Auditing Files

Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard is on thin ice. Antitrust regulators from several regions have been reviewing the deal all year, and several have recently expressed concern that the acquisition could drastically reduce competition within the video game industry. With European Union watchdogs especially wary, Microsoft appears prepared to do whatever it takes to push the deal through—even if it means making concessions to Sony.

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T-Mobile is getting more aggressive with its Home Internet offers. On Thursday the carrier will begin offering a "very limited time" deal where existing T-Mobile users can add its 5G Home Internet service for $25 per month, the carrier has confirmed to CNET. The deal will be available to all T-Mobile customers with at least one voice line, so long as they don't already have, or recently had, Home Internet service.

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The Oscar-winning director has spent the last 25 years hearing speculation about whether there was room for Jack on Rose's makeshift raft in the 1997 movie Titanic. In other words, Leo died and the internet still isn't over it. In an interview Friday with Postmedia, which owns the Toronto Sun, Cameron said he'd worked with stunt divers and a hypothermia expert to determine whether both Rose (played by Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could have gotten a little more creative in their survival strategy. What's more, he's putting his findings out in a documentary.

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Apple's new iPhone 14 line includes some of the biggest hardware updates made in years, including the iPhone 14 Pro's redesigned cutout for Dynamic Island's contextual notifications and an iPhone 14 Plus model. But among the changes, Apple has not yet confirmed if a rumored foldable iPhone is in development. This is particularly curious as Samsung continues to refine its foldable phone lineup with the release of the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and the Galaxy Z Fold 4 back in August.

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It turns out it might just be a bad batch of GPUs—but that's probably not very comforting to early adopters.

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Nvidia doesn't seem to know how to price its GPUs lately.

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Some tests show a whopping 5X improvement in transfer speeds.

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The tests were performed by PC Games Hardware. To test DirectStorage 1.1, it set up a test bench with a Core i9-12900K and an RTX 4090. On the SSD side, they tested three models: SATA, and PCIe 3.0 and 4.0.

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News of Microsoft’s plans was revealed in a recent Insider build. It shows a new section named “Lighting” listed under the Personalization area in Settings.

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For those still holding onto a 90s-era 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card for retro gaming, it may be possible to increase the RAM to make the cards more powerful than they were when new.

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