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Google Chrome doesn’t have especially extensive tab management options, but there are many handy extensions available from third party developers that can help you get things under control. Claim tab bankruptcy: OneTab When the top bar of your browser is so squished that you can barely see the favicon of every open tab, maybe it’s time to declare tab bankruptcy and start over with a clean slate. OneTab lets you close every open tab with a click and converts them into a list instead....

The AMD Phenom II X4 970 performed reasonably well, but despite its higher clock frequency, it was 13% slower than the Core i5 750. Surprisingly, the Core i3 540 (dual-core with Hyper-Threading) was 9% slower than the Phenom II X4 970. Even more shocking, the Core i3 540 was faster than AMD’s mighty Phenom II X6 1075T (hexa-core). The Phenom II X4 970 is clocked roughly 17% higher than the Phenom II X6 1075T and it was 14% faster even though the Phenom II X6 1075T has two more cores....

The Corsair Carbide Series 400Q kept the CPU cool at 72 degrees, only a few degrees higher than some of the best results we have recorded using cases such as the RVX01, D-Frame and HAF X. This placed the 600C on par with the Chaser MK-1, while it is slightly better than the Vengeance C70, Lian-Li Lancool PC-K63 and Cooler Master Silencio 650. It was to be expected, but the Carbide 400Q is also rather quiet and although I don’t have any physical data to back this up, it’s similar to the Cooler Master Silencio 650 in this category....

It’s called the Xeneon 32QHD165, with the letters and numbers soup indicating we’re looking at a 32-inch monitor, with a QHD resolution (a.k.a. 1440p) and a 165Hz maximum refresh rate. The category of 32-inch mid/high-refresh 1440p monitors has accelerated this year with the introduction of quality IPS panels and that’s exactly what Corsair are using in their first display. So it’s large, it’s flat, and Corsair are quoting 100% Adobe RGB coverage in addition to 98% DCI-P3 thanks to Quantum Dot enhancement....

At the top of the food chain we have just one AMD processor, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition priced at roughly $185. However from $185 - $195 there are four Intel processors to choose from. Remove the older Core 2 models that are excessively overpriced by today’s standards and we are left with the Core i5 650 and the Core i5 750. In spite of being innovative technology, the entire Core i5 6xx series is pointless in our opinion, as these dual-core processors are nothing more than a Core i3 with Turbo Boost....

As was the case with the previous synthetic benchmarks the Western Digital RE4 1TB coupled with the Crucial Adrenaline performs very much like a 64GB m4 SSD, this time when testing with the Atto Disk Benchmark. The performance here is certainly impressive though sadly it doesn’t reflect what we say in the real-world testing. As was also the case with previous synthetic benchmarks the Crucial Adrenaline fails to really boost write performance....

The drive doesn’t require any special drivers as it uses the SATA interface. Furthermore, the Adrenaline can be installed at any point and can therefore be fitted to any computer without the need to reinstall Windows. You might recall some of the nuissances we went through when using the Dataplex software the first time we touched it, but here’s a reminder. Undoubtedly the software is a central component to enable the caching feature and the Adrenaline ships with a one-time use product key that will be rendered invalid if any major hardware changes occur....

As one of the top five semiconductor makers, Micron is at the forefront of NAND flash technology, though unlike Samsung it doesn’t make its own SSD controllers and has for the most part relied on Marvell to make the connection. Crucial has had many hits and a few misses over the years. Generally speaking, the company’s SSDs have been among the most reliable and best performing on the market, with last summer’s MX100 being the company’s greatest hit....

Cyberpunk 2077 redeemed itself somewhat after several small and two enormous patches. However, many players had moved on to other games, annoyed at the fiasco by that time. Cyberpunk 2077 averaged more than 332,000 concurrent players on PC in its release month of December, peaking at over one million. By January and the first major patch, the average dropped to just over 82,000 (225,670 peak), and in February, it capped out at 47,115 concurrent players, averaging less than 25,000 daily....

The Dell UltraSharp 32 6K monitor (model U3224KB) crams 6,144 x 2,456 pixels into a 31.5-inch IPS Black panel with a contrast ratio of 2,000:1, 1.07 billion colors that cover 99 percent of the DCI-P3 and Display P3 gamut. It is also Vesa DisplayHDR 600 certified. According to Dell’s commissioned Hot Tech study, monitors with IPS Black tech afford up to 41 percent deeper black levels and up to 1....

