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    Review: AMD’s $269 RX 7600 is a good 1080p card, but the RTX 4060 looms

    Where are the cards that are supposed to fill the gap between the Navi 31 flagships and these Navi 33 "mid-range" cards? So I can buy an $800 card or a $250 card?
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    Eco-friendly tires: Bridgestone goes green in new tire test

    How does this affect the amount of microplastics introduced to the environment as a tire wears down? Does the chemistry mean the byproducts are biodegradable?
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    Twitter obtains subpoena forcing GitHub to unmask source-code leaker

    I AM SPARTACUS More seriously, this quote concerns me, as if the release of your source code alone allows identification of previously unknown security vulnerabilities by outside parties then it seems like ur doin it wrong security was not a priority during development:
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    Twitter could go bankrupt, lose billions next year, Musk tells staff

    Did Musk just come full circle back to Paypal?
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    New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs

    I guess its defense grid got smashed. Now it will have no choice but to send something back in time to prevent its opponent from being born.
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    With LG out of the smartphone market, Motorola is the #3 US manufacturer

    Unlike a lot of the other players they're still including headphone jacks and SD card slots, and running on stock Android with no added crapware if you buy through Moto instead of through the carrier. They also have consistently good performance on the simple phone & text side, which some of...
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    Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review: The slab phone retirement plan

    Is this still relevant post-3G shutdown? Are LTE and 5G implementations similarly encumbered in the US?
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    Intel’s Core i7-12700 tested: Top speeds or power efficiency—pick one

    I think this review is a better endorsement for the i5-12400 than the actual reviews around the web for the i5-12400 were
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    Sony and Honda are teaming up to make a range of electric vehicles

    Civicman? Accordstation? CR-Via? (Hoping to see a new CR-Xperia hatchback)
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    Here’s how the New York Times changed Wordle

    "Spook" is still a valid guess at this time. Not impressed.
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    Kia and Hyundai warn 485,000 SUV owners to park outside due to fire risk

    Every vehicle I've ever owned has been part of a recall campaign at some point, and I've owned a lot of brands. Sometimes it is a label that is out of compliance (woo, new sticker!), sometimes a piece of emissions equipment or lighting, even had one for replacing Takata airbags, but NEVER has...
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    Supply issues, Wi-Fi 7 hurting Wi-Fi 6E’s time in the spotlight 

    When we temporarily went fully remote in April 2020 due to the pandemic, IT was handing out whatever they had on hand and I ended up with an iPhone 6 Plus with no service plan (so had to use Wifi) for e-mail and Teams that was a bad citizen on my older 2.4GHz-only 802.11n setup. Getting an Asus...
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    PCIe 5.0 SSDs promising up to 14GB/s of bandwidth will be ready in 2024

    I remember when Serial ATA was the new big thing, most of us were rocking Ultra DMA 66 IDE drives maybe 40 or 60GB with our Pentium IIIs or Athlon XPs, and wondering what kind of ridiculous drive it would take to saturate a 150Mbit/s interface. 150. million. bits. per second.
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    Google says “tablets are the future,” wants to hire Android tablet leadership

    I'd rather just have a Surface at this point, it's not like Windows and X86-64 are going anywhere anytime soon.
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    EFF praises Android’s new 2G kill switch, wants Apple to follow suit

    I've had this toggle in the settings on my LTE Motorola phones since at least Android 10 and probably earlier, and they're all stock Android.
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    PayPal stole users’ money after freezing, seizing funds, lawsuit alleges

    TIL there are people who use Paypal and are dumb enough to let them sit on the balance
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    Sony reportedly producing more PS4s to make up for PS5 shortages

    They should use that extra capacity to restart Xbox 360 production since they've given up on making the other half of my library backwards compatible on Series S/X.