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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics card
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review (MSI Ventus 3X) A GPU with performance close to an RTX 5080 that's sadly set to be priced to oblivion.
A still from a YouTube video showing The Swedish Maker cutting a piece of wood with power tools while wearing a Meta Quest 3 VR headset.
YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact This could have gone so much worse.
LG UltraGear 45GX950A
LG's new 45-inch 5K2K uber OLED monitor goes into mass production and will land soon on a desk near you. For $2,000 Huge size, decent pixel density, OLED tech, what's not to like?

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Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor

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Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...

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Aristotle (384-322 BC), Classical Greek Philosopher, A student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, Statue of Aristotle at the Athens Academy, Athens, Central Greece, Attica, Europe.

All roads lead to philosophy, as this Wikipedia game proves

By Jacob Fox published

News It's all footnotes to Plato, just as Whitehead said.

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Intel's 18A-P chipmaking process has started risk production and promises 9% improved CPU performance for the same power

By Jacob Fox published

News Or 18% less power consumption for the same performance.

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A late afternoon view shows two young women walking past a wall-sized anime mural along Chuo-dori (Central Avenue) in the Akihabara district (known as Electric Town for its maze of electronics stores, but currently considered an almost sacred destination by members of Japan's otaku culture, drawn to Akihabara's video game centers, maid cafes, anime shops, and manga comics), located in Chiyoda Ward in central Tokyo, Japan.

Warning all weebs: Kaspersky says hackers are distributing malware via anime girl wallpapers on Steam Workshop's Wallpaper Engine

By Jess Kinghorn published

News Is nothing sacred?

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A DualSense controller is seen on a colourful background, with stripes of pink, purple, and blue.

The DualSense can still drift, but Sony may be exploring magnetic tech for shape-shifting buttons in whatever comes next

By Jess Kinghorn published

News Worth a poke.

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Five things I always tell people before they buy a new gaming PC

By Jacob Fox last updated

New PC Guide I bought my first gaming PC almost two decades ago, and here are the things I've learnt since then that I think you should know.

New PC Guide
Half-Life 2: RTX Remix

'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents

By Jess Kinghorn published

News I suppose that's one way to bring an old game up to date…

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A photo of a Team Group MP44 SSD, with its heatspreader label removed, showing the chips on the circuit board

Silicon Motion says 'the retail SSD market has almost disappeared' as NAND shifts towards AI servers and OEMs scoop up the drives that usually sit in our gaming PCs

By Jacob Fox published

News Yet another day during the RAMpocalypse.

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Rode NT1 5th Generation microphone review

By Hope Corrigan published

Score: 90% An unclippable king of the digital and analogue realms.

Score: 90%
The Commodore Callback 8020 smart-ish flip phone is seen from various angles.

A new flip phone that blocks social media at a system level is coming out, and you'll never guess which retro gaming company is making it

By Jess Kinghorn published

News It's billed as 'less scroll, and more soul.'

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