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An inside tour of Lenovo’s North Carolina AI server manufacturing line expansion — Chinese firm expanding US-native production to meet exploding demand

An inside tour of Lenovo’s North Carolina AI serve...

2 weeks ago 20

GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM on your RTX 2080 Ti to 22GB — mod involves physically adjusting the strap resistors on the PCB to support a new BIOS

GPU repair service will upgrade the 11GB of VRAM o...

2 weeks ago 14

Testing laptops on battery and AC power — Comparing Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, and AMD

Testing laptops on battery and AC power — Comparin...

2 weeks ago 13

Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposition at an AI data center meeting — gigawatt-scale project gets approved anyway despite community resistance

Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposi...

2 weeks ago 13

MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG review: Panther Lake in an understated mini PC

MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG review: Panther Lake in an un...

2 weeks ago 14

The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes buggy, performance for the price

The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes bu...

2 weeks ago 24

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future

2 weeks ago 25

How to buy second-hand PC hardware without getting scammed — essential rules of engagement for finding used parts and machines in an inflated market

How to buy second-hand PC hardware without getting...

2 weeks ago 28

Memory maker SK hynix's profit rises 557% amid global shortage, expansion costs climb to $27 billion — shares slide despite mammoth earnings as expectations outpace reality and global AI selloffs continue

Memory maker SK hynix's profit rises 557% amid glo...

2 weeks ago 19

Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with pepper spray to neutralize school shooters — ‘Campus Guardian Angel’ drones can also smash windows and ram attackers

Three US states to deploy 60mph drones armed with ...

2 weeks ago 18

How to look better on webcam — tips for the average person to look better and more professional

How to look better on webcam — tips for the averag...

2 weeks ago 13

Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop SKU to require 65W of separate power delivery for its iGPU, leaker claims — beefy integrated graphics could require two VCCGT phases for 12 Xe3P cores

Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop SKU to require ...

2 weeks ago 14

Get $180 of 3D printing filament for just $86 in this eBay blowout — save 52% on 10 reels of Creality's Hyper PLA, just $8.63 a spool

Get $180 of 3D printing filament for just $86 in t...

2 weeks ago 14

State of play: SSD pricing one year into the AI component crisis — 220% price increases are crippling the DIY market

State of play: SSD pricing one year into the AI co...

2 weeks ago 19

DRAM chip supply to module makers could drop by more than 70% year-on-year in 2027, says Apacer CEO — demand for HBM and server RAM continues to devour manufacturing capacity

DRAM chip supply to module makers could drop by mo...

2 weeks ago 22

Save up to $700 on these iBuyPower gaming PCs, fitted with an RX 9070 XT for 4K gaming — liquid-cooled AMD rigs feature either a 9800X3D or 9900X CPU, along with 32GB DDR5 and a 1TB SSD, starting from $1,799

Save up to $700 on these iBuyPower gaming PCs, fit...

2 weeks ago 18

China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute

China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwe...

2 weeks ago 19

Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip production on advanced processes

Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid...

2 weeks ago 26

The new HP Omen 16 Slim isn't actually that skinny, but it is a surprisingly good budget gaming laptop - if you can get it at the right price

The new HP Omen 16 Slim isn't actually that skinny...

2 weeks ago 27

Developer uses AI to bring a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS — no emulation required to play one of gaming's all-time greats on an iPhone or iPad

Developer uses AI to bring a native version of The...

2 weeks ago 26

DataImpulse Proxy Service Review

DataImpulse Proxy Service Review

2 weeks ago 21

An affordable OLED laptop for just $699 — Acer's Swift Go 16 AI is the perfect back-to-school deal

An affordable OLED laptop for just $699 — Acer's S...

2 weeks ago 18

Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible

Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototyp...

2 weeks ago 22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the sing...

2 weeks ago 25

One year into the AI-induced RAM apocalypse — how much does memory actually cost, and is there hope for a more affordable future?

One year into the AI-induced RAM apocalypse — how ...

2 weeks ago 31

Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna

Apple launches official program for leasing Macs a...

2 weeks ago 21

The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to pre-order starting from $249 — game cartridges cost $90 each; the Ultimate Edition with all games and accessories will run you $1,000

The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to...

2 weeks ago 17

Acer ProDesigner PE320QXT professional monitor review: Touchscreen functionality with a 6K resolution

Acer ProDesigner PE320QXT professional monitor rev...

2 weeks ago 16

You don’t need to splurge on an expensive handheld fan to beat the heat

You don’t need to splurge on an expensive handheld...

2 weeks ago 22

Motherboard VRM thermal testing – budget vs. high-end boards, does it really matter?

Motherboard VRM thermal testing – budget vs. high-...

2 weeks ago 19

I travelled across time in Square Enix’s all-new HD-2D adventure, and loved its swashbuckling combat — but it isn't an instant classic for these key reasons

I travelled across time in Square Enix’s all-new H...

2 weeks ago 24

Testing old drives as external storage to avoid price hikes — hard drive, SATA SSD, and NVMe in enclosures up to 80 Gbps, tested

Testing old drives as external storage to avoid pr...

2 weeks ago 30

Save $1,000 on this RTX 5090 gaming PC from MSI, just 17% more than the GPU's standalone cost right now —score this 4K powerhouse with 64GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD for $4,899

Save $1,000 on this RTX 5090 gaming PC from MSI, j...

2 weeks ago 31

16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console

16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games fr...

2 weeks ago 21

Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company banks big on TPUs

Google goes cash flow negative for the first time ...

2 weeks ago 36

Creality's multicolor K2 3D printer hits an all-time low price of $499 — save $200 today, with the perfect printer for jumping into the hobby

Creality's multicolor K2 3D printer hits an all-ti...

2 weeks ago 21

Leaked Radeon RX 9050 hints at the return of 4GB VRAM GPUs in 2026 — new budget RDNA 4 card also spotted in 8GB config with half the power of an RX 9060

Leaked Radeon RX 9050 hints at the return of 4GB V...

2 weeks ago 21

Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe — held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, company says smuggling 'a nonstarter'

Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip...

2 weeks ago 16

Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some games

Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA ...

2 weeks ago 21

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of ...

2 weeks ago 31

The Best 4K Gaming Monitors: OLED Leads, LCD Fights Back

The Best 4K Gaming Monitors: OLED Leads, LCD Fight...

2 weeks ago 16

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expres...

2 weeks ago 18

MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way

MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices...

2 weeks ago 57

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-l...

2 weeks ago 35

I’ve spent months with the Honor Magic V6, and no other foldable can touch it for durability or battery life

I’ve spent months with the Honor Magic V6, and no ...

2 weeks ago 49

Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run

Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a...

2 weeks ago 28

China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT

China begins mass production of homegrown immersio...

2 weeks ago 45

Why an MMO mouse isn’t just for gaming — make use of the myriad of buttons for enhancing your productivity workflows in popular software applications

Why an MMO mouse isn’t just for gaming — make use ...

2 weeks ago 26

Upgrading an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC with a 2TB SSD

Upgrading an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC ...

2 weeks ago 32

Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead

Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 yea...

2 weeks ago 28