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Apple recently put its budget-minded iPhone SE lineup out to pasture while simultaneously increasing the cost floor of its historically $429 entry level smartphone lineup to a loftier $599 price point. The new baseline is the iPhone 16e...
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You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching...
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Capcom has realized a relatively successful launch with Monster Hunter Wilds. The game has seen its peak concurrent player count pass over a million players, undoubtedly playing a role in Steam topping 40 million concurrent users for the...
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The GPU season is heating up with mid-range products finally starting to near their launch dates. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs have already launched in mid-range and high-end form with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, GeForce RTX 5080, and...
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The only 'vendors' with a standalone GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card in stock are greedy marketplace sellers and scalpers at places like eBay. Looking at some of the recently sold listings on eBay, we're seeing card go for $1,600 to $2,150...
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TCL has announced a slew of new phones and a tablet at the 2025 Mobile World Congress (MWC) tech convention in Barcelona, Spain. While the devices won't exactly set the world on fire, a few models do raise some curious eyebrows, such as...
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While not perfect, Steam's hardware and software survey, which is updated every month, is one of the quickest and easiest ways to gauge what kind of systems gamers are using at any given point in time. You just have to take the results...
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At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) technology tradeshow in Barcelona, Samsung announced successors to its big-selling budget phones: the Galaxy A26 5G, A36 5G, and A56 5G. When they launch at the end of March, the $300 A26 and $400 A36...
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Mobile World Congress (MWC) has officially begun in Barcelona, and with it comes the usual mix of product announcements and concept showcases. Falling into the latter category, Lenovo has a couple of cool gadgets on display, including a...
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At MWC, Qualcomm announced that it is expanding its 5G portfolio with the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF and the Dragonwing FWA Gen 4 Elite platform, which is the first major product under the company's new Dragonwing branding. While AI is...
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Imagine you're having a good time enjoying your favorite TV show, and suddenly an adult video takes over your screen, your remote stops working and harmful content is being forced on viewers. While you might dismiss this as mere fantasy...
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Seeing smartphone makers trip over themselves in a suddenly emerging race to claim the title of world's thinnest handset reminds us of the classic Saturday Night Live skit, the one where Will Ferrell pulls out a ridiculously tiny flip...
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Monster Hunter Wilds isn't perfect, but it is excellent—I spent about twelve hours playing it yesterday. It's a new main-line Monster Hunter game, with all that entails, including peak development expenditure from CAPCOM on one of its...
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For some years, Skype was popular for connecting people via voice and video, but its journey is ending. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Skype will be replaced by Microsoft Teams in May 2025.
14 years after its acquisition by...
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We're living in a moment in time where it seems like everything has gone up in price, from simple staples like eggs (thanks, bird flu) to advanced electronics like graphics cards (thanks AI demand-induced shortage and scalpers, among other...
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Are you using or planning to use a phone monitoring and tracking spyware application? If yes, you need to be aware of a new malware in the wild that compromises smartphones through a specific group of phone monitoring applications. The...
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When you hear "Framework", if you're familiar with the laptop vendor, you probably think of modular components and repairable PCs. Indeed, the company allowed popular repair guide website iFixit early access to the very exciting Framework...
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While EA is making AI a key pillar of how its studios make future titles, it hasn’t forgotten about its back catalog of popular games. Its latest efforts have seen the company open source code for several games from the Command and Conquer...
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The anticipated AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT have finally been revealed, powered by the company's RDNA 4 GPU architecture. We've also done a deep dive into RDNA 4, which takes a look at what makes the new Radeon GPUs...
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There are numerous ways humans can become extinct, like an asteroid crashing into Earth or nuclear bombs making the planet inhabitable, both of which have been featured in various Hollywood flicks. But instead of the sound of bombs...
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Earlier this week, Ford submitted a trademark application for the term "Mach 4," which has now gotten the internet buzzing on its meaning. Some believe that Ford could be planning some kind of four-door Mustang, but in what form? A regular...
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As higher tariffs imposed by the Trump administration loom, the analysts at IDC have adjusted their outlook on PC shipments for 2025 and beyond, reducing the expected shipment figure to 273 million units for the current year. The silver...
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