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• CD Projekt Red rules out microtransactions for single player games
  By James Miller, March 31, 2024
• New Battlemage leaks suggest Intel hasn't abandoned plans for a high-powered Arc GPU
  By Erika Morphy, March 31, 2024
• Discord looks to boost gaming revenue by ditching its long time ad-free stance
  By Jimmy Pezzone, March 31, 2024
• Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility
  By Erika Morphy, March 31, 2024
• Fiber optic researchers showcase speeds 4.5 million times faster than average home broadband
  By Jimmy Pezzone, March 30, 2024
• Google says running AI locally on phones requires tons of RAM
  By Shawn Knight, March 30, 2024
• Russia's primary chipmaker is struggling with a defect rate of about 50 percent
  By Erika Morphy, March 30, 2024
• Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a massive $100 billion AI supercomputer dubbed "Stargate"
  By Zo Ahmed, March 30, 2024
• CD Projekt Red starts The Witcher 4 in earnest, shifting two-thirds of its resources to preproduction
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 29, 2024
• Astronomers discover why a binary black hole system has the hiccups
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 29, 2024
• Indie developers say the Game Pass and Epic Games Store gravy train is over
  By Daniel Sims, March 29, 2024
• Police are using GPS tracking darts to tag fleeing vehicles and avoid dangerous pursuits
  By Shawn Knight, March 29, 2024
• 8BitDo pivots to PC nostalgia with C64-style mechanical keyboard and external joystick
  By Daniel Sims, March 29, 2024
• Take a look at the world's first liquid AIO coolers to feature a curved AMOLED display
  By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2024
• New WD Red Pro NAS hard drives offer up to 24TB of storage
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 29, 2024
• Activision Blizzard investigates hacking campaign linked to cheat software
  By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2024
• Landmark Oregon right-to-repair law bans Apple-style parts pairing (software locks)
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 29, 2024
• Game patch notes recommend downclocking high-end Intel CPUs for the sake of stability
  By Daniel Sims, March 29, 2024
• Mark Zuckerberg meets with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls him the "Taylor Swift of Tech"
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 29, 2024
• Vladimir Putin orders creation of Russian game consoles, Steam-like cloud delivery, and OS
  By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2024
• AMD Ryzen 7800X3D vs. 7900X3D vs. 7950X3D: Gaming Benchmark
  By Steven Walton, March 29, 2024
• Apple files lawsuit against former engineer for leaking details of projects he wanted to kill
  By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2024
• Astronomers capture the most captivating and detailed image yet of the Milky Way's black hole
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 28, 2024
• New iPad Pro and iPad Air models now expected to launch on May
  By Daniel Sims, March 28, 2024
• Vizio's first super-sized TV is this 86-incher for under a grand
  By Shawn Knight, March 28, 2024
• Apple pushes foldable iPhone to 2027, moves Vision Pro engineers into the project
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 28, 2024
• FuryGPU is an open source hardware GPU built from scratch
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 28, 2024
• Reconfigurable transistors can be programmed to execute different functions
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 28, 2024
• Nikon introduces full-frame Z 28-400mm superzoom lens
  By Shawn Knight, March 28, 2024
• Take-Two buys Gearbox from Embracer Group for $460 million
  By Shawn Knight, March 28, 2024
• Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
  By Rob Thubron, March 28, 2024
• Microsoft Edge could soon let you control how much RAM it uses
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 28, 2024
• Customers complain that Copilot isn't as good as ChatGPT, Microsoft blames misunderstanding and misuse
  By Rob Thubron, March 28, 2024
• Intel Xeon "Granite Rapids-SP" CPUs could have up to 160 cores, 320 threads
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 28, 2024
• US federal agencies must appoint chief AI officers, according to new guidelines
  By Rob Thubron, March 28, 2024
• TCL is soon launching a 115-inch version of its flagship 4K QD-Mini-LED TV
  By Daniel Sims, March 28, 2024
• China is determined to advance its technology despite US-led restrictions, Xi Jinping tells Dutch Prime Minister
  By Rob Thubron, March 28, 2024
• 50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
  By Ken Shirriff, March 28, 2024
• Adobe's new AI aims to become the invisible helping hand for marketing teams and creatives
  By Bob O'Donnell, March 27, 2024
• HWiNFO 8.00 adds a new FPS and system statistics overlay
  By Ivan Franco, March 27, 2024
• Microsoft and Intel nail down what an "AI PC" is
  By Daniel Sims, March 27, 2024
• GPT-4 loses its position as "best" LLM to Claude-3 in LMSYS benchmark
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 27, 2024
• Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is capable of running Baldur's Gate 3 at 30 frames per second
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 27, 2024
• RISC-V SSD controller provides 14GB/s transfers without a cooling solution
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 27, 2024
