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This 16-inch Acer V16 gaming laptop is a Black Friday bargain with an RTX 5060 for just 799.99.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71QBY)
TSMC initiates legal action against Wei-Jen Lo, who retired from TSMC this summer, signed a non-compete agreement, but subsequently joined Intel as Executive Vice President.
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Huawei has introduced Flex:ai, an open-source orchestration tool designed to raise the utilization rate of AI chips in large-scale compute clusters.
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TSMC Chairman-CEO C. C. Wei says capacity is roughly three times short of what its major customers plan to consume.
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Hopefully the goal isn't as far away as Tesla's Full Self Driving.
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Newegg AMD Ryzen 9000 series Combo deal stacks discounts on top of discounts, with a motherboard, cooler, and case.
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$4,000 Asus ROG Matrix Platinum 5090 already sold out
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Micro Center reportedly stops publishing pricing for memory kits at some of its brick and mortar stores.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#71PTX)
It's hard to beat the AOC 16T20's bargain-basement price of $49.99 during the lead-up to Black Friday
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Major insurers are moving to ring-fence their exposure to artificial intelligence failures, after a run of costly and highly public incidents pushed concerns about systemic, correlated losses.
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I've scoured Amazon for the best soldering deals, and I've found all the kit you need, while saving you $$$
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AMD has informed its board partners that it will have to raise prices on its graphics cards for 2026 following the recent sky-rocketing memory prices put a supply squeeze on a range of electronics industries.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71PR6)
Lenovo is preparing for the RAM pricing apocalypse and has already stockpiled loads of DRAM memory for its products. The company has so much inventory, in fact, that it has enough memory to last all through 2026.
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IBM and Cisco have announced plans to jointly build a distributed quantum computing network capable of linking fault-tolerant systems over long distances.
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The Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build, most of which came from Windows users.
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A new annual report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission delivered to Congress states that China is actively developing technologies to sever undersea cables.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71PN6)
If you've been eyeying a memory upgrade, forget about it. You can literally get an entire console for the price of a high-end 64 GB DDR5 kit, and the best part is that experts speculate this inflated pricing to only go up in the coming months.
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PowerColor's Reaper AMD RX 9070 XT is just $599.99, equalling its all-time low price with this Black Friday discount
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The Black Friday 3D Printer Sales Bonanza has kicked off — these are the best deals we found so far!
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There are some great 3D printer deals happening right now, and we've found the best and put them all into one page for you.
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Save 70 on this Lenovo Legion R27QE display, featuring an IPS panel and a 200Hz refresh rate
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71P3G)
The MSI Gaming RTX 5050 Shadow 2X is now on sale at a 21% discount.
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A solo miner running just 6terahashes per second of computing power has overcome odds of about onein180million to mine a full Bitcoin block via the CKpool pool.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71P1Y)
Leaving out the price for the Steam Machine at Valve's 2026 hardware lineup reveal has turned the internet into rumor mill vultures, but now Valve itself has given us a big hint at what the device would cost. The company has confirmed the Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles, so don't expect it to be anywhere near a PS5.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71P1Z)
Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025.
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Titan Army delivers 4K gaming in 160 Hz and 27 inches from its P2712V. It also runs at 320 Hz in FHD resolution and sports a Fast IPS panel, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color. It promises solid performance for a low price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71P0G)
MicroSD cards are now being swept up in Japan at alarming rates, thanks to the ongoing memory shortage wiping out most large-capacity hard drives from store shelves. Customers are buying models ranging from 512 GB - 2 TB to fulfil their storage needs, especially now that the microSD Express standard has lent a significant upgrade to compact flash.
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An electronics enthusiast has demonstrated a compact new perforated tape reader design.
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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.
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The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals.
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Seagate's enormous 28TB Expansion HDD backup solution for your desktop is on sale for just $289.99, thanks to Black Friday.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71NYY)
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.
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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.
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The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.
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In 1983, writer and computer whizz Steven K. Roberts began his multi-year Computing Across America quest, pioneering the digital nomad lifestyle.
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A sneak preview of a complete MCS-4 computer, built from discrete transistors, has been shown off to mark the recent Intel 4004 anniversary.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71NKX)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71NHS)
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.
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AMD has set the full release date for FSR Redstone and also revealed that the full name is now simply 'FSR'.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71NHV)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71NGJ)
Dbrand and Jsaux Gaming teased custom covers and cases for the upcoming Steam Machine.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71NGK)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71NGM)
The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security.
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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.
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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.
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We've scoured the Black Friday sales and found the best tools to keep your rigs running!
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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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71NF8)
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.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71NDE)
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.
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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.
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Windows 1.01 was released by Microsoft 40 years ago. It didn't start well.
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