Microsoft and its retail partners are celebrating Black Friday early with deals on wireless Xbox controllers, a couple of which are now on sale for the lowest price we've seen. We're talking about a 38% markdown for what we consider to be one of the best wireless controllers for both PC and console gaming. Time is of the essence, though, as

AMD made some waves recently when it announced that it would be relegating its RDNA 1 and 2 based Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to a security-update focused branch of its Radeon GPU driver software. In follow-up comments made to Tom's Hardware, however, AMD has since clarified that this does not mean the GPUs will no longer be supported

If you pay attention to gaming news at all, you've almost assuredly heard by now that Epic Games won its case against Google last year. Google still wants to take the case to the Supreme Court, but for now, it has to abide by the US District Court and Judge James Donato's judgment, where they decided that Google had engaged in unlawful anti-competitive

A new threat in is the wild affecting sites that run WordPress, a popular content management system. Wordfence, a company that focuses on security research in the WordPress ecosystem, is reporting that a vulnerability is affecting the Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin that’s currently deployed on over 100,000 websites. The

In this best-of rundown, we're going to outline the top 10 best gaming processors available in 2025. The CPUs featured here should offer some of the best gaming performance per-dollar in their respective price ranges. In fact, many of the cheaper options are still powerful contenders in modern gaming workloads, thanks to the advancements made

Forty-five years ago, Pac-Man made his U.S. debut in October—and today for Halloween, Google is collaborating with Namco Bandai to present a playable Pac-Man Doodle with eight levels and four brand-new haunted house-themed maze layouts. It's a timely twist to an all-time classic game. When one considers the core gameplay loop of Pac-Man,

Retailers keep getting earlier starts on the Black Friday sales bonanza every year, and we're seeing that once again with Best Buy kicking off a weekend of "amazing holiday Doorbusters" on a wide variety of products, including deep discounts on gaming PCs. The best bargains on the site are listed as Black Friday deals, even though the actual

Thanks to a freshly-found benchmark listing, the curtain has been pulled back on Samsung's Galaxy Book6 Pro with a next-generation Intel chip inside. While this may look like a routine hardware update, Samsung's ultra-portable laptop provides a closer look into future AI PCs spearheaded by Intel’s Panther Lake architecture. In today's bit

If you've been on the fence about whether to buy a mini PC now or wait until Black Friday sales roll into view, you may want to consider taking the plunge. Why is that? Minisforum, one of the most active participants in the mini PC space, posted a notice on X saying it will be issuing a "slight price adjustment" on its mini PC models that

For the time being, millions of YouTube TV subscribers are no longer able to access Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, National Geographic, FX, and a whole bunch more. The timing couldn't be worse, either, with various professional and college sports seasons now in full swing. This effectively means that YouTube TV subscribers

Corsair just announced its entrance into the leverless fightstick scene first popularized by Hit Box, the new Corsair Novablade Pro. Or to be more specific, the Corsair Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller—but we'll stick with Novablade Pro for now. The Novablade Pro is a direct competitor to the likes of Hit Box's

AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library. The move to openSIL will improve security and scalability while improving customization and control for AMD's customers, including end users. However, that's not what we're

Discussion surrounding the use of AI in game development is once again at the forefront, after EA recently announced its partnership with Stability AI. Those who work in the industry at a variety of levels have chimed in on the matter, and that now includes Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, one of the biggest game publishers in

Nintendo's ongoing patent lawsuit case against Palworld developers Pocketpair has hit a surprising speedbump, though the battle is far from over. For those unaware, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for patent infringement in Japanese court, and two of the three patents it is claiming have been violated relate to game mechanics that revolve around

Could you use a new gaming laptop? If so, there's a great deal available on Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora kitted with the latest-generation CPU and GPU hardware from Intel and NVIDIA, respectively. Or you could wait for the inevitable Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts to come into view, but why wait when you can score a bargain right now? If

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), primarily based at Curtin University in Australia, have released the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way's galactic plane ever assembled. Rather than the starry, luminous band we're more familiar with, the latest images show a vibrant tapestry

With streaming content being watched on bigger displays than ever before, Google wants to ensure that older, lower-resolution videos (think 480p and 720p) don't look janky on your fancy new 4K TV. YouTube is rolling out a suite of creator tools to address that and chief among them is the use of AI to breathe new life into its vast archive

