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Apple knew it had acquired something special with the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo since the graphics card costs $5,000 on their website. It features two Navi 21 dies connected through AMD's Infinity Fabric, albeit with 20 compute units disabled on both dies. The GPU also has 32 GB of GDDR6... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97750-amd-apple-exclusive-dual-gpu-defeats-rtx-4080.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A combination of factors make it interesting. First is its growth rate. From 500,000 units in 2017 to an estimated 6.5 million units in 2022, the industry has clocked in a 63% CAGR, and looks set to continue growing in healthy double digits for at least the next few years. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97738-china-autos-consider-yourselves-warned.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Lockheed Martin VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft) X-62A, created by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works classified research laboratory alongside Calspan Corporation, is fitted with software that allows it to mimic the performance characteristics of other aircraft. In December, the aircraft was flown for 17 hours by AI as part... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97599-new-lockheed-martin-training-jet-flown-ai-17.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The big and expensive Blade 18 is Core i9 and RTX 40 powered offering top notch performance, unfortunately battery life isn't great, but if you want a big desktop replacement it's worth checking out. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/products/laptops/razer-blade-18.265365/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Lenovo Slim 7i Pro X crams a powerful Intel H-series CPU and a discrete Nvidia GPU inside a slim, 14-inch compact machine, but is it too hot to handle? At least on paper there's lots to like, so let's find out. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/review/2616-lenovo-slim-7i-pro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A Pentagon statement said the object was detected traveling at 20,000 feet above military sites in Montana on Saturday, an altitude that could have caused it to interfere with commercial air traffic. F-16 fighter jets used an air-to-air missile to down the object as it traveled across the Great Lake region. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97581-us-military-shoots-down-fourth-unidentified-object-month.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A lot can happen in four years, especially in the world of PCs. But how much better is one of the latest GPUs compared to an architecture from a few years back? Well, read on to find out how one person's upgrade choice all panned out. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/article/2617-rtx-20-to-40-upgrade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on February 7, the new patent (US-11571048-B1) focuses specifically on a strap-based, quick-release system that allows for convenient access to an integrated watch-based camera. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97576-apple-new-patent-hints-plans-adding-camera-apple.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Slowe, also known as Keysersosa within the Reddit community, posted news of the breach to the r/Reddit subreddit on Thursday afternoon. According to Slowe's post, the company was targeted by a sophisticated phishing attack, which led to unauthorized user access to some of Reddit's systems and data. "Based on our... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97575-reddit-recommends-users-set-up-2fa-following-confirmed.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Mercury Research writes (via Tom's Hardware) that the fourth quarter of 2022 saw the biggest fall in PC processor shipments in three decades. If reading that gives you a sense of déjà vu, it's because the same thing happened earlier in the same year. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97574-cpu-shipments-suffer-biggest-decline-30-years-second.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Last month, videos from modder Bloc introduced a mod that uses ChatGPT to create dynamic dialogue in the game Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It replaces the title's default dialogue trees to let players type queries and respond to NPCs, who then react appropriately. The system could become a neat... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97572-mount-blade-ii-mod-uses-chatgpt-procedurally-generate.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Nvidia's GeForce Experience addresses issues of potential vulnerabilities that may lead to code execution, data tampering, information disclosure and more on its latest version. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5752-geforce-experience.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Mozilla Thunderbird is approaching its 20th anniversary, and the developers are already thinking about how one of the most popular mail clients out there can be sustainable for the next 20 years. Thunderbird's codebase is old, so much so that it's becoming "unsustainable," but things will change starting with the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97565-mozilla-developers-remaking-thunderbird-sort.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Having fully reviewed the Nvidia RTX 4090 Laptop GPU and taken a comprehensive look at how it fares in the laptop market, now let's see how it compares against the RTX 4090 desktop part. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/review/2625-nvidia-rtx-4090-laptop-vs-desktop-gpu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Mundfish has released the full system requirements for its upcoming FPS Atomic Heart (one of our PC most anticipated games of 2023). The developer also revealed more details about what features PC players can expect when it releases later this month. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97561-atomic-heart-system-requirements-confirmed-asks-90gb-storage.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Dwarf planet Quaoar (pronounced "Kwawar") lies far out beyond Neptune in a region of orbiting solar system objects known as the Kuiper Belt. With a diameter of around 690 miles (1,100km), Quaoar is the seventh-largest Kuiper Belt object – about half the size of nearby well-known Kuiper neighbor Pluto. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97559-scientists-discover-ring-around-dwarf-planet-but-cant.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

