News

Search 2024
January February March April May June July August September October November December

Latest News - April 2023

All News for April 2023

Sony Interactive released The Last of Us Part I on Windows right around a month ago and in that time, developer Naughty Dog has issued no less than seven patches specific to the PC port. The latest one—version 1.0.4.0—addresses a bunch of issues across a variety of hardware, including AMD systems and the Steam Deck... Read more...
You'd be hard pressed to find a PC gamer who has not heard of Cherry, especially if they've ever shopped for a mechanical keyboard. Cherry MX key switches are in a plethora of planks from a wide range of manufacturers, including Corsair, HyperX, Razer, and others. What you may not be aware of, however, is that Cherry... Read more...
Warframe is a wonderful success story. A self-published live service game from a tiny Canadian game company (Digital Extremes) has grown over the last decade to become one of the most popular online action games. Today marks the launch of the long-awaited Duviri Paradox update that was first mentioned over four years... Read more...
UK watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dealt a huge blow to Microsoft's attempt at acquiring Activision-Blizzard-King. The final decision from CMA stated Microsoft's solution had "significant shortcomings," and that the deal would reduce innovation and alter the rapidly growing landscape of the cloud... Read more...
MSI has had to eat humble pie and withdraw a recently launched GeForce Ampere graphics card, following pressure from NVIDIA, according to reports from the Hong Kong tech press. The simple problem was that MSI launched a Super branded product which wasn’t an NVIDIA Super SKU. We saw evidence of this Super graphics card... Read more...
Oops, Amazon accidentally let slip that the 2023 Beats Studio Buds+ TWS earbuds coming soon will be available not just in traditional ivory and black colors, but also as a transparent variant.  The listing for the Studio Buds sequel has since been taken down, but thanks to the ever-handy Wayback Machine, we have... Read more...
Qualcomm is introducing its take on a graphics upscaler today called Snapdragon Game Super Resolution. Like comparable technologies from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, the goal is to maximize game performance and reduce resource consumption while retaining as much image fidelity as possible compared to native rendering. In... Read more...
As space tourism becomes more of a reality, one group of scientists is pondering the thought of "uncontrolled human conception" in space. The scientist's green paper suggests space sex could happen within the next decade and we need to start preparing for it now. The group says tourist behavior will differ greatly... Read more...
The rush by big tech to push out AI chatbots before they're fully cooked has it feeling a little bit like the Wild West. This comes with a plethora of concerns, not of the least of which is the spread of misinformation, but there are safety and security issues at play as well. To help wrangle the suddenly rapid... Read more...
OnePlus is taking a swing at the high-end tablet market by offering a mid-priced device with some interesting specs. Will it succeed against what Apple or Samsung currently offer? OnePlus seems to think so. To play with some of the biggest market leaders—Apple's iPad Pro and Samsung's Tab S8—the OnePlus Pad is... Read more...
It wasn't all that long ago when building a gaming PC was far more expensive than it needed to be—supply issues created in part by the pandemic combined with crypto mining and greedy scalpers wreaked havoc on the market at large. Those days are quickly becoming a memory, however, as tech deals abound on graphics... Read more...
Kevin Mitnick, a former black hat hooligan-turned-good-guy who spent several years in prison in the 1990s for various computer-related tomfoolery, is showing off a beastly setup outfitted with 30 high-end GeForce graphics cards. We know what you're wondering—can it run Crysis? It certainly has enough firepower to push... Read more...
It's clear that the industrial designers at ASUS honed the ROG Ally design through numerous prototype stages to end up with the handheld we see today. Already quite familiar to tech enthusiasts, the feature image here shows what might have been. Some of the prototypes were rather wild, but it is clear that ASUS was... Read more...
A new rumor claims three new AMD Radeon RX 7000 series mid-range GPUs are in the works that will compete with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 series and as yet unannounced RTX 4060 series GPUs. These models include the Radeon RX 7800 XTX, RX 7800 XT, and RX 7700 XT, which will reportedly be powered by AMD’s scaled-down Navi... Read more...
The unaware PC gamer will buy a graphics card based on how much video RAM it has and might be disappointed at its performance. The uninitiated will then tell you that video RAM doesn't matter, because games rarely use that much. Those truly in the know are well aware that current games are pushing past the 8GB... Read more...
Google provides a long-awaited and much-needed update to its Authenticator app as the company says we are moving to a passwordless future. The update, available on both Android and iOS, allows users to safely backup one-time codes (OTPs) to a Google account. Most everyone nowadays uses added layers of security when... Read more...
Both of AMD's latest-generation architectures, those being Zen 4 for CPUs and RDNA 3 for GPUs, can offer significant performance-per-watt benefits over previous-generation parts. That's most important in power-constrained battery-powered devices, and little is more power-constrained than a gaming handheld. That's... Read more...
A Japanese company called ispace is attempting to be the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon today, and you can watch live. It launched its Hakuto-R lander onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December of last year. After launching the Hakuto-R lander on December 11, 2022, ispace had the... Read more...
Give credit to Valve and its popular Steam Deck handheld for helping push demand for smaller solid state drive (SSD) options in the M.2 2230 form factor. Helping to meet that growing demand is Corsair with its brand-spanking-new MP600 Mini, an ultra-compact NVMe SSD with respectable speed ratings to give your Steam... Read more...
The upcoming Motorola Razr 2023 bares more skin in yet another couple of leaks—this time showing off its likely-final form and a massive 3.5-inch external display. Moto Razr 2023 external screen size (Image source: Weibo) A couple of leaks over at Weibo are doubling-down on the fact that the Razr 2023 will rock a... Read more...
The developers at Blizzard are putting the finishing touches on Diablo IV before the game makes its much-anticipated release in a few weeks. Blizzard has shared finalized specifications for playing on PC as the release date quickly approaches, including the minimum hardware you'll need to get into the game as well as... Read more...
Cigent Technology is a data security company whose main product is the Data Defense software-as-a-service security suite. The company's about to introduce a new line of SSDs, though, and one of those is pretty interesting: the Cigent Secure SSD+, with automated anti-ransomware technology that claims to be able to... Read more...
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 Next