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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#7866G)
Nvidia's controversial neural-rendering tech, DLSS 5, is now officially available in NBA 2K27, marking the start of a new era for the company. DLSS 5 will also come to RTX 40-series soon after current work on optimizing it for the RTX 50-series has reached a satisfactory state.
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by Ben Stockton on (#7860Y)
Grab a new 3D printer in Creality's Labor Day flash sale, with discounts on printers and accessories available.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#785XX)
Minisforum unveiled the NAS N5 Max-P495 and MS-S1 Max-P945 at IFA 2026. The NAS and mini-PC are powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, which can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory and packs a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU.
by Ben Stockton on (#785XY)
There's a big Labor Day sale over at Best Buy right now, securing you huge discounts on tech, including gaming PCs, handhelds, laptops, and monitors.
by Jon Martindale on (#785XZ)
As frontier AI developers push for cost savings as much as intelligence enhancements, new models push the boundaries of the pareto frontier, with even small advantages crowning new kings.
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by Zak Killian on (#785TV)
When NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 50 series, a major part of the hype surrounding the new GPU family was its support for DLSS Multi-Frame Generation. This feature was officially locked to the new RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs, but modders have been working on unlocking it for RTX 40-series cards for a while now.
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by Joe Shields on (#785TW)
Snag an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 16G Shadow 2x OC Plus at Walmart for an awesome $200 less than anywhere else - $569 price is the best we've found by a longshot
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#785TX)
While gaming performance is strong, there are some signs of cost-cutting.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#785QV)
An AI data center is reportedly watering its lawn despite the area suffering from a drought. One resident said that we can't water our lawns until next summer, but you better believe that they are watering their entire green with so many sprinklers.
by Jake Roach on (#785QW)
AMD's Threadripper Halo Station packs a 96-core Zen 5 Threadripper, dual MI350P accelerators with support for four, and 2TB of DDR5.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#785QX)
Shipments of standalone graphics processors for PCs grow sequentially and year-over-year amid shortage of components and increased prices.
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on (#785QY)
Fractal Design's second-generation gaming chair lives up to its name - it's slightly refined from its predecessor, which means it's not really that different.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#785NR)
V-Color's DDR5 filler memory featuring a real stick paired with a dummy module is now available around the UK and Europe, while the company's 0GB kits that just come with filler sticks are on sale in the US as well.
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on (#785NS)
Save 40% on this Hoto electric screwdriver with 25 hardened bits, now just $29.99 for a limited time only.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#785NT)
SpaceXAI Memphis said on its X account that more than 2,000 subscribers from the Memphis and Southaven area have already signed up for the discounted Starlink offer. Elon Musk is giving subscribers living near his data centers up to $65 off on their monthly internet bill.
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Newegg's 32GB TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan Eco DDR5-6400 CL38 kit is down to $405 with code LDSF243, making it the least expensive DDR5-6400 kit around amid the RAMpocalypse - and it's even cheaper than most DDR5-6000 kits at the 'egg.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#785NW)
CXMT's alleged industrial espionage from Samsung had an actual roadmap - South Korean court says Project Hefei was responsible for CXMT's current position as major DRAM maker
on (#785JX)
Lexar's slimmest-ever Muse drive aims for a barely there design that magnetically attaches to your iPhone for recording directly on the drive. But to achieve its petite 80*48*3.8 mm dimensions, it uses a proprietary cable and a magnetic sleeve for mounting.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7857T)
Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.
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Lenovo details its RTX Spark laptops — Yoga Pro 9n and Yoga 9n 2-in-1 get full specs, stylus support
on (#7854N)
Lenovo detailed its RTX Spark laptops ahead of IFA in Berlin, releasing full specs and showing off stylus compatibility.
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on (#7854M)
Lenovo's latest IdeaPad laptops are all about colorful vibes. The Vibe lineup will come in seven hues, with swappable keyboard keycaps so you can match the chassis or go for a pop of contrast. The 14- and 15-inch laptops will land later this year, starting at $699.
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on (#7854K)
Lenovo is rolling out two new laptop concepts at IFA 2026: A 1.83-pound, 0.39-inch-thick AeroBlade using Frore System's AirJet solid-state cooling tech, and a compact 14-inch rollable-screen portable that expands to a 17-inch screen, dubbed Project Swan.