#TBT Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. But in the 90s, it was cumbersome and not exactly user friendly until an app called GameSpy hit the scene which made browsing for servers and connecting with players a far more intuitive process. It was a game-changer. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/article/2170-gamespy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

SpaceX has supplied over 25,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine and maintained them since the war began, helping keep the nation's critical infrastructure and its citizens online as Russia continues its assault. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97552-spacex-stops-ukraine-using-starlink-service-control-drones.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Previous US presidents have had strained relationships with Big Tech—Donald Trump certainly wasn't a fan. Biden made it clear in the SOTU speech that his administration won't take it easy on Silicon Valley's big players. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97546-biden-state-union-address-takes-aim-big-tech.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Nvidia recently released an update to fix a VRAM glitch affecting its GPUs when users left Discord open. However, the company hasn't provided clear directions of how the update works, only saying that it doesn't require manual action. The company's latest GPU drivers seem to include the patch but might... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97541-nvidia-releases-automatic-update-discord-bug-but-users.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The characters we see on screen usually adhere to the laws of space and time. For example, when a director wants to show a scene from the protagonist's childhood, they will typically cast a child actor who looks similar to the adult version of the character. But what if an... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97534-how-hollywood-unlocking-fountain-youth-de-aging-technology.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

How much data is a Windows operating system sending to online servers? According to a recent video from The PC Security Channel (TPCSC), the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS is a real "talker" when it comes to telemetry and other data about users' preferences and online behavior. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

For months we've been gathering as many AMD X670 motherboards as we could to test their VRM performance and see if they can all handle the Ryzen 9 7950X without any kind of thermal throttling. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/bestof/amd-x670-motherboards/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

WhatsApp's latest update introduces a new private audience selector, voice status, status reactions, status profile rings for new updates, and link previews on status. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5748-whatsapp-for-android.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Chromium bug reports indicate Google is currently building a new iOS web browser based on Blink, which would violate Apple's rule that all browsers on the platform use WebKit. Google insists the project is only an experiment, but it could be waiting for Apple's WebKit requirement to collapse under regulatory... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97526-google-building-blink-based-ios-browser-violation-apple.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A MediaTek Dimensity 9000 CPU powers the pad alongside ARM G710 MC10 graphics, up to 12GB of LPDDR5 and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage. Around back, you will find a 13-megapixel camera centered in landscape orientation opposite an 8-megapixel shooter up front. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97527-oneplus-teases-first-android-tablet-co-branded-mechanical.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

From tech behemoths like Amazon, Google, and Meta, to fintech companies such as Klarna and Stripe, many firms looked at their bottom lines in 2022 and found them wanting. In order to weather a stormy economic outlook, preserve cash, and streamline over-large teams, tech firms scaled back. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97465-five-growth-careers-tech-2023.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Over the weekend, security researchers discovered that malicious actors are remotely exploiting a bug in VMware ESXi servers from two years ago. VMware's ESXi is a hypervisor that allows a server to host multiple virtual machines running various operating systems. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97516-new-ransomware-campaign-targets-old-vmware-flaw-patched.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Googling programs like MSI Afterburner, Bitwarden, Grammarly, Blender, Gimp, Adobe Reader, Microsoft Teams, OBS, Slack, Thunderbird, and many others lately can bring up promoted search results controlled by hackers. Malvertising campaigns impersonating those brands have subverted Google Ads since at least December. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97515-now-dont-google-search-software-downloads.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Although water is a fundamental building block of life and covers over 70 percent of Earth's surface, it has many anomalous properties that even modern science has not reconciled. For example, under immense pressure, water becomes easier to compress. This property is inverse to any other substance. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97510-scientists-accidentally-create-new-form-ice-not-expected.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Clarke did not say how many team members would be impacted by the changes but according to Bloomberg, Dell is eliminating around 6,600 jobs or around five percent of its global workforce. The executive said the changes will help Dell reduce complexity, increase speed and accelerate innovation, and added that... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97512-dell-becomes-latest-tech-titan-trim-headcount.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Redditor That-Desktop-User posted their DIY solution on the HardwareGore subreddit. The copper cylinder is being used to cool an unnamed Intel Core i9 CPU in a fully open-air system. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97505-8-pound-copper-cylinder-can-cool-cpu-pretty.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

