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AMD’s RX 6950XT, 6750XT, and 6650XT GPUs are now on sale for $399 and up

Enlarge / Three new, yet largely familiar, GPUs are now available from AMD. (credit: AMD) Starting today, AMD and a number of GPU makers will begin rolling out three new graphics cards in the Radeon 6000-series lineup. These new products add a “50” suffix to existing model numbers, and if you’ve followed AMD over the past […]

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Return to Pandora with the first teaser for Avatar: The Way of Water

James Cameron is finally bringing a sequel to 2009’s Avatar to theaters with Avatar: The Way of Water. If you ventured into the theater to watch Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness this weekend, you probably got to see the first teaser for Avatar: The Way of Water, the long-awaited sequel to the 2009 science-fiction blockbuster […]

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NiceHash defeats Nvidia’s GPU crypto-mining limits, does not appear to be a scam

Enlarge (credit: BTC Keychain ) Nvidia began releasing LHR (or “Lite Hash Rate”) graphics cards last year to slow down their cryptocurrency mining performance and make them less appealing to non-gamers. Late last week, crypto-mining platform NiceHash announced that it had finally found a way around those limitations and released an update for its QuickMiner […]

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Today’s intended Wordle solution pushed to 2027 due to “major recent news event”

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica ) The New York Times has altered the Wordle solutions list to avoid an answer for today’s puzzle that would have “seem[ed] closely connected to a major recent news event, ” as the company put it in the public note this morning . Today’s originally intended solution, FETUS, […]

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Duke Nukem Forever’s 2001 build appears online, may fully leak in June

Enlarge / Apparent footage from a 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever has leaked, 21 years later. As this version of the Mona Lisa might say, deal with it. (credit: 3D Realms) The story of Duke Nukem Forever’s development appeared to be tied up in a bow when the game finally launched in 2011, a whopping 14 years […]