Month: February 2022
Leak reveals AMD is making a return to the budget business PC market
Audio player loading… AMD could be planning a return to the lower end of the workstation market, reports have claimed. Tom’s Hardware has reported that a Twitter account, allegedly from Bangkok, published a CPU-Z benchmark for an upcoming AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) called Athlon Gold Pro 4150GE ‘Renoir’. The…
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Can ASRock’s mini-ITX AMD RX 6400 keep budget PC gaming alive?
Audio player loading… AMD-exclusive board partner ASRock is working on a new RX 6400 graphics card, according to a new regulatory filing, though you likely won’t see it on store shelves any time soon. In a newly published Eurasian Economic Commission filing dated February 1, 2022, and originally flagged on…
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Coachella will sell lifetime festival passes as NFTs
Coachella is selling lifetime festival passes for the first time — but you have to buy an NFT to get one. The music festival today launched an NFT marketplace built by FTX, with three collections of NFTs going on sale on February 4th. The company will auction the Coachella Keys…
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Drag Her brings drag culture to fighting games
You might not assume there’s a huge overlap between drag and fighting games. One involves dressing up to express extreme caricatures of gender expectations that’s associated with LGBTQ+ culture; the other involves knocking seven shades out of each other with hyper-violent adrenaline and where busty female characters are often designed…
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Microsoft Teams will let you keep your favourite messages for all to see
Audio player loading… Being able to pin messages in Microsoft Teams should be possible very soon, the company has confirmed. In the official entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the software giant confirmed that the ability to pin chat messages to the top of the Teams communications service is planned…
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The Joe Rogan controversy is what happens when you put podcasts behind a wall
This story originally ran in Hot Pod, The Verge’s preeminent audio industry newsletter. You can subscribe here for more scoops, analysis, and reporting. Spotify didn’t discover Joe Rogan, and Joe Rogan didn’t create Spotify, but their union portends the future of a closed podcasting ecosystem. Up until September 2020, The…
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