MSI plans to increase the price of its PC products by 15 – 30%, company general manager Huang Jinqing recently said. Speaking with investors, Jinqing confirmed that the entire hardware industry is facing unprecedented market conditions. Memory manufacturers have almost entirely shifted their priorities, allocating the majority of their production...

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Unlike Nvidia's earlier Grace processors, which were primarily sold as companions to GPUs, Vera is positioned as a general-purpose data center CPU with a strong focus on AI-centric workloads such as agentic frameworks, scripting-heavy pipelines, analytics, and code compilation. The chip is built on 88 Nvidia-designed Arm v9.2-A "Olympus" cores,...

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Video StoreAge is a new company focused on creating physical releases of indie films. The startup aims to take a more authorial approach to distribution, using a patented encrypted USB drive to share its curated titles. Its ultimate goal is to disrupt algorithm-driven distribution in favor of communities and grassroots...

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Nvidia dropped DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 this week, and the internet already has opinions.

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The two new SKUs are the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and the Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. The former serves as the new flagship, offering faster performance than the Core Ultra 9 285HX in both games and professional applications. Intel claims it delivers up to 7% higher single-threaded performance in Cinebench 2026.

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"The inference inflection has arrived," Huang said during the keynote, framing the next stage of the AI boom around systems designed not just to train models but to run them at massive scale.

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Is it closest to a Radeon, GeForce, or Intel graphics equivalent?

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According to a detailed account posted by Reddit user Southern_Chest_9084, the incident occurred on September 24, 2025, while he was working on his laptop. The user reported feeling "an extreme surge of heat" under the device, which left a blistered, watch-shaped burn. The injury, described as painful and slow to...

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The new delivery windows are rolling out in major metro areas such as Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as smaller cities including Boise, Idaho.

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The Austrian fan manufacturer shared a photo of what appears to be the exterior of a PC chassis, showing the Noctua logo next to several I/O ports. The company also shared a few details about its upcoming product in its replies to commentators.

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The dispute itself was unremarkable. The Insolvency and Companies Court was hearing a claim brought by Lithuanian firm UAB Business Enterprise and Laimonas Jakštys over who owned and controlled Oneta Limited. Jakštys was seeking a declaration that he and UAB Business Enterprise owned Oneta, rectification of the company's register, and...

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Alienware first showed off these updated laptops at CES 2026, and they go on sale today.

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In the past year, interest in four-legged robots capable of autonomous patrols has surged, according to executives at Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics, two of the leading developers in the field. Data center operators, facing growing pressure to maintain 24-hour uptime and security across facilities spanning dozens of acres, see...

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Simes presides over Computer Pals, a volunteer-run group devoted to helping older adults develop digital literacy. Under his guidance, the club's lessons range from navigating Windows 11 to distinguishing between legitimate and malicious links online. His authority doesn't stem from age or nostalgia but from curiosity – an instinct that led...

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Instead of upscaling games from lower resolutions or interpolating frames using AI, DLSS 5 applies machine learning to a game's lighting model. Nvidia calls it the next stage of rendering after upscaling and ray tracing. Digital Foundry got an early hands-on look at the technology (video below), which sparked controversy...

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Affinity's latest update to introduces Light UI for a brighter and cleaner workplace, Convert to Curves to eliminate manual tracing by transforming objects into a fully editable vector curves, and Live Tone Blend Groups which blends layers dynamically and non-destructively.

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While the traditional discrete sound card has largely become a niche product for enthusiasts and hardware obsessives, Creative is attempting to attract new customers with a fresh model. The newly launched Sound Blaster Audigy Fx Pro can significantly upgrade the audio experience, the company says, and includes an additional layer...

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The sale marks a turning point for GFiber, which began in 2012 as Google Fiber – a bold experiment aimed at challenging the sluggish US internet market. Its gigabit speeds, demonstrated first in Kansas City, were ahead of their time but proved difficult to expand profitably.

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Microsoft previewed Copilot Suggestions in notifications as far back as 2024, but the feature was never rolled out, even in preview builds for Windows Insiders. According to Windows Central, the company decided to scrap the AI-powered feature following severe backlash over the Windows Recall tool, which many cybersecurity experts viewed...

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A "cracker" known as Voices38 recently shared their latest release: a Denuvo-free version of Doom: The Dark Ages. The newest entry in id Software's FPS franchise has now entered the wild world of PC piracy, though it remains an 81 GB download with significant hardware requirements, including a powerful gaming GPU.

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Pre-orders for the AirPods Max 2 open March 25 in more than 30 countries, with general availability beginning in early April. Apple is sticking with the familiar industrial design, which means the sequel looks a lot more like a spec and feature refresh than a dramatic reimagining.

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Popular Photoshop alternative GIMP has been updated to feature non-destructive Link and Vector Layers, an upgraded MyPaint Brush tool, and expanded file format support including SVG export. The update also brings UI and stability improvements.

