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Optogenetics: A Virtual Reality System for Controlling Living Cells
Our brains communicate with electrical and chemical signaling, but scientists have discovered that l...
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How to Watch Netflix with Friends Anywhere (and No, It's Not Illegal to Share Your Password)
There was a brief moment of panic in mid July when articles with damning headlines such as "Federal...
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Steam Refunds: Friend or Foe?
Last week Steam added a refund procedure that allows you to get a full refund on any Steam game you'...
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11 Tech Products That Were Supposed to Fail... But Didn't
You'll often find that when a new product or service fails, there's a line of people waiting to say,...
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The State of Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing: One Year Later
Time to revisit the state of ray tracing. It's been months since we last discussed ray tracing in de...
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Revisiting 8
Game systems from the 8-bit and 16-bit era weren't exactly the graphical powerhouses that modern con...
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Music is the secret weapon of Mario Speedrunners
Is there anything so satisfying to watch as a well-played Mariospeedrun? What makes an expert run of...
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Benchmarked
Today we're benchmarking a cargo plane load of graphics cards in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator...
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Ryzen 5 3600 vs. 3600X: Which should you buy?
We were among the first publications to review the Ryzen 5 3600 and at $200 we found the 6-core, 12-...
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The History of the Microprocessor and the Personal Computer
The personal computing business as we know it owes itself to an environment of enthusiasts, entrepre...
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Fire TV vs. Roku vs. Chromecast: Between a set
As Amazon Fire TV ($99) bursts onto the market to compete with streamers like the Roku 3 ($99) and A...
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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...