Month: January 2025
LA residents find a lifeline in this free wildfire-tracking app
Watch Duty, a nonprofit-run app that tracks wildfires with live maps and alerts, has shot to the top of Apple’s App Store charts this week as Californian residents look to navigate catastrophic blazes devastating the area. The app launched in 2021 and is now available in 22 states, providing evacuation…
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Beware of confusing naming strategies when it comes to JLab’s new headphones
Epic Lux Lab Edition: adaptive ANC and wireless charging Go Lux ANC: noise cancelling and spatial audio £199 / £49; early orders get a discount Names are important: just ask Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, who you probably wouldn’t know if she hadn’t called herself Chappell Roan. And they’re not just important…
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The Fanciful, Mechanical, Monumental Spectacle of CES 2025
WIRED contributing photographer Tristan deBrauwere takes us behind the scenes at the largest consumer tech show in the world. Source
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The Morning After: Finding fun and relaxation in the middle of CES 2025
The world’s biggest tech show is approaching its end, and it’s been hard. Mostly. But it’s not without its perks. Perhaps you got to sit in and experience the first CES press event inside the fully screened Sphere, or maybe you’re getting a lovely facial treatment that combines cooling plates…
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Cyberpunk 2077 runs above 120fps at 4K in full path tracing using DLSS 4 and Frame Generation on Nvidia’s RTX 5080 – should we be concerned about game dev optimization?
Cyberpunk 2077 runs above 120fps at 4K in full path tracing on an RTX 5080 Performance was achieved while using DLSS 4 and the current Frame Generation Multi Frame Generation could boost frame rates even higher Nvidia‘s reveal of the RTX 5000 series lineup has come with the expected painful…
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Up close with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card
We might be skeptical of some Nvidia’s claims, like whether a $549 RTX 5070 will truly deliver the performance of a $1599 RTX 4090. But it’s almost impossible not to be impressed by the RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition, where Nvidia fit 575 watts of graphics power, including 21,760 CUDA cores…
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