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Nvidia has announced a competition for May The Fourth 2025, which should mean at least two PC enthusiasts win a free GeForce RTX 5090 by the end of the day.

Shipping graphics cards with just 8GB of VRAM is tantamount to 'bringing a butter knife to a gunfight,' opines the Grok AI, built-into Twitter/X

Wi-Fi 7 routers are available at a slight to significant premium over Wi-Fi 6E, depending on what you're looking for.

Amazon (Germany) is accepting pre-orders for the unannounced WD Black SN8100 SSD, promising 14.9 GB/s read speeds, set for launch on May 30.

MSI shoves its way into the dual-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh router market with the $225 Roamii BE Lite.

Bradford Smith, an ALS patient, is the third patient to receive a Neuralink implant. This tech has allowed him to edit and upload a YouTube video, and even help him synthesize his voice using AI.

Glorious' new Series 2 Pro Wireless now has 8K polling and clicky optical switches, but do we need another stripped-down ultra-lightweight 8K mouse?

Microsoft is rumored to announce new compact 13-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 12-inch Surface Pro 11 models at their Surface event on Tuesday.

When attached to a PCIe 4.0 interface, Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB video cards experience a massive performance hit in some game titles.

The Asus VG27UQ1A 4K gaming monitor is currently available at Amazon for $289, one of its lowest prices to date.

Storage startup Cerabyte has shared a video where it torture tests its memory media in boiling salt water and a pizza oven.

Dynatron's CPU cooler listings indicate "Diamond Rapids" as the codename for Intel's upcoming Xeon CPUs and "SP7" as the socket for AMD's next-gen Venice CPUs.

Budget-Builds Official has successfully run a playable instance of Minecraft using 8MB of VRAM on a 20-year-old GPU.

LinkedIn profiles suggest that Intel Xe3 Celestial has already reached the pre-validation stage.

The Montech Century II Gold 1050W ATX 3.1 is a balanced power supply offering good performance and aesthetics at an exceptional price point.

One or more apps can put a hold on Windows shutdown.

Despite Nvidia's market value soaring 281-fold since 2015 to nearly $3 trillion, CEO Jensen Huang received his first base salary increase in a decade this year, raising his total 2025 compensation to $49.9 million.

Over 100 houses are allegedly hosting crypto mining activities, with some of them using up more than 20 times the normal power consumption of the average Kuwaiti home.

Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 - including tens of millions from TSMC's Arizona fab - while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.

The Asus TUF Gaming T500 desktop comes with Intel's 13th-gen laptop chips paired with Nvidia's RTX desktop GPUs

Microsoft RDP allows users to log into machines using older, invalid passwords that have since been changed.

Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition graphics card with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96 GB of memory benchmarked in Geekbench 6, fails to beat GeForce RTX 5090 with 21,760 CUDA cores.

Rockstar apologized to its fans for delaying the release of this much-awaited title, but at least we finally have a definitive date.

The latest Steam Hardware survey does not include an AMD RX 9000-series GPU, despite a few new entries from Nvidia's RTX 50-series lineup.

Intel has not yet fully committed to using the new High-NA EUV chipmaking tool in production and has an alternative production flow of its 14A node that uses standard Low-NA EUV as a backup plan.

With large fans, a dual-chamber design, dedicated GPU cooling, wood accents, and a reasonable price, Lian Li's Lancool 217 has a lot to like.

Microsoft says that passkeys reduce password use by 20% and wants to remove password use altogether.

Build your dream PC and save 65 on a custom PC built using Chillblast's helpful configurator.

Jensen Huang states that China is nearly on par with the U.S. in AI hardware development, as Huawei begins shipping its CloudMatrix 384 systems. However, Huawei's scale remains far behind Nvidia's projected AI compute deployments for 2025.

Russia's Baikal Electronics has produced and sold 85,000 processors since its founding, but due to post-2022 sanctions and blocked shipments from Taiwan, it now aims to restart production with new chips like Baikal-L and Baikal-S2 at SMIC.

BiliBili user evaluates Intel's IPO and 200S Boost technologies to determine which offers higher gaming performance.

Nvidia and Anthropic have publicly locked horns over the extremes Chinese smugglers are willing to go to in order to acquire sanctioned GPUs.

The latest color E ink display from Boox costs as much as a high-end IPS panel from Apple or Dell

Holy sheet!

xMEMS Labs is deploying its micro cooling solution on optical transceiver DSPs to make fiber optic communication in AI data centers more efficient.

Wyze just settled a $255K tax bill to the CBP for importing $167K worth of floodlights into the U.S.

Xbox hikes Xbox console prices by $80 - $130 along, also raises prices on controllers, headsets and games, citing increased development costs, but forgetting to note newly imposed U.S. import tariffs.

Beef up your storage capacity inside and out with this fantastic SSD and external HDD bundle for $279

8BitDo's China warehouse goods will cease being sent to the U.S., but we aren't sure about the permanence of this decision.

The UK government arrested three people connected to British companies that were involved with Microsoft's data center project in the Netherlands.

Buffalo Japan has launched the Buffalo HD-SKL 'skeleton hard disk' with a transparent panel showing the inner mechanism.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 GameRock from Palit is available from Overclockers for the cheapest price in the UK and comes with a free copy of DOOM: The Dark Ages.

Despite all the talk of it being scrapped, it seems that AMD's RX 9060 XT 8GB GPUs are still in the pipeline, and set for launch at Computex, per Benchlife.

SteelSeries' new QCK Performance series mouse pads comes in three surfaces, depending on what you're looking for: speed, control, or a mix of both.

TSMC is evolving its strategy by developing distinct leading-edge process technologies optimized for AI, client, and HPC applications, while maintaining aggressive scaling with innovations like backside power delivery and second-generation nanosheet transistors.

Windows and Linux co-existing on the same machine.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling for the Trump administration to relax AI GPU export restrictions to support U.S. industry, but the administration is instead considering stricter controls to use chip access as leverage in trade negotiations.

Demand for Nvidia's RTX 50-series appears to be dropping as cheapest models appear to be priced at or below MSRP. The only exception is the 5090, which is still in high demand.

Dell's Alienware Area-51 gaming PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has $500 slashed off the list price.

The latest Windows 11 update is stopping machines from upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 when using the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) application.