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After more than 100 reported instances of AMD Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs breaking or having performance issues with ASRock motherboards, employees from the company have been quoted by a YouTuber as admitting some measure of fault on their end. This hasn’t been confirmed and is far from official. But it’s …

Controversial image board 4chan has been hacked, and gigabytes of compressed data have been published online. The hackers claim to have had administrative access to the site’s back end, potentially revealing the email addresses and IP addresses of some of its most prominent members, including site moderators and administrators. 4chan …

Logitech is reportedly working on a computer mouse made to withstand longer-than-normal use. Although the mouse is a part of Logitech’s effort to deliver reliability to customers, that’s a perk users might have to pay for again and again. According to CEO Hanneke Faber, the mouse might require a monthly …

For the past year, we’ve all been sitting back and watching Nvidia’s stock price go to the moon. The company generates record-breaking quarterly revenues, with no signs of the money train slowing down because of how AI has taken over the global tech industry. Now, TSMC’s new chairman is saying …

On Earth, water is the key to all life, but there doesn’t seem to be much of it on other planets… at least at first glance. As we explore more of our solar system, water has been appearing in some surprising places. We now know Mars is not entirely bone …

Excitement is building over Google’s upcoming release of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. These devices will be the very first with the company’s long-awaited Tensor custom chip, and they’ll also have the first new camera array from Google in several years. With all this fancy hardware, Android fans …

For years, the conventional wisdom has been that you can’t just nuke an incoming asteroid to save the planet, no matter what Hollywood movies have told you. The logic is quite straightforward; blowing space rocks into pieces would cause an even deadlier rain of smaller astroids that would pelt the …

If the 21st century has taught us any astronomical lessons, it’s that counting planets is hard. In 2000, there were nine planets, and now there are eight, but that might not last. Astronomers have been on the hunt for a theorized ninth planet in the extreme outer solar system, and …

Earth has numerous properties that make it an ideal home for life as we know it, including a robust magnetic field that deflects radiation, a temperate climate with liquid water, a large moon that stabilizes the planet’s rotation, and a modest axial tilt. That last item may be more important …

The current scientific consensus is that a supermassive black hole lurks at the center of our galaxy. We know that’s true in other galaxies — there’s even photographic evidence of a black hole in M87. However, a new study suggests that the Milky Way might not have a black hole. …