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We're starting to sound like a broken record, but NVIDIA crushed yet another quarter with its Q4 revenue scaling to $39.3 billion, which is a 12% sequential gain and a massive 78% spike from the same quarter a year ago. Even more impressive, the record quarter capped off a monster year that saw NVIDIA post a greater... Read more...
Apple's text-to-speech tool seems to beleive the words "racist" and "Trump" are similar. Users across social media have recently shared videos from their iPhones, which show the word “racist” being transcribed as "Trump". It didn't happen in every instance -- sometimes it's transcribed properly, and at other times... Read more...
Micron's memory technology is taking another step forward with the launch of its new 1γ (1-gamma) DRAM, pushing DDR5 speeds to 9200 MT/s and LPDDR5X to an impressive 9600 MT/s. This marks the latest step in the company's longstanding race to shrink DRAM nodes while improving both power efficiency and performance. Compared to its last-generation Read more...
One of the controversies surrounding the ongoing launch of the GeForce RTX 50 series concerns the fact that it has dropped hardware acceleration for PhysX effects in 32-bit games. This affects the majority of titles using PhysX, particularly those from its halcyon days as NVIDIA's exclusive technology. Well, you can... Read more...
Plex, one of the most popular software solutions for those looking to host their own video and audio media, is about to undergo some big updates. The company is billing it as a rewrite of its entire code base, which will enable it to bring new features and better support for a variety of platforms. Unfortunately, this retooling also means Read more...
The video game industry continues to face big challenges, with Warner Bros. Games cancelling its planned Wonder Woman game and shuttering several game studios in its portfolio. Despite plenty of popular characters and worlds to draw from, the publisher hasn’t generated the hits it has expected. Its latest big swing... Read more...
Can you imagine splurging on a big and beautiful quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) monitor, only to turn around and intentionally test its mettle against burn-in over a 12-month period? It's not something the average consumer should do, and fortunately there's no need to either, because it's already been done as part of an... Read more...
Texas-based Hennessey Performance has announced a new Ford-collaborated monster called the Super Venom, a Mustang that supposedly out-Mustangs other Mustangs including the GT and even the Dark Horse. The 850-horsepower Super Venom comes from a fettled factory Coyote V8, and thanks to other mechanical upgrades, the car... Read more...
It's been almost a month since the GeForce RTX 5090 and GeForce RTX 5080 landed on retail shelves, both of which sold out in all of a nanosecond (or at least it felt that way). In the days and weeks since, multiple retailers and add-in board (AIB) partners have implemented systems designed to get limited restocks in... Read more...
In a landmark settlement, New York's Attorney General announced that DoorDash has agreed to pay more than 60,000 DoorDash drivers nearly $17 million in stolen tips. Over a two-year period between 2017 and 2019, DoorDash misled its customers and delivery workers (i.e. Dashers) by using tips meant for Dashers to offset... Read more...
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series made its initial entry into the GPU market with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, GeForce RTX 5080, and GeForce RTX 5090, though we know that more models are in the pipeline While gamers are anticipating the GeForce RTX 5070 as the next product to launch within the Blackwell family, murmurs about... Read more...
Samsung is rolling out a new flagship solid state drive (SSD) series, the 9100 Pro, to replace the excellent 990 Pro at the top of its consumer storage totem pole. Part of what makes it Samsung's fastest SSD series to date is that it's the company's first consumer storage solution to hitch its wagon to the PCI Express... Read more...
Ever since we first saw the rumored specifications for AMD's Ryzen AI MAX processors—back when they were simply known by the code name "Strix Halo"—the first thought we had was "this thing would make an awesome living-room PC." Framework apparently had the exact same thought upon hearing about these chips, because the... Read more...
Adding to the growing number of lawsuits against big tech's AI developments, Chegg, an edtech company specializing in textbook rentals and tutoring, is suing Google. It alleges that Google's "AI Overviews" feature, prominently placed in search results, has negatively affected its traffic and revenue. What happened?... Read more...
No, that headline isn't clickbait: in the midst of a graphics card market that continues to be an absolute disaster, ASUS is out here pitching a four-year-old GPU as “the best budget graphics card we offer in 2025 for gamers who prefer NVIDIA GPUs.” That kind of statement would be a joke coming from a site like ours... Read more...
AI is being heralded as an important part of the future game development pipeline by the biggest players in the industry, with the latest push coming from Microsoft with the release of its Muse AI model. However, it seems as if the future is here, according to Call of Duty’s Steam page that now contains an AI... Read more...
Ubisoft can’t seem to catch a break. The last few months have seen the storied publisher shut down one of its live service game efforts, while its Star Wars game floundered despite the popularity of the franchise. The company needs a big win with its upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but things aren’t off... Read more...
Razer today unveiled the latest iteration of its big and beastly Blade 18 gaming laptop (an upgraded version of the one we reviewed last year), which it's pitching as its most powerful Blade to date. According to Razer, the sharpened Blade 18 delivers a "premium desktop experience" in a mobile package with high-end... Read more...
Billions of years ago, Mars had beautiful golden beaches skirting oceans that covered almost half the entire planet. A Chinese-American research team, with the help of data from China's Zhurong martian rover, have found pretty conclusive proof of vast, ancient oceans, although it's probably safe to say that they... Read more...
So you've gone and preordered Apple's newest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 16e. With prices starting at $599, the iPhone 16e ascends past the budget category and into midrange territory. As such, it's a good idea to protect your purchase (which is true even for budget phones), and you can do that by... Read more...
A new (reliable) leak is giving us a good look at the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, complete with rounded corners and—almost unsurprisingly—a much thinner profile than the Z Fold 6, which should make it better to hold and pocket. The leaked renders give us hope that Samsung is taking the competition seriously... Read more...
AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is going to be officially announced on February 28th at 8 a.m EST time. It is slated for a release in early March, and we're starting to see some more potential leaks as to what to expect with its first consumer-facing RDNA 4 hardware. According to X user @GawroskiT, a custom Gigabyte Radeon RX... Read more...
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