Your AirPods Max headphones are now officially obsolete and you might as well throw them in the garbage. We’re just kidding, of course! Don’t do that; they’re still capable, though they have been replaced by Apple’s new flagship headphones, the AirPods Max 2 powered by the same H2 chip as found in its flagship AirPods Pro 3 earbuds introduced

Intel is adding a couple of Plus models to its Core Ultra 200HX series lineup for laptops, and while the press release doesn’t explicitly designate the new CPUs as Arrow Lake Refresh, terminology it used for its desktop-bound Core Ultra 200S Plus models introduced last week, that’s essentially what these new parts are. And like their desktop

During his keynote at GTC 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced a wide array of new products, services, AI models, and software to a massive audience at the SAP Center in San Jose, California. The Vera Rubin ecosystem with Groq integration made its debut, along with an array of new silicon, and Jensen gave a sneak peek at DLSS 5 as well.

During NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang gave attendees a sneak-peek at DLSS 5 leveraging neural rendering technology, with an array of brief clips of Resident Evil Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield and EA Sports’ FC ’26. The newest game in that group is Resident Evil Requiem, and its already leading-edge, path-traced graphics

NVIDIA is officially announcing its new Vera Rubin platform at GTC today, positioning the release as the next frontier for “agentic AI”. The sprawling announcements (NVIDIA put out a fully twenty press releases, in addition to multiple blogs) include seven new chips that are apparently in full production, aimed at scaling massive, gigawatt-scale

Mario Kart World is getting a set of two officially-licensed racing wheels from Hori, nine months after the game’s June 2025 release. This set of racing wheels (Pro Deluxe and Pro Mini) are similar to the original Hori Racing Wheels released for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch, but provide one key upgrade: the addition of a C button for Nintendo

Two of Apple’s most important initiatives, a complete overhaul of its operating systems’ user interface design, and its efforts to become a significant player in the AI space, haven’t been home runs. Siri isn’t even close to being what the company promised at WWDC 2024, and users haven’t been particularly taken with the Liquid Glass UI overhaul.

Many users have decried the rapid and pervasive integration of AI features in Windows 11. For many, the final straw was when Microsoft Copilot-ified the humble Notepad application. “Enough’s enough,” folks said as they downloaded sketchy scripts like Remove Windows AI to rip out the very foundations of Microsoft’s AI push. Surprisingly, Microsoft

Indeed, rapid integration of AI into the toy industry is transforming traditional play into a new interactive experience, but new research suggests these smart companions may carry hidden psychological and developmental risks. While a teddy bear that remembers a child’s name or a doll that answers complex questions may seem like innocent party

To borrow and tweak a line from The Outer Limits, there is nothing wrong with your monitor, do not attempt to adjust the picture. You also haven’t stepped into a time warp. I checked the calendar and it is indeed 2026, though that wasn’t immediately clear when I saw that Creative had launched a new Audigy sound card, the Audigy FX Pro.

It’s

In a quiet suburb of Tennessee, the AI and physical world collided with devastating consequences for a grandmother whose only crime was existing in a database. Law enforcement’s increasing reliance on facial recognition technology has shifted from a futuristic tool for catching fugitives into a bureaucratic nightmare that treats algorithmic

Astronomers have just discovered TOI-1080 b, a rocky super-Earth located approximately 83 light-years away. Spearheaded by a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, follow-up monitoring could reveal even more planets around TOI-1080, the inactive M-dwarf star.

The planet was initially flagged by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet

Gigabyte is expanding its lineup of Brix mini PCs with a new model built around Intel’s Panther Lake platform. We’ll likely see multiple configurations over time, but the one that’s been added to Gigabyte’s website is Brix model GB-BRU9-386H. If the model name isn’t a big enough clue, the specifications sheet reveals the Panther Lake model

Another unreleased processor has found its way to Geekbench’s benchmark database and according to the details in the listing, it is likely an early engineering sample of a Medusa Point APU based on AMD’s next-generation Zen 6 architecture. While it’s premature to draw any real conclusions (particularly performance), there are some interesting

A man named Paul Conyngham successfully developing “a custom mRNA cancer vaccine” with the help of ChatGPT that shrunk a tennis ball-sized tumor in his dog’s hock by 50%. Martin Smith, an associate professor of computational biology and director of the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at the University of NSW then thought, “If we can do this

If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don’t have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important stuff to a NAS, a second PC, external storage, or even a cloud service, and then wipe the whole system disk and start fresh. It’s amazing how many

Google Gemini has been integrated into Google Maps to provide two new features: Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation. Of the two new features, Immersive Navigation will likely be the most-welcomed change, and the most radical made to navigation in the past decade (sorry, traffic monitoring). Instead of relying on a 2D grid, Immersive Navigation

Samsung is looking into reports of a possible issue with its Galaxy S26 Ultra that is causing some users to complain of eye fatigue. It’s not yet clear if there is an actual issue with Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, and if so, whether it can be addressed in a firmware or software update. For the time being, Samsung is looking into the

You’d be hard pressed to find a TV these days that does not come with a baked-in smart platform for easy access streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and the sort. Older models tend to be slow, though, and really old models are sometimes deprecated, as we recently saw when Netflix left behind legacy TVs and the PlayStation 3. That’s all to

Monitor makers are in a specs arms race, part of which includes a pivot to dual-mode displays that can crank the refresh rate up when dropping below the native resolution. We’ve even seen some 1,000Hz claims emerge. In an effort to keep up with faster refresh rates, Microsoft is ramping up support in Windows to report refresh rates that leap