Author: Andy Edser
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Think great SSD deals are a thing of the past? We’ve spotted this speedy Nextorage 1TB drive for $75
It can be difficult to find a really good deal on many SSD drives right now, although for our part we’re still plugging away finding the best cheap SSD deals for gaming on a regular basis. Despite the difficulties in the market, thanks to a ramping down of production, we’re still finding some good discounts…
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Researchers have figured out how to hack a wireless charger to fry your phone and heat objects around it to 280°C, so that’s just wonderful
Like many, I keep a wireless charger next to my bed to charge my phone overnight. Also like many, I am consistently amazed by the fact that wonderful, device-charging electricity can safely pass between the bottom plate, through my phone case and into the device itself in a safe and efficient manner. Well, mostly safe. …
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Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage
Good news for those of you that have kept that big ol’ stack of burned DVD and CD backups, taking up space in your attic: They may well be making a comeback. A team of researchers also appear to have also had a hard time letting the concept of spinning disc storage go, as they’ve…
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Grocery delivery service Instacart has been using AI to make up impossible recipes and generate images of horrifying and hilarious food
One would hope that, when reading a recipe, a human being has at some point crafted it personally, adjusting the ingredients and techniques inside over a process of elimination and careful adjustment to create a delicious result. Or, if you’re receiving a recipe from grocery delivery service Instacart, you could hope that the app’s AI-generated…
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The Steam Deck gets a 3D printed ergo keyboard dock thanks to some creative modification and a clever clip-on hinged design
The Steam Deck is good at many things, but a wonderful typing experience it is not. Either you’re furiously flipping away at those thumbsticks like some kind of—shock horror—console gamer, or you’re jabbing your fingers and thumbs at the touchscreen like—even bigger shock horror—a mobile gamer. Well, thanks to some clever modding, the Steam Deck…
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An AI-generated image of a rat with unfeasibly large genitals made it into a peer-reviewed article, along with the caption ‘dck’
Ordinarily, a scientific article entitled “cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway” would, at best, not gather a huge readership. However, when the article in question is furnished with some clearly AI-generated images, one of which featuring a rat with a quite frankly astonishingly large set of genitals, well, that’ll…
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AMD’s Anti-Lag+ looks to have been rehabilitated after the previous version gave some players a nasty case of the bans
Look who’s back, back again. AMDs Radeon Anti-Lag+ was released in September last year as the company’s latest attempt to reduce dreaded latency times in competitive gaming, but was quickly removed after it was found to draw the ire of some common anti-cheat programs. Now, just three months later, it’s looking like it may well…
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Nightingale’s system requirements reveal it offers an upscaler for every GPU but it’ll gobble up 70GB of storage space
Survival games, what would we do without them? Much less rock punching, I would imagine, but it wouldn’t be a year in PC gaming without several of the little tikes, all competing to capture the lightning in a bottle of big survival games releases past. Potential contender Nightingale is due to release into early access…
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Even the US Department of Defence is not immune to data breaches as 20,000 individuals are notified of a Microsoft cloud email leak
A data breach can be an embarrassing admission for a company, but when it comes to a leak of government controlled data, particularly in regards to the sort of sensitive information held by national security agencies and the military, the stakes can become a lot higher. It appears that the US Department of Defence has…
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A leaked Lenovo laptop comes with a transparent display and I can’t get my head around why anyone would think that’s a good idea
Transparent screens are coming to our devices, we’re increasingly told, and it seems like it wouldn’t be a modern tech show without some sort of demonstration of a see-through screen. They’re pretty, that’s for sure, but I’ve yet to see a reasonable answer to the question of why you’d want one. Lenovo, however, seems to…