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Verizon says it will shut down its 3G network — for real this time — on December 31st, 2022

After years of delays, Verizon says it will finally shut down its 3G CDMA network at the end of 2022 — and the company means it this time. Verizon initially targeted 2021 for the shutdown and later revised with a more ambitious goal of 2019. That didn’t happen, and as recently as January 2021, the… Read more

Amnesia: Rebirth has a new ‘Adventure Mode’ with no monsters, new puzzles, and more lights

If you like puzzles and eerie deserts, but not darkness and horrifying ghouls, Swedish studio Frictional has a new version of its game Amnesia: Rebirth for you. A less stressful “Adventure Mode” is being added to Rebirth today via GOG, Steam, and the Epic Store. The game’s PlayStation version will get Adventure Mode in the… Read more

Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch will look and run better after its latest update

Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch is getting a patch that will boost performance in portable and docked modes. Epic Games says the game will run with a more consistent frame rate across the board “with fewer hitches,” though it’s still not 60 frames per second. And while the game will still use dynamic resolution to… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K Review – World’s Fastest Gaming Processor?

Introduction Intel today launched its 11th Generation Core “Rocket Lake” desktop processor family led by the Core i9-11900K—this is its long-awaited review. With the Core i9-11900K, Intel wants to respond to the AMD Ryzen 5000 series, which snatched overall performance leadership away from the company. Rocket Lake is Intel’s first attempt at improving per-core (single-threaded)… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 ACE (11th Gen) Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Nvidia’s Resizable BAR frame rate boosts now available on all 30-series GPUs

Nvidia is launching Resizable BAR support today, a feature of PCI Express that can boost frame rates in certain games by up to 10 percent. Resizable BAR works by unlocking access to the full graphics frame buffer, instead of limiting it to 256MB block reads. This can improve frame rates in games, but it will… Read more

Intel’s 11th Gen Core i9 processor boosts Microsoft Flight Simulator by 20 percent

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I built a new gaming PC in September to play new games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk 2077, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I figured that picking Intel’s Core i9-10900K and Nvidia’s RTX 3090 would make this machine… Read more

GeForce RTX 3090 Gets 3% Performance Boost From Resizable BAR

Home News A user from the Chiphell forums has evaluated the impact of Resizable BAR on Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3090. While the results aren’t phenomenal, the extra performance comes free of charge, so we welcome it with open arms. While Nvidia has pledged to bring Resizable BAR to its entire stack of Ampere graphics… Read more

Intel MacBook Pro 13-inch vs MacBook Pro 16-inch: Which Intel Mac is best for you?

(Pocket-lint) – The 13-inch Intel MacBook Pro was upgraded with the latest specs in early 2020 to bring it in line with 2019’s MacBook Pro 16-inch. However, there’s also a version – released in November 2020 – with Apple’s own M1 processor. However, we’re only looking at Intel machines in this guide. If you want… Read more

Asus Releases Tiny GeForce RTX 3060 For SFF Systems

Home News Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: Asus) Good things can come in small packages too. Asus has shrunk Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 into a compact graphics card, the Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060, that can practically fit into any system. The Phoenix GeForce RTX 3060 (PH-RTX3060-12G) is based on GeForce RTX 3060, meaning you… Read more

Nils Frahm: “When I like something I want to know why; I want to understand the principle”

Home Features (Image credit: Leiter Verlag) “I suppose you can’t have true respect for something unless you’re willing to challenge it,” we posit to Nils Frahm. “Exactly,” he replies. “Exactly.” It feels good to have Frahm agree with you. Not only because his music is as much part of our homes – and the What Hi-Fi?… Read more

This RTX 3060 Is Called the Big Mac, but You Can’t Buy It From McDonalds

Home News (Image credit: Videocardz) According to VideoCardz, Chinese graphics card maker MaxSun has reportedly just released a new RTX 3060 model with the rather unusual name of Big Mac. And unfortunately, there is no McDonald’s color theme to compliment the name. With some graphics cards already equipped with a honey bee-theme on the market,… Read more

10 of the best Arcam products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Future) There must be something in the water in Cambridge, England. Not only did Cambridge Audio emerge from the university city, but so too did another bastion of British hi-fi. Amplification Recording and Cambridge (as it was known originally) was founded back in 1976, the brainchild of John Dawson and Chris… Read more

BMW and PG&E think electric vehicles could stabilize California grid

As blackouts become more common during California’s fire season, utility PG&E is looking to electric vehicles as one potential backup plan for the state’s stressed-out grid. It’s been working with carmaker BMW to test whether electric vehicles could provide power when there’s an outage or not enough energy to meet demand. Theoretically, a network of… Read more

Garmin Enduro review: Superior stamina

(Pocket-lint) – The Garmin Enduro is a brand new watch range with one goal in mind: to give the biggest battery life you’ll find on any multisports watch when you put GPS tracking to work. It’s also looking to appeal to endurance athletes offering that big battery in a lighter watch design than other battery… Read more