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DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs $13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the highpower laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650km/h during recent trials in Scotland.
Best Black Friday tech deals live 2025 — best tech and PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals.
Huge 28TB Seagate external HDD just hit an all-time low price — data hoarder's dream Black Friday storage upgrade for less than $11 per TB
Seagate's enormous 28TB Expansion HDD backup solution for your desktop is on sale for just $289.99, thanks to Black Friday.
ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being 'Washington’s eyes and ears in China' after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country
ASML allegedly offered to spy on its customers for the U.S. after it was caught breaking a gentleman's agreement that limited the number of DUV lithography machines it could sell to China.
Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a m
A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system's speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub.
The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history — a data streaming experiment rendered unnecessary by broadband
The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.
Enthusiast biked 17,000 miles over 17 months with mobile computer to complete the pioneering Computing Across America expedition 40 years ago — solar and 1980s portable gadgets powered the 'Winn
In 1983, writer and computer whizz Steven K. Roberts began his multi-year Computing Across America quest, pioneering the digital nomad lifestyle.
Supersized chip family gathers for the 54th anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU — 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, and 4003 shift registers feature in a reconstructed Busicom calculator build
A sneak preview of a complete MCS-4 computer, built from discrete transistors, has been shown off to mark the recent Intel 4004 anniversary.
Pamper your Switch 2 with a 25% discount on storage upgrade — save up to $25 on Samsung P9 microSD Express cards
Samsung's excellent lineup of microSD Express cards is discounted right now, with solid price cuts on both the 256 GB and 512 GB models. Either model delivers up to 800 MB/s in sequential reads, along with random read/write rates of 65,000 IOPS and 52,000 IOPS, backed by a 3-year warranty.
Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060 — intern refused to hand in GPU won on an all-expense-paid business trip
An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned after HR subtly told him to find a new job, refusing to give up the GPU in the process.
AMD ditches 'FidelityFX' in favor of apparently-meaningless 'FSR' branding, Fluid Motion Frames also renamed to FMF
AMD has set the full release date for FSR Redstone and also revealed that the full name is now simply 'FSR'.
Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’
Tuxedo Computers, which builds Linux-powered desktops and laptops, has stopped work on Linux for the Snapdragon X1E, saying that the chip is less suitable for the open-source OS than expected.
Steam Machine can transform into Portal Companion Cube with custom skin — dot matrix and E Ink faceplates will also be available
Dbrand and Jsaux Gaming teased custom covers and cases for the upcoming Steam Machine.
Intel's upcoming Panther Lake CPUs tested ahead of launch — alleged Core Ultra 3 SKU with 10 cores and 16GB RAM surfaces in leaks
Leakers are selling engineering samples for Panther Lake weeks before its official launch, with at least two different SKUs floating online. The first is an alleged 10-core Core Ultra 3 SKU from a well-known tipster, while the second sample appears to be an accurate pre-production model, as it lacks LP-E cores, which all Panther Lake silicon is expected to have.
Homeland Security thinks Chinese firm's Bitcoin mining chips could be used for espionage or to sabotage the power grid — Bitmain probed by U.S. gov't over national security concerns
The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security.
Best Black Friday laptop PC deals 2025 — deals from Amazon, Dell, Lenovo, and others
Pick up a Black Friday discount with these laptop deals. We're constantly updating this list with the best deals across all sales at all retailers throughout the Black Friday season.
Grab a Black Friday deal on a 4TB SSD for 5 cents per GB while they last – 8TB models as low as 7 cents per GB
Roomy 4TB SSDs have dropped precipitously in price in recent years, and even some 8TB models are inching closer to affordability. We're constantly updating this list with the best deals across all sales at all retailers throughout the Black Friday season.
The best Black Friday PC building tools — save money on the tech to fix your tech
We've scoured the Black Friday sales and found the best tools to keep your rigs running!
Atari Gamestation Go review: 200+ Atari classics in your hands, supported by a unique selection of physical controls
My Arcade and Atari have put together a handheld retro gaming console graced by a bevy of unique retro-futuristic controls. However, the price, and a few hardware and software wrinkles, tarnish its appeal.
