Desktops PCs are faster than ever, with the speediest systems rivaling massive, warehouse-filling supercomputers from not even two decades ago. It may not cost as much as you think to have one of those 'speediest systems' yourself, though. In this post, we've picked out parts for a PC that is basically as bodacious as it gets—within the realm

Speaking in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box segment, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick stated he believes that the gaming industry is "moving towards PC, and business is moving toward open rather than closed." He goes on to clarify that "If you define console as the property, not the system, then the notion of a very rich game that you engage

It has been a busy year for the Chrome development team, as they've had to contend with several zero-day security flaws. This latest set of vulnerabilities is of particular concern because Google has evidence of one of them being actively exploited by threat actors. Thankfully, a fix is beginning to roll out to users. The first vulnerability,

In an interview with BBC News, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that while AI has experienced "extraordinary" growth, there is "irrationality" in that growth, and that "no company is going to be immune" should it prove to be a bubble soon to burst. In face of an industry bullishly championing AI solutions and rounding up astronomical

According to crowdsourced data from Ookla, Google's Pixel 10 Pro barely pipped out Apple's iPhone 17 series in terms of global median Wi-Fi speeds. The margin was wafer-thin, with the Pixel securing the lead at 335.33 megabits/second, just edging out the iPhone 17’s 329.56 Mbps. Xiaomi's 15T Pro led the pack in peak Wi-Fi performance, maxing

Talk about a literally cold move. Barely a week after Patriot Memory and Gigabyte tag teamed a DDR5 world overclocking record at 13,211.4 MT/s (6,605.7 MHz), G.Skill and ASUS said, 'Hold our beer' and stole the speed crown in collaboration with professional overclocker CENS, who employed frigid liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling to blow past the

Cloudflare is scrambling to fix a major issue that is wreaking havoc across the web. Following rounds of scheduled maintenance at datacenters in various locations, Cloudflare’s status dashboard confirms the firm is dealing with “internal service degradation” that is intermittently affecting access to popular websites, including social media

You spoke and Dell's Alienware division heard you—the latest-generation AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 5 are now an option on the Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC, the same one we reviewed in May and which earned our coveted Editor's Choice badge. And yes, the expanded processor options included X3D models with 3D V-Cache. AMD Ryzen

If you're among the horde of companies looking to integrate AI services into your workflows yet unwilling to pay OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Anthropic exorbitant API fees for their advanced models, why not host it yourself? That's exactly the pitch from Dell, who has just launched a new family of server products offering extremely high-performance

The iPhone Air may be struggling to move the needle sales wise, but that isn’t stopping Apple from pushing forward in its efforts to revamp its iPhone lineup. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is still planning on releasing a foldable model next year and debut a high-end model in 2027. The foldable iPhone will go up against

One of the strangest parts of AMD's stagnation in the early 2010s was that it simply stopped releasing new desktop CPUs for a while. It's true that there wasn't much point in continuing the lineage of the inefficient (and unpopular) Bulldozer processors, but OEMs like "new" parts so they can sell systems with the "latest hardware". Despite

The entry-level NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is underpowered compared to its bigger siblings, but such compromises have never stopped modders before. Undertaking the sacred duty of squeezing as much performance out of underpowered silicon as possible, hardware modders TrashBench and Clock Bench challenged each other to take the same GeForce RTX

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder who stepped away from the operational role of Amazon in 2021, has unexpectedly returned to the C-suite, reportedly co-founding and taking on the role of co-CEO for a new, skunkworks-like artificial intelligence startup named Project Prometheus. The announcement (first reported on by The New York Times) confirms

It's not too often that we see Sony's top wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 go on sale, so it certainly got our attention when we spotted it discounted 20% off MSRP. It's a rare discount that drops the price of Sony's premium controller to an all-time low. If you're interested, however, you'll want to be fast—given the rarity of these

Best Buy has been aggressive in serving up Black Friday deals this year, including so-called 'doorbuster' bargains way ahead of the actual Black Friday date. That's just fine by us—in recent years, Black Friday has morphed from a single day of in-store bargains to a holiday season of deals that can be purchased online at big discounts. How

Belkin is coordinating with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission on a recall of tens of thousands of portable battery banks and wireless charging stands. That's far less thank Anker's power bank recall in September, but still a significant number. Most of the affected models were sold in the U.S., though a couple thousand

We recently published a full review of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered OnePlus 15 smartphone. We praised the device for its premium design, 165Hz display, and excellent performance, among many other things. If you missed that review, do yourself a favor and check it out. That review was missing one key piece of data, however

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has officially launched, and early impressions are mixed. Two almost universally maligned parts of the latest COD game can be seen in blatantly AI-generated art and what looks to be one of the worst campaigns yet seen in the series. This isn't to say there aren't positive aspects of the Black Ops 7 experience—the

A new wave of state-level proposals targeting virtual private networks has stirred up an unusual amount of alarm from digital-rights groups, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't pulling punches. In a detailed critique published this week, the organization called efforts in Michigan and Wisconsin "misguided," "technically incoherent,"

Metroid Prime 4 is due to release on December 4th, 2025, and some outlets were invited to a hands-on preview. When the embargo lifted, early testers posted their impressions of the first few hours of the game, mainly across the space station intro and a jungle area called Fury Green, and the results were mixed. Although there were some positive

Apple is expected to release an AirTag 2 tracker at some point, perhaps even by the end of the year. Nothing is official, though, and with Black Friday deals arriving early, the current generation AirTag can be had for a great price, especially if picking up the 4-pack. If going that route, you end up paying just $16.25 per AirTag, which is

Like so many companies, Razer and its retail partners are already dishing up Black Friday deals with enticing discounts. As such, now is your chance to score a Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop for hundreds of dollars below MSRP, as well as a variety of Razer gaming peripherals for up to 51% off. Let's dive in. Razer Blade 14 OLED Gaming Laptop

Valve's massive Steam hardware announcements included the first in-house designed Valve Steam Machine, and while most of its reception was positive, a number of critics have expressed skepticism about how well the Steam Machine will perform in the competitive market of entry-level PCs as well as versus the PlayStation 5 and Xbox. While factors

Fans were undoubtedly disappointed when Rockstar Games announced a second delay to the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI. However, the wait may sting a little less now that the studio has announced that it’s seminal Western, Red Dead Redemption, is coming to mobile devices for the first time and will be available to Netflix subscribers.