It's fair to say that VLC player is popular, as it has one download for just about every person on the planet.  Of course the distribution isn't quite that even, those reading…

On New Year's Eve, Mike Shapiro posted his first tweet in over four years.  It was a video post where he, in his G-Man character's voice and pacing, announced that "the…

Taking a break from the AI powered AI news from the AI enhanced CES 2025, here's something to make you somewhat nervous when driving. A security researcher has discovered a flaw in…

Dell has decided to abandon their XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude brands, adopting a new naming convention that is perhaps more than just a little reminiscent of Apple. Introducing Dell's Dell, Dell Pro,…

MSI released a number of new products at CES 2025, including the MSI MPG 272URX QD-OLED gaming monitor, which is a CES 2025 Innovation Awards Honoree.  The disappointingly short model name is…

If you miss the old days of LAN parties because you don't want to fork over the money for a gaming laptop and your desktop is just too unwieldy to drag around…

After plenty of leaks leading up to CES, AMD surprised us by barely mentioning RDNA 4 in their presentation, with the promise of more information later in Q1 2025. Thinking that…

Last night NVIDIA unveiled the upcoming GeForce RTX 50 Series lineup, and while the presentation was very light on technical specs we do at least have pricing - along with further emphasis…

Phison is ringing in the new year and CES 2025 with a brand new PCIe 5.0 controller. the PS5028-E28.  It will be capable of sequential read and write speeds of up to…

If you love racing games, Thermaltake might not be the first name to come to mind but they are hoping to change that.  The G6 Direct Drive racing wheel bundle includes a…

To kick of the random coverage of CES 2025 we have news from the HDMI Forum about the next generation of HDMI standards, both the bandwidth and the cable.  It is just…

Our first podcast of 2025 is the reason that playback speed control exists. Just set to at least 1.5x and you should be able to stay awake through most of it.  But…

There aren't that many systems which need a 1600W PSU, but for those builds having a solid power supply is critical to ensuring stability under load.  The Seasonic TX-1600 PRIME Noctua Edition…

Samsung's EVO line has a long standing reputation for offering a beautiful mix of performance and price, and the 990 EVO Plus is no exception.  The price is kept low thanks to…

You and your friends aren't crazy for wondering why suspiciously targeted ads show up on your phones; your Siri enabled devices may well have recorded conversations you had no idea it did,…

DDR5 frequencies continue to increase, with 8800MHz kits becoming fairly common and comparatively affordable.  That has inspired TechPowerUp to test a DDR5-5600 kit from KLEVV at a variety of frequencies to…

If you are looking for a lightweight wireless mouse the Arbiter Studio AKITSU is a mere 39g in weight and offers up to a 8000Hz polling rate, which can be lowered to…

The captcha arms race has literally escalated with a new solution, fire up a level of DOOM in your browser and kill three enemies to prove you are human.  This task would…

That age old question comes up again ... is 8GB enough for a GPU?  And is 32TB enough for a spinning harddrive?  Either way you go, take in the majesty as we…

The fans that come with many cases are not great, they tend to the loud side and don't move as much air as those which are sold separately, nor do they offer…

KitGuru have looked at a wide variety of OLED displays over this year, and as the end of the year approaches they took a look back and picked their three favourite models. …

There is a game on the Meta virtual reality headset called Gorilla Tag, which you may or may not have heard of, but apparently it is very popular.  What is also popular…

There are those that feel 40 year old floor speakers are passe, but if you get rid of them what are you going to put your stuff on?  If that isn't a…

Bleeping Computer has some good news for gamers that trusted NVIDIA enough to install the new NVIDIA app, which was supposed to handle updates, overlays, optimizations, recording and a host of…

So you're mad that the new Raspberry Pi 500 could have an NVMe drive, but doesn't thanks to their decision to keep the price of the new system low?  Well, with a…

If you have an old PSP-2000 and PSP-3000 then, when stocks return, you can buy or make a PS Placeable to make it look like a Playstation 2 and play your games…

It hurts to drop $1000 on a GPU, even more so up here in Canada where the price is almost doubled.  What once was a price tier reserved for Titan GPUs that…

Hitscan is a great name for a mouse company, and the Hitscan Hyperlight is apparently a great mouse for those who want one that doesn't weigh much.  The name Hyperlight comes from…

Here's an amusing sequence of events to make you shake your head this morning, involving Funko bobbleheads and itch.io.  It seems an itch.io user created a fan page for an the Funko…

This show even mentions Astro Bot, let's get that out of the way first.  In other news ... Intel looks to reinvent itself: best of luck to ya!  Looking at some Arc…

The newest version of Microsoft Recall still has some problems respecting your privacy, as tests have shown the privacy feature that is supposed to prevent it from capturing sensitive data isn't working…

Fans of Indy have a chance to pick up his whip, don his hat and try their luck at his unique brand of archaeology.  Indiana Jones And The Great Circle has been…

There are a lot of arguments about what LLMs are truly capable of, but one thing they are obviously good at is creating a large amount of content in next to no…

Meet the Addlink G55, the first PCIe 5.0 SSD using Phison's E31T DRAMless controller.  You can currently get your hands on the 1TB version for $115, or $195 for the 2TB version…

The Raspberry Pi 500 is the newest version of the self contained system offered to customers; all it's components hidden inside a ten-keyless keyboard with lots of connectivity.  Inside the Pi 500…

Today's bad news comes from researchers at KU Leuven, the University of Lübeck, and the University of Birmingham and it concerns anyone running an EPYC processor.  They have discovered a very cheap…

Don't adjust your browser, The FPS Review of the MSI MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WIFI takes a while to load because there are a lot of high quality pictures of the BIOS settings…

Using a QR code to infect your mobile device or really just about anything with a camera and the ability to process the codes is not new.  Unfortunately marketers never got that…

After a week off, we expected to have at least a few things to talk about. But it turned out to be a very busy few days, including the sudden "retirement" of…

sspud may not have the best names, but they do seem to know how to make cases.  The first we heard of them was when they released the Meshlicious, a SFF case…