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Unlike WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, where E2E encryption is either the default or automatically applied to certain message types, Instagram's deployment had always been partial and manual. The feature was available only to a subset of users and had to be explicitly enabled.

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The new Digg experiment is ending in a resounding fiasco. The beta version of the rebuilt social sharing portal has already been shut down – a "difficult" decision that forced the company to significantly downsize its development team. Building new internet projects in 2026 is a completely different experience, Digg...

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Because the failures appeared around March Patch Tuesday and followed recent security updates, plenty of people blamed Microsoft's latest patches. Now, the company says the real culprit was not Windows itself, but Samsung software.

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A central question was whether TCL's 'QLED' televisions actually used quantum dots – the nanoscale semiconductor particles that give QLED displays their enhanced color range and brightness. According to the court, TCL's advertised QLED models "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs," effectively misleading consumers about the...

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Launched in March 2025 on mobile in the US, What People Suggest leveraged AI to collate information from various online discussion platforms, such as Reddit, Quora, and X, and share it with users. An example Google gave was someone with arthritis wanting to know how others with the condition exercise.

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The demonstration marks the first public, reproducible breach of the Xbox One's hardware-level defenses, a milestone in console hacking that recalls the famous Reset Glitch Hack that compromised the Xbox 360 years earlier. But Gaasedelen's technique goes deeper, operating below the software stack, against the boot ROM on the Xbox...

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A team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint last July while she was babysitting four young children, writes InForum. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota.

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The shift would mark a rare departure from the philosophy that has guided Nvidia for most of its 33-year history: that a single class of GPU can handle every stage of AI computing, from training massive models to delivering fast, real-time responses. As competition intensifies and demand grows for quicker,...

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Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a high-precision world model of the physical environment. The company is now commercializing that work through a visual positioning system that can locate devices to within a few centimeters using...

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Unlike chatbots, which learned to imitate human language through vast stores of online text, robots require something the internet doesn't provide in abundance: detailed examples of real-world movement. How a person grips a sponge, stirs soup, or shuts off a running tap contains a level of nuance that sensors and...

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The interference has scrambled the Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) that ships rely on to share their positions. That means tankers carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of oil may not know exactly where nearby vessels are – a potentially catastrophic problem in narrow waterways, where even a small navigational error...

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HandBrake is one of the most popular free video tools around, offering a powerful way to convert and compress video files. The open-source transcoder supports Windows, macOS, and Linux and can convert almost any video format into widely compatible codecs like H.264, H.265, AV1, MP4, or MKV.

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ESP-Blast centers on an ESP32 board serving as the flight controller, a role usually handled by dedicated flight-control hardware in high-performance drones. The ESP32, which integrates a dual-core processor along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, is typically used in connected devices and hobbyist electronics rather than in high-speed aerial platforms.

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The effort is part of AMD's broader Agent Computer initiative, which argues that the future of AI isn't limited to remote infrastructure. Instead, it envisions a world where users control both their data and their computing environment – where AI assistants operate continuously with reduced network dependence, fewer external subscriptions,...

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AMD's upcoming FSR 4.1 update promises clearer detail and less motion blur. We tested the new upscaler against FSR 4 and Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 to see how much image quality has improved.

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Out of 8,512 US adults surveyed in late January, more respondents expressed negative views about data centers' effects on the environment and energy costs than positive ones. However, the largest number of respondents expect data centers to have a positive impact on jobs and tax revenue, and many remain unsure...

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At the center of the issue is the precision gas vital to chip manufacturing and cryogenics. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication, maintaining the extremely low temperatures required for etching and lithography. Unlike other industrial gases, there is no effective substitute, and experts warn that even short disruptions can ripple...

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For roughly the past week, mobile internet across central Moscow and parts of St. Petersburg has been intermittently failing. People can't load apps, hail cabs, or, in some cases, even make a basic phone call. That last point is particularly concerning. Entire voice networks have gone dark in parts of...

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Nvidia announced its support for Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology during a presentation at the Game Developers Conference this week. The feature, designed to address shader-compilation stutter in PC games, will arrive on RTX graphics cards later this year. AMD has also confirmed support, though it has not provided...

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Known as Zombie ZIP, the method hides malware inside a deliberately malformed compressed archive. According to its creators, most antivirus engines currently fail to detect the threat, potentially giving attackers a new delivery mechanism. At the same time, some researchers argue the technique is less a vulnerability and more a...

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In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claimed that Apple will price its first foldable iPhone at "roughly $2,000," much lower than previously rumored. If Gurman's prediction holds, the iPhone Fold would match the pricing of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, which starts at $1,999 for the...

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When Google introduced Project Genie a few months ago, many described the AI tool as a potential game-changer for game development and other world-building tasks. According to a recent Google presentation, however, the Genie 3 AI model – the generative engine behind Project Genie – is still far from disrupting,...

