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Technology
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August 23 Find Your Inner Nerd Day
Ahh yes, this day fits me well, how about you, friendly gamers? Find Your Inner Nerd Day on August 23 is the brainchild of Your Nerdy Best Friend, Beth Z, who is a speaker, author, and proud nerd. Today is all about…
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RIP Skype, Microsoft is shuttering the once VOIP giant
In 2003, Skype was all the rage. Call people from your computer. Game with friends on a phone. I had an 800 number through Skype at one time and integrated with an early online talk radio show. The one constant about…
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AGI Remains the Ultimate AI Mirage
There is really only one major technology I'm interested in that crosses into gaming as much as other sectors and that's AI. We have a category dedicated to it and it's not because I'm somehow obsessed with it, like too…
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Neuro Brain Games Work Like EEG and AI Measure Your Mental Focus
These headphones are pretty futuristic: they work like an electroencephalogram (EEG) and measure how mentally focused you are on a task. Think Fitbit-like sensors, only not measuring heartrate and pulse during cardio,…
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What games will actually need a 50-series GPU and still be fun to play? + Happy Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 + D&D play by others at CES
It's Humpday Wednesday 1/8/2025 and CES 2025 week underway and we're bound to see and hear plenty of what is coming out later this year and beyond -- including some early Stern Pinball Dungeons & Dragons Pinball. But…
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OPINION: We Don't Need No Stinking Xbox AI Chatbots
AI and humans, humans and AI, how do we get along? That's the real question that begins in 2024 and will bubble over into future years. It's an important question of which nobody seems to know exactly how this will work…
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Will Nvidia's 5090 Be Slimmer and More Efficient?
Back in February, we published: SPECULATIVE: Nvidia 50-series Could Be Ready by Q4-2024, Early 2025 and continue to see articles pushing tech specs on the new 50-series graphic cards. One of my quotes at the end of this…
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That Microcode Patch for 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU Issues We Keep Hearing About
Back in February of this year we touched on No, Thank You Unreal Engine Game Crashes Reported in some High-End Intel i9 CPUs . It's gotten worse. Much worse. And it goes beyond Unreal Engine. It's the Intel CPU itself.…
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No, Thank You Unreal Engine Game Crashes Reported in some High-End Intel i9 CPUs
Ouch, this is impacting two of the Intel i9-powered gaming computers I purchased a year ago, PC & laptop. Some of Intel’s best CPUs may be having stability issues in Unreal Engine 4 and 5 games. According to reports…
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Apple Vision Pro Owner INTERVIEW: "Definitely Wouldn't Recommend for Gamers" says PGM Member Mike DG
Had the chance to interview PGM Member Mike DG on 2/5/2024 about his new owner experience with the Apple Vision Pro (see: February 2 Apple Vision Pro – The Day Spacial Computing Breaks VR Gamer Wallets ). The interview…
