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Updated 2026-07-04 22:30
50-feet-long fiber optic HDMI cable and Steam Controller 2 is enthusiasts' answer to the Steam Machine — dismisses Valve's new console for a DIY Bazzite setup with a controller
An enthusiast is DIYing his own Steam Machine through ancient, lost methods known as cables that turn his existing PC into the perfect couch gaming setup. As expected, the Steam Controller 2 is also involved, alongside Bazzite.
Sony crammed an entire PS1 into a DualShock controller that connects to your TV, but killed the project — PlayStation Puga offered game studios a mere 10 cents per unit sold
Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.
Chinese YMTC SSDs make their way into retail Lenovo laptops — media outlet slams YMTC PCIe 4.0 drive for 'below average for an SSD in an office laptop' in review
Lenovo has seemingly begun using YMTC SSDs in some of its laptop models, allowing the Chinese storage chip company to gain a foothold in the U.S. This is despite its inclusion on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List and its branding by the Pentagon as a Chinese military company.
Get a premium 27-inch 1440p 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor for only $349 — OLED for the price of IPS
If you've been meaning to upgrade to an OLED monitor but budget options scare you off because of burn-in, Asus has the answer for you. Not only does this monitor feature great specs, but it also has a proximity sensor that automatically turns off the display when you step away.
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spre
Fill-and-flush is a commissioning step whereby crews fill a cooling loop's piping with water and flush it to clear debris before the system is run.
AOC U27G4XM 27-inch 4K 160 Hz Dual-Refresh Gaming Monitor Review: Speed, Flexibility And Value
AOC brings speed, flexibility, and value in its U27G4XM. It's a 27-inch dual-mode IPS panel with 4K resolution at 160 Hz, FHD resolution at 320 Hz and Adaptive-Sync. It also has a Mini LED backlight with 1,000 nits for HDR and wide gamut color.
Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026
TrendForce says DRAM and NAND prices will continue to rise through Q3 2026, but AI-driven gains are slowing as PC and smartphone makers reach their affordability limits.
The ultimate 4K RTX 5090 gaming titan plummets $2,580 — huge discount makes the Alienware Area-51 with 24-core CPU and 64GB RAM irresistible
Dell has slashed the price of the Alienware Area-51 with a Core Ultra 9 285K, GeForce RTX 5090, and 64GB of DDR5 RAM by $2,580.
Windows guru uses 19th-century Stirling Engine tech for auxiliary cooling on AMD Threadripper 3970X system — waste heat energy spins the $40 engine's flywheel
Windows development guru Dave W. Plummer shared a brief video demonstrating a novel Stirling Engine powered cooling solution for his AMD Threadripper chipset.
Enthusiast hides gaming PC inside living room fan using 3D-printed parts — disassembled AtomMan G7 cooled by Dreo tower fan that shifts air at 28 feet per second
Creator Zac Builds mounted their mini-PC to the side of their living room fan to hide it plain sight.
Startup unveils 3D-printed nuclear reactor module to power AI data centers —touted as ‘the world’s first subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium nuclear reactor’
Nuclear tech startup Ampera revealed a small modular reactor manufactured using 3D printing techniques. The company says that it expects to be the first one to mass produce these power sources for data centers and other applications.
Companies join hands to collectively dunk on PlayStation's all-digital future — Domino's pizza, KFC, and GameSir all threaten an end to physical production
Companies on social media are coming together to mock Sony's decision of ceasing production of physical discs for PlayStation games. These brands are shifting to a digital-only model in an even more absurd manner.
Fire hydrant signs with Starlink antennas tested for emergency Wi-Fi in disaster-prone Japan— existing widespread grid of street-level furniture can be used for communications network fallback
Japan's Fire Hydrant Sign Co., Ltd. has demonstrated an expansive Wi-Fi network that melds its established infrastructure of street signs with Starlink satellite broadband antennas.
Turtle Beach KP7 Review: The accessory that does everything
Turtle Beach's KP7 keypad can be used with its KB7 keyboard or as a standalone macropad. And it's nice - but pricey.
