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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” Desktop CPUs are rumored to cost the same as the Ryzen 7000 SKUs, according to @wxnod. AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” CPUs Rumored To Have The Same Prices As Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” Chips Yesterday, the first information regarding the AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” desktop CPUs, codenamed Granite Ridge,…

Text messages are notoriously easy to misinterpret. Oftentimes, it’s not the words in the message that cause the receiver to misconstrue the meaning, it’s the punctuation. Periods, specifically, can alter the tone of a text, says Daniel Post Senning, co-author of “Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Centennial Edition.” “The difference between someone saying, ‘Funny!’ and ‘Funny.’…

Yep, the Galaxy S24 Ultra.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Oh, the irony of the National Security Agency suggests that smartphone users turn off their phones occasionally. But the NSA is right: you do need to restart your phone regularly to rid it of demons. Some phones even let you schedule the restart, so you don’t…

Enlarge / Yes, there are bigger monitors, but is there a better way to have a tri-monitor setup? In a technical disclosure published this month, HP explored a Micro LED monitor concept that would enable consumers to easily use various multi-monitor configurations through the use of “Lego-like building blocks.” HP has no immediate plans to…

It seems like every time Konami shows off the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, something doesn’t sit right with fans. It started with the game’s announcement when it was revealed Layers of Fear and The Medium developer Bloober Team would be helming the reimaging of the seminal survival horror title, which did not instill confidence…

Update 31 May, 2024: Bungie has released a statement after “a portion” of Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion was “accidentally pushed live” on PS5’s streaming service. The studio acknowledged spoilers were being shared online, and that a “small group of players” were able to access the campaign, Collections, Echoes, and “other reward info”. Earlier…

Liz Reid, the Head of Google Search, has admitted that the company’s search engine has returned some “odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews” after they rolled out to everyone in the US. The executive published an explanation for Google’s more peculiar AI-generated responses in a blog post, where it also announced that the company has…

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said it was scaling down the use of AI-generated answers in some search results, after the tech made high-profile errors including telling users to put glue on their pizza and saying Barack Obama was Muslim. Google began putting the artificial intelligence answers on top of search results for users in the…

Navigating the sheer volume of streaming content available today can be a full-time job. Recommendations from friends, blog posts, and TikToks of movies I haven’t thought about in years all help. But finding something myself, my husband, my 13-year-old daughter, and my 16-year-old son all want to watch together is still a herculean task. So,…

Enlarge / After nearly four years of the PS5, a lot of people are still using their old PS4s. If you’re still getting use out of your aging PS4 after nearly four full years of PS5 availability, new data from Sony shows you are far from alone. The Japanese electronics giant says that both the…