We’ve got a heads up for you folks that tune in to our weekly 2.5 Geeks podcast. As a reminder, the next show goes live Friday (5/22) at 5PM EST, and we’ll have none other than Frank Azor on the line to rack his brain on all things gaming related. 

For those that don’t already know, Frank serves as AMD’s Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions.

The SD Association has announced the SD 8.0 Specification for SD Express memory cards, which have the same size and form factor as the SD cards on the market for many years. Where SD Express cards improve significantly is on data transfer speed thanks to the new specification leveraging PCIe 4.0 to deliver maximum transfer speeds of nearly

It’s no secret that Apple’s new iPhone 12 family is roughly four months away from its big unveil, and we’ve heard plenty of news regarding the specifications for the 2020 smartphone lineup. However, a new report is giving some details on what to expect inside the retail box with the iPhone 12; or rather, what’s not going to be in the box.

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Microsoft recently announced that it teamed up with OpenAI to create one of the world’s fastest supercomputers running on the Azure infrastructure. The supercomputer project received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft, and while it hasn’t offered complete details on the machine, it has said the supercomputer has 285,000 cores and would

Activision has begun rolling out a new patch for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone, and with it comes a bunch of new features and bug fixes. Normally those sort of things would be embraced. But on the other side of the coin, the sheer size of Activision’s patches are the cause of consternation among some gamers.

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Intel’s Core i9-10900K is no doubt an impressive chip, made even more impressive by the fact that the company has been able to achieve 5GHz+ turbo clocks in a 10-core design using 14nm process tech well past its “freshness” date. We posted our review of the chip earlier today and we were able to get the chip to 5.3GHz across all 10 cores with

From the outside looking in, there is a bit of uncertainty surrounding Google’s hardware business, and especially its line of Pixel phones. Following the launch of the Pixel 4, a report came out claiming there was a fair bit of behind-the-scenes turmoil during the phone’s development, which may have impacted its reception—the Pixel 4 line

Back in August 2019, Samsung announced its thin and light Galaxy Book S laptop, which ditched traditional Intel x86-64 processors in favor of a more power efficient Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx SoC. The octa-core SoC allowed the device to run Windows 10 respectably and given its Snapdragon architecture, it came with standard 4G LTE connectivity. 

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It looks like the next Call of Duty game will take a step back in history. As is now tradition, the next game’s name has already leaked. It was recently revealed that the upcoming game will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

Leaker “Okami” posted what appears to be the cover art of the next Call of Duty game on Twitter. Activision

The coronavirus lockdown around the world has been hard on everyone. Anyone still stuck at home looking for a new video game to play may want to give the new release, Crucible, from Amazon Game Studios a go. The video game is free-to-play and will be available to download on Steam today at 12PM PST.

Crucible was developed by Relentless