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AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D review

Nostalgia is a potent thing in the technology world right now. And I say that as someone with a brand new Commodore 64—a faithful replica of my very first computer—sat beside my desk. AMD is smart enough to understand this, to understand the way the cosy old days tug at the heart strings of PC…

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Just two weeks after launch, ‘extraction survival horror’ game Level Zero: Extraction ends development: ‘It’s no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game’

Just two weeks after launching on Steam, “multiplayer extraction survival horror” shooter Level Zero: Extraction has reached the end of the road. In a message posted to Steam, community manager Antishyr said the game has “underperformed compared to our expectations,” and thus “it’s no longer feasible for our relatively small teams to sustain the game…

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Unreal’s MetaHuman Animator can generate surprisingly lifelike animation with just your phone and it’s now integrated directly into Unreal Engine 5.6

The 2025 State of Unreal gave us some long-awaited updates on the tech powering The Witcher 4, and while I was picking my jaw up from the floor, something new found its way onto my screen—a bizarre animated alien rendered from a webcam feed in real time. Epic’s new updates to MetaHuman, its suite of…

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So, it’s the mirrors. Freakishly accurate-to-an-atom-width mirrors are one big reason your modern GPU is so damned expensive

Profiteering, the AI boom, latterly the looming threat of tariffs—there are a lot of reasons why computer chips have become so expensive. But you probably wouldn’t have guessed another major reason is mirrors. More specifically, the insanely perfect mirrors inside the latest EUV lithography machines used to manufacture the most advanced chips. That’s according to…

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