If your router isn't using artificial intelligence in some capacity, is it really a router? The answer is yes, but be that as it may, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) isn't leaving anything to chance with its new flagship Wi-Fi 7 model for gamers, the Rapture GT-BE19000AI. Billed as the "world's first AI gaming router," the device sports a built-in

NVIDIA can add to its long list of accomplishments becoming the first publicly traded company to reach and surpass a $5 trillion market cap as it rides the AI chip boom to new heights. Equally impressive, the sky high valuation comes just a few months after NVIDIA breached the $4 trillion mark, surpassing Apple's previous record of $3.915

The U.S. Department of Energy is teaming up with NVIDIA and Oracle to build what's NVIDIA calls the DOE's largest AI supercomputer, part of a new public–private partnership meant to supercharge federally funded research. Announced at NVIDIA's GTC conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, the Solstice system will feature a staggering 100,000

Just a month since its initial tease, One-Netbook's OneXFly Apex, an AMD Strix Halo-powered handheld gaming PC has debuted. One-Netbook has pre-launched the OneXFly Apex on Indiegogo, confirmed its pricing for the Chinese market, and even provided peeks at performance benchmarks using the unique liquid cooling solution that can run the handheld

Battlefield 6 has brought the storied franchise back to prominence, quickly becoming one of the best selling games on Steam, and finally providing some competition to this year’s Call of Duty. EA isn’t done yet, though, as it looks to lure players away from multiplayer juggernaut CoD: Warzone with a battle royale mode of its own. Battlefield

Off the coast of Shanghai, a revolutionary structure is forming beneath the waves: the world’s first wind-powered, commercial-scale underwater data center (UDC). Basically, submerging servers in pressure-resistant pods (similar to Microsoft's non-commercial Project Natick in 2018) is a direct response to the escalating power and cooling demands

NVIDIA held its annual Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington D.C. yesterday, and as a surprise showing in the middle of his keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang pulled out a Vera Rubin Superchip, marking the first time that this product was shown to the public. The part looks quite different from even the GB300 Blackwell Ultra Superchip,

We're already big fans of Bose's audio products, so it doesn't take much arm twisting to convince us to consider the brand if we're in the market for a new set of headphones or earbuds. We won't turn down a good deal, either. It just so happens that you can have both right now, with Woot serving up some massive discounts on Bose's QuietComfort

13-hour flights between Tokyo and New York may soon be relegated to history books, as a major Japanese travel agency announced plans to launch a point-to-point transport service that could connect the two cities in just 60 minutes via outer space. The audacious plan (set to launch in the 2030s) comes from a partnership between the Nippon Travel

For Google loyalists, the first purported look at the Pixel 10a could ring a familiar tune rather than drastically advance the bar. Not expected to debut until early 2026, the well-regarded mid-budget handset has been revealed in CAD renders and the consensus is clear: Google is playing it safe, delivering a device that is essentially a Pixel

A new wave of flagship solid state drives (SSDs) that nearly saturate the available PCI Express 5.0 bandwidth available to x4 NVMe storage drives is starting to be appear. In back-to-back announcements, both PNY and Corsair unveiled new lightning-fast Gen 5 models—CS3250 and MP700 Pro XT, respectively—that are rated to deliver sequential read

Uber has already changed the taxi game with its, ahem, uber-popular ride sharing service, and now NVIDIA is hopping into the driver's seat on what figures to be the next evolution—a fleet of autonomous robotaxis built on NVIDIA's new DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10 platform. To make this happen, NVIDIA and Uber are teaming up to scale what's being pitched

MSI GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X 8GB: $249 The GeForce RTX 5050 is the most-affordable graphics card based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture that targets mainstream gamers, and is the first RTX XX50 series GPU for the desktop in years. Blackwell Architecture Power Efficient Smaller Form Factor Cool And Quiet DLSS4 And RTX Neural Rendering Latest...

