Bethesda Announces Fallout 76, Reportedly an Online Survival RPG

There's a new Fallout game coming -- and it's unlike any title Bethesda or Black Isle ever built.

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HP Mindframe Gaming Headset Keeps Your Head Cool in the Heat of Battle

Maybe you'll be able to find your optimal ear temperature if there is such a thing.

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Google Determined to Chase the iPhone With Upcoming Pixel Upgrades

Google's Pixel family of devices hasn't sold very many units compared with Apple or Samsung, but Google is reportedly charging ahead with plans for a Pixel 3.

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Atari Console Crowdfunding Campaign Crashes IndieGoGo Because People Are Idiots

Buy something else. Possibly anything else.

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Intel Announces New Optane DC Persistent Memory

Intel has unveiled a new tier of Optane storage -- one designed to bridge the gap between volatile and non-volatile memory and create a new class of "Persistent" memory in the process.

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Why Self-Driving Cars Keep Running Into Things

We're enthralled by the idea of cars that can whisk us anywhere without us lifting a finger, but in the meantime some of the early efforts are making what seems like a rookie mistake and plowing into parked vehicles. We look at why.

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Microsoft Replaces Xbox Support Reps With Unpaid Volunteers

In some cases, the support reps who were let go spent their final weeks of employment training the new unpaid volunteers.

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The Most Promising Companies in Robotics Engineering

You probably haven't encountered any robots from these firms, but it's only a matter of time.

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LG Develops AI to Combat Virtual Reality Nausea

LG thinks it has a way to reduce the nausea many experience when gaming in VR, thanks to the use of AI to slash photon latency and frame times.

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Cutting-Edge Construction Projects From Around the World

There's some interesting construction projects taking place around the world, including five coming online in 2018.

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AMD Needs More 7nm Capacity Than GlobalFoundries Can Provide

AMD is sourcing 7nm from TSMC and GlobalFoundries because it expects to have more need for 7nm volume than GF can supply.

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MIT Engineers Create Compression Bandage with Color-Changing Fibers

A team of engineers from MIT have developed a new compression wrap that tells you precisely how tight it is with the aid of color-changing fibers.

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Federal Authorities: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russian Malware

It is not uncommon that you might need to reboot your router because of some error or bug, but it's not often that you need to reboot it in the name of national security.

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Review: Living With the Nuheara IQBuds Boost

New tech and new laws are combining to make hearing augmentation easier to get, as well as more affordable. We tested the Nuheara IQBuds Boost, one of the first examples of this new class of hybrid listening and hearing devices called hearables, on an extended road trip to Africa and back.

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Dinosaur-Killing Impact May Have Superheated Earth’s Atmosphere for 100,000 Years

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't just kick off a short-term apocalyptic winter -- it may have turned the planet's thermostat up dramatically for a hundred thousand years.

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Facebook to Build Its Own Silicon for Real-Time Content Filtering

Facebook is reportedly going to start building its own hardware for content monitoring and real-time filtering.

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Pluto Might Have Formed as a Giant Comet, Not a Planet

Anyone still smarting over Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet has a reason to perk up. There's some evidence that the planetoid didn't form through the standard process and may instead be the remains of up to a billion comets, smashed together.

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2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel SUV Review: 42 MPG Highway Cruiser

Now more compelling as a compact SUV, the 2018 Chevy Equinox can go 600 highway miles between fill-ups on diesel. Key safety features are reserved for the Premium version, but no there's still adaptive cruise control.

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Samsung Will Turn Off Millions of Displays at Once as Part of an Ad Campaign

Samsung has a great new idea for advertising its televisions: Make end-users think they're actually broken!

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We Put Phone Cameras to the Ultimate Test: An African Safari

Each year phone manufacturers push smartphone camera limits further. We took a couple of the best phones on a wildlife safari in Africa to see how well they'd make out handling such a tough photographic challenge.

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T-Mobile Online Tool Let Anyone Get Customer Info With a Phone Number

According to security researcher Ryan Stevenson, T-Mobile wasn't taking account security very seriously.

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Apple Blocks Valve’s New Steam Mobile Gaming App

Valve's Steam Link app will allow for game streaming -- but Apple is refusing to approve the app. So far, the feature is Android-only.

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Microsoft Fixes Issues With Windows 10 Update on Intel, Toshiba SSDs

If you're using an Intel 600p SSD or Pro 6000p, Microsoft has patched the issue that kept these SSDs from using the April 2018 update.

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Report: Essential Cancels Second Phone, May Put Itself Up for Sale

According to sources inside the company, discussions are focused on unloading the entire firm along with its patent portfolio.

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Pornhub Launches Free VPN That’s Totally Not Exclusively for Porn

Pornhub says its new VPNhub service is designed to keep your online activity safe from prying eyes and censorship.

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Sony Confirms PlayStation 5 At Least 3 Years Away

The PlayStation 5 isn't arriving for three years according to Sony, despite earlier rumors of a 2018 release.

