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    AMD Hits Highest-Ever x86 CPU Market Share in Q1 2024 Across Desktop and Server

    Those are HPs too. HP is the only brand I recommend people against. Have not worked on one in the last 20 yrs that had decent internals. All of them tend to suffer from similar issues too. Not to mention their printers are just as bad. Course, I don't find a lot of printers reliable these days...
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    Sony Reverses Decision of Mandatory PSN Account for Helldivers 2 After Negative Feedback

    What's disturbing is how many death threats they allegedly got. That is inexcusable. I really didn't care as I rarely log into PSN anyways. Haven't started my PS4 in over a year.
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    Apple Preparing M4 Chips with AI Capabilities to Fight Declining Mac Sales

    If they want more sales they need to finally make something that isn't brushed metal. Apple back seated Macs in favor of phones and then continued to do that over and over. Cook did that. He doesn't know how to handle Macs.
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    Ubisoft at GDC: How "Assassin's Creed Mirage" Grew from DLC to Full Game

    As one who didn't really like the Ezio story or get into it and hasn't even finished Black Flag, I just find myself wanting to play it less and less as they keep churning out more games. They're all the same gameplay and I don't even want to bother with the story any longer. Don't have time for...
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    Microsoft Introduces Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 Models for Business

    Yep, I just had a client who wanted something like it for traveling. Surface = Right performance on the high ends but priced to high to justify, abysmal performance on the low-mid end with lots of competition that is much better for the price. They ended up getting a Lenovo Yoga 2n1. Bigger...
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    Report: Apple to Use Google's Gemini AI for iPhones

    Hopefully there is a way to turn it off like there is with Siri. Such battery hogs.
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    Report Alleges Halting of PlayStation VR2 Production

    Price is an issue when you consider the original PSVR being around $300. If you put it at that price again with PC functionality, it would definitely sell and likely lead to price drops among the other VR makers. Sony has shown time and time again since the PSP era that they aren't really...
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    Using science and technology to cure tinnitus (ear ringing)

    As one who has it caused by chemo drugs that damaged both nerves and the little hairs within the ears, yep...it's not so simple of a problem to fix.
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    EA Developers to Present Frostbite Engine Innovations at GDC 2024

    Frostbite Engine. Legendary until they decided to shoehorn it into everything else. The only way it could ever return to it's former glory would be if they went back to at least the original Bad Company era and built from there.
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    Alphacool Intros Core Heat Gun 2000W for Bending Hard Tubes

    It's amazing how many products are simply basic versions that are tweaked a little and slapped with a brand name. I've seen dirt cheap powerbanks in Costco selling for close to $100. Making massive profits off consumers who simply are not aware.
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    Helldivers 2 Warbond System Previewed Ahead of March 14 Launch

    Turn off the global illumination setting. #1 crash cause right now. Biggest issues right now is the balance pass kind of killed the higher difficulties. They also tweaked some of the AI and maps to make it impossible to set up any kind of defensive position. So, they overtuned it like most...
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    Apple Reportedly Developing 20.3-inch Foldable MacBook for 2027 Launch

    Why not just make a 2 n 1 laptop like everyone else and do something different with the Macbook line for once? Sure it's not new and innovative but, Macs are grossly behind the times anyways. For a brand that touted itself as "Think Different" and being the "Crazy Ones" who go against the grain...
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    Apple Unveils the New 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the Powerful M3 Chip

    Surprise surprise, brushed metal and the same boring colors they always are...
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    NVIDIA Accused of Acting as "GPU Cartel" and Controlling Supply

    Exactly this. Not even worth a bag of popcorn to watch the chaos. Just the same old routine every few years. Same with the DRAM industry and their never ending price fixing. Still remember my cut from the last class action. They get in trouble, get a slap on the wrist, nothing really changes...
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    Apple M2 Posts Single-Thread CPU-Z Bench Score Comparable to Intel Alder Lake

    Especially after Jobs betrayed Mac users on the x86 switch. Promised cheaper Macs and instead raised the price of Macs while lowering production costs. But by then, Apple was trendy and most of the intelligent Mac users were silenced. All the Mac user mags went from enthusiast/geek oriented to...
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