The latest Windows 11 update has drawn praise for focusing almost exclusively on new features and performance improvements, rather than deeper AI integration, indicating a possible pivot by Microsoft. Some recent updates and comments from Microsoft leadership focused almost solely on AI, and many users were vocal about their disappointment.

You know who ASML is, right? For those who are just joining us, ASML is the guys who make the tools that the TSMC and Intel and Samsung guys use to make their bleeding-edge chips. The Dutch company is the only firm in the world capable of commercializing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography machines, which are absolutely vital to the production

Google expanded YouTube Premium Lite from its limited pilot program to the United States back in March of 2025, and just under a year later, it has received two additional features that make it an effective alternative to YouTube Premium for users not interested in Shorts or Music. While YouTube Premium Lite still does not offer ad-free

New NVIDIA job postings that explicitly reference Vulkan performance and compatibility layer work on Linux might be a sign of a stronger push into the Linux gaming ecosystem, catching the eye of developers and Linux gaming communities alike. A Senior System Software Engineer role on NVIDIA's careers site lays out responsibilities like optimizing

Today in San Francisco, Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy smartphones. For 2026, the lineup consists of the Galaxy S26 Ultra ($1299), Galaxy S26+ ($1099), and Galaxy S26 ($899) all of which receive incremental updates. The company also launched two new pairs of earbuds, the Galaxy Buds4 ($179) and Buds4 Pro ($249). I had the chance to go...

Razer Handheld Dock Chroma: MSRP $89, Currently $57 Razer’s Handheld Dock Chroma is a USB-C dock for gaming handhelds that favors build quality and aesthetics over cutting-edge connectivity.   Plug And Play Ease Intuitive Physical Design Versatile Handheld Fit 100W USB-PD Support Tasteful RGB LED Integration Sparse Port Selection...

GM's 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 ran rings around the competition at Car and Driver's Lightning Lap at the Virginia International Raceway, clocking a 2:34.2 lap time to become the fastest production car in the publication's history. The time shaves nearly a second off the long-standing record held by the $1 million McLaren Senna, as  the King

If you've been waiting for LG to release its bodacious 52-inch UltraGear Evo G9 gaming monitor, then we have good news to share. After being announced in December just ahead of CES, this monstrous display is now available to preorder, just make sure your desk is big enough to support it. If not, add a larger desk to your shopping list while

The ground at Kennedy Space Center began to hum yesterday evening as the crawler-transporter lurched into motion, beginning the slow, four-mile journey to return the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building. This rollback (for repairs to the rocket) will add another significant delay

Faster storage is en route to future high-end smartphones and other mobile devices, and it's coming in the form of UFS 5.0 chips based on the next-generation of Unified Flash Storage protocol. JEDEC is still in the process of standardizing UFS 5.0, but in the meantime, Kioxia said it is already sending out evaluation samples to chipset vendors

TECNO has peered into the future and now believes that modular smartphones are the way to go. Previewed ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show next week, TECNO has revived a modular concept ecosystem where ones like Google’s Project Ara faltered. By combining an ultra-thin 4.9mm base handset with a suite of magnetic, hot-swappable modules,

Is your mouse pointer inexplicably pulling a disappearing act whenever you hover over Outlook? Don't bother troubleshooting your PC as it turns out that this quirky phenomenon is a known issue. According to Microsoft, it only affects the classic version of Outlook and now the newer release, which even though it has been replaced, will still

The team at Discord introduced some discord to our newsroom today. First, a company representative sent us a statement requiring us to update a previous article on its "Teen-By-Default" policy, and then it turned around and dropped a new announcement outlining changes to the policy and how the rollout is being delayed until later this year.

Building a PC with a radiator? Well, nearly every PC has a radiator; after all, that's what the finstack on your tower cooler is. Building a PC ON a radiator? That's a different story altogether. YouTuber Billet Labs has built what might be the coolest build you've seen in a while, because it's the coolest one we've seen in years. Aesthetically,

GOG (formerly known as Good Old Games) has been fighting an uphill battle for some time, despite being generally well-received, in a battle to stay relevant amid Steam's unapologetic market dominance. Despite gamers' widespread hatred of DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection software, Steam's relatively lax DRM has long been allowed

Google launched its Find Hub network, formerly known as the Find My Device network, two years ago to help users track down lost or stolen phones. So far, the feature has only been available on the company’s own Pixel devices, but the hope was that it would roll out to the broader Android ecosystem. However, the eagle-eyed folks at Android

AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution is no more; the product has been renamed to simply "FSR" as it encompasses more technologies than just "super resolution". Even still, image upscaling remains the most notable part of the package, and FSR 4 represents a considerable step forward in terms of image quality over older versions. So it goes that

NASA’s Curiosity rover has finally completed its focused survey of the so-called spiderwebs of Mars, providing us the first close-up look at a massive network of geologic ridges on Mount Sharp that have puzzled scientists since they were first spotted from orbit years ago. Curiosity rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the

Building a PC from scratch in the current climate is a tough proposition thanks to skyrocketing memory and storage prices, as well as inflated GPU costs. If you're in need of a modest new gaming PC, however, you may want to consider going the prebuilt route, even if you've traditionally stuck with DIY builds. System builders are better equipped

Nothing has seemingly abandoned the traditional slow-burn reveal in favor of a blunt, early look at its next mid-range contender, the Phone 4a. After a couple of weeks of cryptic hints involving pink graffiti and vintage telephone cords, the company has pulled the curtain back on the device's rear design a week ahead of its scheduled March

Rumors are a-swirling over the next OnePlus flagship, with some saying that the OnePlus 16 is set to shatter the 1mm display bezel barrier, inching (or should that be millimetering) us closer to the bezel-less smartphone dream some enthusiasts have sleepless nights over.  If this claim (as noted by tech insider Old Chen Air over at Weibo)

It's been half a century since Apple's humble beginning as a garage-based operation that saw co-founders Steve Job and Steve Wozniak crank out the Apple 1, a computer that was hand-built in Los Altos, California (and now fetches enormous sums at auction). A lot has changed since then, with the bulk of Apple's products now assembled overseas

AMD and Meta have struck a multi-year agreement that will see the former provide key hardware to the latter for a massive AI infrastructure that, among other things, will span multiple generations of Instinct GPUs starting with a custom GPU based on AMD's Instinct MI450 architecture in the second half of this year, to be built on Meta's rack-scale

This year's CES was pretty lean on exciting announcements, at least for enthusiats. Intel's Core Ultra 300 series, the chips codenamed Panther Lake, are pretty cool, but that was really about it. Next year is looking to be a lot more exciting, though. According to the latest rumors, Intel and AMD may be having a metaphorical knife fight at