News Archive for April 2025

Used EV batteries could power vehicles, houses or even towns – if their manufacturers share vital data

By Ivan Franco, April 30, 2025
Cyberduck is a free SFTP client to manage cloud and server files

By Ivan Franco, April 30, 2025
Google Play shrinks by 47 percent following Android's store policy overhaul

By Skye Jacobs, April 30, 2025
Microsoft brings hot patching to Windows Server, reboot-free updates

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 30, 2025
Blizzard and Nexon working on new StarCraft game and a mobile version of Overwatch

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 30, 2025
Fiber optic sensors could revolutionize early detection of volcanic eruptions

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 30, 2025
Intel doubles down on foundry ambitions, unveils 18A and 14A process enhancements

By Bob O'Donnell, April 30, 2025
SilverStone's 2,500W PSU powers up to four RTX 5080s - or three 5090s - without breaking a sweat

By Zo Ahmed, April 30, 2025
Google research exposes ongoing global risk from zero-day vulnerabilities

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 30, 2025
New York wants to use AI and cameras to detect subway crime before it happens

By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2025
EA lays off around 300 employees – including 100 at Respawn – scraps new Titanfall game

By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2025
Bitcoin mining no longer profitable as costs soar

By Skye Jacobs, April 30, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5090 owner reports MSI's yellow-tipped 12V-2×6 power cable melted despite foolproof design

By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2025
GPU tourism is a thing: Japan blocks RTX 5090 and 5080 sales to tourists amid global GPU chaos

By Daniel Sims, April 30, 2025
Amazon backs away from plan to display tariff costs as Trump calls Bezos over "hostile" act

By Rob Thubron, April 30, 2025
Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?

By TechSpot Trivia, April 29, 2025
FBI warns China is using AI to sharpen cyberattacks on US infrastructure

By Skye Jacobs, April 29, 2025
Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive

By Daniel Sims, April 29, 2025
Evertop DIY PC will give you hundreds of hours of DOS fun on a single charge

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2025
Researchers find numerous Apple AirPlay vulnerabilities allowing "wormable" exploits over Wi-Fi

By Cal Jeffrey, April 29, 2025
Russian authorities threaten World of Tanks developer for its alleged "extremist activities"

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2025
ChatGPT one-ups Google with AI-driven shopping suggestions and zero ads

By Skye Jacobs, April 29, 2025
Developer ports compact Llama 2 LLM to DOS in weekend hackathon

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 29, 2025
After quitting phones in 2021, LG will soon pull the plug on its update servers

By Rob Thubron, April 29, 2025
Nothing's new CMF Phone 2 Pro looks a great deal at just $279, but there's a major catch

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 29, 2025
There's a growing rift between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella – Microsoft could block OpenAI's for-profit restructuring

By Rob Thubron, April 29, 2025
Taiwan moves to tighten control over TSMC's advanced chip exports and overseas investments

By Skye Jacobs, April 29, 2025
IBM pledges to invest $150 billion in US manufacturing over the next five years

By Rob Thubron, April 29, 2025
Nike faces $5M lawsuit after CloneX NFTs go dark due to hosting error

By Skye Jacobs, April 29, 2025
Why Apple can't easily move iPhone production to the US: 2,700+ parts, 187 suppliers, 28 countries

By Rob Thubron, April 29, 2025
AI is reshaping chip design tools, and the results are impossible to ignore

By Bob O'Donnell, April 29, 2025
GPUs are so bulky now that Asus is using gyroscopes to detect sagging

By Daniel Sims, April 28, 2025
Moon's surface can make water thanks to solar wind, NASA experiment confirms

By Skye Jacobs, April 28, 2025
The Atari ST was eight years too early for Doom, but not anymore

By Daniel Sims, April 28, 2025
WorkComposer employee monitoring app leak exposes 21 million screenshots online

By Skye Jacobs, April 28, 2025
New Windows 11 beta brings more changes to Control Panel settings

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 28, 2025
Google offers free repairs or payouts for Pixel 7a devices with battery issues

By Ivan Franco, April 28, 2025
In the race for AI talent, companies create a confusing web of job titles

By Skye Jacobs, April 28, 2025
Google argues it's the only one capable of managing Chrome, because, of course

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 28, 2025
"Godfather of AI" warns there's a 10 to 20% chance AI could seize control

By Rob Thubron, April 28, 2025
AMD cuts Ryzen 5 9600X price by $95, now just $185

By Ivan Franco, April 28, 2025
Starbucks set to open its first-ever 3D-printed store in Texas

By Zo Ahmed, April 28, 2025
Apple MacBook Air M4 hits record-low price of $849 on Amazon

By Ivan Franco, April 28, 2025
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 set for September unveiling - first flagship devices arrive in October

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 28, 2025
University cancels publication of coding competition results over AI cheating fears

By Rob Thubron, April 28, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5000 Super cards could increase VRAM by 50%, with 24GB RTX 5080 Super and 18GB RTX 5070 Super

By Rob Thubron, April 28, 2025
The reality of today's tech industry: layoffs, long hours, AI threats, and few perks

