The National Consumers League has released its annual fraud report detailing the many scams that most consumers have fallen for. As you'd expect, AI is playing a large role in how the threat landscape has evolved this past year. While the kinds of scams fraudsters are using haven’t changed much, the effectiveness of certain types of scams

Microsoft partnered up with ASUS to release the excellent ROG Xbox Ally X last year, to do battle with the SteamOS powered Steam Deck. Because it has jumped into the handheld gaming PC battle a bit late it has been working to continually to play catch up by adding new features, the latest of which is Highlight Reels, now available to Xbox

You may be under the impression that in order to upgrade to a really big gaming monitor, a really big budget is a prerequisite. While true in some instance, that is not always the case. There are some reasonably-priced options available, and even better, Amazon just dropped one of them to an all-time low price with a 25% discount over MSRP. Acer

Talk about phallic envy: Vivo has officially pulled the covers off its new X300 Ultra and ZEISS Telephoto Extender accessory. It's large, in your face, quite possibly overpowered, and yes, it is happy to see you. Indeed, the X300 Ultra will be an imaging beast with its onboard 200-megapixel telephoto sensor (likely a Sony IMX90E), which

OnePlus looks set to disrupt the flagship smartphone world with the upcoming OnePlus 15T, a device that combines top-dog performance with a smaller, more palm- and pocket-friendly form factor. Also, the company has confirmed that the phone's rumored skinny bezel is indeed skinny, beating out the iPhone 17 Pro. In the sea of large 6.5-inch

Even in the world of cyber-criminals, there are some targets that simply won't earn you any admiration. One such case is a cyber attack involving the University of Hawaii's Cancer Center Epidemiology Division, with the data targeted including the social security numbers and driver's licenses of somewhere between 87K (MEC Study pool) to 1,15

Apple CEO Tim Cook promised this would be a "big week" for the Cupertino company, which has already seen the launch of a new iPad Air with M4 silicon and an A19-powered iPhone 17e. Now a day later, Apple has introduced a refreshed MacBook Pro powered by its new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips built on an also-new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture. "This

After nearly 4 million years of anonymity, the most complete skeleton of an ancient human relative ever found finally has a face (or more precisely, facial bones). Scientists have unveiled a 3D digital reconstruction of "Little Foot," an Australopithecus individual whose nearly intact remains have provided a rare view into the dawn of the

NVIDIA made relatively quick work of stomping out a bug in its 595.59 WHQL driver following reports of fan issues. Just a few days after pulling that driver release, NVIDIA is pushing out its 595.71 WHQL driver package with the same Game Ready optimizations for Resident Evil Requiem, one of the most anticipated games of the year, but gamers

At Mobile World Congress 2026, Qualcomm is eagerly showing off its next-gen of "truly personal, always-on, intelligent wearable computing devices" powered by its Snapdragon Wear Elite platform, which includes support for Wi-Fi 8 and a built-in NPU. As Qualcomm notes, Snapdragon Wear Elite is the first NPU-powered wearable platform in the industry,

AMD told us at CES 2026 that it would be bringing its Ryzen AI 400 processors to desktop at some point and the company announced those chips today at Mobile World Congress. Yes, indeed; AMD's bringing its latest mobile silicon to the desktop market, which gets integrated graphics gaming goofballs like me excited. Unfortunately, these new desktop

We’re in the midst of a classic computing revival, with numerous recreations of older hardware, such as THEC64 Mini and the Amiga A1200. This retro goodness isn’t limited to just hardware, though. Enthusiasts are contributing with interesting software projects like The Amiga Workbench Simulator (TAWS) as well. TAWS has been a labor of love

We've believed with confidence for a while now that Intel was bringing out its BMG-G31 "Big Battlemage" GPU as the Arc Pro B70 first, foremost, and possibly exclusively. Now we have explicit proof straight from Intel, in the form of the patch notes for the company's LLM-Scaler-vLLM, which is a containerized, Intel-optimized distribution of

Holy Houdini, if the latest market projections from analyst firm Gartner prove correct, we're only two years away from sub-$500 PCs vanishing from the market entirely. The reason, as you may have already surmised, is a continued strain on memory and storage that will drive up prices even further, which in turn will send PC worldwide PC shipments

Tonight, as well as into early tomorrow morning, a total lunar eclipse will sweep across the globe, plunging the full Moon into the Earth’s shadow for nearly an hour. Visible to over 3 billion people across the Americas, East Asia, and Oceania, this special event won't return for another few years, so be sure to watch it if you can. For

As expected, Apple has gone and refreshed both its iPhone and iPad Air lineup with new models, though the surprise is that it did not wait until its Apple Experience event that is scheduled for this Wednesday, March 4. Instead, Apple used the start of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 to unveil two relative affordable product additions, both

Over at Mobile World Congress 2026, hidden among its honestly plain-Jane FIFA World Cup collaboration phones, Motorola has officially unveiled the Razr Fold. Claiming a class-leading camera package (per preliminary DXOMARK scores), screen brightness, and battery capacity (outside of Chinese phones), the Razr Fold is bound for North America

Lenovo is showing off an army of new products this week at MWC 2026, including a handful of interesting concepts that may or may not see the light of day, such as the ThinkBook Modular AI PC that we already wrote about. The company is not focused on a singular product category, though, as evidenced by its Legion Go Fold concept. The handheld

At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Lenovo is doing what it does best: iterating on the workhorse gear that actually pays the bills while sprinkling in some wild, future-facing AI concepts to keep things interesting. The headline standout, pictured above and below, is the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept. This one leans into the

Samsung's newly minted Galaxy S26 series is up for preorder and instead of an early adopter tax, there are actually some nice pre-release offers up for grabs, including a free storage upgrade and up to a $200 Amazon gift card. The best offer is tied to the top dog, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, but there are preorder deals to be had across the entire

Traditional cryptographic signatures that underpin HTTPS can be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer using algorithms like Shor's, threatening the trust model of secure connections. To help protect against this threat, Google is rolling out a major upgrade to Secure HTTP in its Chrome browser. In a blog post published yesterday,

Can a set of lab-grown human neurons fused with silicon play Doom? The answer to that question is yes, and the proof of concept required a massive leap from the Pong-playing demonstration we saw a few years back. In some ways, this experiment mirrors the manner in which AI LLMs have been trained to play Doom. Of course, the use of biotech

You can expect a wave of laptops built around Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake chips that it revealed at CES, and one only need look at what Lenovo apparently just launched in China as proof. The launch includes new ThinkBook 14+ and ThinkBook 16+ laptop configurations that mate Core Ultra 300H processors with LPCAMM2 memory. We

Woot, the dedicated deals site that Amazon acquired way back in 2010 for a cool $110 million, is having a big sale on a range of Logitech peripherals, including discounts on keyboards, mice, headsets, speaker systems, and more. There are deals on over a dozen items, with savings going all the way up to 50% off, depending on the item. Let's