• World's fastest camera can capture 156.3 trillion frames per second
  By Shawn Knight, March 27, 2024
• Canva acquires Affinity for $380 million to take on Adobe
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 27, 2024
• New variant of "TheMoon" malware enslaves thousands of insecure Asus routers into a malicious proxy
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 27, 2024
• The number of X users in the US has fallen by a fifth since Musk took over, claims report
  By Rob Thubron, March 27, 2024
• OLED burn-in could soon be a thing of the past thanks to innovative blue LED technique
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 27, 2024
• GameStop continues to struggle in face of digital downloads: cuts jobs, misses earnings estimates
  By Rob Thubron, March 27, 2024
• Game developers think most Xbox exclusive games are going multi-platform soon
  By Daniel Sims, March 27, 2024
• Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second consecutive year
  By Rob Thubron, March 27, 2024
• Apple "Find My" app led a Missouri SWAT team to raid an innocent family's home, lawsuit pending
  By Daniel Sims, March 26, 2024
• MIT researchers showcase novel method for super-fast AI image generation
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 26, 2024
• DMA compliance scrutiny continues as EC opens five investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 26, 2024
• AMD readies Ryzen 5000XT series CPUs, further prolonging socket AM4
  By Shawn Knight, March 26, 2024
• Chrome is getting better text rendering in Windows thanks to Microsoft engineers
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 26, 2024
• Amazon Pharmacy leverages AI and local distribution to speed up prescription deliveries
  By Shawn Knight, March 26, 2024
• Florida bans children under 14 from holding social media accounts
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 26, 2024
• Steve Jobs signed Apple business card sells for over $180,000 at auction
  By Rob Thubron, March 26, 2024
• Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 26, 2024
• Tesla is offering a free month of full self-driving, Musk enforces demo requirement for deliveries
  By Rob Thubron, March 26, 2024
• Blizzard just gave us a hint of how many World of Warcraft subscribers remain (and it's still in the millions)
  By Daniel Sims, March 26, 2024
• Steve Wozniak says TikTok ban is governmental hypocrisy
  By Rob Thubron, March 26, 2024
• What if Nvidia had acquired Arm?
  By Jonathan Goldberg, March 26, 2024
• Google's AI-powered search can recommend malicious sites, including scams and malware
  By Rob Thubron, March 26, 2024
• Forgotten Tetris sequel "Tetris Reversed" resurfaces after a decade
  By Daniel Sims, March 25, 2024
• DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6 adds support for new video formats
  By Ivan Franco, March 25, 2024
• Humane shows off AI phone with laser projectors: Cool, but it won't replace your phone
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 25, 2024
• Windows UI for disk formatting was a temporary solution that stuck for 30 years
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 25, 2024
• Apple prepares in-box iPhone software update system for unboxing convenience
  By Shawn Knight, March 25, 2024
• Broadcom showcases huge XPU AI accelerator for mystery client
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 25, 2024
• Spotify wanders into education with video learning courses
  By Shawn Knight, March 25, 2024
• Survey reveals almost half of all managers aim to replace workers with AI, could use it to lower wages
  By Rob Thubron, March 25, 2024
• Micron sells out its entire supply of high-bandwidth HBM3E memory for AI accelerators
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 25, 2024
• Tim Cook confirms Vision Pro's launch in China this year, emphasizes Apple's strong relationship with country
  By Rob Thubron, March 25, 2024
• Japan's NTT and NEC showcase technology that can boost optical network capacities 12-fold
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 25, 2024
• The return of supersonic travel inches closer following Boom's successful XB-1 test flight
  By Rob Thubron, March 25, 2024
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Review: Quiet Release, Dodgy Name
  By Steven Walton, March 25, 2024
• China bans purchase of Intel and AMD processors, Microsoft Windows for government computers
  By Rob Thubron, March 25, 2024
• This functional NES game doubles as an NES console
  By Shawn Knight, March 24, 2024
• Two mines in North Carolina are the world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing
  By Erika Morphy, March 24, 2024
• Ultra Ethernet gains momentum as tech giants join for AI and HPC network innovation
  By Erika Morphy, March 23, 2024
• AMD reveals Strix Point details: Zen 5 cores, RDNA 3+ and tripled NPU performance
  By Erika Morphy, March 23, 2024
• Unpatchable Apple Silicon vulnerability could leak encryption keys
  By Daniel Sims, March 22, 2024
• Apple worked on Android compatibility for the Apple Watch for three years before abandoning the project
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 22, 2024
• United Nations adopts the first global resolution on AI development
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 22, 2024
• Down-binned RTX 40 series graphics cards are reportedly on the way
  By Daniel Sims, March 22, 2024
• Microsoft adds spellcheck and autocorrect to Notepad
  By Shawn Knight, March 22, 2024
• Researchers develop stretchy, electrically conductive material that hardens upon impact
  By Shawn Knight, March 22, 2024
• Can Snapdragon X Elite finally make Windows on Arm a gaming champ? Qualcomm thinks so
  By Zo Ahmed, March 22, 2024
• Google is spending $1 billion on a new data center in Kansas City
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 22, 2024
• DARPA and Northrop Grumman are exploring the concept of a lunar train and railroad system
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 22, 2024
• Microsoft's new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 arrive with dedicated Copilot buttons
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 22, 2024
• E-waste growing at five times the rate of recycling, UN report finds
  By Rob Thubron, March 22, 2024
• Best and worst metro areas for STEM professionals in 2024
  By Julio Franco, March 22, 2024
• Helldivers 2 emerges as best-selling game in February, PlayStation 5 the best-selling console
  By Rob Thubron, March 22, 2024
• The OLED Burn-In Test: One Month Update
  By Tim Schiesser, March 22, 2024
• Gaming PC shipments dropped 13.2% in 2023 while gaming monitors saw growth
  By Rob Thubron, March 22, 2024
• Larian is walking away from Baldur's Gate 3, no DLC, no expansions, no sequel
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 21, 2024
• Ethical hackers show how to open millions of hotel keycard locks
  By Daniel Sims, March 21, 2024
• TSA fail: Man arrested for stealing boarding pass QR codes with his phone's camera
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 21, 2024
• Nvidia provides MediaTek with its "next-generation" AI chip for novel automotive SoCs
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 21, 2024
• Formula 1 chief retires "impossible to navigate" Excel spreadsheet used to manage car parts
  By Shawn Knight, March 21, 2024
• Intel plans to spend $100 billion on US chip manufacturing plants
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 21, 2024
• US Department of Justice files broad antitrust suit against Apple
  By Daniel Sims, March 21, 2024
• Ford is set to challenge next Tesla model with $25,000 EV
  By Rob Thubron, March 21, 2024
• Wendy's is ready to airdrop a Baconator on your doorstep
  By Shawn Knight, March 21, 2024
• Amazon and other retailers are being investigated for selling illegal wireless signal jammers
  By Rob Thubron, March 21, 2024
• Microsoft, Meta, X, and Spotify file legal brief supporting Epic Games fight against Apple
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 21, 2024
• Fortnite will finally get a first-person mode later this year, but it's not coming to Battle Royale just yet
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 21, 2024
• Jensen Huang on generative AI: Being successful won't depend on programming skills
  By Rob Thubron, March 21, 2024
• Neuralink video shows quadriplegic patient who can play chess and video games with his mind
  By Rob Thubron, March 21, 2024
• AMD promises upscaling quality improvements with FSR 3.1 update, adds Vulkan and Xbox support
  By Tim Schiesser, March 21, 2024
• Unreal Engine 5.4 revealed running Amy Hennig's new Marvel game
  By Daniel Sims, March 20, 2024
• Stardew Valley's long-anticipated 1.6 update breaks own Steam records
  By Daniel Sims, March 20, 2024
• FCC finally bans cable industry's "hidden fee" scam
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 20, 2024
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says some form of artificial general intelligence will come within the next 5 years
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 20, 2024
• OpenAI's GPT-5, their next-gen foundation model is coming soon
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 20, 2024
• Apple is working on new display tech for iPhone and iPad
  By Shawn Knight, March 20, 2024
• Failed gamble on electric vehicles has cost Hertz CEO his job
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 20, 2024
• White House warns of cyberattacks targeting critical US water systems
  By Shawn Knight, March 20, 2024
• New GeForce driver extends DLSS 3.5 support for Horizon Forbidden West
  By Erik Orejuela, March 20, 2024
• Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC is meant for budget flagships
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 20, 2024
• Russia warns US, again: SpaceX satellites used for military purposes may become targets
  By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2024
• The latest macOS update breaks Java Virtual Machine, among other things
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 20, 2024
• Intel will receive up to $8.5 billion in funding, $11 billion in loans from the CHIPS Act
  By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2024
• More GeForce RTX 5090 rumors emerge following Nvidia's unveiling of its Blackwell AI GPUs
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 20, 2024
• Largest bank in Ethiopia hit by IT glitch that allowed customers to withdraw over $40 million
  By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2024
• GPU Shootouts of This Generation and Pricing Update: Nvidia RTX 4000, AMD Radeon 7000 & Intel Arc
  By Tim Schiesser, March 20, 2024
• Microsoft hires controversial DeepMind founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead new AI unit
  By Rob Thubron, March 20, 2024
• Nvidia shows what games could be like with fully AI-controlled NPCs
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 19, 2024
• This company aims to offer a new gaming OS to compete with SteamOS and Windows
  By Daniel Sims, March 19, 2024
• Hold up to 20 memory cards in one 300MB/s reader
  By Daniel Sims, March 19, 2024
• Denuvo now provides a watermarking solution to track sources of game build leaks
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 19, 2024
• Roadster will combine Tesla and SpaceX tech to create something that's "not even really a car"
  By Shawn Knight, March 19, 2024
• Huawei is developing a mysterious new "magneto-electric" storage technology
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 19, 2024
• Unity demos AI-driven cyberpunk game showing why machines aren't about to replace game designers
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 19, 2024
• Apple Watch X could get a blood pressure monitoring tool
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 19, 2024
• Firefox adds caret browsing in PDFs, improves tab management
  By Erik Orejuela, March 19, 2024
• Reddit faces patent infringement claims from Nokia ahead of IPO
  By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2024
• YouTube introduces labeling requirements for synthetic and altered content
  By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2024
• Nvidia unveils next-gen Blackwell GPUs with more horsepower and better power efficiency
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 19, 2024
• The cost of staying remote at Dell: No promotions or job changes
  By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2024
• Steam Family Sharing gets a complete overhaul
  By Daniel Sims, March 19, 2024
• Apex Legends tournament postponed after players hacked mid-match
  By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2024
• Microsoft confirms standalone Office 2024 is coming to Windows and Mac later this year
  By Daniel Sims, March 18, 2024
• If you teach a chatbot how to read ASCII art, it will teach you how to make a bomb
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 18, 2024
• Apple reveals AI model that can interpret photos and count objects
  By Erika Morphy, March 18, 2024
• Sony pauses PlayStation VR2 production as excess inventory piles up
  By Shawn Knight, March 18, 2024
• BitTorrent dethroned as the main source of internet's upstream traffic
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 18, 2024
• NES Hub is an accessory for the mysterious Nintendo expansion port
  By Shawn Knight, March 18, 2024
• LockBit ransomware group member sentenced to four years for infecting over 1,000 systems
  By Rob Thubron, March 18, 2024
• NASA's old, oversubscribed, and overburdened supercomputers are causing mission delays
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 18, 2024
• Apple and Google partnership could bring Gemini AI tech to iPhones
  By Rob Thubron, March 18, 2024
• RTX 5080 could be faster than RTX 4090 in ray tracing, top 3 Blackwell GPUs tipped to use GDDR7 memory
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 18, 2024
• Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate vs. Your Own RTX GPU
  By Rob Thubron, March 18, 2024
• Modern, bloated websites are causing low-end devices to struggle
  By Rob Thubron, March 18, 2024
• Not just the hardware: How deep is Nvidia's software moat?
  By Jonathan Goldberg, March 17, 2024
• As Reddit prepares for IPO, sale of user generated content draws FTC's attention
  By James Miller, March 17, 2024
• OpenAI wants to develop its own AI processors, looks to UAE for funds
  By Erika Morphy, March 17, 2024
• Hackers can access your private, encrypted AI assistant chats
  By Erika Morphy, March 16, 2024
• Tech layoffs are becoming the new normal
  By Erika Morphy, March 16, 2024
• Apple settles pension lawsuit with English council for $490 million
  By James Miller, March 16, 2024
• Colossal Dark Souls 3 mod combines the best of FromSoft's RPGs into one epic adventure
  By Zo Ahmed, March 16, 2024
• The FCC now defines broadband as 100 Mbps at minimum – 25/3 Mbps was simply not enough
  By Daniel Sims, March 16, 2024
• Samsung wants to bring chips with glass substrate to the market, and fast
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 15, 2024
• Don't update Minecraft through the Xbox app for now, it could erase your worlds
  By Daniel Sims, March 15, 2024
• Leaked Sony documents show PS5 Pro will have 2-4 times improved ray tracing performance
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 15, 2024
• Damaged coral reefs can be saved with enticing underwater soundscape, study suggests
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 15, 2024
• Walmart starts selling Apple's MacBook Air for the first time, starting at $699
  By Shawn Knight, March 15, 2024
• The Steam Spring Sale is live with discounts on thousands of games
  By Shawn Knight, March 15, 2024
• Western Digital's latest entry-level SSDs offer decent performance but there's a catch
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 15, 2024
• SXSW festival crowd responds to AI promo video with chorus of boos
  By Rob Thubron, March 15, 2024
• Google Chrome gets real-time phishing and malware protection with upgraded Safe Browsing feature
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 15, 2024
• International organization Cybercrime Atlas wants to disrupt cybercrime on a global scale
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 15, 2024
• Pornhub no longer accessible in Texas due to age verification laws
  By Rob Thubron, March 15, 2024
• PC workstation shipments shrank almost 9% in 2023
  By Daniel Sims, March 15, 2024
• Massive internet outage hits West and Central Africa after undersea cables fail
  By Rob Thubron, March 15, 2024
• Software-defined vehicles get a push from Arm and Cadence
  By Bob O'Donnell, March 15, 2024
• Amazon's solution for stressed workers: close your eyes and think happy thoughts
  By Rob Thubron, March 15, 2024
• Black Myth: Wukong and Naraka Bladepoint receive path tracing, plus RTX updates en route for other titles
  By Daniel Sims, March 14, 2024
• Some QNAP NAS devices affected by a critical vulnerability, updates available right now
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 14, 2024
• Video game industry headed for a 10-percent slump in consumer spending
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 14, 2024
• Asus Zenfone 11 Ultra debuts: Raw power, little personality
  By Ivan Franco, March 14, 2024
• Video Game Hall of Fame nominees this year include Myst, Metroid, and Asteroids
  By Shawn Knight, March 14, 2024
• Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 14, 2024
• Intellivision: Gone But Not Forgotten
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 14, 2024
• Amazon's generative AI can create product pages based on other online listings
  By Shawn Knight, March 14, 2024
• Montana's Frankensheep: Rancher spent years creating giant sheep hybrid for shooting preserves
  By Rob Thubron, March 14, 2024
• Intel is relaunching the Core i9-14900K... wait, it's the 6.2GHz Core i9-14900KS
  By Tim Schiesser, March 14, 2024
• Google Pixel 9 could get "Adaptive Touch" feature to automatically adjust touch sensitivity
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 14, 2024
• Banana Pi's new $30 router delivers Wi-Fi 6 speeds, OpenWrt flexibility
  By Zo Ahmed, March 14, 2024
• YouTube is updating its TV app for better interaction with comments, likes, and more
  By Rob Thubron, March 14, 2024
• EU enacts landmark AI law to protect citizens' rights and prevent risky uses of artificial intelligence
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 14, 2024
• Elon Musk cancels Don Lemon's show on X before debut following "tense" interview
  By Rob Thubron, March 14, 2024
• Google's new video game-playing AI follows verbal instructions
  By Daniel Sims, March 14, 2024
• New safety device for cyclists uses a Raspberry Pi and AI to spot dangerous drivers
  By Rob Thubron, March 14, 2024
• Nvidia's upcoming RTX 5000 memory interface boost might be exclusive to (very expensive) flagship model
  By Daniel Sims, March 13, 2024
• Crypto miners are buying up all the AMD Ryzen CPUs
  By Erika Morphy, March 13, 2024
• PlayStation 5 users can now use pointers to help friends find hidden loot
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 13, 2024
• Circle the date: Summer Game Fest 2024 is set for June 7
  By Shawn Knight, March 13, 2024
• Switch emulation on PC lives on thanks to Yuzu's offspring, Suyu
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 13, 2024
• Maingear launches Zero Series gaming desktops with hidden motherboard connectors
  By Shawn Knight, March 13, 2024
• New iPad Pro models with OLED displays could be announced later this month
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 13, 2024
• Modern workplace tech linked to lower employee well-being, study finds
  By Rob Thubron, March 13, 2024
• New DirectX 12 SDK includes a feature to make the most out of modern GPUs
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 13, 2024
• Google awarded $10 million in bug bounties last year, the second highest in the program's history
  By Rob Thubron, March 13, 2024
• Apple's Car was powered by a custom chip that was equivalent to four M2 Ultras
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 13, 2024
• Neil Young comes back to Spotify, two years after Joe Rogan "vaccine disinformation" row
  By Rob Thubron, March 13, 2024
• New Motorola Moto G handsets deliver 5G connectivity on a budget
  By Zo Ahmed, March 13, 2024
• AirPods Pro may finally receive a "hearing aid mode" with iOS 18
  By Daniel Sims, March 13, 2024
• The Price is Wrong: This is What GPUs Should Have Cost
  By Tim Schiesser, March 13, 2024
• Vehicle safety group tests 14 partial automated driving systems, none earn a "good" rating
  By Rob Thubron, March 13, 2024
• Do it while it's hot: Liquid metal damage successfully repaired on a GeForce RTX 3090
  By Daniel Sims, March 12, 2024
• Stratolaunch achieves first powered flight of hypersonic test vehicle
  By Erika Morphy, March 12, 2024
• Windows 10 Enterprise and Education editions will soon enter end of life status
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 12, 2024
• Tim Berners-Lee shares his predictions on the 35th anniversary of the World Wide Web
  By Shawn Knight, March 12, 2024
• Apple M3 MacBook Air hits 114 degrees Celsius under full load
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 12, 2024
• Apple will officially implement sideloading in Europe this spring
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 12, 2024
• The IRS launches a free online tax filing tool in 12 states
  By Shawn Knight, March 12, 2024
• Intel shipped 50 million PC CPUs in Q4 2023, six times as many as AMD
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 12, 2024
• AIDA64 Extreme diagnostics tool improves GPU monitoring
  By Ivan Franco, March 12, 2024
• TCL X11H mini-LED TV boasts 6,500 nits brightness and over 14,000 dimming zones
  By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2024
• Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla release Speedometer 3.0 to benchmark browser performance
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 12, 2024