Windows Server 2025 is currently open to a Remote Code Execution exploit via the Windows Update Service, and at the time of this writing a fix from Microsoft has yet to fully patch the issue. Reports to The Register indicate that Microsoft's attempt to patch the exploit earlier this month didn't stop any active exploitation, contrary to Microsoft's

Classic gaming enthusiasts may have to wait until next year to get their mitts on the a modernized Amiga A1200, but in the meantime they can pick up THEC64 Mini Black Edition. It’s got everything fans of the Commodore 64 remember, but in a smaller package that includes modern inputs and a slate of new games. THEC64 is half the size of the

Yet another dual-screen "DS" handheld has been born, though this time it's through user modification of the Steam Deck OLED rather than a dedicated clone like the Anbernic RG DS. This particular Steam Deck DS modding project is the most recent of its kind, but not the only one—there have been plenty of these posted to the r/SteamDeck subreddit

We're racing toward the end of 2025, and while there's still over two months left to go, we're confident in saying that there probably won't be any more high-profile handheld hardware launches this year. We do expect to see some systems based on Intel's new Panther Lake processors next year, but for now, the two highest-profile handheld releases

Seems like we've been on a northern lights roll lately, haven't we? There's one happening again tonight and the NOAA is even promising how the spectacular aurora display will be visible as far south as New York and Wisconsin. Forecasts say that a significant burst of solar activity colliding with Earth’s magnetic field will be creating the

After kids, teens, and even some adults are finished knocking on your door in hopes of scoring pieces of candy (or full-size candy bars, if you're really looking to impress), it won't be long until the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales season is in full force. If you want to get a jump on the mad rush and are in the market for a Fire TV,

Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm over a new Android Trojan dubbed Herodotus, which is designed to deliberately slow down its own malicious activity to mimic the casual, imperfect behavior of a human user. Such behavior allows the malware to slip past a generation of security systems built to flag more rapid, robotic actions of

Windows Insiders are getting early access to an upcoming Windows 11 feature that is intended to improve system reliability by scanning system memory following a system crash. The optional feature is related to those frustrating BSOD errors that, aside from letting you know that your PC tripped over itself and bonked its head (as was the case

Samsung is expanding its range of storage card solutions with the release of the P9 Express, a microSD Express memory card with enough speed to keep up with gaming handhelds like Nintendo's Switch 2. While not exclusively aimed at the Switch 2, Nintendo's newest console is a big reason why we're starting to see more microSD Express memory

Microsoft’s efforts to include its Copilot AI in as many of its services and products as possible has landed the company in some hot water. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking the company to court, accusing the software giant of misleading customers with its integration of Copilot into Microsoft 365 plans. This

Retroid is making waves in the handheld gaming space—a year after the September release of the Retroid Pocket 5, Retroid is following up with both a proper Retroid Pocket 6 and a Retroid Pocket G2, the latter of which serves as a souped-up refresh of Pocket 5 with the same external shell. Both handhelds are targeting a similar $200-$300 USD

Since the bombshell announcement of new Halo installment coming to PlayStation just two days ago, the wider public seems convinced that Xbox's battle in the console war is over. And now, comments made by Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty seem to be lending credence to that, declaring TikTok a bigger competitor to Xbox than PlayStation. There's

Linux users running Lenovo's Legion gaming handhelds and laptops are about to get a much-needed update to the way their systems handle power profiles. Developer Derek J. Clark has submitted a new patch series to the Linux kernel that adds explicit support for an "Extreme" performance mode to the lenovo-wmi-gamezone driver and overhauls how

Just weeks after a breach led to the theft of sensitive user data that included government issued IDs, Discord users have a new cybersecurity issue to worry about. Security researchers at Netskope have spotted hackers repurposing an open source tool used by security professionals, called RedTiger, to develop an infostealer to target unsuspecting

A new study published in Nature by researchers from the University of Cambridge (with support by Meta) just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, essentially confirming what many of us may have suspected: the 'need' for 4K, let alone 8K resolution displays, is largely a myth for the average mainstream consumer. In this

Qualcomm quietly unveiled the Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, a chipset designed to inject some features once exclusive to flagship devices into more affordable handsets. Not just a minor refresh, the new 4nm processor is poised to be a huge boon for mobile gamers on a budget, with the company claiming a a 59% faster GPU and 144 frames per second support. The

Another Ryzen processor with 3D V-Cache underneath the hood is evidently inbound, and based on the model name, it takes aim at builders who want to piece together an affordable gaming PC. It's the Ryzen 5 7500X3D, and while nothing is yet official, at least one retailer in the United Kingdom has prepped a product page in anticipation of the

The global fanfare for Samsung's most audacious mobile project yet, the (tentatively named) Galaxy Z TriFold, is reportedly set to bypass the U.S. market (not to mention most other parts of the world, too). Reports from reputable leakers suggest that the triple-folding device will be restricted to a small number of regions, such as South Korea

