One of the strangest parts of AMD’s stagnation in the early 2010s was that it simply stopped releasing new desktop CPUs for a while. It’s true that there wasn’t much point in continuing the lineage of the inefficient (and unpopular) Bulldozer processors, but OEMs like “new” parts so they can sell systems with the “latest hardware”. Despite

The entry-level NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is underpowered compared to its bigger siblings, but such compromises have never stopped modders before. Undertaking the sacred duty of squeezing as much performance out of underpowered silicon as possible, hardware modders TrashBench and Clock Bench challenged each other to take the same GeForce RTX

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder who stepped away from the operational role of Amazon in 2021, has unexpectedly returned to the C-suite, reportedly co-founding and taking on the role of co-CEO for a new, skunkworks-like artificial intelligence startup named Project Prometheus. The announcement (first reported on by The New York Times) confirms

It’s not too often that we see Sony’s top wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 go on sale, so it certainly got our attention when we spotted it discounted 20% off MSRP. It’s a rare discount that drops the price of Sony’s premium controller to an all-time low. If you’re interested, however, you’ll want to be fast—given the rarity of these

Best Buy has been aggressive in serving up Black Friday deals this year, including so-called ‘doorbuster’ bargains way ahead of the actual Black Friday date. That’s just fine by us—in recent years, Black Friday has morphed from a single day of in-store bargains to a holiday season of deals that can be purchased online at big discounts. How

Belkin is coordinating with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission on a recall of tens of thousands of portable battery banks and wireless charging stands. That’s far less thank Anker’s power bank recall in September, but still a significant number.

Most of the affected models were sold in the U.S., though a couple thousand

We recently published a full review of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered OnePlus 15 smartphone. We praised the device for its premium design, 165Hz display, and excellent performance, among many other things. If you missed that review, do yourself a favor and check it out. That review was missing one key piece of data, however

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has officially launched, and early impressions are mixed. Two almost universally maligned parts of the latest COD game can be seen in blatantly AI-generated art and what looks to be one of the worst campaigns yet seen in the series. This isn’t to say there aren’t positive aspects of the Black Ops 7 experience—the

A new wave of state-level proposals targeting virtual private networks has stirred up an unusual amount of alarm from digital-rights groups, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn’t pulling punches. In a detailed critique published this week, the organization called efforts in Michigan and Wisconsin “misguided,” “technically incoherent,”

Metroid Prime 4 is due to release on December 4th, 2025, and some outlets were invited to a hands-on preview. When the embargo lifted, early testers posted their impressions of the first few hours of the game, mainly across the space station intro and a jungle area called Fury Green, and the results were mixed. Although there were some positive

Apple is expected to release an AirTag 2 tracker at some point, perhaps even by the end of the year. Nothing is official, though, and with Black Friday deals arriving early, the current generation AirTag can be had for a great price, especially if picking up the 4-pack. If going that route, you end up paying just $16.25 per AirTag, which is

Like so many companies, Razer and its retail partners are already dishing up Black Friday deals with enticing discounts. As such, now is your chance to score a Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop for hundreds of dollars below MSRP, as well as a variety of Razer gaming peripherals for up to 51% off. Let’s dive in.
Razer Blade 14 OLED Gaming Laptop

Valve’s bombshell Steam Hardware announcement included the very first in-house Valve Steam Machine, and while most reception was initially positive, a number of critics are now showing a lot of skepticism about how well the Steam Machine will actually perform in the competitive market of entry-level PCs and the PlayStation 5. While factors

Fans were undoubtedly disappointed when Rockstar Games announced a second delay to the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI. However, the wait may sting a little less now that the studio has announced that it’s seminal Western, Red Dead Redemption, is coming to mobile devices for the first time and will be available to Netflix subscribers.

Following reports earlier this year that Nintendo had made some odd low-level changes to the Nintendo Switch 2’s USB-C support for third-party accessories, a recent firmware update seems to be bricking functionality of third-party docking stations entirely. Fortunately, some vendors have already shipped firmware updates for their devices that

DDR5 memory runs objectively high transfer rates; JEDEC specs go as high as 6.4 Gbps, and overclockers have taken DDR5 beyond the fastest LPDDR5X: all the way to over 13 Gbps. At these speeds, signal integrity becomes a first-order concern, and most systems can maintain peak performance only when running one module per channel. That generally

Now that we’re midway through November, the Black Friday discounts are coming in faster and more furious. And sure, the actual Black Friday date is still two weeks away, but retailers are not sitting around waiting. You shouldn’t either, depending what you’re in the market for this holiday season. Over at Best Buy, for example, there are some

Food delivery giant DoorDash has once again come under negative limelight, this time with a massive data breach stemming from a sophisticated social engineering attack that targeted one of its employees in October. The incident allowed an unauthorized third party to gain access to and exfiltrate key contact information belonging to a mix of

Intel remains the dominant player in the x86 space when it comes to market share, both overall and in individual segments such as desktop, server, and mobile. However, AMD continues to chip away at its rival’s big lead, as we had been seeing. According to the latest data by Mercury Research, AMD now accounts for almost a third of all x86 CPUs,

The Moon is not, in fact, a giant cosmic wheel of Gouda. In a landmark paper published in Nature, researchers from the French National Center of Scientific Research delivered a hard truth: the Moon is actually packing a solid inner core of material with a density suspiciously similar to iron. Rather than a massive cheese ball, we’re dealing