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Great G-Shock World says Casio's newly leaked MRG-B2100HR-1A is an MR-G 30th anniversary model, with a surface treatment it believes uses platinum and a pattern unique to each watch. A gold version is also said to be planned, at a very high price.
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The M4 Mac mini gave owners a cheaper way to upgrade their internal storage after purchase. Apple has now removed that option from the new M6 and M5 Pro models, leaving buyers with expensive factory upgrades or external drives. The new Mac Studio, however, still holds on to its removable storage…
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According to a new report, Microsoft is set to release another smaller Surface Laptop soon. Built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 platform, the new 13-inch laptop follows a release from earlier this year that brought 24 GB RAM and a 500-nit display to the Surface Laptop 13-inch as well.
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Pawprint Studio launches open-world RPG Aniimo on iOS and Android, with full cross-progression, a mobile-exclusive Obsidian variant, and free launch-month rewards.
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It's difficult to judge just how large Vice City in GTA 6 will actually be based on maps alone. A new fan video therefore attempts a direct size comparison with Los Santos from GTA 5 – and makes the new metropolis look surprisingly small.
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A new report has elaborated on recent rumours about Microsoft releasing a smaller Surface powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark platform. Launching with two processor configurations, the Surface 'Minos' is said to combine a 12-inch display with up to 48 GB of RAM, too.
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Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max have been launched in China, retaining a similar design to their predecessors. The new smartphones will be available for purchase soon via the Xiaomi China online store in three distinct colour options. Moreover, the Xiaomi 18 Pro series features a secondary rear…
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TechDroider has tested the battery life of the Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max against the OnePlus 15. While the results are as expected, the iPhone 18 Pro Max does better than its 5,391 mAh battery capacity suggests.
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UK-based Nscale signed a deal with Spring (SG) Pte Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The company did not make any direct mention of the TikTok parent in its filings for a U.S. IPO, while a supporting document only labeled Spring as a significant customer.
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IonQ announces its Superion 256 quantum processor will be the first deployed at NVIDIA’s NVAQC to advance hybrid AI and quantum supercomputing.
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Alibaba’s T-Head Zhenwu V900 claims three times the M890’s performance with 216GB of memory as Alibaba targets 10T-parameter Qwen
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Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM…
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Jump into high-refresh-rate 1440p gaming without breaking the bank: Acer's 27-inch 1440p 270Hz IPS gaming monitor is just $179, a whopping 45% off
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Save $82 on the Fire HD 10, a budget tablet with a Full HD 10.1-inch display, octa-core chip, and expandable storage
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Almost two decades since the game was first officially announced, Ubisoft have reiterated the fact that Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in development. The post Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still in development according to Ubisoft developer first appeared on KitGuru.
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Recent changes to AMD's Linux drivers to enable GDDR7 memory and other graphics IP blocks could indicate that that enablement work on its RDNA 5 GPUs is under way.
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The questions facing NVIDIA, Revolut, and Citi are getting bigger as the companies themselves get bigger. This week, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang weighed in on whether the AI industry should slow the development of increasingly powerful models. Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky discussed where a $115 billion…
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Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage…
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Deal | Metal Eden combines fast-paced shooter action with enormous freedom of movement and is 80% off on Steam until September 29, bringing the price down to $3.99. This marks the first time the game has dropped below the $4 mark.
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Nvidia's Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents into open-source robotics development through reusable skills and agent-ready documentation. The release includes tools for robot setup, manipulation and model customisation, along with new capabilities for FoundationStereo and FoundationPose. Nvidia has also…
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US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has positioned its latest high-end smartphone SoCs as being designed for the agentic AI age.
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Deal | Kingsgrave is a top-down RPG with clear Zelda inspiration and is currently cheaper than ever on Steam. An 85% discount brings the price down to $1.49 until September 27.
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Meta has announced Petal, a new subsea cable that will carry a petabit of raw bandwidth across the 4,300 miles between the USA and France.
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India moves five chip packaging plants into production as $13.5 billion ISM 2.0 expands manufacturing, design, and engineering capabilities. The post SEMICON India 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape appeared first on EE Times.
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My money is still on RDNA 5 launching by the end of next year.
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Get a great deal on 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM. Just $439 after promo code SSF73844 yields one of the lowest priced 32GB kits available today
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EA Sports FC 27 launches globally on September 25 across consoles and PC. Explore The Grounds open world, Career Mode overhauls, and full FC 27 Lite details surrounding the launch.
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The newly-independent Undead Labs has unfortunately had to part ways with a “significant” number of its developers following their split from Xbox. The post Undead Labs announces “significant” lay-offs following its independence from Xbox first appeared on KitGuru.
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But it's a far cry from an orbital data center.
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In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...