By Rob Thubron, April 28, 2025
The Science of Keeping Your Chips Cool: Hot Chips, Cool Tricks

By William Gayde, April 28, 2025
4chan was offline for nearly two weeks after hack, but it's now back on

By Daniel Sims, April 27, 2025
Horizon Forbidden West runs at 8K 120Hz on Samsung TV via HDMI 2.1 in world-first demo

By Rob Thubron, April 27, 2025
Meta accused of allowing its chatbots to engage in sexually explicit chats

By Skye Jacobs, April 27, 2025
Robots use Cornell's RHyME AI to learn new skills by watching just one video

By Skye Jacobs, April 26, 2025
Slate Auto reveals a no-frills electric truck for under $20,000, made in the US

By Skye Jacobs, April 26, 2025
World's largest zipper maker YKK shows off self-fastening zippers powered by motors and remote controls

By Daniel Sims, April 26, 2025
TSMC unveils plans for giant AI chips to meet surging compute demands

By Skye Jacobs, April 26, 2025
Apple races to shift iPhone production for the US to India by 2026

By Skye Jacobs, April 26, 2025
AMD FSR 4 vs Nvidia DLSS 4 at 4K

By Tim Schiesser, April 26, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5060 reportedly launching on May 19, one day after AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT

By Daniel Sims, April 25, 2025
Microsoft relaunches Recall on Copilot+ Windows PCs after privacy overhaul

By Cal Jeffrey, April 25, 2025
Adobe Firefly now supports partner AI models, moodboards, and enterprise APIs

By Bob O'Donnell, April 25, 2025
UK bans gaming controller exports to Russia to hinder military use

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 25, 2025
Netflix introduces cleaner subtitles focused only on spoken dialogue

By Shawn Knight, April 25, 2025
TSMC to begin 1.4nm A14 chip production in 2028, expands 3nm family with N3P and N3X

By Zo Ahmed, April 25, 2025
You can now stream Xbox games on LG TVs without a console - here's how

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 25, 2025
Nvidia's liquid-cooled AI racks promise 25x energy and 300x water efficiency

By Skye Jacobs, April 25, 2025
Texas highways welcome first wave of self-driving freight trucks

By Zo Ahmed, April 25, 2025
Intel CEO announces massive layoffs, stricter in-office mandates, and huge spending cuts

By Rob Thubron, April 25, 2025
Geoengineering experiments to dim sunlight may soon begin in the fight against climate change

By Daniel Sims, April 25, 2025
TP-Link router pricing and China ties under US government investigation

By Rob Thubron, April 25, 2025
Funding cuts and political pressure drive US researchers overseas

By Skye Jacobs, April 25, 2025
"You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ads may have used a stolen font

By Rob Thubron, April 25, 2025
Flying in the US? You'll need Real ID-compliant identification by May 7, 2025

By Daniel Sims, April 25, 2025
Intel's AI PC chip demand stumbles while older processors thrive amid tariff concerns

By Rob Thubron, April 25, 2025
Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

By Skye Jacobs, April 25, 2025
YouTube at 20: The Video-Sharing Site That Conquered the Internet

By Alex Connock, April 24, 2025
Oblivion Remastered quietly keeps the modding legacy alive – without Bethesda's help

By Cal Jeffrey, April 24, 2025
Trump tariffs push top PC makers Lenovo, HP, and Dell toward Saudi Arabia

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 24, 2025
Discord co-founder steps down, new CEO appointed as IPO preparations ramp up

By Shawn Knight, April 24, 2025
Google is shelling out big bucks to put Gemini AI on Samsung devices

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 24, 2025
Google tells some remote workers to return to the office or face termination

By Rob Thubron, April 24, 2025
Blue Shield of California shared private health data of 4.7 million members with Google without consent

By Rob Thubron, April 24, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 teardown confirms Nvidia Tegra T239 chip, SK Hynix memory, more details

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 24, 2025
Roku unveils "most compact streaming sticks on the market," don't require a power outlet

By Rob Thubron, April 24, 2025
Radeon 9060 XT tipped for May 18 release as AMD confirms Computex 2025 gaming keynote

By Daniel Sims, April 24, 2025
Nintendo files DMCA subpoena ordering Discord to identify"Teraleak" Pokémon leaker

By Rob Thubron, April 24, 2025
Meta expands Ray-Ban smart glasses with live translation, visual AI, and new frames

By Skye Jacobs, April 23, 2025
Nintendo apologizes as Switch 2 demand overwhelms supply in Japan

By Cal Jeffrey, April 23, 2025
Running on empty: California is about to run out of license plate combinations

By Shawn Knight, April 23, 2025
Google Chrome abandons plans to phase out third-party cookies

By Skye Jacobs, April 23, 2025
Intel's overclocking tool offers 7.5% performance gains without voiding warranty

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 23, 2025
OpenAI wants to buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell

By Rob Thubron, April 23, 2025
Doom II's infamous 23,000-demon map finally beaten after 13 years

By Zo Ahmed, April 23, 2025
Florida could soon let homeowners shoot down drones over their property

By Rob Thubron, April 23, 2025
Apple and Meta hit with combined $797 million fine for violating EU's DMA antitrust rules

