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Alex Katouzian, formerly a senior executive at Qualcomm, has the left the company he has worked at for over two decades and has joined Intel to lead its Client Computing and Physical AI Group. It's a big loss for Qualcomm and an equally... Read more...
South of Austin, a startup and a fleet of AI-powered robots are reviving one of the oldest building traditions by transforming raw earth into modern, affordable housing amidst a worsening building and labor crisis. Think terraforming and... Read more...
New analysis has turned NASA’s TESS mission from a targeted planet spotter into a broad census machine, with AI uncovering undiscovered worlds hiding in plain sight within the mission's data. For one, fresh tools like RAVEN have validated... Read more...
Digital creator and software engineer Nav Toor recently alerted his followers on X to a pervasive privacy concern: most smart TVs capture screenshots of on-screen content as frequently as every 15 seconds. Perhaps more startling is that this tracking is enabled by default. This may bring back... Read more...
Once again, there is evidence to suggest that AMD is readying a Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D processor for the enterprise segment. After breaking cover in a shipping manifest earlier this year, the unreleased PRO model has made yet another... Read more...
GameStop has made an unsolicited bid to acquire auction giant eBay for $125 per share, which is to be evenly split between cash and stock. The massive offer, valued at around $55.5 billion, represents a 46% premium over eBay's closing... Read more...
After 29 years in the business, Ask.com (formerly known as Ask Jeeves), has finally closed its doors as of May 1st, 2026. While the writing has been on the wall since Google's search engine took the world by storm and nearly monopolized web search as a whole, it still marks the end of an era... Read more...
LG is expanding its UltraGear Evo AI monitor lineup with several new models, some of which are now available to preorder in the United States, Japan, and perhaps a few other regions. The exact models available depend on where you live at... Read more...
Fractal Design is known for its sleek, high-performance PC cases, and the new Pop 2 Vision is one of its cleanest-looking yet. Building on the design for the Fractal Design Pop 2 Air that we covered in January, the Pop 2 Vision is an... Read more...
If you haven't put hands on a mobile device with an Intel Panther Lake processor yet, even the 4-Xe3-core configuration is surprisingly spry when it comes to gaming. The "X" models with the larger 12-core GPU are downright speedy, and... Read more...
The latest April 2026 security update for Windows 11 version 25H2 and 24H2 is proving to be a double-edged sword for some users. On one hand, the cumulative KB5083769 update that began rolling out on the second Tuesday of this month (per... Read more...
If the only thing holding you back from big screen gaming on PC is the big price that comes with it, then take note that Amazon has marked down Samsung's 49-inch Odyssey G9 (G95C) gaming monitor to nearly an all-time low. As an added... Read more...
JEDEC is pushing server memory even faster with its next-generation DDR5 MRDIMM roadmap, and no, this probably isn't the kind of RAM you'll be dropping into your next gaming PC. The standards body announced new milestones for DDR5 MRDIMM... Read more...
Mega Man 2 is a beloved classic in Capcom's Mega Man series that is now playable on a watch. My Play Watch, a brand specializing in gaming oriented, like its Space Invaders watch, has partnered with Capcom to create a Mega Man: My Play... Read more...
The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds has evolved into a fully-fledged "Xbox Mode" available for all Windows 11 PCs after a brief period locked to Xbox Ally, and then handhelds only. Per a release from... Read more...
Toto, the Japanese company best known for its heated bidet toilets, is suddenly looking less like a bathroom brand and more like an unlikely beneficiary of the global RAM shortage. In a year when memory has become scarce, expensive, and generally annoying to anyone trying to buy a computer... Read more...
It's been tough sledding for gamers in need of a partial or wholesale hardware upgrade, but if you've been waiting for a big discount on a high-end laptop, Best Buy just came through. It's offering $750 off Lenovo's Legion Pro 7i with... Read more...
Porsche just revived one of motorsport’s most recognizable paint schemes, sending its factory 963s to Laguna Seca in the rainbow Apple Computer livery that first appeared more than four decades ago.  Remember this little puppy? The... Read more...
Google is officially retiring the rigid voice commands of the past. The tech giant is rolling out Gemini to vehicles with Google built-in, transforming the dashboard from a basic utility into a conversational AI hub. Earlier this year... Read more...
A revised asteroid calculation may have opened a new expressway to Mars and back; experts believe that we could shrink a round trip to the Red Planet from 14-20 months to more than half of that. The idea comes from a paper published in... Read more...
Have you ever likened the process of engineering a PC cooling fan as being akin to baking a complex soufflé? Noctua has, and the analogy sheds details on why it takes the company so much longer to release a fan in the black colorway after releasing the same model in classic colors, especially... Read more...
We're way past the days of wondering if 640 kilobytes of memory is enough. The discussion in the modern era is if 16 gigabytes will suffice for a gaming PC, and according to Microsoft, that amount is considered the baseline. The sweet... Read more...