Jack Sweeney runs several accounts that track the private jets of many famous people rich enough to use one, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, by using publicly available flight data. The Florida college student gained a lot of publicity after he started following Musk’s jet, partly because the billionaire offered him $5,000 to close the account as Musk didn’t “love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.” Sweeney said he’d remove it for $50,000, but the world’s richest person never got back to him after saying he’d consider the offer....

In a video published on July 31, JT from the YouTube channel jtisallbusiness said he spent a ton of money in Diablo Immortal – around $100,000 – to create a very powerful character. The whale easily ran through the competition and amassed a record that is so good, the matchmaking system literally can’t find any opponents to pit him against. JT reached out to Blizzard regarding the unique issue more than a month ago and was directed to make a post about it on Blizzard’s forums....

Musk’s long-promised reduction of Twitter moderation and his reinstation of banned accounts such as Donald Trump have been worrying advertisers. Several have reportedly suspended or mostly suspended their ads on the platform, and it appears Apple is one of them. “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” Musk tweeted. He followed up with a series of posts criticizing Apple’s alleged censorship actions, as well as its 30% cut of everything sold on the App Store....

Speaking during Tesla’s earnings call yesterday, Musk addressed the long-running and controversial Twitter deal that was first announced back in April. After the automaker’s CEO pulled out of the acquisition over claims that Twitter was being untruthful about how many fake/bot accounts are on the site, Musk eventually agreed to go ahead with the purchase at the original $54.20 per share earlier this month, making the whole deal worth around $44 billion....

The enhanced version of the chip will reportedly be built using a 3nm process node, allowing Apple to squeeze in even more transistors. The newly announced standard M2 is built on a 5nm process, just like the first-gen M1. Apple said the new M2 is up to 18 percent faster than its predecessor in CPU-intensive tasks. The GPU is said to be 35 percent more powerful, the Neural Engine is now 40 percent faster and there’s 50 more memory bandwidth in play compared to the M1....

Kotaku reports that the person suing Epic this time is Kyle Hanagami, a professional choreographer. He’s worked with several massive names, including Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, and NSYNC. He also created dances for Netflix’s animated movie Over the Moon. The dance that Hanagami says copies his own is Fortnite’s It’s Complicated emote. It was introduced in August 2020, while the dance he says it replicates—one he choreographed set to Charlie Puth’s “How Long”—was posted in 2017....

As usual, the star of the show will be the new iPhone series. We’re expecting a 6.1-inch standard iPhone 14, a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max (or Plus), a 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro, and a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro Max. You might notice that there’s no iPhone Mini expected this year. It seems Apple’s 5.4-inch handset hasn’t been selling as well as it hoped, leading it to opt for an all-new iPhone Max/Plus instead....

Deepfakes have been around for a few years now. They were originally used to place celebrities’ faces on the bodies of adult actresses to create a type of AI-generated porn, which is banned on most platforms. The process has become increasingly advanced since then, leading to laws designed to protect against political and pornographic deepfakes and companies racing to find ways of identifying them. The warning issued by the FBI states that more complaints are being received about deepfakes being used in interviews for remote or work-from-home positions, including those for information technology and computer programming, database, and software-related jobs....

The 40th annual Golden Joystick awards took place yesterday. The event was dominated by Elden Ring, which walked off with four awards, including the coveted Ultimate Game of the Year prize. You can see the complete list of winners and nominations at the bottom of the page. It’s not all software at the Golden Joystick. There’s also a Best Gaming Hardware Category, which this year consisted of The Playdate, Steam Deck, Analogue Pocket, Backbone One: PlayStation Edition, Roccat Kone XP, and WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5....

The GTX 670 was 6% and 10% slower than the GTX 680 and HD 7970 when running The Witcher 2 at 2560x1600, though it maintained its edge over the GTX 580 and HD 7950, this time by 15% and 5%. The GTX 670 averaged 61fps in Skyrim at 2560x1600, 5% than the GTX 680, 17% faster than the HD 7970 and 30% faster than the 7950.