LG’s New Laptop Display Can Drop To 1Hz For Major Battery Life Gains

LG's New Laptop Display Can Drop To 1Hz For Major Battery Life Gains
LG Display is on a mission to vastly improve laptop battery life with a new LCD panel equipped with its Oxide 1Hz technology. Now in mass production, this first-of-its-kind panel is capable of dropping down to a 1Hz refresh rate when the screen is static, a tactic that LG claims “dramatically” improves battery life with up to a 48% longer

3dfx Voodoo 1 Retro Reboot: FPGA Project Recreates The Legendary 1990s GPU

3dfx Voodoo 1 Retro Reboot: FPGA Project Recreates The Legendary 1990s GPU
Nostalgic console gaming aficionados have it good, man. You’ve got all kinds of options for playing retro console games, up to and including systems like the Analogue 3D that painstakingly recreate the original hardware using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), chips that can literally be reconfigured on the fly. Old PC gamer nerds like

Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Ultra 5 250K Plus Review: Intel Boosts Cores, Clocks And Gaming

Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Ultra 5 250K Plus Review: Intel Boosts Cores, Clocks And Gaming
Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus Series:  Core Ultra 7 270K Plus ($299), Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ($199) 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.   Increased Performance Competitive Pricing Comprehensive Platform…

What Delay? Valve Adds Steam Machine Support To SteamOS In New Preview

What Delay? Valve Adds Steam Machine Support To SteamOS In New Preview
Valve continues to inch toward the inevitable Steam Machine release confirmed for this year, now by adding “initial support” for the hardware in the latest SteamOS preview update. That’s the most newsworthy part right there, but the rest of the SteamOS update patch notes indicate a lot of work being done at Valve to prepare for Steam Machine,

VoidStealer Malware Slips Past Chrome’s Defenses And Rips Credentials At Scale

VoidStealer Malware Slips Past Chrome's Defenses And Rips Credentials At Scale
It’s a never-ending game of cat and mouse between attackers and software makers, with the latest salvo being fired against one of Google Chrome’s key security features. Security researchers at Gen Threat Labs have discovered that a piece of malware, dubbed VoidStealer, is striking at the heart of how the browser keeps sensitive user data safe

Crimson Desert Walks Back Launch Misstep With Incoming Intel Arc GPU Support

Crimson Desert Walks Back Launch Misstep With Incoming Intel Arc GPU Support
You might recall just a few days ago when, immediately after the launch of hotly-anticipated open world RPG Crimson Desert, it was discovered that it simply would not launch on Intel Arc GPUs, throwing up an error message saying that the graphics card was not supported. An error message that looked like this:

The original error message

Sony’s Lead PS5 Architect Discusses Frame Generation Plans For PlayStation

Sony's Lead PS5 Architect Discusses Frame Generation Plans For PlayStation
Sony’s lead systems architect, Mark Cerny, has confirmed that AI-powered frame generation is indeed on the roadmap for PlayStation hardware, stressing that the feature isn’t yet ready for prime time in 2026. While the PlayStation 5 Pro recently introduced a PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) 2 upscaler that gave the APU a chance

Elon Musk Says Terafab Mega AI Chip Factory Will Be The Largest Ever Built

Elon Musk Says Terafab Mega AI Chip Factory Will Be The Largest Ever Built
Elon Musk’s latest industrial gambit, called Terafab, aims to interrupt the semiconductor supply chain by building a massive $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas. As a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, the ambitious project has ambitions of producing a terawatt of computing power yearly to fuel Musk’s most ambitious

AMD’s Awesome Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gaming Chip Hits All-Time Low Price

AMD's Awesome Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gaming Chip Hits All-Time Low Price
Forget for a moment that PC memory and storage prices are getting out of control. If you’re building a new gaming PC or upgrading and existing one, you could do a lot worse than assembling a system around AMD’s spunky Ryzen 7 9800X3D (see our review). It’s a stout chip for gaming, and even better, it’s on sale for the lowest price it’s ever

Samsung Galaxy S26 Is Getting AirDrop Support To Share Files With iPhones

Samsung Galaxy S26 Is Getting AirDrop Support To Share Files With iPhones
Apple and Google have recently been removing barriers and implementing features that make it easier for users to switch between rival platforms, which includes finally opening up compatibility between Quick Share and AirDrop. The latter first became available on the Pixel 10 late last year, with Google promising to bring this feature to the

Scientists Find DNA And RNA Building Blocks In Asteroid Sample With Big Implications

Scientists Find DNA And RNA Building Blocks In Asteroid Sample With Big Implications
Rock sample analysis from the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (collected in 2018) has confirmed that the entire library of the chemical code for DNA and RNA exists in space. 

