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LG Display Study Claims 480Hz OLED Monitors Boost FPS Accuracy By 38%

Are you having trouble picking off your esports opponents and routinely finding yourself dragging down your squad? Blame your monitor. Or more accurately, blame your monitor's refresh rate. If anyone gives you grief about it, point them to a new LG Display study that purportedly found a massive 38% jump in accuracy when gaming on an OLED monitor with a 480Hz refresh, compared to gaming at 60Hz.

Also, don't shoot the messenger. We read through LG Display's press release and our first thought is that this needs further investigation with a larger sample size. For the study, LG Display conducted a blind test with 31 gamers playing an unspecified first-person shooter (FPS) on an OLED monitor running at 60Hz, 240Hz, 360Hz, and 480Hz refresh rates in random order.

Testing measured a series of quantitative indicators, including the number of successful hits (hit score) and event interval time, which is how...

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup. Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer and senior fellow at Google, Quoc

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Hank Green Is Reckoning With His Use of AI. So Should the Rest of Us

Last week, prolific internet creator Hank Green addressed claims that one of his videos contained an AI-generated script. The YouTuber acknowledged he had used AI “to locate papers and other resources for learning about topics” and apologized for not being transparent. He said he would “readjust” and scale back his

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The Disney Plus App Is Getting TikToks. Is a Free Plan Next?

Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro confirmed Wednesday that the entertainment giant is considering adding a free option for Disney Plus as a way to attract more people to the streaming service. “We’re exploring a free product for consumers,” D’Amaro said during the company’s 2026 third-quarter earnings call.

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After Carrying at Least 4 Wallets a Day to Test the Best Minimalist Wallets, These Are My Favorites - CNET

With everything being done digitally nowadays, there’s little reason to keep all those receipts like before (you know, “just in case”). And if you don’t carry cash, there’s no good reason to have those old-fashioned wallets, either. Minimal wallets allow you to carry just those few cards

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

Hank Green Is Reckoning With His Use of AI. So Should the Rest of Us

The Disney Plus App Is Getting TikToks. Is a Free Plan Next?

After Carrying at Least 4 Wallets a Day to Test the Best Minimalist Wallets, These Are My Favorites - CNET