Here's something most of us saw coming: the accelerating deployment of tens of thousands of communication satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) is creating a diffuse veil of light pollution that is now demonstrably compromising the performance of some of the most powerful telescopes in the world, including the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers

Slated for an early 2026 release, the low-cost iPhone 17e is rumored to get a couple of significant design overhauls, nudging the e-series' aesthetics closer in line with the company's flagships.   As we know, the facade of Apple's iPhone 16e is characterized by relatively thick display bezels and a screen notch. South Korean news outlet

If you've never considered an Alienware product because you thought the pricing premium would be too high, do yourself a favor and have a look at the current crop of deals. We already highlighted some fantastic savings on Alienware desktop PCs and laptops for Cyber Monday (which are still on sale, by the way), and now a handful of Alienware

Micron announced it is winding down the sale of its Crucial-branded memory and storage products to consumers after nearly three decades, marking the end of a remarkable era that has seen numerous other OGs fall by the wayside, including BFG, EVGA, OCZ, Hypersonic (at one time the parent company of OCZ), and others. And folks, on a personal

If you're chomping at the bit for Panther Lake performance leaks, well, put that filthy thing away for a moment and come take a look. A result for a Core Ultra 7 366H has popped up in the Geekbench database, and we've taken the time to compare it against contemporary and past integrated GPUs to see how it rates. The test run for the Panther

The latest update coming to Android 16 marks a shift in how Google plans to roll out releases. Moving forward, users will receive smaller updates more frequently instead of waiting for a large yearly update. The new features in this upcoming update include easier management of notifications, further customization options to change the look

The data center boom driven by the demand for AI is leading to price hikes for consumers. It has been felt in rising electric bills and is also affecting the price of hardware, like storage and memory. This economic environment is forcing Raspberry Pi to increase the prices on its product line-up, but it’s hoping to soften the blow by also

Since the inception of the internet, website and app developers have relied heavily on passwords as a means of protecting user accounts. As hackers continue to develop more sophisticated techniques to circumvent security guardrails, however, it has become easier for passwords to be cracked, especially with the help of powerful GPUs and AI

Let's talk about the latest AI models, which are mostly powered by something called a "Mixture of Experts" design. Mixture of Experts (MoE) is a form of model sparsity, but we'll talk about that more in a minute. The key takeaways from this post are that the broad majority of 'frontier' language models are based on MoE, and NVIDIA says that

You could easily spend $50, $100, or even more on a high quality gaming mouse, but do you really need to? That's up to each individual buyer to decide, but if you're looking to spend far less without compromising too much, there are deals out there, especially now that we're in the midst of the holiday shopping season. To that end, how does

Samsung has formally confirmed the existence of its next-generation flagship processor, the Exynos 2600. From what we can tell, the new SoC bound for the S26 seems to be the course correction that the company has promised for ages, following years of Exynos performance controversies. The official reveal trailer titled “The next Exynos”

It was only a matter of time before Blackwell would rank as one of the top 10 GPUs on Steam and it's now official, at least if ignoring the catch-all "AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics" entry. If so, then NVIDIA's mid-range GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card as the 10th most popular GPU on Steam, based on the latest survey results for November 2025. The

Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove, revealing not just the building blocks of life, but also a mysterious "space gum" and ancient stellar dust.  Researchers have detailed three major findings published in Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy. Foremost

Somewhere out there, somebody is having a good laugh, we're just not sure if it's the person who returned a box of rocks inside a $1,200 ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card box, a delivery person who may have made the stone cold swap prior to delivery, or someone at Best Buy's return department. And that's all assuming that a poster

Infamous gaming pawn shop chain GameStop says someone just walked into its Grapevine, Texas headquarters and traded in a PSA-10 holographic Gengar, supposedly worth $33,883, and walked out with $30,494.70. In simpler terms: GameStop just paid someone a little over thirty grand for a Pokémon card. The company blasted the announcement across

Part one of the long-awaited fifth and final season of retro-horror flavored sensation Stranger Things has dropped on Netflix, but eagle-eyed viewers have spotted a major inconsistency in an apparent Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986, NES) tribute. While the notoriously-difficult action-platformer did indeed release on the Nintendo Entertainment System

If you're looking at buying a new Ryzen CPU, the time is now, and we mean right now, as in literally within the next few hours. That's because AMD is expected to raise prices on its CPUs at the distributor level if it hasn't already done so. Yesterday, Mark over at OC3D said his sources confirmed AMD's intentions to raise prices on its CPUs

Android users need to be checking their devices for available updates after Google’s recent security bulletin listed 107 security flaws in the mobile operating system, which will be fixed in the security patches of 2025-12-05 or later. Two in particular are concerning, as the company has seen these vulnerabilities being actively exploited,

The humble Netflix cast button has just become an unfortunate victim of what long-time subscribers are calling a tone-deaf decision. Netflix has quietly stripped the ability to send content from a mobile device to most modern televisions and streaming players, forcing millions of subscribers back to the remote control and their TV’s native

The Sun fired a staggering X1.9-class solar flare at the turn of the month, triggering a sudden, widespread radio blackout across Australia and large parts of southeast Asia and it seems like another more active one is coming next. Recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and peaking late on November 30 at 9:49 p.m. ET, the violent

Psst, hey you there, the one with the Switch 2 console in your shopping cart who's getting ready to hit the checkout button. STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Sorry, we didn't mean to yell, but you're about to make a $50 mistake. How so? If you know where to look, you can score the Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle for the same price, and who doesn't

Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold is finally official. Built upon Samsung's decade-long investment in foldables, the TriFold is being hailed by the company as the "shape of what's next in mobile innovation," but will shoppers care? Whether it becomes a market success or not, you can't deny the engineering behind this premium inward-folding design.

Geekom may be best known for its lineup of mini PCs, but it's looking to make a splash in the laptop market with what it claims is the world's first all-metal ultralight model, the GeekBook X14 Pro. From our vantage point, it's basically a Windows version of Apple's newest MacBook Air, though there are key differences, not the least of which

It took a minute or three (or four or five) but we can finally call Intel's modern foray into discrete GPUs a comeback! Well, sort of—NVIDIA and AMD (in that order) still dominate the discrete graphics card landscape, but according to the latest audit by Jon Peddie Research, Intel has carved itself out a whopping 1% share of the overall add-in