The space-delivery theory for life’s origins has been missing several chapters. While meteorites that crashed into Earth often contained some of these ingredients, scientists

Intel Hears You And Signals It May Slow Down Socket Changes For Future Chips

Intel Hears You And Signals It May Slow Down Socket Changes For Future Chips
The big news today is that reviews of Intel’s Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus processors are live, including our own, and of course these Arrow Lake Refresh parts slot into the same LGA 1851 socket as their regular, non-Plus Arrow Lake counterparts. What about future generation CPUs, though? This is probably the end of the

Hey Nintendo, US Gamers Want The Same Switch 2 Revision That’s Headed To Europe

Hey Nintendo, US Gamers Want The Same Switch 2 Revision That's Headed To Europe
Gamers in the European Union are getting a revised version of Nintendo’s popular Switch 2 console that will make battery replacements a cinch, according to a Japanese news report. Assuming the report is accurate, the special hardware revision is in response by recent EU regulation that requires portable devices to have user-replaceable batteries.

Technically,

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Uses 2D Data To Boost Image Quality: What We Know

NVIDIA DLSS 5 Uses 2D Data To Boost Image Quality: What We Know
NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 has proven to be one of the more controversial announcements so far this year. When initially announced, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said it was using new “neural rendering” techniques and “generative control at the geometry level”. As we mentioned when covering Jensen’s rejection of all criticism to DLSS 5, these claims seem to

MSI Laptops With Intel Wildcat Lake Are Coming To Rival Apple’s MacBook Neo

MSI Laptops With Intel Wildcat Lake Are Coming To Rival Apple's MacBook Neo
Have you been looking longingly at the MacBook Neo, wishing there was a Windows laptop with a similar spec? Well, there already are quite a few laptops with similar capabilities, but none of them will have the MacBook Neo’s specific combination of speed and efficiency. For that, you may need to wait for Intel’s Wildcat Lake processors and

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Smashes Records: Best Launch Week Ever For New Mac Users

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo Smashes Records: Best Launch Week Ever For New Mac Users
Apple’s colorful and budget-conscious MacBook Neo is bringing in new users to the Mac ecosystem in record numbers, with CEO Tim Cook announcing on X that “Mac just had its best week launch week ever for first-time Mac customers.” And it’s no secret why—the $599 starting price makes the MacBook Neo the most affordable MacBook ever released.

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Tired Of Windows 11 Bloat? Microsoft Pledges Massive Cleanup For Peak Performance

Tired Of Windows 11 Bloat? Microsoft Pledges Massive Cleanup For Peak Performance
Microsoft is taking criticisms over the direction of Windows 11 to heart and vowing to make several key changes going forward, including fewer AI distractions as it rethinks its strategy.

In a blog post to Windows Insiders, Pavan Davuluri, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Windows + Devices division, outlined the development plan

AMD’s Secret Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual 3D V-Cache CPU Is Real According To ASRock

AMD's Secret Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual 3D V-Cache CPU Is Real According To ASRock
There is plenty of reason to believe that AMD is getting ready to add a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor to its lineup, and perhaps the most telling evidence yet is a press release by ASRock that shouts out the not-yet-released chip. According to ASRock, several of its socket AM5 motherboards “fully support the newly launched AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.”

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Meta Smart Glasses Face US Senate Scrutiny Over Facial Recognition And Privacy Risks

Meta Smart Glasses Face US Senate Scrutiny Over Facial Recognition And Privacy Risks
Meta’s Smart Glasses have generally earned high praise as fashionable Augmented Reality glasses, but an upcoming update promises to add facial recognition capabilities, and at least two U.S. Senators are raising concerns. Even if you aren’t worried about facial recognition coming to the glasses, a growing number of the people wearing what