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Blue Origin's rocket, New Shepard, just completed its 33rd journey, carrying six people and about 1,000 postcards. The flight, named NS-33 (New Shepard 33), is New Shepard's 13th flight with humans. The spacecraft has now successfully carried 70 people in total to space. The NS-33 flight, which took place on June... Read more...
Unfortunately, we have another serious security vulnerability to tell you about. This time around, it's on high-end Bluetooth headphones and headsets from a range of manufacturers including Sony, Marshall, JBL, Bose, and BeyerDynamic. The common theme among them is they all use Bluetooth SoCs from Airoha, putting the... Read more...
In what is now the latest state of the nation on the future of TikTok, President Trump has revealed on X(Twitter) that an anonymous group of "very wealthy people" is ready to buy TikTok, and he even expressed confidence that Chinese President Xi will likely approve this sale. Could this be the long-awaited... Read more...
The skunkworks team at Apple is full steam ahead as the company continues to work towards what it hopes will be able to succeed the iPhone. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that there are currently several products under development, although some hinge on Apple getting its act together with its AI efforts. Despite the... Read more...
AMD has held the upper hand in PC gaming for years now, thanks to its X3D processors and their massive 3D V-Cache. By stacking extra cache on top of the CPU, AMD drastically cuts memory latency—arguably the biggest performance bottleneck in modern games, at least on the CPU side—and keeps much more data closer to the... Read more...
We all love seeing our pictures in different creative forms and on social media. However, what if these creative ideas are generated with an AI feature that accesses your gallery and even uses pictures you've decided not to share with anyone? Well, most folks probably wouldn't be too keen on that idea. And that's why... Read more...
A significant portion of our readers are PC builders, and we figure that among our collective there's a wide array of bizarre stories about mystery issues that seem to defy any logic and common sense. Today, there's a tale of quite extraordinary dimensions, at least as far as the hardware and price tag are concerned:... Read more...
I'm dating myself with this one, but a jingle that often pops up in my head is, "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup!" Of course, there are better coffee options out there, depending on what you're into. But it all starts with having something capable of brewing your favorite beans into a cup of... Read more...
Hot on the heels of NVIDIA introducing its most affordable Blackwell part yet with the GeForce RTX 5050 (which is already up for preorder on Amazon, by the way), it looks as though the company will now pivot to refreshing several of its higher end SKUs with Super models, including a GeForce RTX 5080 Super, GeForce RTX... Read more...
The console wars have always been heated, but it looks like Microsoft's Xbox may be throwing us a curve ball. We've come to expect hardware updates by each brand every few years since the early days of Nintendo versus Sega. And much like Sega, Microsoft appears to be changing its hardware strategy and focusing more on... Read more...
Given that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 only officially emerged from the shadows less than a week ago, it's only fitting that the first one to show up at retail is MSI's Shadow 2X OC variant. And it's not surprising that the card is already available to preorder. What IS mildly surprising, however, is that the listed... Read more...
The Switch 2 has been a big hit for Nintendo, with units flying off the shelves as quickly as retailers can stock them. Even tough critiques of the handheld’s screen hasn’t slowed demand. If you’ve been left out in the cold though, don’t despair, this guide will help you to secure a device at a range of participating... Read more...
Micron's newly announced 2600 series of NVMe SSDs is a set of PCIe Gen4 drives the company says delivers TLC-like performance while retaining the cost efficiency of QLC NAND. The key to that claim? A new in-house caching approach dubbed Adaptive Write Technology (AWT), which Micron says significantly boosts write... Read more...
A few weeks back, Christian "Perifractic" Simpson, former actor and founder of the Retro Recipes YouTube channel posted a video detailing possible plans to acquire Commodore. There is lots of history and backstory in the first video, but the gist is this: after contacting the current owners of the Commodore brand and... Read more...
You may recall that earlier this year your author here was quite excited about the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds. That enthusiasm, like much of the community's, was somewhat muted after we actually put a few dozen hours into the game. It's not that the game is bad; rather, Monster Hunter Wilds is a considerable... Read more...
With Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom is looking to take the popular series back to its horror roots. Recent entries in the franchise, including the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4, have leaned more into action-oriented gameplay. The game’s producer, Masato Kumazawa, however, says that Requiem's core... Read more...
Mario Kart World has been one of the standout titles available during the launch of the Switch 2, likely playing a role in the success of the new handheld. Nintendo has incorporated several new elements to the series’ traditional formula, including how its online mode works. However, fans are upset with the changes... Read more...
It is not a good time to be a network administrator, especially for businesses with Brother printers. Security researchers published a laundry list of vulnerabilities affecting a total of 748 printer models, most of them (and the worst of them) affecting Brother gear, with a tally of 689 models. There are a total of... Read more...
Each time you shop physically and a garment catches your eye, you probably try it on to see if it looks good on you. What about when you shop online? Google's new app Doppl has got you covered, as the app exists to enable users to virtually try on clothes. Just last month, Google released its new AI Mode that lets... Read more...
Food retail giant Ahold Delhaize, parent company of well-known American brands like Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Giant Food, and Hannaford, has confirmed a significant data breach impacting over 2.24 million individuals. The incident, stemming from a November 2024 ransomware attack on its U.S. internal business systems... Read more...
If you follow Microsoft news, you may have heard about the Windows Resiliency Initiative that started last year. While at first glance this may appear to be just another marketing-driven campaign to fill a row of buzzword bingo, it appears that Redmond has genuinely been cooking up quite a few changes to Windows in a... Read more...
LG Display has announced the mass production of its fourth-generation 27-inch OLED panels that are apparently setting new benchmarks in brightness, refresh rate, and response time. These advancements, which the company hails as a "triple crown" achievement in display technology (humility at its best, folks), promise... Read more...
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