come out in around nine months. That's a long way away, but still not …

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Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Jonathan Zufi / Apple) Forty years ago today, Apple released the first Macintosh . Since that fateful day in 1984, Apple has releas…

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OnePlus 12 gets $800 US release along with the interesting $500 OnePlus 12R

The OnePlus 12. [credit: OnePlus ] OnePlus previously announced the OnePlus 12 flagship smartphone in December , but now it's getting a US release and pric…

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OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

Enlarge / Failing an image of the proposed reference hardware by the OpenWrt group, let us gaze upon where this all started: inside a device that tried to quietly us…

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iOS 17.3 adds multiple features originally planned for iOS 17

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple yesterday released iOS and iPadOS 17.3 as well as watchOS 10.3, tvOS 17.3, and macOS Sonoma 14.3 for all …

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Chrome can now organize your tab bar for you

Enlarge (credit: Google) You there! Reader! Be honest: how many tabs do you have open right now? Is your tab bar an unsalvageable mess with so many tabs you can ba…

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Google lays off “dozens” from X Labs, wants projects to seek outside funding

Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos ) Go…

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