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PNY CS3150 XLR8 1TB: Price As Tested $185 PNY's CS3150 1TB SSD has one of the best coolers we've seen on a PCIe 5.0 SSD, though it trails in regard to write performance versus 2TB drives. Good Reading Performance 1TB and 2TB Models Available Cooler Is Low-Profile And Uses USB Header Connector Three Different Themes To...
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Capcom is working on several fixes for Dragon’s Dogma 2, and shared what players can look forward on the social media platform X. However, the timing of when these fixes actually make their way to gamers isn’t certain, just that Capcom plans on delivering at some point in the future. Capcom will be releasing different...
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Your TV came with speakers, but let's face it, they're not very good. Adding a soundbar can instantly upgrade your audio game. However, a cheap speaker might not sound much better than what's built into the TV. You don't have to spend an arm and a leg for a serioud upgrade, though. Denon has announced a new soundbar...
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Lest you forget there are other GPU manufacturers aside from NVIDIA and AMD, Intel has a few surprises in store. Spotted on the SiSoftware official benchmark ranker, it appears as though Intel's Battlemage GPUs is nearing the light of day. Intel's Battlemage Xe2-HPG GPUs would be discreet products like Alchemist, to...
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A consumer group is warning people about the dangers of placing too much trust in AI, especially when it comes to which mushrooms are safe to ingest. The report states that individuals who have relied solely on AI to identify mushrooms have become sick and hospitalized after eating a wild mushroom the AI mistakenly...
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CyberPowerPC is refreshing its Tracer gaming laptop line with its upgraded Tracer VIII series, and once again buyers can optionally choose to pick up a detachable liquid cooling setup to keep temps at bay. It won't set you back a ton of cash, either, though buyers will have to decide if the added cooling is worth the...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a breathtaking image of a multi-star system surrounded by a stellar nursery. The system is thought to be only 2.8 millions old, in contrast to Earth’s Sun, which is believed to be 4.6 billion years old.
The multi-star system, FS Tau, comprises FS Tau A, the bright star-like...
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Whether on social media or in interviews Phil Spencer can’t stop talking about gaming handhelds, and he has thoughts on what he’d like to see from the current crop of devices on the market. Spencer brings it up often enough, and even likes posts across social media that discuss gaming handhelds. So naturally, rumors...
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Have you checked the pricing on DDR5 and DDR4 memory pricing lately? Neither one is through the roof, thankfully, but costs are apparently still on the rise. According to the folks at TrendForce, a market research firm with a pulse on the memory industry, DRAM suppliers continue to tweak inventory levels in an effort...
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It's well known among enthusiasts that AMD's Ryzen processors benefit tremendously from high memory clocks, especially in multi-threaded applications. This isn't down to the memory bandwidth increase (although that can help), but more about the increased clock rate for the CPU's Infinity Fabric. That means that the...
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When we originally wrote about OpenAI's Sora back in the middle of February, we noted that the AI video model would be used by some independent creators before it became available to the public. The idea is that OpenAI wanted to assess whether the model had any real value before opening it up to the public, likely...
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Venerable games studio Toys for Bob will now be in partnership with Microsoft to develop a future game. The studio is known for working on classic titles such as the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot, and Skylanders. Although more recently the studio was relegated to working as a support team for the Call of...
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Artificial intelligence is not perfect. It occasionally spews misinformation, like the time a Chevy AI chatbot was tricked into “selling” a Tahoe for $1, and hallucinations or mistakes in the training data can result in incorrent output. However, the march of AI integration continues, bringing with it these sorts of...
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Apple may be taking a page from Android in its upcoming iOS 18 update in regard to its Home Screen customization features. Inside sources are remarking the Cupertino-based company plans on giving iPhone users a bit more freedom in how they can arrange app icons on their smartphone screen.
It may not sound like much...
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Investigations into Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), and Meta, three of the six tech giants the EU named as “gatekeepers,” are underway for possibly breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA). A few of the shortcomings listed are Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store, Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google...
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The penchant for video games to develop better graphical capabilities has been ingrained into development DNA since the first playable games were released decades ago. Fast forward to current times and Microsoft wants to improve the performance on low VRAM GPUs when combined with ray tracing with its new patent...
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If you happen to own anything that's been signed by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, it could bring in quite the haul at auction. We saw this a couple of years ago when an Apple computer check endorsed by both co-founders Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold for $163,929 (including buyer fees), and now a slightly more...
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It appears as if the gaming industry may need to wait longer than it’d like to for its savior, Grand Theft Auto 6, as the possibility of the game’s release date getting pushed back to 2026 is seemingly increasing. Rockstar risks losing employees as it’s going to implement a return to office policy to limit the risk of...
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Perhaps in parallel universe operating on an altered timeline, the Commodore 65 succeeded the hugely popular Commodore 64 and solidified its place in the history of computing. But in this universe on this timeline, the C65 (or C64 DX) failed to launch, instead existing only as a rare prototype. Incidentally, that also...
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A team of researchers recently found a side-channel vulnerability in Apple’s custom SoC architecture that does not appear patchable and allows for the theft of encryption keys.
The research team, which hails from six different universities around the United States, published its findings and is calling it the...
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AI image generators typically work through a process known as "diffusion". Basically, the model that's generating the image starts with a very vague, blurry picture, and successive sampling steps refine the image until it's sharp and realistic—or at least, as real as the model can get for what you've prompted...
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The Amazon Big Spring Sale is underway, bringing deep discounts on a plethora of tech across Amazon’s various categories. This makes for a great opportunity to upgrade your home theater or living room space with a new display, as you can get savings of up to 52% off, bringing TVs down to incredibly low...
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