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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Gen 9 Aura Edition Lenovo's ultraportable AI PC collaboration with Intel has good performance, a beautiful display and outstanding battery life Outstanding battery life Excellent, sharp, and accurate display Good everyday workload performance Very good thermals and noise levels Solid graphics for... Read more...
Grand Theft Auto VI is sucking up all the oxygen in the gaming space. Some fans have been coming up with fantastical theories about when the next trailer will drop, while others are crafting wishlists of what they want from the next entry in the hit franchise. While Rockstar has been tightlipped about GTA VI, it... Read more...
CES is next week and you can bet that there will be a bevy of beautiful hardware announcements, including many luxurious laptops sporting the latest processor designs. Apparently, Taiwanese ODM Elitegroup (better known to the DIY crowd as "ECS") couldn't wait though, and showed its hand early. In the company's... Read more...
Researchers have found how slow the human brain is: it process information at a rate of around 10 bits per second. In comparison, the average Wi-Fi download speed in the U.S. is 260 million bits per second, while even an 80s dial-up modem does 40,000 to 50,000 bits per second. This slow processing speed of ours isn't... Read more...
Beginning January 9, budget shoppers looking for brand new Samsung hardware should check out the new $199.99 Galaxy A16 5G smartphone and $59.99 Galaxy Fit3 fitness watch. Undoubtedly, the key selling point of either device is the affordable pricing, although thankfully neither will make you necessarily feel like... Read more...
It looks as though Atari is finally getting to release a handheld game console that it first showed off at last year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At the time, it was called the Gamestation Portable, and you can still find references to it on Atari's website. It never actually released (to our knowledge), though... Read more...
The arrival of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is getting closer with each passing day, and a reveal is very likely to manifest at year's CES event. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will be the keynote speaker, where he is expected to introduce the next-gen GPU lineup. One piece of rumor that keeps circulating is the potential... Read more...
Talk about a close call! A large metal ring suspected to be space debris, measuring around 8 feet wide and weighing a hefty 1,100 pounds, crashed in a village in Kenya earlier this week. Preliminary evaluations point to a separation ring from a rocket, but an investigation is still pending by the Kenya Space Agency... Read more...
You may not have realized it, but 'tis the season of teasers, apparently. There's no mistaken what NVIDIA's GeForce LAN 50 announcement last month was foreshadowing, but it's not the only one with new GPUs on the horizon. AMD recently posted a series images on Reddit to promote its CPU and GPU hardware during the... Read more...
We keep saying it, but the wait is almost over for NVIDIA to officially introduce its GeForce RTX 50 series, which it is undoubtedly planning to do at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week—company co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to deliver an opening keynote on Monday, January 6 at 6:30pm PT... Read more...
Most DIY PC builders are guys, and we reckon that's probably why the overwhelming majority of PC hardware is designed like the latest Decepticon. Such styles typically have extremely low Wife Approval Factor, though, and that might be part of why some case builders have been experimenting with more natural-looking... Read more...
The two-pronged strategy of having a powerful console alongside a more modest and affordable option has been a double-edged sword for Microsoft's Xbox. The Xbox Series S has been the more popular choice, comprising a significant portion of its console sales. Unfortunately, the disparity in hardware between the Series... Read more...
There are all kinds of CAPTCHAs out there: unscramble the characters, identify the object, count the cats, classify items, move the slider, and so on. Many of them are rather transparently crowdsourced AI training data. That's not the case with the latest CAPTCHA, though, which challenges users to kill three enemies... Read more...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine began almost three years ago, and there's no end in sight. As the war drags on, Russia also has to cope with the international fallout that has seen numerous Western companies pull out of the country. Putin's government is now pushing self-sufficiency goals across numerous industries... Read more...
At present moment, AMD can't supply its retail partners with enough Ryzen 7 9800X3D models to meet the insatiable demand by gamers. It's the first (and so far only) desktop processor based on Zen 5 to wield AMD's second-generation 3D V-Cache solution, which is great for gaming, and it's frequently sold out (save for... Read more...
With CES 2025 rapidly approaching, the GPU hype is continuing to grow. And with NVIDIA's CEO as the keynote speaker, we expect the GeForce RTX 50 series to be announced at the event. NVIDIA is also holding a GeForce LAN 50 event starting January 4th, to increase enthusiasm for the expected launch.  NVIDIA has... Read more...
Think about how many displays you stare at on any given day. There's your computer or laptop (or both), your tablet, your smartphone, your smartwatch, your gaming handheld (c'mon Nintendo, release the Switch 2 already!), and of course your television. You might even own a refrigerator with a built-in display. Maybe... Read more...
There has been a ton of talk about NVIDIA's upcoming GPU launch, which we're expecting when company co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers an opening keynote. Most of the talk has centered on NVIDIA's desktop GeForce RTX 50 series that is inbound, including the GeForce RTX 5090 that will supplant the GeForce RTX... Read more...
Until this week, the latest news on Half-Life 3 was that Valve had canceled several iterations of the game, which was revealed in a news tidbit in the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary produced by Valve in November. Now, we have two more clues that seem to give a pretty strong indication that we could see... Read more...
One can only speculate why Nintendo has not yet gotten around to formally introducing its promised Switch successor, which we're calling the Switch 2 until told otherwise. If the increase in leaks is any indication, however, a launch is not far off. The latest leak purportedly gives us several views of the upcoming... Read more...
ASRock is racing into the new year with a couple of high-speed 27-inch flat-screen gaming displays under its Phantom Gaming brand, the PG27FFX1B and PG27FFX2A. In addition to being the same size, both new monitors also sport a blistering-fast 520Hz refresh rate. They also both utilize In-Plane Switching (IPS) panels... Read more...
Gamers and technology enthusiasts are not the only ones eagerly waiting for NVIDIA to unveil its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series, so are some of its hardware partners. Adding to a growing number of leaks, iBuyPower, a popular builder of custom gaming PCs, went live a little early with multiple listings equipped... Read more...