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All News for July 2023

As much as we love gushing about the latest hardware around here, the fact remains that most people don't care that much. As proof of this sad statement, check out the sales of the Nintendo Switch. That system's specifications were pretty mediocre when it came out back in 2017, even for a tablet. Despite that, it's... Read more...
New images of a purported NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti (or Titan Ada?) graphics card cooling shroud have appeared online. These teardown pictures form the most extensive exposé to date of what is thought to be an SKU that has been axed. Thanks to an intrepid leaker in China, these under-the-shroud images show the first... Read more...
The Xbox and PlayStation consoles have been using broadly PC-compatible hardware for the last two generations. The previous-generation hardware was really too slow to be interesting with its meager Jaguar cores, but the current-generation systems are based on AMD's Zen 2 architecture. That's certainly older and slower... Read more...
Mark Zuckerberg's Threads app has lost more than half of its 100 million users since its launch. The Meta CEO shared the news at a meeting with employees last week. Threads started off strong, with more than 100 million people signing up for the social media app within the first week or so. The app is Zuckerberg's... Read more...
Minecraft players and server operators are facing new security risks following the discovery of a vulnerability in certain mods and subsequent mod packs that allows remote code execution if exploited. Patches are rolling out and vulnerability management is actively happening, but players could still be at risk if... Read more...
In a new paper, scientists do not rule out that horizontal protrusions that were photographed by NASA's Curiosity rover could have come from an alien spacecraft. The image in question was taken by Curiosity between sol 3786 and 3800 during its time in Mars' Gale Crater with its ChemCam. Back in April of this year... Read more...
One of the many reasons why the Steam Deck has been so popular is because of Valve's aggressive pricing. As we saw early on, competitors had a difficult time offering compelling alternatives in the same pricing category, but that's starting to change. First there was the ASUS ROG Ally we reviewed last month, and now... Read more...
Some used-phone sellers are trying to cash in on certain iPhone models still bearing the now-defunct Twitter logo, and for quite a load of money. With Elon Musk rebranding Twitter to X, something to match his sub-brands' naming convention, a trend to obtain older iPhones still with the Twitter app installed could be... Read more...
Sony is doubling the expanded storage capacity support of its PlayStation 5 console to accommodate 8 terabyte (TB) M.2 form factor solid state drives (SSDs). It's one of several features currently being tested in the latest beta software update. The beta update is an invite-only affair for the time being, though Sony... Read more...
August promises to be a stellar end to Summer as sky watchers will be treated to a couple of supermoons, dazzling shows of shooting stars, and more in the night sky. The end of August will feature a full Blue Moon that will be the closest supermoon of the year, the second of four consecutive supermoons. Sky gazers... Read more...
We're continually amazed at how far television pricing has dropped in the past several years. Not only can you get more size for your money than ever before, but newer technologies like mini LED backlighting can be part of the package too. Even OLED TVs no longer command the same kind of premium they once did (they're... Read more...
Earlier this week, SpaceX had anticipated launching two rockets back-to-back just 44 minutes apart, which would set the record for the fastest time between launches. However, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that was second in line had some delays that pushed its launch back into the evening. Despite this setback, the events... Read more...
Hard drives are dead, right? The proliferation of cheap solid-state storage certainly has made the ol' spinning rust largely obsolete for desktop builds and typical consumers, but when you need to store a ton of data in as small a space as possible, you're still not going to beat a hard drive. It looked like that... Read more...
A new study involving Google's DeepMind Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2) vision-language-action (VLA) model shows promising results in building a general-purpose physical robot that can reason, problem-solve, and interpret information in order to carry out a wide array of tasks in real-world settings. RT-2 learns from... Read more...
Don't let the warm weather outside fool you—it's not too early to start your back-to-school shopping. On the tech side of the equation, an essential piece of gear is a laptop, but which one? Well, if you've settled on a Chromebook, we have good news—these already cheap machines are even less expensive right now with... Read more...
No, there's not a typo in the headline—that's how Thermalright spelled it. Despite the sun iconography on the packaging and despite the obvious parallels with the sun and heat, Thermalright's new thermal interface pads for CPU cooling are known as "Heilos" and not "Helios." Confusing name aside, these pads are an... Read more...
In recent days and weeks, Call of Duty has seen an uptick in population since the online servers were fixed up, allowing players to return to their old haunts and have some fun. However, with this uptick in activity, cheaters and hackers are looking to ruin the fun and nostalgia for CoD players. As it turns out, they... Read more...
Twenty years ago, if you had asked your author here if he thought a Ratchet & Clank game would ever be the new high bar for graphics technology in PC gaming, he would have given you a very strong "no." Yet, here we are: Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart is one of the most demanding titles available, and it implements all the... Read more...
Aptly named mini PC specialist Minisforum announced its HN2673 computer back in June. However, the firm has just put this new Neptune Series compact PC up for pre-order, and there's a nice discount to be had on the various configurations. The Minisforum product pages reveal a CPU and GPU combo in the HN2673 that... Read more...
AMD officially unveiled its third Radeon RX 7900 series graphics card at ChinaJoy today, known as the RX 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition — or GRE for short. The new GPU is the lowest-end RX 7900 series graphics card now on sale, featuring a further cut-down Navi 31 GPU and memory sub-system compared to the RX 7900 XT. The... Read more...
Many home theater enthusiasts and tech aficionados know that Monoprice is a great resource for procuring all sorts of cables and cords, from certified high-speed HDMI and Ethernet cables, to speaker wires and much more. What you might not be aware of, though, is that Monoprice has its hands in quite a few cookie jars... Read more...
Despite a challenging launch of its PlayStation 5 console, Sony announces that it has surpassed 40 million in PS5 console sales. As the company says thank you to its customers, it also celebrates a 2-to-1 lead over Xbox in terms of consoles sold. The company launched the PS5 during a very precarious time in... Read more...
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