Sigma has just unveiled a brand new mirrorless camera called the “radically simple” $2,000 BF Camera. Sporting a 24.6-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, the company claims it’s the first such camera design to employ an ultra-minimalist aluminum unibody. Sigma designers basically cleaned up the busy aesthetics of dSLRs, what with dials, switches,

A user on Reddit has posted a GPU-Z screenshot that purportedly shows their GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card with fewer render operation pipelines (ROPs), or render output units if you prefer, than what are supposed to be there. It’s the first case we’re aware of with missing ROPs on a GeForce RTX 5080 class card, FE or otherwise.

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Hey, is that a portable solid state drive (SSD) in your pocket or are you just happy to have saved some money? The answer can be both if you take advantage of our roundup of external storage deals. We found some great discounts on portable drives from the likes of Crucial, Lexar, and Samsung, all with fast data transfer speeds. Let’s dive

We often worry about how bad actors might use AI, though its capacity for independent misbehavior is rarely discussed. A recent research effort has revealed that certain AI models independently resort to cheating to avoid defeat in a chess match against a proficient chess bot.

The study experimented with seven AI models; o1-preview, DeepSeek

Flash memory is over and done, right? It’s time to move on to new storage-class memory technologies. Not so fast, says the flash memory industry, as it debuts new advancements that prove Flash has plenty of life left. Last week, we reported on Sandisk’s High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) memory, and while this week’s announcement isn’t as exotic,

It turns out that a spattering of reports about some GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards shipping with missing render output unit (or raster operations pipeline) hardware were the result of a “production anomaly” and not an issue with the BIOS. NVIDIA said as much in a statement confirming a “rare issue” with some cards, which also includes the

The legal battle between authors and Meta over copyright infringement continues. Following the plaintiffs’ (Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden,  et al., ) amended claim last month, Meta filed a reply on Tuesday, denying allegations of seeding (continuing to host files available on your systems so that other users can download

Twitch has been making several moves to cut costs, as Amazon doesn’t seem to be getting the return on investment it thought it would get after acquiring the popular streaming service. With the tech giant even attempting to leverage the platform to try and make a competitor able to usurp Steam. The latest changes that seem to be another attempt

Among Us, which became a favorite for many gamers during the depths of the pandemic, is still getting new upgrades despite being nearly seven years old. Developers Innersloth and Schell Games have unveiled Among Us 3D, which is a port of Among Us VR that can be experienced without a VR headset. It looks to deliver the same fun, chaotic experience

The picture above is not a Photoshop job—or at least, if it is, we didn’t make it. It comes from a Taobao listing for a listing that Google assures us is “RTX4090 Graphics Card Adapter 16PIN 180 Degree Graphics Card Power Steering Head Turbo Cooling 4080/4070.” Notably, the listing makes no mention of the GeForce RTX 5090, meaning it almost

Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor U4025QW: MSRP $1919, Currently $1489 The Dell UltraSharp 40 U4025QW is a big, beautiful, curved Thunderbolt-enabled 5K2K resolution monitor featuring IPS Black technology. It’s ideal for creators and productivity workers who need excellent color fidelity and a ton of high resolution screen…

Working an extra long shift can stink but your peripherals don’t have do. Not that I’ve ever had a problem with bad-smelling peripherals. All the same, ASUS is attempting to inject a breath of fresh (or scented) air into the PC peripheral market with its new Fragrance Mouse (MD101), a wireless rodent equipped with an internal fragrance compartment.

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A massive specs and image dump of Nothing’s upcoming Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro has presumably been leaked online. From this we can gather that both devices share more in common than not—such as processor, screen size, dimensions, and Glyph notification design. Only a closer inspection finds a vastly different camera setup between the two

Good news: Oppo’s Find N5 book-style foldable smartphone just received a global launch and is now one of the slimmest and most powerful of its kind. Bad news: Considering how awesomely spec’d out the Find N5 is, North Americans won’t get to enjoy it since sister company OnePlus decided to skip the Open 2/Find N5 this year. Sigh.

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If you thought “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” was an odd premise, wait until you get a load of the curious case of missing render output unit hardware (or raster operations pipeline, if you prefer—ROP from here on out) on some GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards that are out in the wild. One of the seemingly affected models landed in the

If you blinked, you missed the initial wave of GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at retail before they sold out. And if you sneezed, you also missed your window of opportunity to snag a GeForce RTX 5080. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti came and went in similar fashion during its retail debut, and we suspect the non-XT variant will be more of the same.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a product of over two decades of collaboration between NASA, CSA, and ESA, has made a remarkable discovery. From its home in a stable orbit in Lagrange point 2, the JWST captured a dazzling display of flaring activity from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way. These findings have

For years, predicting when quantum computing would become practical has been difficult, largely because of fundamental challenges that had no clear solutions. Those timelines may need to be advanced considerably, though; Microsoft has announced Majorana 1 (pronounced “Ma-ya-ra-nah”, because it’s Italian), the world’s first processor powered

Steam currently stands as king of the hill when it comes to PC game distribution, with Valve’s storefront operating as the default choice for almost everyone looking to play games on their computer. Many companies have tried to dethrone Steam, only to fall to the wayside. Ethan Evans, former VP of Prime Gaming at Amazo,n is sharing how the

Generative AI seems poised to become an integral part of the game development pipeline, with Microsoft unveiling Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM). It’s the first model of its kind, and comes by way of a collaborative effort between the research team and Xbox Game Studios’ Ninja Theory, which provided gameplay data. The company believes