You already know how it is: you load into a match, your buddy's having an off day, you get annoyed, he feels bad, it sucks for everyone. Why not play some games where you cooperate to destroy computerized bad guys? These still give you a lot of room for skill expression, and in some cases, even personal style expression. Here's our list of

Discord has drawn significant criticism lately, thanks to a major data breach in October and the debut of a new "Teen-By-Default" policy, which will require select users to verify their age by uploading a government issued ID. At the root of the criticism was Discord's involvement with Persona, an "age assurance" firm partially funded by controversial

Microsoft's Xbox division is getting a major management overhaul that begins with the departure of Phil Spencer, the long-time face of Xbox who said he is stepping down to embark on "the next chapter of my life." Likewise, Xbox President Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft to begin a new chapter. Their departures (one of which was rumored

Remember when anything with an OLED display would command a massive premium? That's not been the case for quite some time and if you need proof of that, Lenovo is serving up a massive discount on a well-configured 16-inch laptop with Ryzen firepower. The only caveat is that you have to be privy to the coupon code that delivers the huge savings,

PayPal just disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive user information, including social security numbers. From July 1st, 2025 to December 12th, 2025, a software glitch in PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan applications allowed attackers to gain access to personal user information. While PayPal has since acknowledged and fixed the error,

Google is flexing its AI muscle in an effort to make its Android ecosystem safer and more secure. Malicious actors are constantly evolving the ways attacks are deployed, including leveraging AI themselves. Google says it was able to use the “investments in AI and real-time defenses over the last year to maintain the upper hand and stop these

Yes, twelve dollars. These aren't some turn-of-the-millennium wired bunkum you'd find on the discount rack at Target, either. TOZO's A1 wireless earbuds are true, fully wireless Bluetooth 5.3 in-ear headphones that come complete with a charging case and even a customizable EQ. They're normally bargain priced at just $21.99, but right now,

Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a long time spent at 8. However, a new Xwitter post from well-known hardware enthusiast and occasional leaker HXL seems to have revealed the core counts of the SKUs

A series of leaks from retail listings and physical dummy units suggest that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 is taking a slightly different turn design-wise by merging industrial chic with user-friendly practicality. While last year’s transition to a stemmed design drew immediate comparisons to Apple AirPods, the new earphone could likely

This is a great week to be in the market for a smartphone, and it doesn't even matter if your preference leans to Android or iPhone. If it's the latter, check out our recent coverage of a big sale on 'Grade-A' refurbished iPhone models spanning the iPhone 16 Pro Max all the way down to the iPhone XR starting at $119.99, complete with a full

When it's not busy dissecting distant galaxies or creating dark matter maps, the James Webb Space Telescope is also making a name for itself closer to home. To wit, it has produced the first-ever three-dimensional images of upper atmosphere on Uranus, revealing a chaotic and shimmering world of infrared auroras.  By utilizing Webb’s Near-Infrared

Razer is back with another limited edition run of a popular peripheral for those of you who missed out on the Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition that sold out on the first day. This time, it's focusing on keyboards with its upcoming Huntsman Signature Edition that is "precision-engineered" and "master-crafted" from CNC aluminum, and once again

California is moving to implement some of the nation’s strictest regulations on 3D printers through Assembly Bill 2047, a legislative effort designed to curb the production of untraceable ghost guns by requiring 3D printers sold in the state to feature Department of Justice-approved restrictive software. California isn't the only state petitioning

AMD can now officially lay claim to the world's fastest overclocked GPU frequency, a feat it achieved in collaboration with professional overclocker Splave on a modest Radeon RX 9060 XT. Using liquid nitrogen (LN2) to keep temps in check, Splave and AMD's own Bill Alverson pushed the card's GPU clock to 4.769GHz to snatch the crown from NVIDIA's

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is under fire for summarizing emails flagged as confidential by DLP (data loss prevention) policies specifically intended to prevent AI from accessing them. Per BleepingComputer, Microsoft began rolling out a fix for this problem in early February, and is "continuing to monitor the deployment and is reaching

The GeForce RTX 4090 was known to have a problem with melting its 12VHPWR power connectors. In response to this issue, PCI-SIG modified the connector to create the revised 12V-2x6 plug. While this is an improvement, it doesn't help the fact that most GeForce graphics cards eschew any kind of active load balancing, and neither does the fact

Cybersecurity professionals at Threat Fabric have uncovered a campaign utilizing a new piece of malicious software to target Android users. Massiv, a banking trojan, is described by the security researchers as a “new Device Takeover malware family without direct links to other known threats.” As commonly seen with other malware, attackers

Everyone's favorite leather jacket enthusiast and AI goldmine architect Jensen Huang gave an exclusive interview to Korea Economic Daily where he made some pretty interesting remarks, and key among them was the statement that NVIDIA has "prepared some new chips that the world has never seen before." But what was he actually talking about? When

Arc Raiders, one of the biggest hits of 2026, has been fighting cheats and exploits since day one. Recently, however, a particular item duplication exploit was popularized by streamer TheBurntPeanut, whose videos on the matter received over 130K views. Embark Studios previously voiced its displeasure with this issue and patched it out with

Microsoft’s Project Silica has achieved a breakthrough in data preservation by developing a higher-density glass storage system capable of archiving digital data for thousands of years without degradation. By utilizing femtosecond lasers to etch data into quartz glass, researchers have created a medium that is virtually indestructible, resisting

Once again, Amazon-owned Woot is hosting a huge sale on Grade-A refurbished Apple iPhone models spanning the iPhone 16 Pro Max all the way down to the iPhone XR, with prices starting at a very low $119.99. In addition, it's also hawking Grade-A refurbished Apple Watch models, including the Apple Watch Ultra 2nd Gen. If you've been wanting

Scientists using a trio of some of the world’s most powerful observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, ESA’s Euclid, and the Subaru Telescope, have pulled back the curtain on a ghost galaxy that is nearly 99% dark matter, detected thanks solely to its four associate globular clusters. The discovery centers on the object named Candidate

A wide-scale investigation has revealed that the headphones millions of people wear daily for work, exercise, and leisure are leaching a cocktail of hazardous forever chemicals and endocrine disruptors (think BPA) directly into their bodies. Conducted by the ToxFree LIFE for All project and spearheaded by the environmental group Arnika, the

Corsair is slapping a fresh coat of paint on its popular Frame 4000D chassis for a limited edition run, and what makes the new color schemes so unique in a sea of PC cases is that the color shifts depending on the viewing angle and ambient lighting. There are two options to choose from, both of which are part of a new Frame 4000D Vault Series: