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This latest handheld gaming PC channels the spirit of one of my all‑time favorite smartphones, blending nostalgia with power

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AYANEO makes some pretty wild portable gaming devices, and in 2026 it's going to be making its first phone. 15 years on, we're finally getting a spiritual successor to the Sony Xperia Play.

AYANEO Pocket Play gaming smartphone

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ChatGPT was completely down — major Cloudflare outage affected OpenAI's chatbot

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A massive Cloudflare outage is affecting major web services right now, one of the biggest being OpenAI and its chatbot, ChatGPT.

The ChatGPT app logo displays on the screen of a smartphone in Reno, United States, on November 21, 2024. (Photo by Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Best controller for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 — play like a pro on Xbox and PC, whatever your budget

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is still best played on controller, even on PC, but you're going to want to have the right one. Here are the best options right now for Xbox and PC.

Razer Raiju V3 Pro and Razer Wolverine V3 Pro

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 WILL have open matchmaking at launch after player feedback from the beta

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Call of Duty's players have been heard, and Activision has confirmed the open matchmaking trialed in the Black Ops 7 beta will carry over to the full release.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 reveal trailers, showing characters, weapons, and maps.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 might not be a cheater infested mess after all — Activision claims a near perfect success rate in the beta

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Black Ops 6 and Warzone have been a cheater-fueled nightmare over the past year, but changes made with the Black Ops 7 beta might make for a different story.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer reveal screenshots show combat, weapons, score streaks, and maps.

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Here are all of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Dark Ops challenges and the rewards you can get

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Dark Ops challenges aren't listed in Black Ops 7's Calling Cards menu, as, like previous games, they're secretive. But here's a list of every known Dark Ops so far and how to get it.

Screenshots from the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 reveal trailer.

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Forget huge desktops or laptops, this mini PC is the one you should be buying for AI or gaming — and its price is too good to ignore

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The GMKtec Evo-X2 has come down in price quite significantly from its launch mark, and with 64GB of RAM and a desktop-class GPU inside, this is a true workstation PC, even if it doesn't look like it.

GMKtec EVO-X2 mini PC

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Does the reduced SBMM playlist in the Black Ops 7 beta really have better server latency? — It's not quite that simple

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A curious detail has emerged in the Black Ops 7 open beta, with players seeing lower latency (ping) when connected to the Open Moshpit. So what's going on?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer reveal screenshots show combat, weapons, score streaks, and maps.

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You NEED a Raygun in the Black Ops 7 Zombies beta — here's how to get one, potentially for free!

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If you want to reach round 50 in the Black Ops 7 Zombies beta, then you're going to ideally need a Raygun. There are two ways to get one, both of which involve an amount of luck.

Using a Pack-a-Punched Raygun in the Black Ops 7 Zombies beta.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has a special multiplayer Dark Ops Calling Card in the beta — here's how to get it

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The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta has a few surprises up its sleeve, not least a Dark Ops Calling Card reward which has been found. If you have the time, it's not too difficult to get.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 multiplayer reveal screenshots show combat, weapons, score streaks, and maps.

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Microsoft is jacking up the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions, but we STILL don't have a family plan

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Microsoft is jacking up the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and not really delivering anything new of value. Meanwhile, the previously tested family plan still doesn't exist.

Xbox Game Pass display at Gamescom

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Borderlands 4 on Xbox Ally X — my unscientific testing shockingly shows it MIGHT be possible to play on the latest handheld gaming PC

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I don't have an Xbox Ally X yet, and even if I did, I couldn't talk about it. But I am curious if Borderlands 4 might play on it, so I tried — unscientifically — to figure it out.

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X (black) and ROG Xbox Ally (white) in a glass display case at Gamescom in August, 2025.

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Sony's latest PS5 revision in Europe doesn't follow Microsoft's Xbox price hike — but it's further proof consoles are worse value than ever

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Sony has changed its value proposition for the PS5 in some markets, following on from Microsoft's Xbox price increase. It still costs the same, but you get less for your money.

Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5

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So much for reaching net-zero — Google's proposed AI datacenter emissions are mind-boggling

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Plans for an upcoming Google datacenter in the UK show a bleak look at the impact AI is having on the environment, with the same CO2 emissions as hundreds of flights to Europe every day.

Aerial view of a data center owned by the US multinational and technology company Google in Santiago on October 9, 2024.

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