Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at the unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K

Nvidia RTX 5070 hands-on preview: a sneak peek at the unreleased RTX Blackwell card hitting triple digit frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p and Avowed at 4K

For the past week or so I’ve been playing around with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 graphics card, the next outing in the new RTX Blackwell series of GPUs. It’s the cheapest of all the RTX 50-series cards so far with a $549 MSRP and the promise of RTX 4090 performance. Though recent experience has taught us…

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Valve is adding an ‘extra competitive’ option to Deadlock that’ll make matches harder, but only because everyone in this mode refuses to speak

Valve added a competitive mode to Deadlock back in October. This drastically improved matchmaking by sorting everyone into 11 ranks, which were more in keeping with players’ skill level, but now there’s another way to raise your blood pressure. As the December 6 patch notes reveal, Valve has introduced an “extra competitive option” for players…

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18 protesters arrested: Microsoft claims ‘vandalism and property damage,’ protesters claim ‘genocide powered by Microsoft technology’

After police dispersed them on Tuesday, “No Azure for Apartheid” protestors returned to Microsoft’s East Campus Plaza in Redmond, Washington on Wednesday to continue protesting the tech giant’s dealings with Israel, which allegedly include the use of its Azure cloud platform to surveil Palestinians and select Gaza bombing targets. This time, 18 protesters were arrested…

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