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Puget System just released its annual reliability report for 2025, noting which computer components suffered the least number of failures in testing and deployment.

Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around OpenClaw,' the self-hosted AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot, has already become a target for malware distribution.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has added some beautiful PCB Metro Map bookmarks to its souvenir store.

If you're looking for a cheap but straightforward solution to access your old media locked behind an outdated storage medium, or just want to respect tradition and hold onto DVD/CDs, this external disc drive is the perfect tool for you. For just $10, you can read and write all your old discs with a USB connection on any computer or laptop.

At least four Wisconsin municipalities are understood to have signed underhanded nondisclosure agreements concerning new data centers while negotiating their development.

We spotted some outstanding Saturday deals on Lenovo's website, including powerful gaming laptops and high-end gaming displays.

Google's Project Genie can generate games using the company's Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It's an experimental tool that doesn't even create fully playable games, but it was still enough to shiver the timbers of video game shareholders. Unity saw a 20% drop in its stock price following the reveal of Project Genie, along with several other firms.

Maingear is offering a high-end retro gaming PC based on the Silverstone FLOP02 "beige box" case, with a limited run of 38 units.

An RTX 4090 has been caught melting on camera, with streamer "jessick" being lucky enough to record the incident for the internet. The GPU caught fire while playing and streaming Marvel Rivals on Twitch, and the video shows a wire melting with visible smoke. For some reason, jessick didn't immediately turn off her PC after seeing something on fire inside.

As RAM prices soar, we show you how to do more with less RAM!

The Biwin Black Opal NV7400 is a solid performer with reasonable power efficiency and no real downsides.

Scientists share plans for highly-tactile 'eFlesh' robot sensor grips

A new cutting-edge Drone Engineering Degree course will welcome its first intake of students in the UK, this year.

While you can't replace most things on a laptop these days, but you can still maintain it and upgrade some things to keep it running its best.

A new rumor suggests that AMD will be upgrading Zen 6 to 48MB of L3 cache to compensate for the four additional cores that will be introduced to Zen 6's CCD.

Super-rare and extremely early Apple Computer motherboard sale blasts past auctioneer estimates to achieve hammer price of $2,750,000.

Glass wafer materials are emerging as a potential and viable alternative to their more conventional, aged organic counterparts.

The big three memory chip makers are reportedly becoming stricter when it comes to who buys their chips, ensuring that the demand is real before allowing customers to get them.

Apple's CEO says that it's scrambling for memory as the higher-than-anticipated iPhone sales mean that it has "very lean channel inventory."

Somebody once gave me free will, and it was universally agreed that this was a bad idea.

The Maxwell 2 is the second iteration of Audeze's impressive planar magnetic gaming headset, and it's very similar to the original. Maybe too similar.

Acer delivers solid value to the 34-inch ultra-wide category with its Predator X34 OLED. A curved 3440x1440 WQHD panel sports DisplayHDR 400 True Black, wide gamut color, 240 Hz, and Adaptive-Sync. It's a high-performance screen with solid value.

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved

Complaints about Windows 11 bugs and glitches from the Windows community have apparently reached a tipping point. Microsoft is reportedly using all of 2026 to fix Windows 11's core issues.

Xbox consoles sales drop 32% while Microsoft makes more money than ever

This 27-inch Samsung Odyssey G53F gaming monitor has just hit a record-low $159.99 sale price, thanks to this limited-time Amazon deal, offering a 1440p resolution and fast 200Hz refresh rate for gamers on a budget.

GeForce Now has received an official Linux native app for Linux gamers, unlocking all the features that the native app offers over the web browser version, including 5K resolution, Reflex and 360 FPS support.

We sat down with AMD at CES 2026 for a roundtable Q&A all about consumer products for gaming. We cover the full transcript of the press-only session right here.

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D hits retail for $499, while the Ryzen 7 9800X3D's price has gone down to $443.

Save $100 on this 4K Alienware QD-OLED gaming monitor with high 166 PPI pixel density.

Lenovo's original Legion Go is at an excellent new price at Lenovo's Outlet store.

The TeamGroup NV5000 is a storage device first and an SSD second. It fulfills the function that older SSDs did and without using any truly new hardware.

You don't need to throw out that old Android smartphone; you can recycle it into a backup webcam or create a multi-camera setup for your streaming platform. And we show you how to do that, for free!

The Cooler Master Elite NEX W600 offers an outdated design with minimal features that struggle to justify its existence in the modern PSU market.