Sparkle is a company that has been around since 1982, yet the vendor has only recently started selling products for the consumer PC market. Its most visible offerings are graphics cards, which it bases exclusively on Intel’s Arc GPUs. Sparkle favors mythical creatures for its GPU lineups, like “Orc” and “Titan”; today’s card is part of the

Data breaches, whether due to the nefarious activities of hackers or inadequate security measures, are a major concern due to the harm they can cause to affected users. In this latest breach, a report claims that the dating app Raw left user data unprotected, exposing private details for all to see.

Raw was launched in 2023. The app encourages

The dream of finally playing Half-Life 3 remains alive and well. Even though fans have gotten Black Mesa, which modernizes the original game, and have a gorgeous remasteed Half-Life 2 in the pipeline, there’s still a yearning for a new adventure featuring Gordon Freeman. If an insider is to be believed, this might come to fruition sooner rather

Bungie is working towards the release of Marathon, which the company hopes will be its next big blockbuster, it’s still supporting Destiny 2 with new content updates despite a shrinking team. Unfortunately for the studio, it’s big reveal event for Destiny’s The Edge of Fate expansion, along with the details of an upcoming collector’s edition,

Fancy yourself the ultimate accessory to complement your Adam West Batman costume this Halloween (or Comic-Con)? Look no further than this fantastic 1960s Batmobile replica based on a 1979 Lincoln Continental. The V8-powered car is currently up for auction starting at $70,000, which is a comparative discount versus the original 1966 Ford Futura-based

Spring as sprung and you know what that means, right? It’s riding season, so do us bikers a solid and watch out for motorcyclists while puttering about the roadways. One that you’re not likely to miss, should you encounter it during your travels, is a Doom: The Dark Ages-themed Harley-Davidson as part of a collaboration between two industry

An insider’s report has found that for 2026, Samsung might bring its Exynos silicon back into its Galaxy S26 flagship phones. This move stems from heavy financial losses incurred from using solely Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processors for all Galaxy S25 phones sold worldwide. Samsung took an estimated $400 million hit for the Qualcomm chipset

The growing trend for gaming in 2025 is that everything is getting more expensive, with no exceptions. The popular Call of Duty franchise falls into the ‘no exceptions’ category, as there are some early murmurs claiming that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will have some more expensive changes to its Battle Pass system. 

According to user @TheGhostOfHope

Well, here is something you don’t see every day—ASUS has unveiled a compact gaming PC that mates a mobile Intel Core i7 or Core i5 processor based on Raptor Lake with a full-fledged desktop graphics card based on NVIDIA’s latest-generation Blackwell architecture. In doing so, it’s fair to consider the new ASUS TUF Gaming T500 a hybrid desktop.

To

Chip smugglers have reportedly found all kinds of creative ways to sneak semiconductors into China, such as hiding them with live lobsters, inside fake baby bumps, and other means designed to evade customs and, more broadly, import and export restrictions. In an effort to crack down on chip smuggling, a U.S. lawmaker is hoping to pass a bill

Nintendo’s lawyers have been busy lately. The company is in an ongoing legal battle with the makers of Palworld, and they’re squashing developers of Switch emulation software. The legal team isn’t getting rest any time soon as the company has a new target in its crosshairs, third party accessory manufacturer Genki.

This new legal kerfuffle

It’s not uncommon for companies to adopt or iterate on popular features from rivals, to bring their products up to feature parity or to keep users in their ecosystem. Google’s development of the “inactivity robot,” mirrors a feature already found on Apple’s iOS 18.01. Meta is also mirroring some features from TikTok on Instagram. Now, it seems

Amazon recently announced that it’s next official Prime Day sales event will take place sometime in July. That’s only two quick months away, but if you don’t want to wait and are in the market for an Apple iPad tablet right now, we have good news—several models are on sale at Amazon, with prices starting as low as $299 for the newest models.

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Doubters be damned, Intel’s third-generation Arc Celestial GPUs are absolutely on the way. Not any time soon, mind you, but they’re coming for sure. Intel Fellow and friend of the site Tom “TAP” Petersen told PC World back in December that design work for the Xe3-based third-generation Arc discrete GPU was done and that the design team had

Nefarious hackers have figured out many ways to circumvent 2FA restrictions and harvest passwords with sophisticated phishing traps. Many of these bad actors, however, will soon be looking for new ways to attack Microsoft user accounts. Microsoft seems to have delivered on its earlier promise to push users a passwordless sign-in experience.

Microsoft surprised the console community when, just a few days ago, it announced a round of significant price hikes to its Xbox hardware lineup, including new MSRPs for its aging Xbox Series X and Xbox Series X systems ranging from $80 to $130 more than the launch prices. That’s a tough pill to swallow for a nearly five-year-old platform.

Engineers of the Ford Mustang GTD have stood by their word in besting the GTD’s previous lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. With a time of 6:57.685 last year, the Mustang GTD became the fifth fastest production sports car ever. Following a bunch of small tweaks and changes to the chassis, ABS, powertrain, and aerodynamic bits, the

Butter. Corn on the cob. Potatoes. White wine. These are all things that pair nicely with lobster. But chips? Not so much, though when it comes to the non-edible variety (you know, semiconductors), there’s a report claiming that smugglers are using live lobsters to sneak NVIDIA’s AI chips into China. Is this really happening, though? It all

In about a week or so, a three foot (one meter) module from the failed Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 will be reentering our atmosphere uncontrolled. What happens next is anyone’s guess: Will it burn up during reentry? If it doesn’t, will the module plummet safely back to Earth without incident, or lead to an unfortunate injury? Currently

Rumors of a bigger Battlemage GPU’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Tech sleuth Haze spotted something interesting in the public shipping database over at NBD DATA: multiple entries for things like “SOCKET STIFFENER (STF), DESIGNED FOR BATTLEMAGE-G31.” The listings are dated late March and were destined for Intel Vietnam, which handles