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PSA: Headed into Black Friday, AMD’s Midrange GPU Prices are Really, Really Good
AMD's RX 570 and RX 580 have gotten some very tasty price cuts for the holidays.

HTC Acknowledges Vive Wireless Isn’t Working With AMD Hardware, Offers Refunds
Problems with AMD systems and HTC's new wireless adapter are so bad, HTC is offering refunds to Ryzen owners.

Google May Shutter Google News in EU Over ‘Link Tax’ Laws
According to a Google executive, the company is considering shutting down its Google News portal in Europe if the latest copyright changes, known as the "link tax," go into effect.

Best Graphics Cards for Every Budget in 2018
You've got questions about GPUs and video cards. We've got answers. Now updated for the Holidays 2018.

NASA Selects Ancient Crater Lake as Landing Site for Future Mars Rover
NASA has chosen the landing zone for its next mission to Mars, with the hope of gathering rock and soil samples there and returning them to Earth for eventual analysis.

SpaceX Delays Launch of Twice-Reused Rocket for Additional Inspections
It would have been the third launch for this particular rocket, a feat never before attempted. In the end, SpaceX decided it needed more time to prepare.

Go Self-Sovereign: How to Own Your Identity on the Internet
In everyday life, we rely on government-issued documents to establish our identity. But on the web, we hand that power over to private, for-profit corporations that don't even think of us as customers. We look at whether self-sovereign identities might let us take control of who we are on the internet.

Spectre Patches Whack Intel Performance Hard With Linux 4.20 Kernel
Intel CPUs take a fairly heavy hit with the Linux 4.2 kernel, thanks to security measures to protect against Spectre / Meltdown attacks. The new changes impact a larger range of tests than were hit by the patches earlier this year.

Fallout 76 Magnifies Everything Wrong With Fallout 4
Fallout 4 suffered from feeling like two different games smashed together. In FO76, the problem is much worse.

Microsoft Frantically Downplays Plan to Put Ads in Windows Email App
Microsoft got caught testing the idea of putting ads into the Windows 10 Email client. Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea.

Alien Object ‘Oumuamua May Be Smaller Than We Thought
From our limited observation time, astronomers have determined ‘Oumuamua is a small cigar-shaped object, but we didn't know exactly how small until now.

Nintendo: Don’t Expect an N64 Classic Edition
According to Fils-Aimé, the classic consoles were intended as a limited-run — one-off devices that do not dictate Nintendo's strategy going forward.