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Amazon employees stage walkout over return-to-office mandate, climate goals, and layoffs
The protest was streamed on Twitter
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Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards rumored to launch next year with massive performance increase
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MSI reveals first USB4 expansion card, delivering 100W through USB-C
Two 40Gb/s USB-C ports, two DisplayPort outputs, 6-pin power connector
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Asus introduces 49-inch super-ultrawide OLED gaming monitor at Computex 2023
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The Best Gaming Monitors - Mid 2023 Update
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A giant 1080p screen four meters in front of your face
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Japan will put a wooden satellite into orbit next year
Taking wood into space
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James Webb telescope used to spot a "larger than expected" supermassive black hole
Universe-consuming monsters can shut stellar formation in their host galaxies down
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Photoshop's Generative Fill tool has users flooding Twitter with cool expansions of iconic album art
Some of the expansions might have made even better covers than the original
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'Terminator' tool uses vulnerable Windows driver to kill almost any security software
A Russian hacker is selling the AV and EDR evasion tool for anywhere between $300 and $3,000
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Cellulose film could help cool cars and homes without electricity
Exploiting plants natural cooling abilities with colorful home furniture or car sensors
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Mars Express celebrates 20th birthday with a livestream from the red planet
The stream provided viewers with a never before seen image of the planet every 50 seconds
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Gigabyte shipped hundreds of models of motherboards with a hidden firmware backdoor
Cause for concern, or no big deal?
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Music company wants Google to delist a Wikipedia page about YouTube rippers
Overstepping the mark a little?
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Microsoft introduces Windows 11 widgets for monitoring your CPU, GPU, RAM, and more
Here's how to install them
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Lords of the Fallen PC requirements revealed: RTX 2080 recommended for 1080p
The Unreal Engine 5-powered game is visually stunning
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James Webb Telescope detects unprecedented water plume on Saturn moon Enceladus
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This AI-powered camera uses location data instead of optics to create pictures
You've never seen a camera quite like this
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App that lets people rent their swimming pools is causing anger and calls for regulation
Is Swimply a great idea or a menace?
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Nvidia shows off in-game AI tech that allows spoken conversations with NPCs
No more canned responses
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Researchers discover how to harvest electricity from humid air using nearly any material
Think of it as a man-made mini cloud
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Operators of the UK's largest illegal streaming service jailed for over 30 years
The men made millions from subscribers
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Large Hadron Collider's experiments detect the first evidence of Higgs boson decay
Why it matters: Since discovering the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists have thoroughly studied the strange particle looking for new clues about the true nature of matter and the universe. Now, CERN researchers say they have observed exciting and vital behavior with the particle's decay that extends beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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