Major technology firms are betting big on AI, creating huge demand for hardware, software, and services that underpin this massive, burgeoning market. That includes Qualcomm, which is rolling out new AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards. These are Qualcomm's next-generation AI inference-optimized solutions for data centers, and they

A lot of add-in board partners have dabbled with white-themed graphics cards, but a modded GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition model posted to Reddit takes the cake. It looks so good (at least in photos) that we could have been convinced it was an official release by NVIDIA, if we didn't know any better. It's not, but it certainly should be. NVIDIA's

Apple continues to make strides towards making do-it-yourself (DIY) repairs less of a hassle, though there still remains plenty of room for improvement, as highlighted in iFixIt's teardown of the newly refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro with a custom M5 chip inside. The gripe that stands above the rest is how unnecessarily expensive and convoluted

In an unexpected but also unsurprising turn of events, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas AI browser has already been jailbroken, and the security exploit was uncovered within a week of the application's release. As is the case with other AI browsers, the vector of attack stems from an issue inherent to generative AI systems called "prompt injection",

Does your workplace use Microsoft Teams? Be wary, because the House of Windows is testing a new Teams feature that can automatically update your work location based on the Wi-Fi network you're connected to, meaning your boss might soon know exactly when you're in (or not in) the office. According to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap (ID 488800),

In a bombshell announcement, it was revealed that Halo: Campaign Evolved would be a multi-platform release and that it was coming to the PlayStation 5, of all platforms. Following ports of Forza Horizon 5 and Gears of War Reloaded on PlayStation platforms earlier this year, it would seem that all of Xbox's exclusive franchises are now well

Halloween is right around the corner, but if your idea of a treat is a delicious deal on a tech product, then get ready to feast on a couple of notable bargains. Over on Woot, the deal site that Amazon acquired a decade and a half ago, you can bag yourself a great discount on Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip6 smartphone in a couple of color options,

It took a while, but Razer has finally introduced a pro controller for the PS5, dubbed the the Raiju V3 Pro, that keeps the PlayStation layout. The signature symmetrical analog stick design is here, and so too are the other Razer controller signatures we've come to expect from Razer gamepads. This includes magnetic TMR analog sticks, which

A new entry in the Geekbench 6 database has turned up another example of Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake mobile silicon, and this one brings a few twists. Unlike earlier leaks, the integrated graphics device name is properly filled in, so the listing identifies the processor as a Core Ultra 5 338H with an integrated Intel Arc B370 GPU. That

A little over a year after EA gave a presentation discussing the ways it was planning the use of AI in game development, the company has announced a partnership that will help deeply integrate the technology. EA is teaming up with Stability AI, makers of the Stable Diffusion image model, to “reimagine how content is built.” EA has already

These last few years have seen a spate of classic computer hardware recreated with updated features fit for modern displays and gaming. The next device to get this treatment will be the legendary Amiga A1200, which will be brought back to life by Retro Games Ltd as THEA1200. If you recall, Retro Games Ltd did something similar with the successful

An international team of researches has announced the discovery of a super-Earth exoplanet (designated GJ 251 c) situated in its host star’s habitable zone less than 20 light-years from our own. What makes this detection exciting is that the planet's relatively short distance makes it one of the best targets bookmarked for future telescopic

A good reason to invest in a video doorbell is to stave off package thieves, though it's not the only compelling selling point. Halloween is right around the corner, and while that means costumed kids (and adults) stopping by for free candy, it also presents an opportunity for shenanigans by the local riffraff. They might be less inclined

So far, common shoemaker practice in helping runners go faster is to make footwear lighter without compromising rigidity and grip. Now, Nike has unveiled Project Amplify, the world’s first powered shoe system for running and walking, designed not necessarily for elite marathon runners, but for everyday athletes who just want to go a little

Intel's continued efforts to right the ship are paying off with another strong quarter in the books, with the company reporting $13.7 billion in revenue in Q3. That's a 3% year-over-year gain and enough to beat Wall Street's estimates. According to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the latest earnings are a direct reflection of "improved execution" as

It's taken a little longer than anticipated to arrive to market, but AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 graphics card for AI developers finally has a firm release date and pricing. In a post on X, AMD's vice president and general managerf of Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics, David McAfee, revealed that the Radeon AI Pro R9700 will release on Monday, October