By Rob Thubron, April 23, 2025
Intel to adopt TSMC's next-gen 2nm process for upcoming Nova Lake CPUs

By Daniel Sims, April 23, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5000 cards show PCB hotspots that threaten longevity, says Igor's Lab

By Rob Thubron, April 23, 2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB Review: Instantly Obsolete

By Steven Walton, April 23, 2025
New SD Express 8.0 cards double the speed of today's fastest microSDs

By Daniel Sims, April 22, 2025
The Oblivion remake is real, it's gorgeous, and it's out now

By Cal Jeffrey, April 22, 2025
New Nvidia GeForce hotfix driver addresses crashes and black screen issues

By Ivan Franco, April 22, 2025
Doom can now run in a self-contained QR code. Sort of

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 22, 2025
CATL's new battery tech promises 800-km range and five-minute charging

By Skye Jacobs, April 22, 2025
Sega arcade classic OutRun is becoming a movie, directed by Michael Bay

By Shawn Knight, April 22, 2025
G.Skill unveils world's first 256GB DDR5-6000 CL32 U-DIMM memory kit

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 22, 2025
AI is enabling cybercriminals to act quickly - and with little technical knowledge, Microsoft warns

By Rob Thubron, April 22, 2025
New study reveals cybersecurity threats in next-gen DNA sequencing

By Skye Jacobs, April 22, 2025
Microsoft tightens policies for low performers, adds voluntary exit plan

By Rob Thubron, April 22, 2025
There is a solitary black hole wandering near the center of our galaxy, astronomers confirm

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 22, 2025
Uber faces FTC lawsuit for 'impossible to cancel' subscriptions

By Rob Thubron, April 22, 2025
Windows 11 adds taskbar 'End Task' button for killing frozen apps

By Skye Jacobs, April 22, 2025
Gen Z "digital natives" to be taught empathy, time management, and phone etiquette in soft skills program

By Rob Thubron, April 22, 2025
Logitech quietly raises prices on popular PC accessories by up to 25% after tariffs

By Skye Jacobs, April 21, 2025
Sam Altman says polite ChatGPT users are burning millions of OpenAI dollars

By Cal Jeffrey, April 21, 2025
Open source AI is the new Linux, only faster

By Skye Jacobs, April 21, 2025
Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

By TechSpot Trivia, April 21, 2025
Researchers say they've discovered a new color that no human has ever perceived

By Shawn Knight, April 21, 2025
Synology to require branded hard drives for future NAS models

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 21, 2025
Use PDFsam to split, merge, and organize PDFs in a snap

By Ivan Franco, April 21, 2025
Paul Rudd reprises role as Nintendo hypeman in new Switch 2 commercial

By Shawn Knight, April 21, 2025
New Star Wars movie starring Ryan Gosling set for 2027, Lucasfilm confirms

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 21, 2025
LG launches 45" and 39" OLED gaming monitors with smart TV features

By Rob Thubron, April 21, 2025
You can now generate AI videos with just 6GB of VRAM

By Zo Ahmed, April 21, 2025
Humanoid robots struggle in first humans vs. robots half-marathon

By Rob Thubron, April 21, 2025
ChatGPT gets scarily good at guessing photo locations, sparking doxxing concerns

By Rob Thubron, April 21, 2025
OpenAI's newest o3 and o4-mini models excel at coding and math – but hallucinate more often

By Skye Jacobs, April 21, 2025
10 Tech Enthusiast Guilty Pleasures: (A.K.A. Expensive Gear We Need)

By Rob Thubron, April 21, 2025
Microsoft's BitNet shows what AI can do with just 400MB and no GPU

By Skye Jacobs, April 20, 2025
Google demos Android XR smart glasses with Gemini AI, visual memory, and multilingual capabilities

By Skye Jacobs, April 20, 2025
Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste

By Skye Jacobs, April 20, 2025
New graphene-based flash memory writes data in 400 picoseconds, shattering all speed records

By Skye Jacobs, April 19, 2025
Early RTX 5060 Ti benchmarks reveal why Nvidia withheld the 8GB version from reviewers

By Daniel Sims, April 19, 2025
Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional

By Skye Jacobs, April 19, 2025
New Nvidia drivers improve performance in benchmarks, but crashes and gaming issues remain

By Daniel Sims, April 19, 2025
Nintendo finally sets Switch 2 pre-orders for April 24, but sales restrictions might be over the top

By Cal Jeffrey, April 18, 2025
Microsoft deprecates "revolutionary" virtualization-based security feature in older Windows 11 versions

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 18, 2025
HP agrees to $4 million settlement over inflated PC prices on its website

By Skye Jacobs, April 18, 2025
Judge rules Google built illegal ad monopoly, DOJ threatens another breakup

By Daniel Sims, April 18, 2025
Resourceful modder turns an old HDD into a dirt cheap disc sander

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 18, 2025
Amazon smart TVs could soon replace Fire OS with Linux-based Vega OS

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 18, 2025
Google offers free Gemini AI tools and 2TB storage to US college students

By Skye Jacobs, April 18, 2025
The world's first foldable e-reader is here: Readmoo's mooInk V