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Acer Announces New 13 and 15-Inch Chromebooks

There are 13 and 15-inch variants, and each is available as a regular laptop and a "Spin" version with a 360-degree hinge. These might be just what the premium midrange needs.

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Apple’s Next-Generation iPhone SoCs Now in Production

Apple is likely TSMC's first 7nm customer and the company's expected A12 SoCs are now rumored to be in full production.

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ET Deals: Refurb Dell Latitude 12 5289 12.5-Inch Two-in-One Laptop for $620

Is your current laptop a bit long in the tooth? Now's the perfect time to upgrade! For a limited time, you can pick up a refurbished 12.5-inch hybrid Dell Latitude 12 5289 laptop from the PCMag shop with a $500+ discount with today's coupon in play.

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25 Great Games You Can Play On Laptops and Low-End PCs

Just because you've got an older or low-end PC doesn't mean you can't enjoy gaming. There are thousands of back titles in the PC catalog. Here are some of our favorites.

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Scientists Use CRISPR to Block HIV Replication Inside Living Cells

The experiment targeted two of HIV's nine genes that are key to the proliferation of the virus.

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Scientists Plan New Project to Search for Particles that Escape from LHC

The Massive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra Stable Neutral Particles (which goes by the inaccurate but much simpler nickname MATHUSLA) will look for particles the LHC misses because they're too stable.

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Elon Musk: Model 3 Braking Can Be Fixed in Firmware

Elon Musk is promising a firmware update to fix brake issues with the Model 3, surprising those of us who didn't know brakes were controlled by firmware.

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Trump Reportedly Ignores Smartphone Security Because It’s ‘Too Inconvenient’

According to sources who spoke to Politico, Trump uses at least two iPhone devices provided by the White House IT staff. However, they are not swapped regularly like in the Obama era.

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Razer Announces new 15.6-inch Blade Laptop with Nvidia Max-Q Graphics

It has a bigger screen with smaller bezels, a faster CPU, and improved GPU performance courtesy of Nvidia Max-Q technology.

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New Material Heals Like Biological Tissue to Maintain Electrical Conductivity

From laboratory experiments, the team estimates that a circuit can still function even if 50 percent of it is damaged or destroyed.

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Why Google Glass Failed, and What to Expect Next

While Google Glass utterly failed as a consumer device, its second life as an industrial tool makes sense. And eventually, full-bore augmented reality will be small and cheap enough to be implemented in glasses that don't look different from what's commonplace now.

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Sony Plans to Move Away From ‘Gadgets.’ What’s That Mean for the PS5?

Sony's new CEO wants to overhaul the company's focus and it's not clear what that means for its gaming future.

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North Korea Targeting Defectors with Android Malware Attacks

The attack likely infected around 100 targets, which isn't a huge number compared with most malware campaigns. However, these were all highly targeted infiltrations to gather intelligence on political opponents.

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Tesla Plans ‘Performance’ Model 3 Starting at $78,000

It's surprisingly hard to keep up with all the versions of the Model 3 when you consider you can't buy any of them right now.

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How to Uninstall AMD Drivers

Here's how to uninstall AMD GPU drivers -- and a discussion of whether third-party driver software brings anything useful to the equation.

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Chevrolet Puts a 307-Horsepower Four-Cylinder in Its Full-Size Silverado Pickup

Chevy unveils the first four-cylinder gasoline engine in a current full-size pickup. The 307 hp handily tops the V6 it may eventually replace.

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Dropping Single-Player Campaigns From Black Ops 4 Reflects How Most Gamers Play

When Treyarch decided to remove COD Black Ops 4's campaign in favor of a Battle Royale mode, were they thumbing their noses at gamers -- or just giving them what they really want?

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Leaked Google Video Imagines a Future of Multi-Generational User Data

When Google talks about the Selfish Ledger, it asks us to think of ourselves as the temporary custodian of the data rather than the owner.

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Google Plans to Make Chrome’s Non-Secure Site Warnings More Prominent

Now that most sites have moved to HTTPS, Google is looking to change the way those warnings appear to emphasize sites that are still lagging behind.

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Bitcoin’s Massive Power Usage Explained in New Analysis

At current levels, de Vries estimates Bitcoin mining uses at least 2.6GW of power per year, and that number could grow to as much as 7.7GW by the end of the year.

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MIT Creates Modular Medical Diagnostic Block

Simply snap them into a frame, add your sample, and wait for the results.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Selling Its Stash of Previously Unknown Adult Domains

Close your eyes and repeat, loudly: "I DON'T WANNA GROW UP..."

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Intel Shows Off Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P With an Integrated FPGA

Instead of simply focusing on x86 cores, or even developing a line of specialized many-core accelerators like Xeon Phi, the company has said it would bring a Xeon CPU to market with an FPGA integrated directly into the die.

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Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Sends Ash 30,000 Feet High as Eruption Intensifies

The Kilauea has intensified, but fears of a massive blast are not well-founded.

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