Minisforum Says Brace For Mini PC Price Hikes Amid Rising DDR5 And SSD Costs

Minisforum Says Brace For Mini PC Price Hikes Amid Rising DDR5 And SSD Costs
If you’ve been on the fence about whether to buy a mini PC now or wait until Black Friday sales roll into view, you may want to consider taking the plunge. Why is that? Minisforum, one of the most active participants in the mini PC space, posted a notice on X saying it will be issuing a “slight price adjustment” on its mini PC models that

YouTube TV Fumbles ESPN, ABC & Disney, Offers Lame $20 Apology

YouTube TV Fumbles ESPN, ABC & Disney, Offers Lame $20 Apology
For the time being, millions of YouTube TV subscribers are no longer able to access Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, National Geographic, FX, and a whole bunch more. The timing couldn’t be worse, either, with various professional and college sports seasons now in full swing. This effectively means that YouTube TV subscribers

Corsair Smacks Down Hit Box & Razer With Its Sweet New Novablade Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller

Corsair Smacks Down Hit Box & Razer With Its Sweet New Novablade Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller
Corsair just announced its entrance into the leverless fightstick scene first popularized by Hit Box, the new Corsair Novablade Pro. Or to be more specific, the Corsair Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller—but we’ll stick with Novablade Pro for now. The Novablade Pro is a direct competitor to the likes of Hit Box’s

AMD Just Referenced Zen 6 Ryzen Medusa CPUs For The First Time

AMD Just Referenced Zen 6 Ryzen Medusa CPUs For The First Time
AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library. The move to openSIL will improve security and scalability while improving customization and control for AMD’s customers, including end users. However, that’s not what we’re

Take-Two CEO Proclaims That AI Can’t Make Games Like Grand Theft Auto

Take-Two CEO Proclaims That AI Can't Make Games Like Grand Theft Auto
Discussion surrounding the use of AI in game development is once again at the forefront, after EA recently announced its partnership with Stability AI. Those who work in the industry at a variety of levels have chimed in on the matter, and that now includes Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, one of the biggest game publishers in

Nintendo’s Patent Lawsuit Against Palword Dealt A Rare Fatal Blow

Nintendo's Patent Lawsuit Against Palword Dealt A Rare Fatal Blow
Nintendo’s ongoing patent lawsuit case against Palworld developers Pocketpair has hit a surprising speedbump, though the battle is far from over. For those unaware, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for patent infringement in Japanese court, and two of the three patents it is claiming have been violated relate to game mechanics that revolve around

Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop Deal Packs Raptor Lake & RTX 5060 For $300 Off

Alienware 16 Area-51 Gaming Laptop Deal Packs Raptor Lake & RTX 5060 For $300 Off
Could you use a new gaming laptop? If so, there’s a great deal available on Dell’s Alienware 16 Area-51 kitted with the latest-generation CPU and GPU hardware from Intel and NVIDIA, respectively. Or you could wait for the inevitable Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts to come into view, but why wait when you can score a bargain right now?

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The Milky Way’s Hidden Features Will Amaze You In This Stunning 1 Million Hour Color Image

The Milky Way's Hidden Features Will Amaze You In This Stunning 1 Million Hour Color Image
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), primarily based at Curtin University in Australia, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way’s galactic plane ever assembled. Rather than the starry, luminous band we’re more familiar with, the latest images show a vibrant tapestry

YouTube Rolls Out Auto AI Upscaling For Low Quality Videos And Other Cool Features

YouTube Rolls Out Auto AI Upscaling For Low Quality Videos And Other Cool Features
With streaming content being watched on bigger displays than ever before, Google wants to ensure that older, lower-resolution videos (think 480p and 720p) don’t look janky on your fancy new 4K TV. YouTube is rolling out a suite of creator tools to address that and chief among them is the use of AI to breathe new life into its vast archive

ASUS ROG Claims First AI Gaming Router With Rapture BG-BE19000AI Wi-Fi 7

ASUS ROG Claims First AI Gaming Router With Rapture BG-BE19000AI Wi-Fi 7
If your router isn’t using artificial intelligence in some capacity, is it really a router? The answer is yes, but be that as it may, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) isn’t leaving anything to chance with its new flagship Wi-Fi 7 model for gamers, the Rapture GT-BE19000AI. Billed as the “world’s first AI gaming router,” the device sports a built-in

