Month: July 2022
The GPU shortage is over
For nearly two years, you’ve had to be incredibly lucky, skilled, or patient to get an Nvidia or AMD graphics card at MSRP. We’ve liveblogged and livetweeted that hell of trying to buy a GPU online, fighting against an army of bots to navigate the buggy websites of retailers who…
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Intel Arc A380 may be tripping itself up with its own performance-boosting feature
Audio player loading… It seems that there might be an answer for the Intel Arc A380 desktop GPU’s rocky performance in previously leaked benchmarks if a new leak is accurate. According to a new series of leaked benchmarks from Twitter user 0x22h, and reported on by VideoCardz, the A380 has…
Read MoreGoogle will start auto-deleting abortion clinic visits from user location history
Google says it’ll start automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss clinics, and other potentially sensitive locations from users’ location histories in the coming weeks. In a blog post on Friday, the company says that the deletion will happen “soon after” the visit, once its systems…
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The best Xbox controller to buy right now
You may not realize it, but we’re living in a golden age of gaming controllers. The gamepads on the market now are better quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from just a few console generations ago. That includes the plethora of third-party options from the likes of PowerA,…
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Your flights could soon benefit from high-speed internet, courtesy of Elon Musk
Audio player loading… SpaceX will now be able to offer Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, following authorization by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The move, originally reported by CNBC, should be big win for the Elon Musk-led company. It could also be great news for consumers, who…
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There’s a better way to bypass Windows 11 install restrictions
Windows 11 comes with more restrictive install requirements when compared to its predecessor, including restrictions on older processors as well as requiring an internet connection and Microsoft account. Luckily, there are workarounds that allow for upgrades to Windows 11 on unsupported CPUs, and the company isn’t blocking those circumventions. But,…
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