Intel reportedly adding two new 22-core SKUs with game-boosting cache to Nova Lake-S lineup — 125W unlocked and 65W locked part rumored to be part of single-tile Core Ultra 5 tier
Intel is apparently cooking up two new 22-core Nova Lake-S SKUs with up to 144MB of bLLC. One is a locked 65W variant and one is an unlocked 125W part, and both are said to be part of the Core Ultra 5 tier.
Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand — select Xeon processors now over $1,000 more expensive
Intel confirms price increases for Core Ultra 200S Plus, Xeon 6 processors, cites market dynamics, rising costs, soaring demand.
Inside the history of DRAM price-fixing lawsuits — how HBM allocations could make a difference after two decades of failed cases
17 plaintiffs sued Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in late June.
Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of
A Redditor experience the deadly "Red Line of Death" on their Steam Machine, indicating GPU failure. They've just been playing for five minutes and then updated the console before experiencing the issue.
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 review: Potent Snapdragon performance, great endurance, premium pricing
HP hits the mark on performance and battery life, but you'll pay a hefty price for its OmniBook Ultra with Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite.
Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicality
Blackstone-owned QTS has withdrawn its final appeal for Virginia's 22-million-square-foot Digital Gateway campus, ending the massive data center project.
SK hynix, Samsung, Micron among semiconductor industry group lobbying against government intervention on domestic memory chip supply — says move would worsen situation, suggests tax deductions o
A lawmaker suggested to the administration that it should prioritize American manufacturers when it comes to memory chip supplies, but the SEMI industry group is pushing back against this. It says that doing so would only extend the memory chip shortages.
Save up to 47% on Dell and Alienware gaming PCs and laptops in this July 4th flash sale — big sale discounts on pricey kit including gaming chairs and monitors for a limited time only
Grab a bargain on these Dell and Alienware PCs, laptops, and monitors over the July 4th holiday weekend.
Save up to 71% on HP gaming desktops and laptops this July 4 — weekend sale could land you a gaming PC for less
Get up to 71% off HP gaming desktops, laptops, and accessories this July 4.
Up to $129 off Secretlab gaming chairs and desks in July 4 sale — save on the Titan Evo, Magnus, and more
Save up to $129 on Secretlab gaming chairs and desks thanks to a July 4 sale.
Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims — says production up to 15,000 wafers per month at both sites
Intel reportedly solves one of the key issues that plagued its 18A process technology, but others may still be there.
HP has slashed $1,075 off this RTX 5070 gaming PC in its July 4 sale — Omen 35L with 32GB of RAM now just $1,724
This RTX 5070 gaming PC is now just $1,724, featuring 32GB of RAM and Intel's 265F CPU.
GitHub thumbs nose at Sony's controversial end to physical media with its introduction of Repo CDs — offers limited run of 1,000 CD-ROM copies of public GitHub repos for preservation
GitHub has announced that it will be giving developers a way to obtain their public repo on a CD-ROM. Context is provided by Sony's recent decision to abandon game discs.
This 144-in-1 electric screwdriver set is a must-buy toolkit for PC building and hobbyists, now under $40 — 20% saving on kit with a second precision driver, 120 magnetic bits, and 22 maintenanc
Save 20% on this 144-in-1 repair toolkit from Strebito, with 120 bits and a number of other tools for less than $40.
Scientists have created a 3D-printed remote-controlled cyborg cockroach equipped with IR cameras — living insects fitted with flexible 'diving suit' can survive and move underwater for three hou
Singaporean scientists outfitted remote-controlled cockroaches with scuba suits in a bid to use them in rescue operations and explore extreme environments like Mars.
Jensen Huang’s iconic signed leather jacket expected to fetch up to $60,000 in charity auction — Sotheby’s says item was worn at a Foxconn Tech Day in 2023 and the signature has been
One of Jensen Huang's used leather jackets is up for auction, with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. The money will go to charity.
SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed
SK hynix announces major plan to spend $712.5 billion in its operations in South Korea, but the only detailed investments are spendings on a new NAND fab and a packaging facility.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp claims AI companies are stealing customers' data while charging them for unproductive tokens — says 'livid' businesses 'are paying for tokens that create no value'
Palantir CEO Alex Karp boldly states in an interview that claims AI companies are stealing customer's data while charging them for unproductive services.
Nvidia offers to take a cut of AI cloud revenue on top of hardware sales in new optional financing vehicle — trades tokens for revenue cut
Nvidia has announced a new business model under which it'll be able to double-dip for revenue on the same silicon.
U.S PC shipments drop 7%, market isn't expected to bounce back until 2029 — price hikes and component shortages take hold as PC market declines, Omdia report suggests
New data suggests PC shipments are already down in 2026 and are likely to get worse in the latter half of the year, but that could be setting the stage for a resurgence in the years to come.
Save up to 39% on a new 3D printer this weekend, thanks to these July 4th deals — discounted printers, filament, and resin from Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, and more for 3DP beginners and experi
These are some of the top 3D printer deals available right now during this Independence Day weekend.
Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employ
The company insists that it's cooperating with Taiwanese authorities and has voluntarily provided access to its premises. It also confirmed with the police that it's the individual, not the institution, that is being looked into with regard to the smuggling cases.
Digital archivists rush to save PS3 game data before Sony shuts down the store forever in 2027 — RPCS3 emulator urges users to preserve all content
Sony is shutting down PSN for PS3 consoles next year, so preservationists are being asked to wake up from their slumber to archive everything before it's too late.
Montech NX600 Review: A budget dual tower with jet-engine fans
Montech's NX600 is a new dual-tower air cooler powered by six heatpipes and two 28mm thick high-performance 120mm fans. We've tested it with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark its thermal efficiency.
Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling — 'Meta Compute' would put company in direct competition with AWS
Meta is reportedly weighing two service models: selling developers access to AI models hosted on its own infrastructure, or selling raw computing capacity.
Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features
Asus' B850-Creator Wifi Neo offers fast dual 5 GbE, 3x video outputs, and loads of EZ PC DIY/AI features, but lacks enough USB ports (no 40 Gbps at all) and is expensive for the B850 platform.
Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50 — official Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus product pages now recommend prices of up to $349 and $229, respectively
Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh processors remain among the company's strongest desktop offerings, but newly updated pricing makes both CPUs noticeably more expensive than when they debuted in March.
OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund
Altman is understood to have raised the idea with President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water
Valar Atomics claims to be the first startup to produce nuclear power, and it demonstrated that ability on stage by using its Ward 250 microreactor to power an RTX Spark unit. It also announced a partnership with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI data center that does not use water from surrounding communities.
Save $521 on this 4K-capable RTX 5070 gaming PC from CyberPowerPC, now just $1,349 — huge price drop for budget-friendly rig with impressive Intel Core Ultra 250KF CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB SSD
Save over $500 on this powerful CyberPowerPC gaming machine with an RTX 5070 and brand-new Intel Core Ultra 5 250KF CPU, alongside a 1TB SSD and 16GB of DDR5 RAM, all for only $1,349.
HP has slashed $1,300 off this colossal 5080 gaming laptop for July 4 — 34% discount gets you 32GB of RAM and 24-core Arrow Lake mobile gaming for $2,499
Get $1,300 off this HP Omen Max Gaming laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5080, and 32GB of RAM.
Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs
It seems like a never-before-seen engineering sample for AMD's last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX has just popped up online, featuring specs that indicate it's a binned down model.
Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged wit
Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them.
The best tech deals this July 4th — save on gaming desktops, laptops, GPUs, gaming chairs, monitors, and more
See our favorite tech deals over July 4th - the best prices on gaming PCs, gaming laptops, monitors, and components.
Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it
Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort - even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.
Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point
Intel begins expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara to produce more photomasks in-house, which is set to be crucial as process technologies get more sophisticated.
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