Month: December 2022
AMD RDNA 3 GPU leaked benchmarks disappoint some gamers
Audio player loading… AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics cards are imminent, and we’ve just seen leaked benchmarks which underline what Team Red has been asserting in its pre-release marketing – namely that the flagship will be a close match for Nvidia’s RTX 4080. VideoCardz (opens in new tab) picked up the…
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Stellantis is blaming EVs for its upcoming Jeep layoffs
Stellantis, the company behind Fiat, Dodge, and Jeep, has announced that it plans to halt one of its plants and lay off 1,200 workers come February. Its reasoning? Pressure from COVID-19, sure, along with a dash of chip shortages — but mainly all those electric vehicles it has to make.…
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10 Years Later, The Ikea Monkey Is Thriving
On Dec. 9, 2012, a woman shopping at an Ikea in Toronto saw an unusual customer: a Japanese snow macaque. A photo she took of the monkey balefully staring out the glass door in a little shearling coat blitzed across the internet, and a meme was born: the Ikea monkey.…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a gnarly and spiritual fairy tale about what makes life beautiful
There are a number of moments throughout Guillermo del Toro’s new stop-motion animated retelling of Pinocchio that are so dark and steeped in sorrow that they make it easy to forget how the musical feature’s also a celebration of love with an emphasis on resisting authoritarianism. Though it’s very much an…
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Peloton removes classes feat. Kanye West from on-demand library
Music is a big part of any Peloton workout, but Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, won’t be. Over the past few days, Peloton has removed hundreds of classes from its on-demand library featuring Ye’s music. In late October, Peloton began telling members that Ye’s music would no longer…
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The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed
Numerous people have been upset at the way Raspberry Pi has addressed criticism on social media. Among them is James Spencer, a London-based developer. “In my head they’ve always been this grassroots company just trying to do computer stuff with makers and hackers,” he said via Twitter DM. Spencer raised…
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