Intel's next truly interesting processor release—sorry, Arrow Lake Refresh—is going to be the launch of its Panther Lake mobile processors. As it turns out, we now know exactly when that's happening: not Q4 '25 as rumored, but indeed Q1 '26, at the Consumer Electronics Show in lovely Las Vegas. We know that because Intel itself said so. In

New navigation features are beginning to roll out to Google Maps that are coming just in time as millions of people hit the road for holiday travel. The company says that these new features are designed to help users save time and be better prepared by providing useful information about EV charging stations and local trips. One of the pain

The days of desperately scrolling through fan wikis and/or skimming episode summaries to remember who shot whom in the Season 2 finale could very well be coming to an end. Amazon Prime Video has unveiled a new feature called Video Recaps that leverages AI to produce cinematic, full-fledged video recaps for television series. This tool tacks

We don't know who still needs to hear this, but don't ever pay full price for a set of earbuds or headphones (or speakers, for that matter). Not even if it's a brand new time that just came out because it's only a matter of time before the MSRP becomes an afterthought. Need proof? Apple's newfangled AirPods Pro 3 with Live Translation and

A tech entrepreneur’s profound nostalgia for the golden age 8-bit arcade gaming has resulted in a highly personalized Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Gamer commission. Unveiled as the marque’s first (only?) vehicle dedicated entirely to vintage video game culture, this one-of-one creation is not your usual gold-plated, diamond-crusted creation;

Continuing our coverage of is-it-an-alien-spacecraft Comet 3I/ATLAS, an armada of space missions (including Hubble, JWST, plus assets orbiting and roving on Mars) have captured the comet's fleeting flyby of Mars before it disappears forever. And no, it's not extraterrestrial: the icy wanderer was likely ejected from its home star’s orbit millions

For a while there (and still, in some cases), finding a modern generation graphics card at MSRP is considered deal. Forget that noise, though, because over the last couple of months, we've seen GPU pricing finally stabilize to the point where popular models can be had for less than MSRP. And so it goes with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, and this

NVIDIA is pushing out an out-of-band GPU driver update to resolve an issue introduced with Microsoft's October 2025 update for Windows 11 (KB5066835). According to NVIDIA, the Windows 11 update can hamper performance in some unspecified games, even though it's not listed by Microsoft as one of the known issues. Despite Microsoft being silent

NVIDIA is making a habit of posting record earnings each quarter, and that trend continued into Q3 with the company reporting $57 billion in revenue. That's a giant 25% uptick from its previous quarter, and an even bigger 66% spike from the same three-month period a year ago, driven in large part by a big surge in Blackwell sales. "Blackwell

Silverstone just launched the FLP02, a new retro-inspired PC case design that harkens back to the 80s and 90s. The FLP02 has a standard tower configuration in contrast to the older lay-flat Silverstone FLP01. The FLP02 has more era-appropriate features too, like a functional lock for the power/reset buttons and a Turbo button. While classic

When the original ASUS ROG Ally handhelds came out, they were followed by a long series of patches that radically improved both the software and hardware, adding new features, fixing bugs, and even directly improving the performance and efficiency of the devices thanks to power management tweaks and driver updates. The ROG Xbox Ally family

Microsoft continues to work towards an AI driven experience in its software and operating systems, even though some users have been vocal about letting the company know that they’re not fully bought in with that direction. To attempt to ease the concerns of some of these users, Microsoft is laying out how it plans on keeping its Windows OS

The Abxylute 3D One is a new Intel Lunar Lake-powered PC gaming handheld with a glasses-free 3D display akin to the legendary Nintendo 3DS. The device also features a detachable keyboard (included) like the Microsoft Surface, and detachable controllers similar to the Lenovo Legion Go and Nintendo Switch handhelds. The Abxylute 3D One is

NASA’s has been busy tracking a trio of sizable asteroids hurtling past Earth’s orbit, one traveling as close as 361,000 miles from us. While scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) assured the public that there's no immediate danger with any of these objects, these flybys are fantastic opportunities to improve our own planetary

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite: MSRP TBD Qualcomm's second generation PC processor, the Snapdragon X2 Elite, improves upon its predecessor in virtually every way, with more cores, increased performance, and enhanced efficiency. Higher Core Count (Up To 18) Increased Performance Per Core More Powerful GPU More Powerful NPUs Higher Memory Bandwidth...

The year is 2025 (for a few more weeks, anyway) and guess what? We've reached a point where buying a monster-sized TV doesn't have to require a beastly budget. We took a look around at some early Black Friday deals and found several 100-inch and 98-inch models priced below two grand. We even found a couple that are a penny shy of one grand! Insignia's

Driven by the explosive demand for artificial intelligence, server memory could double in price by late 2026. The disruption originates from two prime sources: a recent shortage of DDR4/DDR5 legacy memory chips plus NVIDIA, the primary engine of the AI boom, pivoting its next-generation AI servers away from DDR5 memory toward LPDDR chips traditionally

ASUS has begun accepting preorders for its funktastic ROG Matrix Platinum GeForce RTX 5090, though you'll need a big wad of cash to bring one home. The custom GPU sports a unique design with four fans, including three on the front side of the cooling shroud and one around back, and is a limited edition run in celebration of 30 years of cranking

An event at Cloudflare that crippled large portions of the internet yesterday was not caused by a cyber attack or malicious activity, either directly or indirectly, the company confirmed in a blog. If that's the case, then what caused all the ruckus? Turns out it was a change in permissions to one of Cloudflare's databases that triggered an

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