Amazon Basics USB condenser microphone review

There’s a lot to be said for the simple things in life. For a start, they’re often cheap—and hardware doesn’t come much cheaper than this Amazon Basics USB condenser microphone. You can pick up one of these teeny-tiny little units for a mere $26/£23 at Amazon, although it must be said, that’s the sort of…

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Elden Ring Nightreign’s newest Everdark Sovereign Augur, manages to break the fourth wall by sending me to sleep in the game and in real life

I’ve been itching to play a new Everdark Sovereign for a while now, ever since FromSoftware introduced a round-robin of old Everdarks to Elden Ring Nightreign, including Gaping Jaw, Sentient Pest, and Darkdrift Knight. I played these Everdark variants so much that fights were starting to become silly, as my teammates and I saw each…

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Marvel Rivals has started screening your in-game voice chat for moderation purposes to make ‘the game a better place for everyone’

While I’m not sure about DC’s historically funny insistence on what Batman does and doesn’t do in the bedroom, one thing’s for certain—superheroes like the ones in Marvel Rivals don’t typically say slurs and chew you out for your K/DA. Alright, Frank Castle might look like he’s levelled some slightly harmful terms at my community…

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Gabe Newell says young people need to use AI tools to get ‘off to the races’ rather than ‘reading articles on Variety to try to understand what its impact is going to be’

Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and billionaire yacht-fancier, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The full interview covers things like Newell’s daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“), as well as some amusing drive-bys on conventional Silicon Valley wisdom, such as why startups chasing VC money makes no…

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Razer BlackShark V3 Pro review

It’s about time Razer launched a properly new version of its flagship esports-focused BlackShark gaming headset. After all, the BlackShark V2 launched five years ago and was one of my early PC Gamer reviews on my return to the fold back in 2020. As a card-carrying member of the HyperX Cloud Alpha fan club, I…

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Artificial superintelligence is ‘now in sight’ according to Mark Zuckerberg and it’s going to be really great, but only if it comes from Meta

Artificial superintelligence, which is arguably a synonym for AGI or artificial general intelligence, is “now in sight.” So says no lesser an authority than his Royal Zuckness, Meta CEO and self-appointed soothsayer on the subject of synthetic thought, Mark Zuckerberg. El Zuck made his comment in an open letter posted on the Meta website and…

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TSMC’s next generation of system-on-wafer packaging will make today’s CPUs and GPUs look pathetically feeble in comparison

From powering watches to phones, handheld consoles to desktop PCs, office servers to data centers, processors can be found everywhere and in every size possible. That last aspect is set to take a gargantuan leap forward thanks to the world’s top chip manufacturer and its next generation of system-on-wafer packing. As reported by PC Watch,…

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