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OpenAI continues to roll out new products and pricing tiers as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, with the company releasing Sora, its video generation model, to general users. Prior to this release, Sora was available to a limited...
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Audio for the home and your PC setup can produce some complex and large speaker systems that can quickly become overwhelming. Creative Labs has a solution with its Pebble Nova, a small but high-end speaker system. Featuring a 2.0 speaker...
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Remember that $245 million settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Epic Games? Well, it's been around two years since it was agreed upon, and the FTC says it's finally planning to send out hundreds of thousands of checks...
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Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so long. There's nothing mandating that GPUs...
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You may recall that, just last Thursday, we cast a dubious eye toward the story reporting that Intel's 18A process yields were on the order of 10%. The numbers simply didn't add up; Intel had already reported a defect rate of less than 0.4...
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Itch.io, a popular platform used by independent game developers to distribute their games, was temporarily taken offline. It was apparently a victim of an overzealous phishing report made by Brand Shield on behalf of Funko. Unfortunately...
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Rockstar Games' upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has quickly become one of the most anticipated games releases of all time, with its debut trailer managing to surpass the 200 million view milestone. However, since the publisher released that...
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Fortnite players are beginning to notice an increase in the number of bots appearing in one of the game’s modes, the recently added Fortnite OG. The @osirion_gg account, on social media platform X, posted that “Bots enabled in OG, 90 bots...
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Apple’s ability to design privacy conscious and secure technologies is being threatened as the company faces a $1.2B class action lawsuit. The plaintiff's lawyers claim that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual...
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Microsoft has struggled to come up with uses for all the fancy AI acceleration hardware in today's laptops. Even machines with Copilot+ branding have offered little in the way of AI extras, but that's slowly changing. After releasing the...
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Praga, a century-old automaker that you might have never heard of, has begun deliveries of its track-focused hypercar called the Bohema. After a seven-year incubation period, the first production car was delivered to a customer in...
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It's easy to blame your controller (or cat, or dog, or a loud noise outside, or...) when missing that critical head-shot in a game or bricking an easy bucket in NBA 2K25. If you know someone who often turns to that excuse, do them a solid...
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Indiana Jones has been a legendary franchise for movies, and it is no surprise that it continues to push out new content. While there have been Indiana Jones-themed games in the past, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the latest...
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GDP, a China-based developer of high-quality mini laptops running Windows, UMPC, and Android handheld game consoles has bumped the current Win Max 2 handheld-laptop hybrid gaming machine from a Ryzen 7 8840U to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix...
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Have you been trying unsuccessfully to score AMD's fancy new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processors with a heap of extra L3 cache for gaming workloads? You're not alone—it remains sold out at every reputable retailer we checked. You might not find any...
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The two biggest criticisms surrounding Apple's Vision Pro headset are the cost of entry—at $3,499 for the base model and an optional $499 fee for an AppleCare+ plan, it's anything but cheap—and lack of interesting apps purpose built for...
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You may recall that we stopped by Lenovo's booth at IFA Berlin earlier this year and sneaked a peek at some of its upcoming ThinkPad and Yoga laptops. One of those models—the ThinkPad Carbon X1 Aura Edition—has launched in China, and one...
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Apple has long been angling to ditch Qualcomm and use modems designed in-house, and it seems as if the upcoming iPhone SE 4 will be the beginning of the transition process. The company believes the new modem will allow it to manufacture...
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Historically speaking, even when it wasn't the absolute fastest option, Intel has always been 'competitive' with longtime rival AMD in terms of CPU gaming performance. That is actually still the case for the company's 14th-generation Core...
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It has taken a few attempts, but Arm is finally starting to hits its stride on Windows, and it's thanks in large part to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors. What's also helped is that Microsoft promoted Snapdragon X...
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If you read that headline and thought "okay, what's the catch," we'll spoil it for you: the "catch" is that the battery can only provide a very small amount of power, on the order of milliwatts. It's still very exciting, though, because...
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Since the launch of the Steam Deck, PC handheld devices have become a hot segment in the gaming market. Though, the only one capable of officially running SteamOS has been Valve’s device. However, it appears as if this might not be the...
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