By Rob Thubron, April 18, 2025
Bill Gates says AI will end doctor and teacher shortages, transform the future of work

By Skye Jacobs, April 18, 2025
Sparklink may be the biggest wireless standard you have never heard about

By Jonathan Goldberg, April 18, 2025
How a secret gambling syndicate won a $95 million Texas lottery by buying every number combination

By Rob Thubron, April 18, 2025
Microsoft simplifies copying text from images in Windows 11

By Daniel Sims, April 17, 2025
Xbox Support agent accidentally dishes on Oblivion remaster, may launch in four days

By Cal Jeffrey, April 17, 2025
Our favorite gaming CPU, the Ryzen 9800X3D is now widely available

By TechSpot Deals, April 17, 2025
Rising power density and heat threaten the future of advanced semiconductors

By Skye Jacobs, April 17, 2025
Nvidia's Zorah RTX neural rendering tech demo available for download

By Julio Franco, April 17, 2025
Discord begins experimenting with face scanning for age verification

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 17, 2025
Bethesda offers fans a chance to own a part of Elder Scrolls Online history

By Shawn Knight, April 17, 2025
A real-life Severance keyboard is here, complete with built-in trackball

By Zo Ahmed, April 17, 2025
TSMC denies reports of joint venture with Intel as US pushes for domestic chip solutions

By Rob Thubron, April 17, 2025
Apple's latest iPhone update fixes two zero-day security flaws exploited in targeted attacks

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 17, 2025
Nearly one in five Japanese gamers overspend on in-game purchases, straining basic living budgets

By Skye Jacobs, April 17, 2025
Distant planet shows "strongest evidence yet" of potential extraterrestrial life

By Rob Thubron, April 17, 2025
The US almost let the CVE system die - the cybersecurity world's universal bug tracker

By Daniel Sims, April 17, 2025
Tesla sued for allegedly faking odometer readings to avoid warranty repairs

By Rob Thubron, April 17, 2025
Big Tech avoided $278 billion in corporate tax over the past decade, says watchdog

By Skye Jacobs, April 17, 2025
Nvidia RTX 4090 eBay seller scammed by buyer who returned card with GPU and VRAM removed

By Rob Thubron, April 17, 2025
Reversing blurred pixels to reveal censored content in videos is easier than you think

By Daniel Sims, April 16, 2025
New approach from DeepMind partitions LLMs to mitigate prompt injection

By Cal Jeffrey, April 16, 2025
Ubisoft Chroma helps developers simulate color blindness across all game engines

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 16, 2025
EU provides burner phones to officials traveling to US amid espionage concerns

By Shawn Knight, April 16, 2025
Nvidia GeForce GPU driver update tackles black screens, crashes, and display issues

By Ivan Franco, April 16, 2025
Android phones will auto-reboot after 3 days of inactivity

By Shawn Knight, April 16, 2025
Researchers use lasers and metalenses to align 3D chips with atomic precision

By Skye Jacobs, April 16, 2025
Microsoft's latest Windows security update creates an empty folder you should not delete

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 16, 2025
Snapdragon X2 chips could deliver up to 22% performance boost over X Elite

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 16, 2025
Google hit with antitrust order in Japan over preinstalled Android apps

By Skye Jacobs, April 16, 2025
MrBeast fans left furious and demanding refunds after $1,000 Las Vegas event flop

By Rob Thubron, April 16, 2025
OpenAI is quietly working on a social network similar to Twitter, powered by ChatGPT

By Skye Jacobs, April 16, 2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Review: Not Great, Not Terrible

By Steven Walton, April 16, 2025
Intel wants more modular laptops, but the focus is on OEMs, not consumers

By Daniel Sims, April 16, 2025
Microsoft confirms Outlook Classic bug that causes CPU spikes while typing, offers workaround

By Rob Thubron, April 16, 2025
Study finds CT scans could be responsible for 103,000 new cancer cases in the US each year

By Skye Jacobs, April 16, 2025
Apple to analyze on-device data for AI training, vows to uphold user privacy

By Rob Thubron, April 16, 2025
The world's first personal 3D texturing UV printer paints on almost any surface

By Daniel Sims, April 15, 2025
Fedora Linux 42 delivers a smoother setup and better performance

By Ivan Franco, April 15, 2025
James Webb telescope captures dual-ringed nebula in stunning detail

By Cal Jeffrey, April 15, 2025
New Chrome update to fix a long-standing bug in user privacy for visited links

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 15, 2025
Star Wars: Zero Company, an XCOM-style tactics game, will be unveiled this weekend

By Zo Ahmed, April 15, 2025
AMD Epyc 'Venice' will be built on TSMC's N2 node, 5th-gen Epyc to be fabbed in Arizona

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 15, 2025
First-ever Switch modding case in Japan ends with fine and suspended jail time

By Rob Thubron, April 15, 2025
Google doubles Android storage requirement again, now set at 32GB

By Zo Ahmed, April 15, 2025
Bungie unveils Marathon, its new extraction shooter launching September 23

By Daniel Sims, April 15, 2025
Enthusiast restores two Sound Blaster 16 cards documenting the challenges of vintage hardware repair

