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A developer has rebuilt the classic Gradius arcade game from the ground up, using ASCII.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price, making it a more enticing option than the slightly more performant but also much more expensive Ryzen 7 9850X3D.

A Redditor only paid $86.98 for a Ryzen 5 7600X, a Gigabyte B850 Eagle motherboard, and a 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance RGB kit from Newegg. The CPU even included a free 240mm Cooler Master AIO worth $85 on its own. All these parts would typically cost $1,012, but this customer scored a combo deal for the ages.

The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code editor and terminal.

The B850 Tomahawk Max Wifii II refines the popular budget AM5 board with additional M.2 storage, an OC Engine chip, a 64MB BIOS, a minor facelift, and a small price increase.

David Randolph brings 10 years of manufacturing experience to the chocolate printer startup, Cocoa Press.

The case builds on the standard Flux Pro design with enhanced cooling hardware, mesh airflow panels, support for large radiators, and Noctua's well-known brown color scheme.

Manufacturers have said that prices for key chipmaking metals have doubled, and gallium has climbed sharply, as disruptions from the ongoing Middle East conflict pile onto supply constraints.

A tech enthusiast has shared their DVD rewritable durability findings, following six months of testing.

Ukraine has sent drone interceptors and training crews to the U.S. and its Gulf State allies as the Iran War rumbles on.

At GDC 2026, Nvidia held a presentation somehow aimed at gamers and not data center clients. Still, it was sprinkled with AI pat-on-the-backs, with the company touting that its future gaming GPUs will offer 1,000,000 better path tracing performance. And the current-gen Blackwell family is apparently already 100,000x better due to dedicated Tensor and RT cores.

The Creality Sermoon P1 is a standalone 3D scanner that allows users to go through the entire scanning workflow without having to touch a computer. The 22 crossed laser line mode is surprisingly fast, and the single laser line mode was able to scan deep holes during testing. The NIR (near-infrared) mode is capable of scanning without requiring any markers, and the on-device editing allows users to make on-location edits without needing to stop. The Sermoon P1 handled everything we threw at it, but the color texture was the only disappointing part of the testing.

Meta is delaying work on the Pearls section of its Africa2 network after its contracted cable-layer, Alcatel Submarine Networks, declared force majeure due to the risk of getting hit during the Iran conflict.

SteelSeries' Elite Arctis Nova wireless gaming headset is discounted by over 40. This audiophile-grade headset features the world's first Hi-Res audio certification in a wireless gaming headset.

IDC expects unit shipments of PCs in 2026 to be down 11.3% year-over-year, but the whole market value will increase 1.6% due to higher prices.

China's central government warned state enterprises and agencies not to install OpenClaw on office computers this week as multiple government bodies moved to rein in the AI agent.

Under the new agreement, the focus will shift to validating full process flows for nanosheet and nanostack device architectures and backside power delivery.

Although the savings are modest, Amazon's $50 discount across most of the 2026 MacBook lineup makes these newly launched laptops slightly cheaper than buying directly from Apple.

The Keychron Q16 HE 8K is an all-ceramic keyboard with an 8K polling rate, but it doesn't feel as premium as the price suggests.

Stryker, a Fortune 500 medical technology company, has been hit with a massive cyberattack that allegedly saw over 200,000 devices wiped clean, affecting employees and operations across the globe.

Get a $1,899 gaming PC with RTX 5070, 2TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.

Acer's Swift 16 AI blends a premium design, an OLED screen, and the latest Intel silicon, though its massive haptic touchpad isn't the selling point it's made out to be.

QatarEnergy has not restarted helium production at its Ras Laffan complex nine days after Iranian drone strikes forced the facility offline.

All four chips have been developed in partnership with Broadcom and are scheduled for deployment within the next two years.