GTA V is free on the Epic Games Store today

What just happened? The Epic Games Store has given away some great titles since it launched in December 2018, but its next freebie is something extra special. One of the best games ever made, and still incredibly popular five years after its PC release, you’ll be able to grab GTA V for free today.

You might think there are few people in the world who don’t own Grand Theft Auto V, yet it continually appears in Steam's best-sellers chart—especially during


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Core i9-10900K available for preorder, but it'll cost you

In brief: Intel’s new Core i9-10900K is now available for preorder in the US, but as is usually the case for early adopters, being one of the first to own the chip comes at a high price.

Tom’s Hardware reports that US retailer B&H Photo Video has listed the new CPU on its site as “coming soon.” At the time of writing, it's available to preorder for $599.99, which

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Dell launches new XPS 17 and a redesigned XPS 15 with powerful internals, taller displays

Forward-looking: Dell's latest XPS 15 laptop features a taller display and USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports instead of the usual port setup. The company also resurrected the XPS 17 with much more powerful internals in a slimmer body, as well as a modicum of upgradeability that seems all but lost these days.

Dell's XPS lineup was due for an update, and today the company unveiled a redesigned XPS 15 with some of the biggest changes it has seen in the last five years. Alongside

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Chrome's new 'tab group' feature helps you organize your cluttered browser

What just happened? Google's Chrome browser is always getting a little better, thanks to the tireless work of the company's engineers, and of course, the Chromium project's many contributors. Now, that point has been driven home even further by the addition of tab groups in Chrome's Beta branches.

This functionality allows users to right-click any tab and create a group for it (adding new tabs to an existing group works the same way). By clicking on the small gray dot

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2K is remastering the Mafia trilogy of games

Recap: After nearly two years of inactivity, the official Twitter account for the Mafia franchise of games sprang back to life earlier this week with a single tweet. Each successive day, we got another one-word teaser leading up to today’s reveal of Mafia Trilogy.

The first Mafia game dropped way back in 2002 for PlayStation 2, the Xbox and Windows PC. It would be another eight years before the sequel, aptly named Mafia II, would land on the PS3, Xbox 36

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Unreal Engine 5's new Lumen and Nanite systems brings near photorealistic environments to the PS5


On Wednesday, Epic Games unveiled Unreal Engine 5, which it says will unleash the power of next-generation machines. To drive the point home, the developers provided a "first look" of the engine running on a PlayStation 5 (below).

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Apple implementing multi-phase plan to return employees to the office

In brief: Apple is reportedly implementing a multi-phase plan that’ll have employees return to the office sooner than some of its competitors. The first group to come back will likely work on hardware development, a task that is tricky to do remotely.

Sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg that the first phase, which includes staffers that can’t work remotely and those facing challenges working from home , has already begun in some regions and will expand to major offices by the end of this month and into early

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Ill-fated battle royale title 'The Culling' relaunches tomorrow with a bizarre monetization model

Why it matters: We've all seen how prominent microtransactions have become in modern games, especially multiplayer titles like Star Wars: Battlefront 2. However, just when you think in-game monetization has hit its limit, developers seem to find a way to surprise the world with a new solution to maximize profits.

That's what's happening tomorrow when ill-fated battle royale title The Culling: Origins relaunches on Xbox One. This franchise has already seen two failed launches in the past, but developer Xaviant

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Amazon updates Fire HD 8 tablet with faster processor and more storage

Why it matters: Amazon on Wednesday refreshed its Fire tablet line with faster hardware, more storage and better battery support. Collectively, the upgrades are modest in nature but at this price point, you really can't expect massive leaps in hardware.

The baseline Fire HD 8 packs an 8-inch high-definition display (1,280 x 800 resolution) that’s

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US e-commerce sales up 49 percent in April, led by boom in grocery category

In brief: Online sales in the US shot up an average of 49 percent in April compared to a baseline period in March before stay-at-home measures went into effect to slow the spread of Covid-19.

According to Adobe’s Digital Economy Index , online grocery shopping saw a 110 percent boost in daily sales last month. Grocery prices typically dip a bit between March and August before going back up in September and remaining there through the holidays. With the pandemic, however, Adobe

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