While the launch of the Steam Deck was the opposite of pompous, Valve's gaming handheld has kept gaining momentum. One year later, let's take a look at the impact it's had on the PC gaming market. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/article/2620-steam-deck-pc-gaming-moment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Tech Tips' Linus Sebastian has long been a passionate advocate for buying second-hand graphics cards. It's an especially appealing prospect in an era when Nvidia is often referred to as the scalper. But fears that auction-site cards might have been used 24/7 for mining put many potential buyers off—there have... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97502-linus-tech-tips-shows-buying-second-hand-graphics.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Researchers gathered more than a thousand training examples from the models, which ranged from individual person photographs to film stills, copyrighted news images, and trademarked firm logos, and discovered that the AI reproduced many of them almost identically. Researchers from colleges like Princeton and Berkeley, as well as from the... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97499-researchers-discover-ai-models-generate-photos-real-people.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Financial Times recently published a deep look at how Apple built its supply chain in China. It is a deep dive into an important question, and its author Patrick McGee uncovers some amazing detail. Since we provided some color quotes towards the end, we have been getting asked a... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97500-china-supply-chain-shenzhen-wasnt-built-day.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A recent HardwareLUXX interview with Intel Fellow Tom Petersen outlined how Intel used the collected information to renew their approach to graphics technology development. The original Xe architecture focused on four distinct microarchitectures, which resulted in delivery delays, cancellations, and less-than-stellar software releases. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97498-intel-tom-petersen-reveals-company-new-xe2-architecture.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

This week, NTDEV released Tiny11, a version of Windows 11 that needs only around 8GB of your hard drive and can run on 2GB of RAM. It also removes Windows 11's somewhat demanding system requirements, but users should know it makes some steep sacrifices to slim down. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97495-compact-custom-version-windows-11-released.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Google will release its chatbot technology to the general public in "the next weeks and months," according to the CEO. Google Search will leverage LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), the company's in-house language model, to deliver "factual" and conversational results to queries. The tech giant is prepared to show... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97493-google-rushes-launch-own-chatgpt-like-technology-soon.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In an interview with the BBC, Gates was asked by journalist Amol Rajan if going to Mars is not a good use of money. "It's actually quite expensive to go to Mars. You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 per life saved," he replied. "And so ... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97484-bill-gates-takes-aim-elon-musk-rather-fund.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The scene of reverse-engineered Zelda games welcomes a new member with the unofficial port of A Link to the Past, a game originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991 (Japan) and 1992 (North America, Europe). A team of stubborn and passionate coders disassembled the game's original code,... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/97469-legend-zelda-link-past-recreated-pc-reverse-engineered.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

IGN sources have confirmed that that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have declined to participate in the 2023 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The big three console manufacturers won't hold press conferences or present on the show floor this year. https://www.techspot.com/news/97451-microsoft-sony-nintendo-wont-participate-e3-2023.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The latest claim that Nvidia will release a Ti version of the incredibly powerful RTX 4090 comes from prolific hardware leaker @kopite7kimi, who has a good record when it comes to these sorts of leaks. They tweeted that the RTX 4090 Ti (model PG136/139-SKU310) will use a slightly cut-down version... https://www.techspot.com/news/97440-alleged-rtx-4090-ti-specs-leak-powerful-hungry.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger