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Gigabyte’s latest OLED gaming monitor looks like a dream, but living with it was more complicated

Gigabyte’s latest OLED gaming monitor looks like a...

3 weeks ago 34

AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory — refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz

AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192...

3 weeks ago 43

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union — tentative deal, subject to workers' vote, suspends billions of dollars worth of potential losses

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after l...

3 weeks ago 41

Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing shock as Hormuz blockade impacts supply chain — key etching and cleaning material faces sharp cost increase amid trade disruption

Memory makers brace for hydrogen fluoride pricing ...

3 weeks ago 47

Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition surfaces online for $310 — return of iconic gaming CPU for budget builders seems imminent

Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 10th Anniversary Edition surfa...

3 weeks ago 50

Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings

Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement ...

3 weeks ago 38

Get a 2TB Western Digital Black SN7100 SSD for only $299.99 — $200 savings drives snappy PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD down to a more reasonable price point.

Get a 2TB Western Digital Black SN7100 SSD for onl...

3 weeks ago 41

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly abandoning overseas training programs to nab up to $400,000 performance bonuses — online dating grades rise as female members 'seeking out SK hynix employees'

Samsung and SK Hynix employees are reportedly aban...

3 weeks ago 42

This Nintendo Switch 2 controller might just be the worst I've used — with input lag issues, long-winded pairing, and random disconnections seriously holding it back

This Nintendo Switch 2 controller might just be th...

3 weeks ago 47

Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its GigaChat AI in the face of Western sanctions — faces a long wait behind ByteDance and Alibaba

Russia's Sberbank wants Chinese chips for its Giga...

3 weeks ago 33

HyperX FlipCast Review: For the gamer-podcaster

HyperX FlipCast Review: For the gamer-podcaster

3 weeks ago 27

Asus ZenScreen Duo OLED (MQ149CD) Review: An impressive, book-style dual-screen portable monitor

Asus ZenScreen Duo OLED (MQ149CD) Review: An impre...

3 weeks ago 26

Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and 7A process technologies — 14A node remains on track for critical October PDK release

Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and...

3 weeks ago 24

China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huang was in town, report claims — move comes as Beijing pushes its AI tech companies to use homegrown chips

China banned Nvidia 5090D V2 while CEO Jensen Huan...

3 weeks ago 22

Grab the RX 9070 XT for just $504, $95 below its MSRP, in this Newegg combo deal with the 9850X3D — epic discount on high spec AMD parts for a 4K gaming PC saves you nearly $200 in total

Grab the RX 9070 XT for just $504, $95 below its M...

3 weeks ago 20

Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin — TeamPCP claims source code theft and attempts $50,000 sale, employee installed malicious VS Code extension

Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositori...

3 weeks ago 21

$300 slashed from Apple's M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM — get a premium laptop for just $1,099

$300 slashed from Apple's M4 MacBook Air with 24GB...

3 weeks ago 16

Forza Horizon 6 Optimization Guide

Forza Horizon 6 Optimization Guide

3 weeks ago 22

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with aggressive new quality standards, says major validation errors can result in termination — 'B0, you keep your job. Anything above that, you are fired'

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stamps out chip bugs with agg...

3 weeks ago 19

You can save up to 72% in HP's Memorial Day sale — grab your next gaming PC, laptop, monitor, or peripheral for less

You can save up to 72% in HP's Memorial Day sale —...

3 weeks ago 28

Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM —non-volatile device switches in 40 picoseconds while generating almost no heat

Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,0...

3 weeks ago 33

Score up to $129 off a new Secretlab gaming chair or desk ahead of the Memorial Day weekend — bundles and sales galore on a whole range of upgrades for your setup, with stackable coupon codes that knock up to $100 extra off for big orders

Score up to $129 off a new Secretlab gaming chair ...

3 weeks ago 29

Lisa Su meets China's vice premier during China visit — AMD CEO pledges deeper investment days after Trump-Xi summit

Lisa Su meets China's vice premier during China vi...

3 weeks ago 32

Pizza Hut's AI delivery system cooks up $100 million franchisee lawsuit — deliveries allegedly shot from under 30 minutes to over 45 under new system

Pizza Hut's AI delivery system cooks up $100 milli...

3 weeks ago 50

I'm an analog photography nut, and this cheap compact is as close as a digital camera has come to capturing the feel of shooting film

I'm an analog photography nut, and this cheap comp...

3 weeks ago 44

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight makes a bold attempt to recreate what made the Arkham games so good

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight makes a bol...

3 weeks ago 52

New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM — 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299

New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panthe...

3 weeks ago 44

AMD rumored to ready budget-friendly Ryzen 7 7700X3D for suffering gamers — chipmaker lowers clocks and price with rumored Zen 4 X3D CPU

AMD rumored to ready budget-friendly Ryzen 7 7700X...

3 weeks ago 53

Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears

Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears

3 weeks ago 26

A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year

A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasse...

3 weeks ago 29

SMIC founder and AMEC CEO urge Chinese fabs to test domestic chipmaking tools on active production lines — equipment makers post record revenue but falling margins

SMIC founder and AMEC CEO urge Chinese fabs to tes...

3 weeks ago 35

Sony’s 1000X The Collexion are a luxurious and expensive celebration of its iconic headphones

Sony’s 1000X The Collexion are a luxurious and exp...

3 weeks ago 34

‘Every keystroke scratches a very specific part of...

3 weeks ago 43

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025 — 72 confirmed incidents see $41 million lost, real number likely higher

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including...

3 weeks ago 33

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro: A decent upgrade for analog audio

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro: A decent upg...

3 weeks ago 25

Slash nearly $300 off a two-year ExpressVPN subscription and grab four extra months for free — massive 82% saving on this privacy-focused VPN service with servers across 105 different countries, down to just $64

Slash nearly $300 off a two-year ExpressVPN subscr...

3 weeks ago 26

Standard Chartered plans to cut 7,000 jobs in AI push — lender wants to replace ‘lower-value human capital’ and focus on automation

Standard Chartered plans to cut 7,000 jobs in AI p...

3 weeks ago 25

Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose their supply, report claims — Intel 7 supply dries up, pressuring notebook and PC manufacturers in the US, China, and Taiwan

Intel tells PC makers to adopt 18A CPUs or lose th...

3 weeks ago 25

Want on-ears with the benefits of ANC? Marshall’s new headphones could be the perfect fit — here’s how I rate them after weeks of testing

Want on-ears with the benefits of ANC? Marshall’s ...

3 weeks ago 19

MSI Raider 16 Max HX review: Elite gaming performance

MSI Raider 16 Max HX review: Elite gaming performa...

3 weeks ago 23

I tested the Insta360 Mic Pro and its noise cancelling is best in class — but its two headline features are more niche than they sound

I tested the Insta360 Mic Pro and its noise cancel...

3 weeks ago 20

Save a whopping $900 on this incredible 4-item AM5 combo from Newegg — for only $2,269, high-end parts including the flagship 9950X3D2 processor, 64GB of GSkill RAM, 4TB of fast M.2 storage, and a quality MSI motherboard

Save a whopping $900 on this incredible 4-item AM5...

3 weeks ago 17

Obsession review — I couldn't have wished for a more disturbing, heart-pounding horror movie if I'd tried

Obsession review — I couldn't have wished for a mo...

3 weeks ago 20

LG unveils 'world's first' native 1000 Hz refresh rate at 1080p for serious competitive gaming — UltraGear 25G590B to launch in the second half of 2026

LG unveils 'world's first' native 1000 Hz refresh ...

3 weeks ago 21

Pick up an RTX 5090-powered prebuilt desktop for $5 less than the GPU alone — HP's Omen 45L costs $3,795 thanks to $1,265 discount

Pick up an RTX 5090-powered prebuilt desktop for $...

3 weeks ago 30

The Best Mouse: Our Favorite Mice for Work and Play

The Best Mouse: Our Favorite Mice for Work and Pla...

3 weeks ago 28

Intel's Project Firefly creates sub-$600 laptops to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo — leverages China's smartphone manufacturing blueprint to produce affordable Wildcat Lake systems

Intel's Project Firefly creates sub-$600 laptops t...

3 weeks ago 35

Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass hardware security protections with 'Fabricked' — flaw lets malicious cloud hosts silently read confidential VM memory and forge attestation reports

Researchers attack AMD's Infinity Fabric to bypass...

3 weeks ago 35

Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo as AI crunch drives sophisticated counterfeit market — free open-source software can flag clones by checking firmware, PCI Vendor ID

Fake Samsung SSD spotting comes to CrystalDiskInfo...

3 weeks ago 35

Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggles to keep temperatures down

Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on con...

3 weeks ago 61