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Kacey Musgraves has turned over a new leaf. On the serene title track of her sixth album, Deeper Well, the Nashville-based country crossover star, known for singing about her love of smoking weed, admits that she has given it up. Within that admission, and the song’s delicate, pared-back pop-country arrangement, is the promise of a more clarified, mature iteration of Musgraves, and sometimes that’s what Deeper Well provides. On Lonely Millionaire, which samples a song by the rapper JID, she invokes the shallowness of fame…

The first co-headlining tour from the National and the War on Drugs is heading to North America. The two bands will head out on the road for the 2024 Zen Diagram tour starting in September. The Zen Diagram kicks off on Sept. 12 in Gilford, New Hampshire, and will wrap on Oct. 10 in Mexico City, Mexico. The National and the War on Drugs will perform in 19 cities across the tour, including New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Portland, Los Angeles, and more. The bands will be…

Every day is the same. Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a taciturn man in his 60s, wakes in his spartan apartment to the reluctant grey light of pre-dawn. He pulls on his overalls, takes a can of coffee from a street vending machine and sets out in his modest little van to start work, diligently cleaning the public toilets of Tokyo. It’s a solitary life. Hirayama can go days saying no more than a few cursory words. If members of the public notice him, they largely view him as an inconvenience. But mostly they don’t even see him.…

AMD made bank on its Ryzen chipsets on the strength of bored pandemic-era gamers who spent their stimulus checks on new PC builds. Ryzen CPUs offered arguably the best price-to-performance value back then, causing many to go all in on AM4-based systems. AMD has since switched to the next-generation AM5 platform, but there’s still plenty of room on the upgrade path for those not interested in shelling out hundreds or thousands on newer hardware. Take the top-line Ryzen 9 5950X, for instance, which has never been cheaper…

The PlayStation 5’s latest update blocks players from using the Cronus Zen — a device cheaters use to get an unfair advantage in first-person shooters and other games — as spotted by Call of Duty news site CharlieIntel. A notice on the Cronus website warns players that the 24.01-08.60.00 update for the PS5 no longer allows the Cronus Zen to connect to the console.Although Cronus bills the device as a “controller emulator,” cheaters have been using it to perform all sorts of digital tweaks to their controllers, like…

AMD AMD’s big CES 2024 reveals left some fans wanting more. The company announced the expansion of its existing Ryzen 7000X3D desktop CPUs, Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs, and new RX 7000 mobile GPUs. Team Red also revealed the Ryzen 8000G series lineup of desktop APUs with built-in graphics. It sounds like a lot, but the anticipated Zen 5 architecture was missing. The good news is that the first wave of AMD’s new Zen 5 CPUs sounds like it’s being prepared for a possible launch later this year. The rumor was posted by…

Maruti Suzuki has always been a brand that remains very close to the hearts of Indian car buyers. They have offered several models to customers in India. Some of them are popular among family audiences, while others are quite popular among enthusiasts. Maruti Suzuki did launch a couple of cars in the market targeting the enthusiast community. Not all of them did well in terms of sales. One such model that Maruti launched was the Zen Carbon and Steel. Currently, it is a collectible car as it was only sold in limited…

Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, which directly criticizes AMD's “snake oil” for using its older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs — Look in the mirror Intel — Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” … Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, which directly criticizes AMD's “snake oil” for using…

One way that YouTube TV really differentiates itself from its competitors, is by injecting these “Zen Breaks”. While you’re watching live TV, during a commercial break, you’ll sometimes see a Zen break. Which will play some calming nature sounds for a few seconds, or longer, depending on the ad break. It was a really cool feature, but as Reddit users are starting to notice, YouTube TV is now turning them into ads. So the ad-free Zen break is now an ad. Kind of ironic. According to Reddit, users are seeing things like…

The new G14 can be purchased at Best Buy or on Asus’ website for a purported starting price of $1,429.99. I’m not seeing a model for this price available on Asus’ store, however, but I have found several models currently selling at Best Buy. It appears that the $1,429.99 model includes an Nvidia RTX 4050, a Ryzen 7 7735HS, 16GB of DDR5 memory, and 512GB of storage. I’m not going to recommend most people buy that model (the combination of the low-powered RTX 4050 and limited storage is not great value), so the real party…