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Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
The Christmas.exe in Task Manager and the Christmas wreath banner that covers half of your screen on Windows 11 are not malware but a new promotional campaign by ASUS on some PCs. It’s driving many...
View ArticleArs Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024
When we introduced last year’s annual list of the best games in this space, we focused on how COVID delays led to a 2023 packed with excellent big-name blockbusters and intriguing indies that seemed...
View ArticleHuman versus autonomous car race ends before it begins
A2RL provided flights from San Francisco to Tokyo and accommodation so Ars could attend its race. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. TOKYO—Racing is hard. It’s hard on the teams, it’s hard on...
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Google Chrome is upgrading video recording on Windows 11 with better quality,...
Google Chrome and other Chromium-browsers can now process media recording using HEVC codec, which makes a big difference to the quality of video recordings and reduces the size by a tad. Like every...
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PowerToys Run plugins take Windows 11 Search and App access to the next level
PowerToys Run has been around for a while. It lets you use a Run dialog box-like bar (with a better UI) to do tasks without leaving the keyboard. It’s already feature-packed and can do web searches,...
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Google Search is getting an “AI Mode” with Gemini integration
Google is poised to integrate artificial intelligence more deeply into its core search functionality. Recent reports and app examinations suggest that the tech giant is preparing to unveil an “AI Mode”...
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Microsoft Edge drops yellow for folders (favourites), gets monoline...
Microsoft Edge has quietly rolled out a minor change that replaces the yellow-themed favourites folders with more minimalist, monoline and transparent folders. After a new update on Windows 11 (and...
View ArticleAnker 778 Thunderbolt 4 Dock Mini-Review
In our Anker 778 mini review, we see what this Thunderbolt 4 dock offers and explain why we continue to use it in the lab The post Anker 778 Thunderbolt 4 Dock Mini-Review appeared first on...
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Restricted military documents appeared on the War Thunder forum, again
War Thunder added the Eurofighter Typhoon to the multiplayer game earlier this month. In the real world, the twin-engine, supersonic fighter is primarily used by the UK, German, Italian, and Spanish...
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Engineers achieve quantum teleportation over active internet cables
Engineers at Northwestern University have demonstrated quantum teleportation over a fiber optic cable already carrying Internet traffic. This feat, published in the journal Optica, opens up new...
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‘Destroyed’ Usenet Provider Sues Anti-Piracy Group for Millions in Damages
The legal saga of News-Service Europe (NSE) and anti-piracy group BREIN has taken another dramatic turn. Once a titan in the Usenet world, NSE was forced to shut down in 2011 after BREIN took legal...
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OpenAI is struggling with ChatGPT-5 delays and rising costs
It was reported back in March that ChatGPT-5, which will supposedly offer plenty of enhanced, additional features over the current GPT-4o model, was being trained by OpenAI and set to launch soon. Read...
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Sega mulls Netflix-style subscription service for its game library
In a recent chat with the BBC, Sega’s newly appointed president Shuji Utsumi indicated that the company is exploring a Netflix-esque subscription model for its titles. He stated that subscription...
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AMD RDNA 4 GPUs likely to debut at CES 2025 as RX 9000, Ryzen 9 9000X3D also...
The information was originally shared over the weekend by Chiphell editor Napoleon before being reiterated by multiple other sources. According to the original post (which has since been removed), the...
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Windows 11’s new native Copilot rolls out to everyone, but it consumes more RAM
Yet another new version of Copilot is now available for Windows 11. Copilot has been redesigned as many as four times on Windows, and today’s new Copilot version is more native than the previous two...
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An unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 has arrived just in time for Christmas
Update (Dec 23): Starship, the PC port of Star Fox 64 is now available on...
View ArticleWe Lost a Great One Gordon Mah Ung
The industry lost a great one today with the passing of Gordon Mah Ung editor at PCWorld and longtime PC industry journalist The post We Lost a Great One Gordon Mah Ung appeared first on ServeTheHome.
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Has Microsoft given up on the System requirements not met Windows 11 watermark?
Microsoft was clear about Windows 11 system requirements and was not budging from them. The Redmond giant announced in 2022 that it would apply an incompatibility watermark. It would appear above the...
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Steam’s Best of the Year highlights the top-selling and most-played games of...
Valve never shows individual total gross revenue numbers of its best-selling titles; instead, it groups them into Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze categories. Read Entire Article
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Meet Transformers: The Google Breakthrough that Rewrote AI’s Roadmap
For all the talk about AI these days, you may not know that it was a 2017 Google research paper that kickstarted modern generative AI by introducing the Transformer, a groundbreaking model that...
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