Nearly ten years ago, Netflix moved in to become one of the early adopters of content featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR) with the HDR10 format. Now, the company will finally be including the improved HDR10+ format on both existing and new titles, so long as a device supports the AV1 codec. This will especially be music to the ears of Samsung

If you’re of a certain age, you might remember those Maxell cassette tape ads that featured a man in sunglasses in a recliner being literally blown away by the sound coming out of his hi-fi speakers. That’s a bit like how we feel as we continue to test and benchmark this forthcoming laptop sporting AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9955HX3D Fire Range HX3D…

Spring is back in the air and that means an inexplicably strong desire to partake in one of our favorite words beginning with the letter ‘S’. Hey now, get your mind out of the gutter! We’re talking about SAVINGS, folks! You know, the kind that make you moan with delight, like when you save hundreds of dollars on a flagship Android handset.

In case you missed it, Dell unveiled some beastly upgrades to its Alienware lineup back at the Consumer Electronics Show, including a new QD-OLED monitor, refreshed desktop configurations, and the return of its Area-51 gaming laptop lineup. As it applies to the latter, both the Alienware 18 Area-51 and Alienware 16 Area-51 are now available

With an imminent launch in April, Oppo’s next-generation Find X8 Ultra will be a beast of a phone in many senses of the word. The flagship is expected to have five rear imaging sensors surrounded by a round camera island that takes up nearly half of the phone, the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, and a massive 6.82-inch display. Oppo has

It’s no secret that Xbox is expanding its reach beyond just hardware, with a move to platforms such as Sony’s PlayStation console paying off. The latest title to make the move is Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, a well-reviewed game that first made a splash on the Xbox. It is known for having ray tracing as a mandatory aspect of the game,

ASRock says it was able to completely restore functionality of a seemingly damaged Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi motherboard (the same model we reviewed in our X870E motherboard mashup) that burned several contact points on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, simply by removing debris from the AM5 socket area. The insinuation is that user error is ultimately

Black hat hackers are usually intelligent folks channeling their energy in the wrong direction that use sophisticated techniques to exploit vulnerabilities and cause security breaches. Most tech companies, however, don’t simply wait and watch for attacks. They make continuous efforts to strengthen their products’ security against hackers.

A fresh leak from familiar self-described “PC Tech Fan” 포시포시 (better known as @harukaze5719 on Xwitter) has revealed details about AMD’s upcoming Gorgon Point mobile APUs. The information comes from a Naver.com article covering an LG Gram × Ryzen launch event, where slides detailing AMD’s roadmap were apparently shown. We say “apparently”

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle launched late last year, giving Microsoft a great title to cap off a strong year. However, with all the hoopla of awards season, the game got overlooked as the gaming community discourse focused on the game of the year discussion. Now, the game is getting a second chance to get the limelight it deserves,

If you, faithful Edge, Safari, or Firefox users have finally decided to give up your futile resistance and be assimilated into the all-consuming swarm of Google Chrome users today, only to be met with this message on your Windows 11 PC:

Don’t panic! It’s not that Google has implemented onerous system requirements or found your lack of faith

California has declared that it now has the country’s most extensive EV charging network at 178,549 publicly accessible ports as of 2024. That’s twice the number since 2022, which now bypasses the roughly 120,000 gasoline pumps statewide. Moreover, the divide widens even further when taking single-family home chargers into account; the state

While software driver updates are not typically as exciting as new GPU launches, the NVIDIA App does have a few new intriguing goodies in store. The depth of NVIDIA’s involvement with AI is no secret, and it is making its way more deeply into the gaming GPU side. With the new NVIDIA App update, Project G-Assist can now be downloaded, and there

23andMe, the popular genetic testing service with DNA samples collected from millions of Americans, announced it is voluntarily filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. News of the pending bankruptcy came mere weeks after 23andMe’s board rejected an acquisition proposal from the company’s co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki. Instead, it will look to

Nearly six months after release, USB-C versions of Apple’s AirPods Max will FINALLY get lossless audio playback via USB-C. Lightning-equipped AirPods Max headsets had wired playback ability since day one, thus when the new variant launched last September, customers were not amused that Apple had seemingly cut the feature out. However, this

As time goes on, we’ll inevitably see more mainstream graphics card launches by both AMD and NVIDIA based on each firm’s latest generation GPU architectures—RDNA 4 and Blackwell, respectively. Pertaining to the former, leaks and rumors suggest a Radeon RX 9060 XT launch is imminent. While we’ll have to wait for a formal launch for confirmation

AMD was quick to debunk a recent report claiming it revealed combined Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 shipments had topped 200,000 units. Maybe it did, maybe it didn’t. Either way, AMD never shared an actual specific tally. In the days since, however, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su did provide an interesting figure regarding AMD’s latest generation

Laptops are one of the most egregious product categories with regards to e-waste. Most laptops are made of almost completely proprietary components that are exclusive to that device, and the chips are generally BGA, meaning it’s impractical to desolder and re-use them when a board fails. Framework was the first company to market a truly modular

Modern AI is far from science-fiction AGI, and yet it can still be an incredibly powerful tool. Like any tool, if misused, it can pose a threat to legitimate users, like how we recently covered photographers’ concerns that Google’s Gemini Flash 2.0 could be used to easily remove watermarks from copyrighted photographs. In another example,

Did you read our explainer on display technologies? If so, you’ll already be well aware of the concept of PPI, or “pixels per inch,” which is a more informative measure of “display resolution” than a static value like 1024×768. Typical PC monitors have PPI values in the 90-130 range, while smartphones go as high as 643 pixels per inch. This