• From 9mm to .50 cal: Discovering if the Tesla Cybertruck really is bulletproof
  By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2024
• Nvidia RTX 20 and GTX 16 series GPU owners gain Resizable BAR support
  By Daniel Sims, March 12, 2024
• LG's $1 billion investment boosts OLED production, signaling a bright future for affordable tech
  By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2024
• Ventiva shows off tech to keep chips and devices cool
  By Jonathan Goldberg, March 12, 2024
• Carmakers are sharing driving habits with insurance companies, unbeknownst to owners
  By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2024
• Final Fantasy XVI could be coming to PC very soon, demo planned ahead of launch
  By Daniel Sims, March 11, 2024
• Open-source media player MPC-HC gets UI overhaul, adds HDR support
  By Ivan Franco, March 11, 2024
• More robotic vessels are putting to sea for all manner of reasons
  By Erika Morphy, March 11, 2024
• Airbnb bans indoor security cameras from rentals
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 11, 2024
• Former Sony Interactive chairman says exclusivity is bad for the video game industry
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 11, 2024
• Microsoft Z1000 SSD engineering sample highlights enterprise collaboration with CNEX Labs
  By Shawn Knight, March 11, 2024
• Microsoft says users can now uninstall OneDrive in Windows for good
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 11, 2024
• Developer manages to run ray tracing without a GPU, achieves 1 fps on Quake II RTX
  By Zo Ahmed, March 11, 2024
• Mar10 Day deals and steals: Save on Nintendo games featuring Mario and friends
  By Shawn Knight, March 11, 2024
• Tech workers are dissatisfied with their six-figure salaries, worried about industry layoffs
  By Rob Thubron, March 11, 2024
• 13-year-old wins science fair for attempting to demonstrate Archimedes' fabled "Death Ray"
  By Zo Ahmed, March 11, 2024
• Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs could deliver 50% faster multi-threaded performance than Meteor Lake, even without hyperthreading
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 11, 2024
• Surgeons perform UK's first operation using Apple's Vision Pro headset
  By Rob Thubron, March 11, 2024
• This "hycean" exoplanet could be covered in a boiling ocean
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 11, 2024
• Nvidia RTX 50 series Blackwell GPUs tipped to use 28Gbps GDDR7 memory with 512-bit interface
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 11, 2024
• Controversial former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick could buy TikTok with help from Sam Altman
  By Rob Thubron, March 11, 2024
• Dell Alienware AW3225QF 32" Review: Curved 4K 240Hz QD-OLED
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• Jensen Huang: Even if competitors' AI products were free, Nvidia's chips would still be better value
  By Rob Thubron, March 11, 2024
• Boeing Starliner crewed flight to ISS delayed yet again
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• Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding
  By Zo Ahmed, March 10, 2024
• Baldur's Gate 3 resumes awards show dominance with GDC and BAFTA nominations
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• New MSI firmware could mean lower temperatures for multiple Intel CPUs and motherboards
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• Biden backs bill that could kill TikTok in the US, TikTok fights back
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• Steam Deck OLED shows slight burn-in at 1,500 hours, or 750 hours at max HDR brightness
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• Helldivers 2 players liberated a mech factory in record time, causing more server capacity issues
  By Jimmy Pezzone, March 09, 2024
• Visual Studio Code now lets you use dictate directly in the editor
  By Ivan Franco, March 09, 2024
• Rivian goes compact and affordable with $45K R2 SUV, surprises with R3 twins
  By Zo Ahmed, March 09, 2024
• Apple flips Epic Games ban less than 24 hours after the EU opened an investigation
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 08, 2024
• Russian state-sponsored hackers compromised Microsoft source code repositories
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 08, 2024
• The MSI Claw gaming handheld is ready to battle the Steam Deck
  By Shawn Knight, March 08, 2024
• India to build a 10,000 GPU supercomputer for self-sufficient AI development
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 08, 2024
• All-digital SAT to be administered for the first time this weekend
  By Shawn Knight, March 08, 2024
• Joe Biden says he wants to ban AI voice impersonations
  By Rob Thubron, March 08, 2024
• Apple is reportedly prepping a gigantic 20-inch foldable laptop
  By Zo Ahmed, March 08, 2024
• Adata shows off thermal coating for cooling high-speed DDR5 memory
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 08, 2024
• AMD promotes third-party app for running AI chatbots on local hardware (that works with Radeons, too)
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 08, 2024
• The New York Times issues DMCA takedown requests against Wordle imitators
  By Rob Thubron, March 08, 2024
• Discord claims over 200 million monthly active users, planning an IPO
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 08, 2024
• Google's super high-tech new office building has terrible Wi-Fi
  By Rob Thubron, March 08, 2024
• What does it really mean to be a woman in tech?
