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A winning bidder just added a piece of Apple history to their collection for the cool sum of $475,000, besting the pre-auction estimate for an ultra-rare Apple-1 by $175,000. The final selling price includes a 25% "buyer's premium" fee... Read more...
The Steam Deck is already one of the best bangs for buck in the PC gaming handheld space and the value proposition just got even better with Valve's steep discount in play. For a limited time, the base Steam Deck is is 20% off for a low... Read more...
OpenAI and NVIDIA have signed a letter of intent for what may just be the largest single investment in AI compute infrastructure to date: a plan to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems dedicated to training and running OpenAI's... Read more...
Over the weekend, Twitter user @phantomofearth noticed that a classic Windows Vista Ultimate feature had been added back into the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build— video wallpapers. Video wallpapers, also called live wallpapers... Read more...
Apple bolstered this year’s iPhone lineup with the debut of the iPhone Air, a phone that measures up well against the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s an impressive device that manages to pack some serious specs into its thin frame, and a... Read more...
While some would like to see themselves as Robin Hood-type, well-intentioned opportunists, it has long been known that there is no honor among thieves. Case in point: today's story, where a man named Raivo Plavnieks was trying to raise... Read more...
Since the AMD FSR 4 INT8 DLL leak, we've known that it's possible to use FSR 4 on older GPU architectures than RDNA 4. Recently, we've actually seen successful use of FSR 4 on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, after early efforts resulted in... Read more...
Could an ASUS prototype PCIe connector spell the end of bulky, unsightly power cables for graphics cards? We may soon find out—ASUS is showcasing a "magic modification" to the standard PCIe slot, allowing it to deliver a massive 250 watts... Read more...
The U.S. government has approved Meta’s Llama artificial intelligence system for use by its agencies. Thanks to a partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA), Meta joins the likes of Google, AWS, Microsoft, OpenAI, and more... Read more...
Amazon's dedicated deals site is hosting a 'Best of Woot!' sale with deep discounts over MSRP on a bunch of items, including a decent selection of electronics. A lot of the items are over half off. Consider it an appetizer for Amazon's... Read more...
We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a bit shocking," or more precisely... Read more...
Rockstar Games is under the impression that Grand Theft Auto VI will become the "largest game launch in history," as evidenced by a recent job listing (the developer removed the comment after it gained media coverage). Judging by the... Read more...
In a strategically timed announcement, MediaTek today unveiled its next-gen flagship system-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, the Dimensity 9500 with an all-big-core CPU design and several key upgrades. What makes the timing strategic is... Read more...
A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with "a mix of... Read more...
Apple's transition to its own in-house designed silicon based on Arm is bearing fruit (excuse the pun) these days. Now several years into the pivot away from using Intel's x86 chips, Apple's latest generation Mac mini and MacBook systems... Read more...
The market for PC gaming hardware, including systems and accessories, is projected to grow by 35% in 2025 by Jon Peddie Research. This data is considered "conservative in relation to total PC hardware expenditure", and is attributed by the... Read more...
Microsoft is initiating a second price hike on its existing series of Xbox consoles sold in the US, raising prices of all Xbox Series S|X models starting on October 3rd, 2025. For the Xbox Series S 512GB, the price is increasing from... Read more...
If you're planning to have a cutting-edge chip manufactured in late 2025 or early 2026, you're probably looking at TSMC, because the only other company operating a fab at a similar node is Intel, and Team Blue canceled acceptance of... Read more...
Lenovo has issued another statement about its upcoming Legion Go 2 handheld, and this time it has nothing to do with the backlash over sticker shock. Not directly, anyway—instead, the general messaging is that it was caught off guard by a... Read more...
Two of the biggest smartphone manufacturers both released ultra-thin devices recently, Apple with the iPhone Air and Samsung with the Galaxy S25 Edge. Despite having super-svelte designs, however, both devices still manage to pack some... Read more...
Another week, another AI integration—now, market-leading browser Google Chrome is finally on the update list and facing a full suite of new Gemini AI features to be added in the near future. Over the past few days, Google has been... Read more...
AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the... Read more...
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