By Skye Jacobs, April 15, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg considered deleting everyone's Facebook friends in 2022, admits platform's focus has shifted

By Rob Thubron, April 15, 2025
Nvidia launches GeForce RTX 5060 series with three new GPUs, tries to hide the 8GB versions

By Tim Schiesser, April 15, 2025
Google's AI is learning dolphin language - for real

By Rob Thubron, April 15, 2025
Sony's upcoming PlayStation 6 handheld may be less powerful than the PS5

By Daniel Sims, April 15, 2025
This hidden Steam tool shows exactly how much money you've spent on the platform

By Rob Thubron, April 15, 2025
Breakthrough water filter eliminates forever chemicals using modified graphene oxide

By Skye Jacobs, April 14, 2025
New German "super-ministry" hopes to lure US researchers with cutting-edge science agenda

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 14, 2025
Watch this electric car demolish a 20-year-old F1 lap record and drive upside down

By Cal Jeffrey, April 14, 2025
Asus has a new eSports monitor that can be overclocked to 610Hz

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 14, 2025
Nvidia shifts AI supercomputer production to the US for the first time

By Skye Jacobs, April 14, 2025
PlayStation 5 price bump hits Europe, Australia, and NZ, Sony blames the economy

By Shawn Knight, April 14, 2025
Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play fake AI voices of Musk and Zuckerberg

By Rob Thubron, April 14, 2025
Biotech firm creates weight loss pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass surgery

By Skye Jacobs, April 14, 2025
Apple is working on two new VR headsets, including a cheaper and lighter Vision Pro 2

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 14, 2025
Which CPU socket supported both Intel and AMD processors?

By TechSpot Trivia, April 14, 2025
Apple iPadOS 19 update could make iPads feel more like Macs

By Rob Thubron, April 14, 2025
Google Chrome update for Android expands on-screen space for websites

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 14, 2025
China halts rare earth exports, sparking fears of shortages in critical industries

By Skye Jacobs, April 14, 2025
Netflix is testing AI search powered by OpenAI

By Rob Thubron, April 14, 2025
Trump plans new tariffs on semiconductors, promises flexibility for some companies

By Skye Jacobs, April 14, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5070 cable melts in latest Blackwell card incident: another case of user error?

By Rob Thubron, April 14, 2025
Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles

By Amir Shoam, April 14, 2025
Four years in, Meta has burned through $45 billion chasing its metaverse dream

By Zo Ahmed, April 13, 2025
DaVinci Resolve offers a free pro-grade video editing platform

By Ivan Franco, April 13, 2025
Apple Maps web app is now available on all devices, including Android

By Zo Ahmed, April 13, 2025
Use OBS Studio to livestream your gaming sessions

By Ivan Franco, April 13, 2025
Microsoft research shows AI coding tools fall short in key debugging tasks

By Zo Ahmed, April 13, 2025
ChatGPT nears one billion users as Ghibli-style AI images double weekly actives

By Rob Thubron, April 13, 2025
Pentagon slashes $5.1 billion in contracts with Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte

By Skye Jacobs, April 13, 2025
Trump administration exempts phones, computers, CPUs, memory, and chipmaking tools from sweeping tariffs

By Skye Jacobs, April 13, 2025
PC gamers report hackers have taken over Star Wars Battlefront II

By Daniel Sims, April 12, 2025
Sophisticated bot uses OpenAI to bypass filters, flooding over 80,000 websites with spam

By Skye Jacobs, April 12, 2025
Doom $666 "Will It Run Edition" literally comes in a collector's box that can run the game

By Zo Ahmed, April 12, 2025
Survey reveals most people panic when their phone battery drops to 38%

By Daniel Sims, April 12, 2025
Whistleblower tells Congress Facebook worked with China on censorship and data access

By Skye Jacobs, April 12, 2025
Sony stops making 8K TVs, but ultra high-def cameras remain key to future

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 11, 2025
Researcher uncovers network of risky Chrome extensions with over 4 million installs

By Cal Jeffrey, April 11, 2025
Razer launches PC Remote Play app to compete in game streaming arena

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 11, 2025
Touchable 3D holograms are now a reality in world-first breakthrough

By Shawn Knight, April 11, 2025
Google Workspace undercuts Microsoft offer with 71% discount for US government agencies

By Zo Ahmed, April 11, 2025
Microsoft says Edge 134 is up to 9% faster with real-world performance boosts

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 11, 2025
Startup wants to use lasers to cool chips in a weirdly precise way

By Zo Ahmed, April 11, 2025
Founder of Nate app faces fraud charge for using "AI" that was really human call center workers

By Rob Thubron, April 11, 2025
Rarely used microSD Express cards sell out in Japan after Switch 2 unveiling

By Daniel Sims, April 11, 2025
Trump's tariffs force laptop makers like Dell and Lenovo to halt US shipments

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 11, 2025
Windows Recall is finally nearing launch, Microsoft suggests

By Rob Thubron, April 11, 2025
Microtransactions accounted for 58% of PC gaming revenue last year

By Skye Jacobs, April 11, 2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs RTX 4060 Ti: early benchmarks show modest gains

