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If you've been looking to upgrade to a more powerful machine but don't want to spend the big bucks on nice-to-haves like an OLED display, the Asus TUF F16 is the perfect pick for you. With its performant hardware combo and plenty of connectivity, along with a sleek design, it's a solid laptop that can do it all: gaming, productivity, and media consumption.

US spatial intelligence firm shows off its capabilities by providing high-quality images of a Chinese naval base on Hainan Island.

Retrobrighting a Sega Dreamcast console yielded poor results after 10 years.

Zotac denied an RMA repair for an RTX 5070 Ti after claiming PCB damage, despite what appears to be wear-and-tear.

Two new Geekbench listings for the upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip have been uncovered, both from mid-November, that show the CPU posting higher single-core numbers than the existing 9800X3D while being beat in multi-threaded results. The chip boosted up to 5.6 GHz as expected, but was running on slow 4800 MT/s memory.

PC builder generously trades 192 GB of DDR5 for an RTX 5070 Ti.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in a recent Joe Rogan podcast that the inventors behind deep learning ran the world's first machine learning network on a pair of GTX 580s in SLI in 2012.

Redditor shares his ongoing struggle to get Asus to RMA an expensive ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.

Atlas Data Storage, a DNA-based storage tech startup, has announced its first commercial offering.

Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports.

SoftBank proposes building multiple industrial parks across the U.S. on federal land to manufacture semiconductors and other AI infrastructure.

Artificial intelligence has seemingly put the entire PC industry in a chokehold, with even large manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell at the mercy of drying production lines. Lenovo has reportedly warned its clients to book orders before the next price hike on New Year's, while Dell is already considering a 15-20% increase in mid-December.

On November 5, 1995, IBM took the wraps off its Deep Blue prototype, a supercomputer designed to beat the world's greatest chess players.

The SAFE Chips Act proposed by a bipartisan group aims to lock current export rules into law, preventing AMD and Nvidia from selling any AI accelerators based on the latest architectures to China for the next 30 months and forcing companies to compete with H20 and MI308 against China's latest AI processors.

AWS is taking pages from Nvidia's book with its new Trainium3 AI accelerators and Trn3 Gen2 UltraServers that are now built entirely on in-house silicon and are accompanies by the enhanced Neuron software stack that simplifies their adoption and gives users more controls over performance and behavior.

Nvidia responds to NorthridgeFix and is replacing one of its customers' damaged RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards worth $10,000, even though the damage was not Nvidia's fault and was done accidentally by the customer.

Amidst the never-ending cycle of DRAM shortage news cursing the industry, ASRock is finally bringing some good news: a motherboard with support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, that too in dual-channel mode. The H610M Combo doesn't have a price yet, but it looks like it can help somewhat mitigate the effects of the current RAM crisis.

Pay $179 for 16GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and an MSI B650 motherboard bundle from Newegg, and save $129.