A team of Columbia University engineers may have stumbled on a key to cooling the AI industry’s energy fever. While trying to boost the power of chips for LiDAR—laser-based sensing used most notably in self-driving cars—the researchers noticed something strange. “As we sent more and more power through the chip, we noticed that it was creating

The highly anticipated ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X (see our review full of benchmarks and analysis), which is the first Windows handheld to officially implement the Xbox experience, is finally out in the wild. The launch of the device has sparked several discussions in the gaming community, including about its price point. Now, we have more context

The next step in personal health tracking has arrived, and it’s a tiny bit, well, gutsy. Plumbing giant Kohler has officially launched Dekoda (decoder, get it?), a slim, clip-on device that attaches discreetly to your existing toilet bowl and deploys a small camera and sensors to analyze your number ones and twos. Yes, dear reader, the Dekoda

Fall is a perfect to go Apple picking, especially with Amazon serving up lots of great deals on a variety of hardware. Need a new set of earbuds with active noise cancellation? How about a tablet or a laptop? Whatever the case, if it’s an Apple product, there’s a good chance it’s on sale right now, with juicy discounts as high as 32% off the

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, crippled major websites, apps, and corporate services across the globe this morning. Thankfully, Amazon has been on the case (having dealt with biggies like this in the past) and most key services are already back online.

The disruption began shortly

There is speculation that Grand Theft Auto VI could cost as much $100 for the standard edition when it comes out next year, and when given the opportunity to squash the rumor, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick opted to keep gamers in suspense. Whatever it ends up costing, though, gamers in Mexico may have to pony up even more to cover

Lenovo has quietly introduced a new 16-inch laptop that it claims is the world’s first of its kind to weigh under a single kilogram (or right around 2.2 pounds). To Lenovo’s boast, the laptop is not in an unprecedented weight class as far as notebooks go, though as it applies to the 16-inch form factor, there are not a lot of options that

Following the worldwide launch of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, Microsoft announced some interesting upcoming features for both of the initial models specifically, and for Windows 11 gaming PCs at large. While this launch has been successful, the market is still rife with competition from handhelds like Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, and

Have you read our review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X? It’s an interesting device, with a powerful AMD SoC that outstrips the one in the original ROG Xbox Ally X, and it also debuts a new “full screen experience” for Windows PC games through the Xbox App—a feature that we’re currently working on additional testing for. If you picked up a ROG

Multiple game publishers are dipping into their back catalogs to breathe new life into fan favorites. EA is hoping to ride this wave of nostalgia with a modernized version of the tower defense classic Plants vs. Zombies that will be “packed with new secrets to uncover.”

Plants vs. Zombies Replanted will bring several upgrades to freshen

Sometimes you just need to drown out the noise in life, am I right? That’s easier said then done, though if you’re looking to knock out two birds with one stone, a solid set of headphones with noise cancellation provides an escape to musical bliss while literally suppressing outside noise. Even better, Amazon is serving up hundreds of dollars

Amazon is serving up some big discounts on gaming mice from brands like ASUS, Logitech, Razer, and others, with some deals knocking more than half off the MSRP. The more interesting bargains apply to flash deals that will expire by the end of the day, and limited time markdowns where it is anyone’s guess how long the reduced price will be

Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an overclock seems stable. That’s why we require extensive validation before considering a memory overclock

Since Battlefield 6’s wildly successful launch on PC, low-spec gamers everywhere have been eager to put it through its paces—and have come away pleasantly surprised at how well it performs on GPUs of yesteryear. One particular YouTuber whose tests we’ll be highlighting today is RandomGamingInHD, an enthusiast known for producing low-spec PC

Windows updates usually bring security enhancements, bug fixes and new features. Sometimes, though, these updates can also break parts of the operating system. Unfortunately, some updates for September and October fall into the latter camp, and many users are now having issues using a key feature of Windows 11.

After applying the October

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter particles or rapidly spinning neutron stars—are, for the first time, equally viable.

Researchers believe the glow coming from inside our own galaxy

Are you ready to take your gaming to another level of image quality with an OLED display? There are a lot more options now than just a relatively short time ago, and also a steady stream of deals. As such, you can score Acer’s Predator X34 OLED monitor with a fast refresh and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification for a great price right now.

How

The United States Mint has unveiled the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, immortalizing key figures and machines that defined our modern digital age. Among the four coins to be released next year (with designs representing California, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota), two specifically honor pivotal parts in computing

No one would blame you if you decided to pick up the newly refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple’s fancy M5 silicon inside, though for those who can afford to wait, the next-generation model with an M6 chip may be a substantially bigger upgrade to the MacBook Pro family. Rumor has it the next-gen MacBook Pro will finally adopt a touchscreen

Teamgroup is targeting gamers with its new T-Force Z54E, a solid state drive (SSD) that leverages Phison’s E28 controller to push write and especially read speeds pretty close to the theoretical limit for NVMe storage on the PCI Express 5.0 bus. According to Teamgroup, its latest high-performance SSD can achieve speeds of up to 14,000MB/s