Gamers celebrate 50% performance gains following Nvidia hotfix driver — patch fixes October Windows 11 cumulative update that broke performance in some games
Users on X have benchmarked Nvidia's latest 581.94 hotfix driver that fixes performance issues stemming from Microsoft's October cumulative update for Windows 11.
Asus tempts fate, unleashes 800W "XOC" vBIOS for its $4,000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090 — Overclockers and high-end GPU junkies now have their hands on the hottest, most power-hungry 5090 around
You can make your RTX 5090 just a teeny bit more powerful and less efficient, thanks to a new 800W BIOS stripped from Asus' $4000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090. As long as you have a compatible 5090 that'll play nicely with the custom firmware, you, too, can enjoy higher clocks and electricity bills for a marginal increase in performance.
A 34-year-old Apple Mac crash bug ‘would have gone undiscovered for all eternity,’ but the accuracy of the MAME emulator shone a light on it
A computing enthusiast unearthed a 34-year-old Apple Mac bug that should have crippled the system at startup, but it never did, thanks to an undocumented feature in the Motorola CPU that quietly neutralized the flaw.
Windows 1.01 was launched 40 years ago, but it didn't start well — Microsoft's graphical OS adventures were uncompetitive at launch
Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It didn't start well.
A tiny 0.5MB SmartMedia card wins the Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) — 2KB Casio battery-backed RAM card lost due to a technicality
The Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) has been a tightly run race, but the results are now in.
WWII Enigma machine sells for over half a million dollars at auction — one of the rare four-rotor 'M4' models
A WWII Enigma encryption machine with four rotors was sold at auction earlier this week, achieving double its estimated price.
Grab 14TB of shuckable storage for $169 — WD external hard drive back to all-time low for Black Friday
The WD Elements 14TB external hard drive is available for $169.99 again, 55% off its normal price.
PlayStation 5 consoles are $100 off for Black Friday — Digital Edition is $399, PS5 Pro is $649 at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy
If you've been looking to get into console gaming, Sony's got just the offer for you with each of its PlayStation 5 models on sale right now across various retailers. You can get $100 on either the Standard, Slim, and Pro version and be ready for GTA VI when it finally drops next year.
Save $250 on Samsung's spacious and speedy 8TB SSD — 9100 Pro drops to all-time low of 9 cents per GB
The Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB is currently selling for $749.99, $250 off its regular eye-watering price tag of $999.99.
Gigabyte's 32-inch Aorus 4K gaming monitor now just $749.99 at Amazon and Best Buy — 240 Hz speed demon hits all-time low pricing for Black Friday
This 32-inch 4K Gigabyte Aorus monitor is on sale on Amazon and Newegg, giving buyers on both platforms a $350 discount.
Tom's Hardware Premium is up to 50% off for Black Friday — get a wealth of in-depth industry content from as little as $5.99 a month
Save up to 50% off a Tom's Hardware Premium subscription in this Black Friday offer. Get unparalleled insights into the industry, access to Bench, and much more for a limited time.
The Panther stalks: Intel’s Panther Lake CPUs set to take off in Oregon, company reveals, and cutting-edge 18A process is on track
There's good news and band news for Intel's Panther Lake and 18A. Bad news is that its yields are likely still very low. Good news is that their improvement are on the industry-standard yield ramp pace, which means that Intel is on track to hit industry-standard yields in early 2027.
Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users
Dell and HP are shipping many entry-level and midrange business laptops with HEVC/H.265 hardware decoding intentionally disabled, likely to avoid rising codec royalty costs.
AMD's chart-topping Ryzen 7 9800X3D is on sale at Amazon right now for Black Friday — save $30 on the king of gaming CPUs
Get your hands on the best gaming CPU on the market, now at a discounted rate. The 9800X3D is an 8-core, 16-thread beast of a processor, conquering every game's benchmarks thanks to its 96 MB of L3 cache, while consuming less power than the competition.
