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Razer Laptops with both fast and beautiful displays are rare. Razer has announced a version of its Razer Blade 15 that meets both criteria in stunning fashion, with a 240Hz, 1440p OLED panel that will debut by the holidays. No other laptop has ever offered those specs before. On paper, this Razer Blade ticks almost…

Michael Crider/IDG Amazon might be feeling the competition in the e-reader market for the first time since…well, ever. Kindle e-readers use their own proprietary Amazon format to display e-books, AZW3, which keeps most users from loading up a bunch of copyright-free books in the most common ePub format. But thanks to a new software rollout,…

Bottom line: One of Samsung’s top consumer-facing solid-state drives is on sale for the lowest price we’ve seen to date. Inventory probably won’t last long at this price, so if you’re interested, I would go ahead and pick it up now. The 2TB version of Samsung’s 980 Pro SSD is currently marked down to just…

In context: In 2005, a render of a portable handheld called the “Nintendo GameCube Advance” began circulating the internet. It was relatively quickly dismissed as a fake and slipped into obscurity. However, someone has gone through the effort to create the real deal based on that nearly twenty-year-old render. YouTuber GingerOfOz, whom you may remember…

Marvel Combining data, audio/video, and charging into a single port with USB-C and Thunderbolt is one of the coolest innovations in modern laptops. But thanks to a relatively low limit on the amount of power USB-C cables can transfer, more powerful laptops with discrete graphics have had to make do with old-fashioned proprietary or barrel…

Most Google Doodles revolve around art that transforms the iconic search engine’s logo to celebrate anniversaries and special events, or to raise awareness of ongoing issues, like recent ones that shone a spotlight on Route 66 and Teacher Appreciation Day. But a few times each year, the Google Doodle team goes one step further and…

After users running both a Ryzen CPU and a Radeon GPU started reporting issues with their CPU BIOS settings being changed, AMD has confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that a bug within its GPU drivers may be causing Ryzen CPUs to overclock without warning or permission.”We are aware of an issue in the AMD software suite…

As part of Rust’s promised monthly updates throughout 2022, the survival game will be adding a new rail network and a series of ziplines on April 7. While the initial update is only adding the railway tracks, with the actual trains to come later, the ziplines will be fully functional, added alongside the powerlines that…

A handy speedrunning trick has been found in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which allows players to essentially fly either vertically or horizontally across the map, as picked up by Polygon. The only downside is that the trick, which its inventor has named Child Flight, does unfortunately require players to beat up a child.As…

Movie executives and scriptwriters have been trying to turn games into movies for decades. The last few years have seen some notable successes–Sonic, Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s Castlevania series–but so many others have missed the point. The latest example comes from a newly-leaked script for a Deus Ex movie that never made it to production (via…