By Rob Thubron, April 11, 2025
Whisky, a popular Wine frontend for Mac gamers, is no more

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 10, 2025
CEO Andy Jassy outlines Amazon's future as "the world's largest startup"

By Skye Jacobs, April 10, 2025
Ubisoft argues players don't own their games in wake of The Crew lawsuit

By Daniel Sims, April 10, 2025
The Pixel 9a could be the best Android phone you can get for $499

By Ivan Franco, April 10, 2025
Windows 95 start-up chime and Minecraft soundtrack added to National Recording Registry

By Shawn Knight, April 10, 2025
AMD confirms Zen 5 silicon is also vulnerable to "EntrySign" BIOS microcode bug

By Zo Ahmed, April 10, 2025
Teens and tech: Almost 90% own iPhones, most use Instagram and Spotify

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 10, 2025
More Microsoft job cuts could hit non-coding staff and middle managers

By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2025
At Cloud Next, Google bets on AI everywhere

By Bob O'Donnell, April 10, 2025
WordPress launches AI website builder for fast, easy creation

By Zo Ahmed, April 10, 2025
UK government developing homicide prediction algorithm to identify potential violent offenders

By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2025
AMD quietly unveils its refreshed Zen 4 gaming laptop CPUs – the Ryzen 8000HX series

By Daniel Sims, April 10, 2025
OpenAI files countersuit against Elon Musk to stop his disruptive actions and "sham" takeover bid

By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2025
Microsoft surveys users about new icon designs in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

By Skye Jacobs, April 10, 2025
Trump's 125% tariffs hit Chinese Amazon sellers hard, forcing them to raise prices or quit the US

By Rob Thubron, April 10, 2025
The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs

By Jose Vilches, April 10, 2025
For a limited time, grab a full Windows 11 Pro license for just $15

By TechSpot Deals, April 09, 2025
Microsoft Office is down to $49 for a lifetime license

By TechSpot Deals, April 09, 2025
Corsair's new firmware update tool works from the browser, doesn't require any additional software

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 09, 2025
Trump pauses global tariffs but raises China tariffs to 125%, potentially impacting laptops, monitors, and consoles

By Daniel Sims, April 09, 2025
Apple's iOS 19 refresh hints at a glossy aesthetic inspired by Windows 7

By Zo Ahmed, April 09, 2025
Micron raises prices on SSDs, memory products in response to tariffs

By Skye Jacobs, April 09, 2025
FreeDOS 1.4 released with improved tools and updated support

By Ivan Franco, April 09, 2025
John Carmack and Tim Sweeney defend Microsoft's WHAMM AI Quake demo

By Cal Jeffrey, April 09, 2025
Dangerous WhatsApp bug on Windows let hackers run malicious code

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 09, 2025
Catch up on Severance and Shrinking with Apple TV+ currently discounted to $3 per month

By Shawn Knight, April 09, 2025
Kioxia new optical PCIe 5.0 SSDs can do 40-meter cable lengths with no performance loss

By Zo Ahmed, April 09, 2025
Microsoft fires engineers over AI protest at 50th-anniversary event

By Rob Thubron, April 09, 2025
Next-gen DRAM+ could transform AI and edge computing, say FMC and Neumonda

By Skye Jacobs, April 09, 2025
Nvidia to unveil RTX 5060 Ti next week, rumored prices are good news for gamers

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 09, 2025
Repair shops in India are fighting planned obsolescence by creating $100 laptops

By Zo Ahmed, April 09, 2025
TSMC could face over $1 billion fine for violating Huawei export ban

By Rob Thubron, April 09, 2025
Google's DeepMind accused of paying AI staff to do nothing - as long as they don't work elsewhere

By Skye Jacobs, April 09, 2025
Razer pulls new Blade laptops from its US store amid tariff concerns

By Rob Thubron, April 09, 2025
DOGE ditches magnetic tape, but experts defend the legacy tech

By Daniel Sims, April 09, 2025
Trump's dream of a US-made iPhone clashes with Apple's manufacturing reality

By Rob Thubron, April 09, 2025
GTA VI and Switch 2 projected to increase video game spending despite tariffs

By Daniel Sims, April 08, 2025
News industry calls for regulation as AI companies face mounting copyright backlash

By Skye Jacobs, April 08, 2025
Nvidia AI servers coming from Mexico could be partially exempt from Trump's tariffs

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 08, 2025
Want realistic AI images in Midjourney? Just add a camera filename

By Shawn Knight, April 08, 2025
Microsoft extends driver synchronization support through Windows Server Update Services again

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 08, 2025
The 286,000-volt "Bear Blaster" fires fierce 5-inch sparks to scare off bears

By Zo Ahmed, April 08, 2025
Apple's China exposure makes it most vulnerable in US-China trade war

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 08, 2025
Weighing the Internet: A thought experiment that keeps getting lighter

By Skye Jacobs, April 08, 2025
Frontier sets fluid dynamics speed record, cutting simulation time from 38.5 to 1.5 hours on AMD GPUs

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 08, 2025
Humanoid robots like Digit and Apollo are expanding beyond Amazon warehouses

