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It appears Kingpin is back, and if his new collaboration with ASUS bears fruit, he plans to bring back custom Kingpin-designed GPUs. Kingpin's historic nine-year tenure at EVGA ended in 2022 when EVGA shut down its GPU division, seemingly... Read more...
When we tested DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering in NBA 2K27, we were impressed with the upgrade in visual fidelity, but a little less impressed by the enormous performance hit imposed by the tech on non-flagship graphics cards. NVIDIA... Read more...
One unexpected side effect of agentic AI's emergence has been a drastic increase in unofficial porting and reverse engineering efforts, which has expanded from game recomps/decomp ports to ArtCraft now adding support for the Microsoft... Read more...
Epic Games hasn’t shied away from its integration of AI into its development workflows as it continues to deliver a steady cadence of content drops for its various titles including its cash cow, Fortnite. However, according to Bloomberg’s... Read more...
Sony has been having a rough go of it lately. The company is weathering massive backlash from its decision to end game physical disc releases for its PlayStation consoles, jailbreaks keep popping up and PS5 emulators and translation layers... Read more...
Google just announced the Fitbit Edge, a fitness tracker that bridges the gap between the full-featured Pixel Watch 5 and screenless, minimalist Fitbit Air. According to Google, the $180 Edge is for users who need comprehensive health... Read more...
Perseverance, NASA’s little rover that could (or can), has set an all-time off-world driving record, traveling farther on another planetary body than any vehicle in human history. Crossing the 28.10 mile (45.22 kilometer) mark across the unforgiving Mars terrain, the six-wheeled robotic... Read more...
After dumping us in the States and much of the world faster than a New York minute, OnePlus has unveiled its latest OnePlus 16 flagship in China. Sadly, its cutting-edge internals, gargantuan battery, and heavily upgraded cameras will... Read more...
Apple’s "Welcome Home" smart home launch event introduced a major overhaul to its living room ecosystem, unveiling new hardware and software designed to integrate Apple Intelligence more deeply into your home.  Arguably the halo rollout... Read more...
If you have been considering an upgrade to a Pixel 11 series smartphone, now is the time to make your move. Every model outside of the foldable variant is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy, with discounts ranging from $100 off for the... Read more...
Apple is urging anyone and everyone with a Mac, iPhone, or iPad to abandon Google's Chrome browser and come to the promised land that is the company's own Safari web browser. As part of a new 'Stay on Safari' campaign, Apple highlights... Read more...
AMD is doubling down on its ultra-compact workstation compute to challenge NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Apple's family of Mac mini systems. Following the launch of its Ryzen AI Halo workstation that we reviewed earlier this year, AMD has... Read more...
The Helios AI is AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most... Read more...
Although it has been roughly 17 months since the initial release of its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series cards, news regarding its next generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture remains scarce, with rumors indicating we could be waiting another year for anything solid to materialize. We have... Read more...
A PC gamer got a nasty surprise when the computer they purchased from someone on OfferUp ended up being a stolen system. Luckily, there’s a happy ending to this story. After posting about their ordeal on the pcmasterrace subreddit they... Read more...
Game hitching and stuttering is the enemy of a good experience. It's a plague on modern gaming, though it's far from exclusively a modern affliction; we just notice it more because we have higher expectations and lower frame times. A... Read more...
As Microsoft continues to build-out multi-gigawatt cloud and AI infrastructure deployments, its custom silicon remains a major focus. Today Microsoft reiterated that its Maia 200 is production-proven and deployed across regions in the... Read more...
If you haven't updated your Windows PC in a year or more, you'll need to apply an update in the near future to prevent another wave of certificate expirations from locking you out of future Windows updates. Devices that aren't updated... Read more...
Just weeks after revealign its new slate of iPhones, Apple is preparing to drop more new products this month, focused on smart home products that leverage the improved Siri AI assistant. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman the centerpiece... Read more...
By adapting cosmic black hole physics, acoustic engineers have created a device that swallows sound inside pipes to eliminate unwanted acoustic energy such as echoes and vibrations. When sound travels through enclosed ducts... Read more...
As artificial intelligence... oh sorry, super intelligence, grows exponentially in capability and autonomy, some tech leaders are sounding alarms about the striking lack of government regulation compared to things like milk and... Read more...
As you get ready to finish up your first semester back at school, are you finding that you could use a new laptop and want one that also has some gaming chops? If so, take note that Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora with RTX 50 firepower is back... Read more...
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