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Get this Samsung budget phone instead of the new Galaxy A55

The Galaxy S24 series is the latest and greatest new Android phone lineup from Samsung. They gave the world its first taste of Galaxy AI, and we explained how impressive the top-of-the-line model is in our Galaxy S24 Ultra review. Needless to say, however, the S24 lineup is also very expensive. That’s why Samsung recently…

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The be quiet! Straight Power 12 750W PSU Review: Proficient Platinum Power

In the arena of PC components, Be quiet! is a name synonymous with excellence, known for its fusion of silent functionality and exceptional performance. The company’s broad range of products, from high-end power supply units (PSUs) to sophisticated cases and cooling solutions, including both air and liquid options, is crafted with a keen eye on…

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TSMC to Receive $6.6B Under US CHIPS Act, Set to Build 2nm Fab in Arizona

TSMC has entered into a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, securing up to $6.6 billion in direct funding and access to up to $5 billion in loans under the CHIPS and Science Act. With this latest round of support from the U.S. government, TSMC in turn will be adding a third fab…

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Another driver update, another set of huge performance boosts for free, as Intel Arc GPUs keep getting better

Intel has again pulled off some big frame rate gains with a new graphics driver, Arc GPU owners will doubtless be pleased to hear – with both discrete and integrated graphics getting considerable benefits.Intel’s Arc driver version 31.0.101.5379 comes with support for some freshly released games, namely Horizon Forbidden West and the apparently excellent but…

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New leaks suggest the Nvidia RTX 5080 will offer better ray tracing and pricing than 4080

The Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card, which will most likely be based on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, may offer superior ray tracing capabilities and general performance over the current-gen RTX 4090, currently the best graphics card on the consumer market.New rumors have emerged concerning the possible RTX 5080 graphics card, with Twitter / X tech…

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Intel Unveils New Branding For 6th Generation Xeon Processors: Intel Xeon 6

At Intel’s Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. On the datacenter CPU front, Intel is using the show to unveil their newest branding for their venerable family of Xeon processors. Beginning with this year’s sixth generation of processors, Intel is “evolving” the Xeon brand by retiring…

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I hate that people are obsessed with this one iPhone 16 feature

Imagine this nightmare scenario: It’s mid-September, and the iPhone 16 series just launched, but it’s sold out because Apple couldn’t secure enough OLED panels. Display vendors have been struggling to deliver the ultra-thin bezels that Apple wants.Of course, this will never happen. Samsung, LG, and BOE will eventually get the yields right so that APple…

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Microsoft has a potentially genius idea to make ray tracing work better even with lower-end GPUs

Microsoft might have a trick up its sleeve that makes ray tracing more feasible with the best GPUs that have lower amounts of VRAM, or are a lesser spec in general, perhaps – though we should be cautious at this point.The broad idea is to make ray tracing less demanding, in short, as outlined in…

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Microsoft underlines how DirectSR tech will bring upscaling to many more PC games – but there’s a catch

Microsoft has been going over what its incoming DirectSR tech is all about at GDC 2024 recently – although according to the grapevine, the catch is we might have a long time to wait before this nifty piece of the upscaling puzzle is realized.For those who need a quick refresher, we heard about DirectSR back…

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Apple’s discontinued M1 MacBook Air is still one of the best laptops on the planet

When Apple announced the new M3 MacBook Air, the company also discontinued the M1-powered model. That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, of course, since the M1 MacBook Air was released three-and-a-half years ago in November 2020. But despite the fact that this model isn’t officially in Apple’s lineup anymore, it’s still available in…

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