By Rob Thubron, April 08, 2025
World's first 128GB DDR5 RAM with 8,000 MT/s speeds just happens to come in a luxurious golden body

By Zo Ahmed, April 08, 2025
Apple fights UK government over iCloud backdoor as tribunal rejects secret hearing

By Rob Thubron, April 08, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5060 and 5050 laptops appear with 8GB of VRAM, desktop 5060 Ti lands near 3080 Ti in FurMark

By Daniel Sims, April 08, 2025
Shopify CEO: justify new hires by proving AI can't do the job better

By Rob Thubron, April 08, 2025
Consumers race to Apple stores as tariff fears spark iPhone rush

By Skye Jacobs, April 08, 2025
Waymo responds to reports of using vehicle interior cameras for targeted ads

By Rob Thubron, April 08, 2025
Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $800 million, raising $100 million every year since 2022

By Daniel Sims, April 07, 2025
New restrictions on China's rare earths will likely disrupt tech and defense industries

By Skye Jacobs, April 07, 2025
Joy-Con 2 won't have Hall effect thumbsticks, Nintendo dodges drift questions

By Cal Jeffrey, April 07, 2025
Nintendo defends Switch 2 pricing amid tariff concerns and gamer backlash

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 07, 2025
Fusion rocket could cut Mars trips in half and reach Pluto in four years

By Skye Jacobs, April 07, 2025
Proton VPN revamps apps across all platforms, keeps free plan

By Ivan Franco, April 07, 2025
Nvidia open-sources PhysX engine, including GPU kernel code

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 07, 2025
Scammers are exploiting tax season panic with convincing new email traps

By Zo Ahmed, April 07, 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 with a flashed BIOS could outperform the RX 9070 XT

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 07, 2025
Saddle up: Kawasaki shows off hydrogen-powered robot horse

By Zo Ahmed, April 07, 2025
A Minecraft Movie beats Super Mario Bros. for biggest video game adaptation launch

By Rob Thubron, April 07, 2025
Futurist says the key to living longer is making it to the 2030s – AI will take it from there

By Zo Ahmed, April 07, 2025
Meta ends its fact-checking program, replacing it with Community Notes

By Rob Thubron, April 07, 2025
Bombardier's Global 8000 aims to be the fastest civilian jet since the Concorde

By Zo Ahmed, April 07, 2025
China unveils GPMI, an HDMI and DisplayPort rival with 192 Gbps bandwidth and 480W power delivery

By Rob Thubron, April 07, 2025
Is DDR5-8000 Worth It? The Ryzen AM5 Test

By Steven Walton, April 07, 2025
Space Force awards $13.7 billion in contracts to SpaceX and two others for national security missions

By Skye Jacobs, April 06, 2025
MIT showcases quantum chip communication without physical contact

By Zo Ahmed, April 06, 2025
Quake II runs on WHAMM, Microsoft's experimental AI for real-time gaming

By Skye Jacobs, April 06, 2025
This wooden Raspberry Pi-powered typewriter is the perfect antidote to writer's block

By Zo Ahmed, April 06, 2025
Honda to test compact hydrogen system for space exploration on the ISS

By Skye Jacobs, April 06, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card power cable melts at both ends, bulge spotted at PSU side

By Rob Thubron, April 06, 2025
Trump delays TikTok ban another 75 days after China stalls divestment deal following tariffs

By Daniel Sims, April 05, 2025
New research shows your AI chatbot might be lying to you - convincingly

By Zo Ahmed, April 05, 2025
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch rumored for April 16, pre-built desktops appear starting at $1,149

By Daniel Sims, April 05, 2025
Microsoft's Copilot gains the ability to complete web tasks on your behalf

By Zo Ahmed, April 05, 2025
Trump's tariffs send shockwaves through the video game industry

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 04, 2025
Employee calls Microsoft AI boss a "war profiteer" during 50th-anniversary speech

By Cal Jeffrey, April 04, 2025
What was the first game controller to add vibration feedback?

By TechSpot Trivia, April 04, 2025
Microsoft's $350 Windows 365 Link cloud client is now available

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 04, 2025
Windows 11 is getting a revamped Start Menu

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 04, 2025
Amazon can now shop other websites on your behalf

By Shawn Knight, April 04, 2025
Intel and TSMC reach preliminary agreement on US chip manufacturing joint venture

By Rob Thubron, April 04, 2025
Every first-party Nintendo Switch 2 game will cost $70 or $80 – even the old ones

By Daniel Sims, April 04, 2025
Chromebooks get an AI upgrade with MediaTek's new Kompanio Ultra chip

By Skye Jacobs, April 04, 2025
Shenmue named most influential video game ever, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II lands in seventh place

By Rob Thubron, April 04, 2025
AMD Ryzen 9800X3D drives 8-core CPU adoption past 6-core chips

By Daniel Sims, April 04, 2025
Intel revives iconic "Intel Inside" slogan with a modern twist

By Skye Jacobs, April 04, 2025
AMD moves 3x more CPUs than Intel, rakes in 5x the revenue on Amazon

By Rob Thubron, April 04, 2025
The Machines Calling Balls and Strikes - Baseball Joins the Tech Takeover