OneXPlayer Launches Liquid-Cooled OneXFly Apex Gaming Handheld With AMD Strix Halo

OneXPlayer Launches Liquid-Cooled OneXFly Apex Gaming Handheld With AMD Strix Halo
Just a month since its initial tease, One-Netbook’s OneXFly Apex, an AMD Strix Halo-powered handheld gaming PC has debuted. One-Netbook has pre-launched the OneXFly Apex on Indiegogo, confirmed its pricing for the Chinese market, and even provided peeks at performance benchmarks using the unique liquid cooling solution that can run the handheld

NVIDIA And Oracle Deploy 100,000 Blackwell GPUs in DOE’s New AI Supercomputer

NVIDIA And Oracle Deploy 100,000 Blackwell GPUs in DOE’s New AI Supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy is teaming up with NVIDIA and Oracle to build what’s NVIDIA calls the DOE’s largest AI supercomputer, part of a new public–private partnership meant to supercharge federally funded research. Announced at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, the Solstice system will feature a staggering 100,000

Battlefield 6’s Free Battle Royal Mode REDSEC Takes On Warzone With 100-Player Matches

Battlefield 6's Free Battle Royal Mode REDSEC Takes On Warzone With 100-Player Matches
Battlefield 6 has brought the storied franchise back to prominence, quickly becoming one of the best selling games on Steam, and finally providing some competition to this year’s Call of Duty. EA isn’t done yet, though, as it looks to lure players away from multiplayer juggernaut CoD: Warzone with a battle royale mode of its own.

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China Plunges Into Renewable Tech By Dunking A Data Center In The Ocean

China Plunges Into Renewable Tech By Dunking A Data Center In The Ocean
Off the coast of Shanghai, a revolutionary structure is forming beneath the waves: the world’s first wind-powered, commercial-scale underwater data center (UDC). Basically, submerging servers in pressure-resistant pods (similar to Microsoft’s non-commercial Project Natick in 2018) is a direct response to the escalating power and cooling demands

Here’s NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI Superchip — 88 Cores, Two GPUs, Gobs Of Memory And Next-Level Design

Here's NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI Superchip — 88 Cores, Two GPUs, Gobs Of Memory And Next-Level Design
NVIDIA held its annual Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington D.C. yesterday, and as a surprise showing in the middle of his keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang pulled out a Vera Rubin Superchip, marking the first time that this product was shown to the public. The part looks quite different from even the GB300 Blackwell Ultra Superchip,

Early Black Friday Deals: Bose QuietComfort Headphones & Earbuds Up To 58% Off

Early Black Friday Deals: Bose QuietComfort Headphones & Earbuds Up To 58% Off
We’re already big fans of Bose’s audio products, so it doesn’t take much arm twisting to convince us to consider the brand if we’re in the market for a new set of headphones or earbuds. We won’t turn down a good deal, either. It just so happens that you can have both right now, with Woot serving up some massive discounts on Bose’s QuietComfort

Japan Plans 60-Minute Spaceflights From Tokyo To New York For $657,000 Per Ticket

Japan Plans 60-Minute Spaceflights From Tokyo To New York For $657,000 Per Ticket
13-hour flights between Tokyo and New York may soon be relegated to history books, as a major Japanese travel agency announced plans to launch a point-to-point transport service that could connect the two cities in just 60 minutes via outer space. The audacious plan (set to launch in the 2030s) comes from a partnership between the Nippon Travel

Corsair & PNY Just Dropped 14.9GB/s SSDs That Peg Gen 5 Speed Limits

Corsair & PNY Just Dropped 14.9GB/s SSDs That Peg Gen 5 Speed Limits
A new wave of flagship solid state drives (SSDs) that nearly saturate the available PCI Express 5.0 bandwidth available to x4 NVMe storage drives is starting to be appear. In back-to-back announcements, both PNY and Corsair unveiled new lightning-fast Gen 5 models—CS3250 and MP700 Pro XT, respectively—that are rated to deliver sequential read