  By Julio Franco, March 08, 2024
• Monitor your CPU's temperature in real time with Core Temp
  By Ivan Franco, March 08, 2024
• Tesla Berlin Gigafactory to be without power for another week following eco-terrorist attack
  By Rob Thubron, March 08, 2024
• Your outdated version of Windows Media Player 6 will still work after the Y2K38 bug ends civilization
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 07, 2024
• Apple EU updates: Switching to Android made easier, regulators investigating Epic Games ban, and more
  By Daniel Sims, March 07, 2024
• Researchers propose installing a fiber network on the Moon
  By Daniel Sims, March 07, 2024
• Eco-friendly "water batteries" are cheaper and safer than lithium-ions
  By Shawn Knight, March 07, 2024
• VMware forced to patch dangerous vulnerabilities in discontinued products
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 07, 2024
• Nikon will buy camera maker Red less than a year after lawsuit
  By Shawn Knight, March 07, 2024
• Linux market share on desktop computers reaches an all-time high
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 07, 2024
• MacBook Air M3 laptops debut to positive reviews, remains the best mainstream laptop
  By Ivan Franco, March 07, 2024
• EA says generative AI will make gamers spend more, speed up development time
  By Rob Thubron, March 07, 2024
• The Netherlands is scrambling to stop ASML from moving its lithography business outside the country
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 07, 2024
• WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable with third-party apps using the Signal protocol
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 07, 2024
• Sam Altman's iris-scanning Worldcoin crypto project has been banned in Spain over privacy concerns
  By Rob Thubron, March 07, 2024
• Google's new AI tool can turn images into playable mini-games
  By Daniel Sims, March 07, 2024
• Former Google engineer indicted for allegedly stealing AI secrets while stealthily running a startup in China
  By Rob Thubron, March 07, 2024
• Apple bans Epic Games again, ending its third-party app store ambitions
  By Daniel Sims, March 07, 2024
• First students, now teachers: Educators are using ChatGPT to grade kids' work
  By Rob Thubron, March 07, 2024
• Goodbye to Graphics: How GPUs Came to Dominate Compute and AI
  By Nick Evanson, March 07, 2024
• Ransomware group scams its partner out of a share of $22 million by faking an FBI takedown
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 06, 2024
• NAND flash market turnaround: Revenue surged 25% in Q4 2023
  By Shawn Knight, March 06, 2024
• Google updates Search to fight low-quality spammy content, doesn't mention "AI" at all
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 06, 2024
• MediaTek beat out Apple and Qualcomm to finish 2023 as the top smartphone chip vendor
  By Shawn Knight, March 06, 2024
• Epic Games CEO blasts Google for "malicious compliance" with EU's Digital Markets Act
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 06, 2024
• Puget Systems survey shows that 9 out of 10 workstation users opted for Threadripper CPUs
  By Rob Thubron, March 06, 2024
• TikTok faces US ban if ByteDance fails to sell app
  By Rob Thubron, March 06, 2024
• New GDDR7 graphics memory standard finalized, promises double the bandwidth of GDDR6
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 06, 2024
• Samsung Foundry renames 3nm process to 2nm to better compete with Intel 20A
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 06, 2024
• Intel Arrow Lake-S desktop processors to ditch LP-E cores and hyper-threading, feature 4 Xe-core iGPU
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 06, 2024
• OpenAI responds to Musk lawsuit by publishing his emails: Urged it to raise $1 billion, called Tesla a "cash cow"
  By Rob Thubron, March 06, 2024
• Windows 11 Android support ends next March
  By Daniel Sims, March 06, 2024
• Russian authorities used facial recognition tech to identify and arrest Navalny funeral attendees
  By Rob Thubron, March 06, 2024
• Horizon Forbidden West comes to PC on March 21, requires 150GB of storage and 16GB of RAM
  By Daniel Sims, March 05, 2024
• Nothing Phone 2a first reviews are in: Aiming at the Pixel
  By Ivan Franco, March 05, 2024
• Scientists use dairy waste to extract 22-carat gold from motherboards and other e-waste
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 05, 2024
• Nvidia halts GeForce GTX manufacturing, signaling the brand's end
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 05, 2024
• Command & Conquer price cut to $2 has got us thinking EA could announce a new series entry
  By Shawn Knight, March 05, 2024
• Microsoft left a kernel-level, zero-day bug in Windows for six months before patching it
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 05, 2024
• Man arrested for allegedly trying to steal a Waymo autonomous car
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 05, 2024
• Bitcoin surpasses $69K to hit new record, eclipsing 2021 peak and overcoming 2022 crypto winter
  By Shawn Knight, March 05, 2024
• Automakers must bring back physical controls if they want the top safety rating in Europe
  By Rob Thubron, March 05, 2024
• iPhone sales down 24% in China as Apple's woes continue
  By Rob Thubron, March 05, 2024
• That one time when beer ads were inserted directly into Star Wars movies, and George Lucas was pissed
  By Rob Thubron, March 05, 2024
• Samsung's new entry-level 5G phone has a 6,000mAh battery, offers 4 years of OS updates
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 05, 2024
• Pretty uncool: Half of tested watercooler radiators fail to use advertised copper
  By Rob Thubron, March 05, 2024
• 4GB vs. 8GB: How Have VRAM Requirements Evolved?