By Arthur Daemmrich and Eric S. Hintz, April 04, 2025
Nvidia claims 10x graphics performance boost on Switch 2, with DLSS and ray tracing support

By Cal Jeffrey, April 03, 2025
Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 03, 2025
Microsoft CTO predicts AI will generate 95% of code by 2030

By Skye Jacobs, April 03, 2025
Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 03, 2025
Google's new battery tech will lower capacity over time, whether you like it or not

By Zo Ahmed, April 03, 2025
Arm is aiming to win half of data center CPU market by year's end

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 03, 2025
Trump's tariffs could prove to be a "nuclear bomb" on international trade and tech imports, experts warn

By Zo Ahmed, April 03, 2025
Miniature robot takes flight using magnetic fields, no onboard power

By Skye Jacobs, April 03, 2025
Google AI falls for April Fools' prank story, presents it as real news

By Zo Ahmed, April 03, 2025
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 03, 2025
Counterfeit Android phones are hiding pre-installed malware that can infect every system process

By Rob Thubron, April 03, 2025
ChatGPT can now generate fake receipts realistic enough to scam businesses

By Zo Ahmed, April 03, 2025
Software engineers offer $10,000 reward to anyone who helps them land six-figure jobs

By Rob Thubron, April 03, 2025
Laptop RTX 5080 comes within 15% of RTX 5090 performance in benchmarks

By Daniel Sims, April 03, 2025
Early reviews of Minecraft movie suggest it's better than expected

By Rob Thubron, April 03, 2025
Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 could debut this year with breakthrough all-solid-state battery

By Skye Jacobs, April 03, 2025
AMD responds to Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU failures, blames memory compatibility issues

By Rob Thubron, April 03, 2025
Last-minute TikTok bidders include Amazon and OnlyFans founder

By Daniel Sims, April 03, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 is official with 7.9" 120fps VRR display, 4K at 60fps when docked

By Cal Jeffrey, April 02, 2025
Inzoi is the hottest new life sim, and fans are already making it extra spicy with NSFW mods

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 02, 2025
Multimillion-dollar deal sees Meta become the official tech partner of the UFC

By Shawn Knight, April 02, 2025
Meta's $1,000+ Hypernova smart glasses may launch this year with tiny built-in display

By Rob Thubron, April 02, 2025
NFL to replace chains with Sony's 8K cameras and Hawk-Eye technology for measuring first downs

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 02, 2025
Breakthrough brain-to-voice tech brings natural speech within reach for paralyzed patients

By Skye Jacobs, April 02, 2025
AMD hits record CPU share as new top GPU and OS emerge on Steam survey

By Rob Thubron, April 02, 2025
Gmail adds end-to-end encryption for internal emails in enterprise beta

By Daniel Sims, April 02, 2025
Amazon restricts some Nvidia RTX 50 and AMD Radeon 9070 GPU sales to Prime members

By Rob Thubron, April 02, 2025
Holographic PC fans are here, and RGB may never look the same

By Skye Jacobs, April 02, 2025
The AI shift is leaving traditional compute vendors behind

By Jonathan Goldberg, April 02, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 official reveal is today, watch the livestream here

By Rob Thubron, April 02, 2025
Intel's 18A node enters risk production, paving the way for Panther Lake

By Daniel Sims, April 01, 2025
Waste fires are on the rise largely thanks to the lithium-ion batteries in vape pens

By Cal Jeffrey, April 01, 2025
Google promotes new security requirements for HTTPS encryption providers

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 01, 2025
Gartner projects $644 billion in 2025 AI spending, but few understand GenAI's actual value

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 01, 2025
First 3D-printed train station in Japan was assembled in record time

By Skye Jacobs, April 01, 2025
Windows 11 sees a major spike in market share as Windows 10 nears its official EOL

By Kishalaya Kundu, April 01, 2025
New Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes the reins with a familiar but faster plan

By Bob O'Donnell, April 01, 2025
Mozilla is working on new Thunderbird "Pro" email offerings and Thundermail

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 01, 2025
New and simpler hack lets you bypass Microsoft account requirement when installing Windows

By Zo Ahmed, April 01, 2025
Acer's new Predator QD-OLED monitors deliver 240Hz at 4K and 1440p resolutions

By Rob Thubron, April 01, 2025
New Microsoft Windows recovery feature aims to prevent CrowdStrike-like outages

By Zo Ahmed, April 01, 2025
Lawyers may soon charge $10,000 an hour thanks to AI, says LexisNexis CEO

By Rob Thubron, April 01, 2025
Doom: The Dark Ages is coming to Battle.net, signaling a new Microsoft trend

By Daniel Sims, April 01, 2025
Some Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are dying unexpectedly, mostly on Asrock motherboards – is user error to blame?

By Rob Thubron, April 01, 2025
EV chargers now outnumber gas pumps in California

By Skye Jacobs, April 01, 2025
YouTuber ordered to pay "King of Kong" Billy Mitchell $230,000 over defamation claims

By Rob Thubron, April 01, 2025
ChatGPT image tool is "melting" GPUs, OpenAI lands $40 billion in new funding

By Skye Jacobs, April 01, 2025