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on (#7854J)
Systems with Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X chips will launch in October in mini PCs and laptops, with the chips coming in two configurations.
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on (#7854H)
Nvidia's Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.
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on (#7854G)
AMD's Gorgon Halo chips are breaking cover. Ahead of IFA, Lenovo showed off the THinkCentre X Ultra with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#7854P)
Intel's Core Ultra 400-series 'Nova Lake-S' CPUs are on track for mass production next quarter, but they will only launch in Q1 2027 with 28-core models coming first.
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on (#7854Q)
Learn how to install an M.2 NVMe SSD in your PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Slim, or PlayStation 5 Pro in under five minutes.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7850A)
The people of Independence, Missouri, voted to recall councilor John Perkins after he voted to give a Nebius data center tax breaks amounting to more than $6 billion. Perkins said that a single vote should not be enough grounds to overturn an election from two years ago.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7850B)
Sam Altman says that a single almond uses up more water than 38,000 ChatGPT queries. He said that the concerns of people about data centers using up so much water are nothing but a "robust meme," and that the claim doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
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on (#7850C)
Amazon is hosting a Labor Day sale with up to 46% off our favorite tech products.
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on (#784Y5)
Onimusha: Way of the Sword closes out an excellent year for Capcom. We put the RE Engine to the test once again, benchmarking 31 different CPUs to see how they scale in the game.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#784Y6)
Intel gets rid of hundreds of vice presidents, replaces 'Fellows' with 'distinguished engineers,' changes 'standards of technical leadership.'
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#784Y7)
RPCS3 explains why modern temporal upscalers are difficult to implement in PS3 emulation as modders continue experimenting with the leaked DLSS 5 DLL.
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on (#784Y8)
Packard Bell is back, under the wing of Acer at IFA 2026, with the Taiwanese PC maker's unveiling of the colorful Dot family, including a laptop, headphones, input peripherals, and more.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#784V4)
TSMC's equipment requirements have nearly doubled in just eight months as AI demand drives an unprecedented fab expansion, yet its 2026 CapEx budget has risen by only around 15%.
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on (#784V5)
Save $370 on a new CyberPower system with Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor and Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti graphics.
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on (#784V6)
Grab a 41% saving on this 5-port TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch, down to only $9.98 for a limited-time only.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Bruno Ferreira) on (#784V7)
Nexus Mods takes in SteamDB under its wing - new owners promise site will remain ad-free and non-paywalled
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on (#784V8)
A 'beautifully preserved in working condition' Apple-1 computer motherboard signed by Steve Wozniak with a letter signed by Steve Jobs is up for auction next month at Bonhams in New York.
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Sugon has released a teaser of an upcoming mobile workstation with a 64-thread processor and 16GB of VRAM to tackle AI models.
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on (#78475)
Microsoft will begin enabling Memory Integrity by default on more eligible Windows PCs through quality updates in October, expanding kernel-level protection while preserving existing opt-outs for users who previously disabled the feature.
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Hybrid bonding, the copper-to-copper joining technique that replaces solder microbumps in 3D chip stacks, is in high-volume production on logic and freshly postponed on memory.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#78477)
GoPro is merging with optical-photonics company Starman Optical in a deal worth at least $285 million. This move will wipe out the company's $92 million outstanding debt, let it start manufacturing its cameras in the U.S., and expand its portfolio to include optical transceivers for AI data centers.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#78448)
Samsung expects HBM5 to deliver 4 TB/s of bandwidth per stack by late 2020s, which will enable AI accelerators with aggregated memory bandwidth of around 100 TB/s.
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Russian national faces US charges over a phishing campaign that allegedly infected 80,000 PCs and stole credentials and personal data
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Tape storage companies celebrate capacity shipment growth of 57% YOY for Q1 2026.
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DLSS 5 officially releases later this week, but we tested it on the RTX 5090 using community mods to see what kind of performance drop and extra power draw you can expect.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#7844C)
The leak was traced to a major ID-authentication service based in Louisiana, serving major companies like Hertz, Target, and the United States Coast Guard.
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on (#7844D)
With a massive 40% knocked off the list price, the HyperX CloudX Stinger 2 is only $29.99 on the HyperX store.
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on (#7844E)
Fractal's Define One rounds off the boxy Define, while still keeping the iconic closed-front design. A focus on GPU airflow and three included Momentum 14 fans highlight this $154 mid-tower chassis.
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