Month: January 2023
Intel’s new driver update for Arc Alchemist keeps its GPU dreams alive
Audio player loading… Intel has steered a bumpy road with its Arc Alchemist graphics cards, but a forthcoming driver update might offer a sizeable enough performance gain to keep the company’s hopes of cracking into the discrete graphics market alive a little while longer. Since the launch of the first…
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition plays great on console
Age of Empires II is extremely special to me. The game came to me by accident at 16, and it has remained a great gaming love of mine ever since. I played Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Xbox to see if, after all these years, I could rekindle…
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HBO’s The Last of Us is pushing all the right buttons by telling new stories
HBO’s The Last of Us has been very careful to stick to the source material for the most part — a smart but also rather logical choice, given how cinematic the original game was. The painstakingly crafted similarities between Naughty Dog’s survival shooter — which was already great — and HBO’s…
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Intel’s 31TB SSD sees huge price drop at Walmart but it won’t fit your PC
Audio player loading… It’s been almost five years since Samsung unveiled what was then the world’s biggest solid state drive (SSD) in terms of capacity. The PM1643 was, for a very long time, the apex storage device but it did come with a hefty tag. Back in 2020, it retailed…
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Some BMW EVs aren’t making their pedestrian warning sounds
BMW is recalling almost 3,500 EVs due to issues with the artificial sound generator that’s meant to warn people when the vehicles are backing up or traveling at low speeds. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website, the recall applies to some 2022 and 2023 BMW i4 and…
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Foldable iPad may launch early 2024, according to top Apple analyst
Audio player loading… A foldable iPad with a carbon fiber kickstand is reportedly in the works and may launch early 2024. This information comes from notable Apple tipster Ming-Chi Kuo via a Twitter thread (opens in new tab). While there isn’t much to be gleaned from the short thread, what…
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