Kingston NV3 2230 2TB SSD Review: The Budget King is Back
The Kingston NV3 2230 is Kingston's budget take on this form factor, offering decent all-around performance and power efficiency at a good price.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter (updated with Nvidia comment)
Nvidia's stock price has been trending down despite its record-breaking quarter, and its CEO is complaining.
These 16 gadgets under $50 have upgraded my tech life, and most are already on sale for Black Friday
From electric screwdrivers to high-res webcams, these are inexpensive game-changers.
Wall Street warns of rising AI debt risk as stocks slide on wobbly investor confidence — analysts warn of 'systemic risk' as Nvidia share price creaks
Wall Street analysts are growing increasingly concerned about the interconnected revenue relationships of many of the top AI and tech companies and their rapidly expanding debts, financing enormous infrastructure projects. This has investors worried, and stocks are sliding as concerns are rising.
AMD's Linux kernel patches suggest enablement of next-gen Instinct MI400-series AI GPU accelerators
AMD begins hardware enablement for GFX 12.1 IP, which could point to next-generation Instinct MI400-series GPUs, or future integrated GPUs based on the RDNA 4 architecture.
Taiwan set to avoid 'punishing' 300% tariffs on semiconductor exports, says report — new trade deal could spur $400 billion investment commitment from island nation
A senior Taiwanese ministry official said the U.S. will not put tariffs on its chip exports in exchange for helping Washington, D.C., copy its science park model for tech companies.
Huawei's Ascend AI chip ecosystem scales up as China pushes for semiconductor independence — however, firm lags behind on efficiency and performance
Huawei's in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem.
At 35% off for Black Friday, this £169.99 Intel Arc B570 is the best value graphics card for 1080p gaming — 10GB VRAM and a free copy of Battlefield 6 make this a must-have GPU
This 169.99 Intel Arc B570 is simply the best value graphics card you can buy right now for gaming at 1080p, with a free 60 game thrown in.
Microsoft makes Full Screen Experience available to all Windows 11 gaming handhelds — highly requested feature no longer exclusive to the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X
Microsoft opens Full Screen Experience to all Windows gaming handhelds
The web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages — from AWS and Azure to Cloudflare, the perils of having a centralized internet are being felt by all
First it was AWS. Then Azure went down - and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?
Intel CEO rejects reports the company is obtaining TSMC secrets from former executive — Taiwan's investigation into Intel's controversial recent hire continues
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan dismisses speculation that former TSMC executive Wei-Jen Lo could have brought advanced TSMC process secrets to Intel.
Hoto's epic mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits drops to less than $30 for Black Friday — this almost half-price kit is perfect for PC building and DIY projects
Save 50% on this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits
AOC launches its 2025 QD-OLED monitor lineup, including 500 Hz models — 27, 32, and 34-inch models with high refresh rates and inky blacks
AOC shows off its fresh QD-OLED monitor lineup
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says AI compute in space will be the lowest-cost option in 5 years — but Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a 'dream'
Elon Musk argues that terawatt-scale AI computing will soon be impossible to power and cool on Earth and must move to orbit. But despite abundant solar energy and radiative cooling in GEO, launch mass, radiation-hardening, and networking challenges make such space-based data center only a distant dream.
Alienware's 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor dips below $500 for Black Friday — QHD 165Hz monitor hits all-time low pricing
Get 34 inches of QD-OLED gaming goodness now priced below $500
New Chromebook owners are getting an exclusive free Nvidia GeForce Now subscription for one year — Fast Pass gives Chromebook gamers ad-free priority access to cloud servers
Chromebook buyers are getting a new exclusive GeForce Now subscription with no ads and priority access to Nvidia's cloud servers. The subscription comes with new Chromebooks starting November 20th, for free for a year.
Microsoft unveils Azure Cobalt 200 CPU, in-house chip targets higher performance and deeper integration — Arm-based chip is equipped with 132 cores and manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process
Microsoft has revealed its next major in-house server processor, the Azure Cobalt 200, a 132-core Arm-based CPU built on TSMC's 3nm process.
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