  By Steven Walton, March 05, 2024
• Yuzu developer pays Nintendo $2.4 million to settle lawsuit, ceases all Switch and 3DS emulator operations
  By Rob Thubron, March 05, 2024
• AMD to introduce AI-based upscaling, potentially matching DLSS
  By Daniel Sims, March 04, 2024
• PowerToys brings custom keyboard shortcuts and a redesigned Color Picker
  By Ivan Franco, March 04, 2024
• European Commission fines Apple almost $2 billion over music streaming subscription policies
  By Daniel Sims, March 04, 2024
• Researchers prove they can exploit chatbots to spread AI worms
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 04, 2024
• Testing a prototype pump-less AIO cooling solution
  By Shawn Knight, March 04, 2024
• Hardware hackers manage to run GTA: Vice City on a wireless router
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 04, 2024
• Apple rolls out MacBook Air 13-inch and 15-inch powered by M3 chip
  By Shawn Knight, March 04, 2024
• More than 100,000 GitHub repositories found spreading malicious packages
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 04, 2024
• Steam hits a new record of over 34 million concurrent users
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 04, 2024
• Dell's market cap gets a boost amid Wall Street's love affair with AI
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 04, 2024
• Microsoft is adding a Copilot icon to Windows 11 taskbar, here's how to hide it
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 04, 2024
• Windows 10 sees resurgence in Steam survey, English is no longer the top language
  By Rob Thubron, March 04, 2024
• A Games List of Only Amazing Hidden Indie Gems and Snubs
  By Goran Damnjanovic, March 04, 2024
• Lawyers who stopped Elon Musk's "excessive" $56 billion Tesla pay ask for $6 billion fee
  By Rob Thubron, March 04, 2024
• Mechs, recon vehicles, and armored personnel carriers are popping up in some Helldivers 2 matches
  By Jimmy Pezzone, March 03, 2024
• WhatsApp scores major legal victory over Pegasus spyware maker, forcing it to provide closely-guarded code
  By Erika Morphy, March 03, 2024
• "Goodnight, Odie": Odysseus lander's historic moon mission comes to an end
  By James Miller, March 02, 2024
• The Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Throttle Blaster brings classic games to life on modern systems
  By Erika Morphy, March 02, 2024
• Unreal Tournament and the original Unreal receive RTX path tracing mods
  By Daniel Sims, March 02, 2024
• Asus promo offers UK customers cashback on Radeon 7000 GPUs
  By Jimmy Pezzone, March 02, 2024
• Nvidia could be working on a new gaming device to rival the Steam Deck
  By Erika Morphy, March 02, 2024
• Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB4 2.0
  By Daniel Sims, March 02, 2024
• You can now use your Android device as a webcam in Windows 11
  By Cal Jeffrey, March 01, 2024
• Nikon is creating the first mirrorless camera for use on the Moon
  By Shawn Knight, March 01, 2024
• Microsoft wants to supercharge financial applications with Copilot for Finance
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 01, 2024
• Foreign spies are learning how to sabotage critical infrastructure, Australian intelligence agency warns
  By Alfonso Maruccia, March 01, 2024
• Researchers develop self-destructing circuits to defend against attacks, counterfeiting
  By Shawn Knight, March 01, 2024
• Remedy acquires full rights for the Control franchise for $18 million
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 01, 2024
• Biden orders security probe into Chinese "connected" vehicles, labeling them a potential security threat
  By Rob Thubron, March 01, 2024
• AMD RDNA4 graphics cards may only receive a minor bump in ray tracing performance
  By Daniel Sims, March 01, 2024
• New battery tech could finally improve EV performance in extreme weather
  By Kishalaya Kundu, March 01, 2024
• Facebook to remove the News tab in US and Australia as company shifts its focus
  By Rob Thubron, March 01, 2024
• Apple iPhone 17 lineup to adopt smoother "Pro" display tech
  By Zo Ahmed, March 01, 2024
• Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over breach of contract, for-profit focus, and Microsoft relationship
  By Rob Thubron, March 01, 2024
• This retro-style mechanical keyboard includes a 10-inch touchscreen
  By Daniel Sims, March 01, 2024
• MSI MPG 321URX Review: The Most Affordable 4K 240Hz QD-OLED So Far
  By Tim Schiesser, March 01, 2024
• Wikipedia downgrades CNET's reliability rating due to AI generated content
  By Rob Thubron, March 01, 2024