Apple’s A18 Pro powered MacBook Neo couples a budget price tag with relatively impressive performance. Benchmarks have shown it to offer better single-core performance than most x86 processors and it can even provide a decent gaming experience. Although a modder wanted to find out if Apple was leaving performance on the table due to the machine’s

Samsung Display recently introduced a new feature to its QD-OLEDs dubbed QuantumBlack, which is designed to mitigate reflections in brightly-lit rooms. Another component of QuantumBlack is that surface hardness is improved from 2H to 3H, which should also make the panels more durable overall. While a hard push or drop will still spell disaster,

OnePlus Pad Go 2: Currently $349 @ OnePlus.com Intel’s mid-model Arrow Lake refresh improves upon the original Core Ultra 200S processors in a number of meaningful ways to boost performance and value significantly.   Vibrant, Quality Display Decent Speakers Stylo Pen Works Well Good Battery Life Middling Specs Lackluster Performance Lackluster…

We missed this in our coverage of Dell’s commercial PC announcements this week, but the company has new keyboards and mice, too. There’s the latest revision of the classy Dell Pro 7 Slim setup, and the Dell Pro 5 Fingerprint ESS mouse that enables Windows Hello authentication with a fingerprint sensor, but the star of the show in our opinion

It’s still early, but the MacBook Neo may be the biggest threat to Windows laptops to date, particularly in the current climate that has seen certain PC component prices soar. A possible challenger could come in the form of Intel’s upcoming Wildcat Lake lineup, and in particular a 5-core model that has just been spotted on Geekbench.

Wildcat

Hubble has captured a phenomenon never before witnessed in the world of astronomy: a comet that slowed and then began spinning in the opposite direction. No alien intervention was involved in this one (as far as we know).

41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák taken on March 22, 2017
The about-turn comes courtesy of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák,

If you have a glass of apple juice handy, pour one out for Apple’s Mac Pro desktop, which is now discontinued. While there was not a public announcement, Apple made quick and quiet work of scrubbing the Mac Pro from its website, having removed both the product page and the option to buy one in its online store, and it’s now as though it never

In yet another cautionary tale for those working in the legal system, a Salem attorney has been hit with a $10,000 fine, the largest of its kind in Oregon, after submitting an appellate brief riddled with made-up citations generated by artificial intelligence. 

The case (initially reported by Oregon Live) centers around attorney Bill Ghiorso,

Sony confirmed that another round of price hikes is headed to its entire PlayStation 5 console lineup, as well as the PlayStation Portal. The new prices will go into effect on April 2, 2026, the day after April Fools’ Day and less than eight months after the previous adjustment, which saw the PS5, PS5 Digital Edition, and PS5 Pro all go up

Starting on April 24th, all GitHub Copilot interaction data including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train GitHub’s AI models unless those users manually opt out. Copilot Business and Enterprise (including educational) users are not affected by this, but other GitHub

Did you read our review of the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 “Plus” processors? These chips are still Arrow Lake, but the new “Plus” descriptor marks the parts as being targeted at enthusiasts, and offering the highest performance available from the architecture. Besides the changes in specs, these parts come along with a feature called the

According to Google, Q-Day—the point at which modern encryption becomes obsolete in the face of quantum computers capable of breaking it instantly—is approaching. Google suggests the day may arrive as soon as 2029, which makes the next couple of years crucial to implement quantum-resistant security measures. Google describes the time after

Cost in the gaming industry continue trending upwards thanks to a variety of economic factors. After being one of the first publishers to push the price of one of its games to $80, Nintendo is now offering different prices for digital and physical editions of Switch 2 games.

Nintendo has announced that first-party games that are exclusive

AMD’s Ryzen 9 processors with more than eight CPU cores use two different pieces of silicon, known as complex core dies or CCDs, for their CPU cores. Well, ever since AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the original 3D V-Cache CPU, users have been wondering when the company would launch a chip with 3D V-Cache on both CCDs. That time is now:

Google has declared Android the “fastest mobile platform for web browsing,” citing a series of engineering breakthroughs that have allowed  flagship Android phones to leapfrog competitors in real-world speed tests. According to data released by the Chrome and Android teams, recent hardware-software optimizations have resulted in some devices

Sometimes it makes sense to look at an older generation processor to build a PC around, particularly if you’re looking to maximize your budget. We bring this up because AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X based on Zen 4 is selling for an all-time low price, making it a killer bargain right now. And being a socket AM5 chip, there’s an upgrade path to AMD’s

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) has pulled the plug on its ambitious Afeela electric vehicle project, marking a sudden end to the PlayStation on wheels just months before its scheduled public rollout in California. Don’t feel bad just because Afeela bad. [Editor’s Note: Forgive Aaron for the punny dad joke.]

Based on the official statement, the

NASA’s top-dog telescopes, Hubble and Webb, have just released a never-before-seen collaborative portrait of Saturn. By combining Hubble’s visible-light vision with Webb’s infrared superpowers, astronomers have captured the gas giant in a dual-mode showcase that reveals everything from deep-tissue atmospheric storms to rings that literally

Intel’s hardware partners are starting to unleash new laptop configurations built around the Core Ultra Series 3, otherwise known as Panther Lake, that was introduced at CES earlier this year. One of those partners is Razer with a refresh of its Blade 16 gaming laptop. The latest iteration of what Razer’s thinnest laptop features a Core Ultra

After months of benchmark leaks, the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus was a no-show when Intel unveiled its first Arrow Lake Refresh processors, which saw the launch of the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus on the desktop (see our review), along with a couple of mobile variants, the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Core Ultra 270HX Plus.