Remember how, back in 2023, we reported on Intel's AVX10? Intel said that the new standard would be backward compatible with all of the AVX-512 instruction set extensions, and that at some point, the new AVX10.2 would come along that would be supported on both P-core and E-cores for consumer CPUs, while bringing with it extra functions like

After months of musing by leakers and insiders, the rumor mill is convinced that the PlayStation 6 could end up coming in at half the price of the next-generation Xbox console—rumors that, if proven to be true, could mark Sony and Microsoft effectively trading places in the historic Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3 launch pricing battle. For the

EA is looking to keep the momentum going for Battlefield 6, which had an impressive launch that took the game towards the top of the Steam sales chart. The company just dropped a trailer for Season 1, which will deliver new content to players across three distinctly themed drops. The first two batches are dubbed Rogue Ops and California Resistance,

An interstellar visitor known as 3I/ATLAS, currently hurtling toward its closest approach to the Sun, has ignited a debate among astronomers (and enthusiasts) over its true nature: is it a natural black swan comet from another star system, or, as a Harvard scientist suggests, a potential piece of alien technology (or both)? The hubbub has

Along with the new device, the release of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X also comes with a new full-screen gaming experience based on the revamped Xbox app. The machine boots into this "experience," which is essentially the Xbox app. It's not a fundamentally different environment from the Windows 11 you're familiar with; all of the same applications

Most of you already know that the AI boom, for better or worse, puts a heavy strain on existing power grids. As companies race to build massive data centers to train the next generation of generative AI models, they’ve discovered that the local electricity supply often can't keep pace with the insatiable demand. The solution? Repurposing retired

Apple is all about its iPhone 17 lineup these days (and iPhone Air), but if you're willing to jump back a couple of generations, you can score a still-capable iOS handset for a comparatively affordable price. The phone in question is the iPhone 15, and it's up for grabs for just under $500 right now, provided you're fine with a few caveats. Head

In the high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar battle for global semiconductor one-upmanship, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has jumped in as a middle person by employing both of the world’s leading chip foundries—Samsung Foundry and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) to produce its critical, next-gen AI chip, the AI5. Elon Musk on Tesla's next-gen

PC shipments across the globe grew a sizable 8.1% year-over-year in the third quarter of the 2025, driven in large part by a rash of upgrades ahead of Microsoft ending free support for Windows 10, according to Counterpoint Research. Oddly enough, "evolving U.S. import tariff polices" also played a role in PC shipments experiencing healthy

Micron is laying claim to the largest-capacity SOCAMM2 modules on the planet with its new 192GB product, which it has begun sampling to customers. According to Micron, "unprecedented AI innovation and growth" is fueling the need for increasing amounts of memory in the data center, and its low-power 192GB SOCAMM2 module is optimized for large

In the face of ever-growing generative AI usage and YouTube's own dabbling with those features, Google has announced an important safeguard for creators on the platform—Likeness Detection. Likeness Detection is a new feature YouTube is testing that allows creators to automatically search YouTube for videos that seem to use their AI-generated

This week, Google is rolling out new features for its Google Fi wireless service—and while one has been requested for years, others are a surprise. The most surprising highlight of the Google Fi Wireless Feature Reveal for October 2025 (apparently the first in a series of Feature Reveals to come) is the addition of AI noise filtering for phone

Apple brought some excitement to this year’s lineup of iPhones with the introduction of the ultra slim iPhone Air. The company is reportedly hoping to do the same for its iPads with a foldable version of the device. However, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claims that the project is now delayed after hitting several stumbling blocks. The project,

Black Ops 7 is just around the corner, and PC fans looking to upgrade their GPU in time for the game may be interested to know that ASUS will be offering a limited edition run of 1000 Call of Duty-branded AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTs. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the company's current flagship consumer GPU that contends with the likes of NVIDIA

Don't worry, this isn't yet another tale about melting 12V-2x6 GPU power connectors—although it could have been, if the subject of today's story had decided to follow the advice of his power supply manufacturer. That manufacturer is Cooler Master, who apparently told a customer, frustrated that he was unable to plug in his new GPU, to dismantle

In an industry rapidly accelerating toward an all-electric future, Porsche has just reminded us that the age of the internal combustion engine is far from over. How so? A newly-uncovered patent filing has revealed that engineers at Zuffenhausen have developed the design for a radical space-optimized W-arrangement engine featuring 18 cylinders