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Meta's 2Africa undersea cable project has hit another geopolitical snag, this time in the Persian Gulf. According to Bloomberg, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the company responsible for laying parts of the system, has declared force majeure (a contractual clause that excuses a party from liability if an extraordinary, unforeseeable event...

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Adobe shares fell about 7% in extended trading after the announcement, leaving the stock down roughly 23% so far this year and near a three-year low.

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The International Imaging Technology Council (Int'l ITC), a trade group for cartridge remanufacturers, says HP's latest printer firmware rollout conflicts with the requirements of the General Electronics Council's (GEC) updated Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT 2.0.

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Starting in June, the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) age rating system, Europe's equivalent to the ESRB, will begin assigning PEGI-16 ratings to all games that sell random items. Furthermore, microtransactions will earn an automatic PEGI-12 rating, and NFTs or other blockchain-related items will be rated PEGI-18.

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Unlike recent MacBook Air and Pro models, where Apple's unibody "top case" design turns keyboard problems into major surgery, the Neo's keyboard is treated as its own part rather than being permanently bundled with the upper shell.

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According to the FBI's website, the agency's Seattle branch wants to identify potential victims who installed Steam games infected with malware.

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Mozilla recently updated its official Firefox support article for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, giving users of these ancient operating systems six more months of safe, modern browsing. The change was neither broadcast by the company nor widely reported online, and it will likely affect a very tiny minority of...

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At CES 2025, Honda said the 0 Saloon and 0 SUV would begin rolling out in 2026, with North America first: the SUV in the first half of the year and the Saloon later in 2026.

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For years, Google Maps has been able to surface nearby coffee shops and provide turn-by-turn navigation. What it couldn't do was answer complex questions that blend location, preferences, and timing. With Gemini built in, it can now.

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A one-man company named Whitehorn Ltd. Co. recently announced that DR-DOS is coming back. The "new" text-based operating system has a proper website now, and claims to be carrying forward the legacy of Gary Kildall, whose work helped shape early personal computing. Kildall founded Digital Research in 1974, creating the...

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The expanded fund, disclosed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission following Oracle's quarterly earnings report, has heightened concerns that the company's restructuring will carry a significant human cost. Oracle has spent roughly $982 million of the budget so far, largely on severance, leaving about $1.1 billion in restructuring...

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Speaking to reporters and developers on the sidelines of GDC, Valve's Tom Giardino noted that only around 3,000 titles earned over $100,000 at the height of the pandemic in 2020, when many people were spending their time indoors playing video games and consuming online content.

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Samsung's Odyssey 3D monitor offers enthusiasts a renewed way to enjoy 3D gaming experiences. At the GDC Festival of Gaming 2026, the Korean company announced a major expansion of the gaming content available for the Odyssey 3D ecosystem.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Valve in February, arguing that mystery boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 constitute "quintessential gambling" because players pay for a chance to obtain rare cosmetic items that can carry significant monetary value and be traded for real money.

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Microsoft's Windows 11 ISO is the most flexible way to install or reinstall the company's latest desktop OS, whether you're setting up a new PC, fixing a broken system, or upgrading without touching the Media Creation Tool. It lets you create a bootable USB, run an in-place upgrade, or install...

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Fake memory kits that are used to fill empty DIMM slots have been around for a long time now, though V-Color's value pack is pretty unusual.

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Unsurprisingly, Steam Machine verification requirements will be more lenient than those for the Steam Deck, since the Machine is expected to provide roughly six times more performance headroom. Meanwhile, verification requirements for locally installed games on the Steam Frame will be stricter.

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Originally unveiled in 2011 and released after years of redesign and delay in 2017, Save the World was Fortnite long before "dropping from the battle bus" entered gaming vocabulary. It was built as a four-player PvE (player-versus-environment) action-building title – a blend of base construction, resource gathering, and combat against AI-controlled enemies.

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According to a court filing at Harris County District Court, plaintiff Justine Saint Amour bought a Cybertruck with the FSD package from a Florida dealership in February 2025.

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The same behavior has been documented on models running Hisense's own VIDAA operating system – now rebranded Home OS – which also powers TVs sold under brands including Akai, Schneider, and Loewe. Initially dismissed as isolated reports, the issue appears to have persisted for at least a few years. One...

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The Windows full-screen experience, now called "Xbox Mode," will exit beta next month in select territories. The new interface, which enables users to launch PC games and other apps using only a controller, debuted last year on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and will soon be available on all Windows...

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Residents in the city of Burleson, Texas, are the first to see the Wall-E-like Daxbots trundling around their neighborhoods.

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A quarter of a century after IBM released the last official version of OS/2, someone is still keeping the platform alive under the ArcaOS name. Arca Noae is now the only company licensing OS/2 technology from IBM, after Serenity Systems' eComStation project disappeared around 14 years ago.

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