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Blast More Powerful Than Tunguska May Have Devastated Ancient City
Blast More Powerful Than Tunguska May Have Devastated Ancient City

An ancient metropolis by the Dead Sea was destroyed in an all-consuming firestorm, salting the earth and leaving the site abandoned for hundreds of years. Researchers now believe the assailant was a cosmic airburst bigger than Tunguska, which may explain the Late Bronze Age Gap in the archaeological record.

Microsoft’s Updated PC Health App Tells You Why Your PC Can’t Run Windows 11
Microsoft’s Updated PC Health App Tells You Why Your PC Can’t Run Windows 11

The app was light on details when Microsoft announced the new OS, but it's been updated with more info and ways you might be able to make your computer compatible.

OnePlus Confirms No OnePlus 9T in 2021, New Android Software Coming
OnePlus Confirms No OnePlus 9T in 2021, New Android Software Coming

OnePlus has announced that it's not doing a T-series update to the OnePlus 9. The next time OnePlus releases a phone, it'll be running a new version of Android that replaces the current Oxygen OS.

IDC: Semiconductor Market Will Surge Through 2022, Could Crash in 2023
IDC: Semiconductor Market Will Surge Through 2022, Could Crash in 2023

The silicon market is booming, and IDC expects it to stay that way — at least, for now.

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Is Now Testing the Laws of Physics on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Is Now Testing the Laws of Physics on Mars

Pull out your red-and-blue 3D glasses: Ingenuity's latest flight, at its lowest altitude ever, has returned a three-dimensional tableau of the Martian landscape, including one big rock.

Roku Upgrades Its Best-Selling Streaming Device With the Streaming Stick 4K
Roku Upgrades Its Best-Selling Streaming Device With the Streaming Stick 4K

The upgraded device earned its “4K” suffix through added support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10+.

Nvidia’s DLAA Could Be a Huge Step Forward for Anti-Aliasing
Nvidia’s DLAA Could Be a Huge Step Forward for Anti-Aliasing

A new AI-powered feature is coming to RTX GPUs. Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing will hopefully deliver a significant quality improvement without the same performance hit.

GPU Pricing, Availability Are Moving in the Wrong Direction
GPU Pricing, Availability Are Moving in the Wrong Direction

GPU prices are moving again, but not in the direction we'd prefer.

Amateur Astronomers Detect Massive Impact Flash on Jupiter
Amateur Astronomers Detect Massive Impact Flash on Jupiter

Astronomers around the world are buzzing with the news that something crashed into Jupiter. The question is: What was it?

Leak: Surface Pro 8 Will Have 120Hz Screen, Thunderbolt 4
Leak: Surface Pro 8 Will Have 120Hz Screen, Thunderbolt 4

What appears to be a Chinese-language ad for the Surface Pro 8 has appeared on Twitter, promoting the computer's Thunderbolt 4 ports and 120Hz screen, neither of which are available on the current Surface Pro devices.

Microsoft Surface Duo 2 Pops Up at FCC With 5G, NFC, and Wireless Charging
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 Pops Up at FCC With 5G, NFC, and Wireless Charging

Microsoft has a Surface hardware event on the agenda for Wednesday (September 22), but an FCC filing might have just spilled the beans. The document reveals some notable details on the alleged Surface Duo 2, a follow-up to Microsoft's first Android phone in 2020.

Astronomers Track Down Mysterious ‘Guest Star’
Astronomers Track Down Mysterious ‘Guest Star’

An international team of experts has tracked down the identity of the last unaccounted-for supernova of the last thousand years and discovered that it's now a strange nebula surrounding a zombie star.