AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive
The DDR5 crunch brings back the Ryzen 7 5800X, and even the Ryzen 5 3600
AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Jensen Huang are among the biggest beneficieries
Pinta lets you edit images without the complexity of advanced editors
Pinta is a simple open-source image editor aimed at basic editing tasks like cropping, resizing, drawing, and quick color adjustments. It includes support for layers, effects, and a full undo history, while keeping system requirements low.
Microsoft Office is down to $35 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying any subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $35. All the essential tools you need for work or personal projects at over 80% off the regular price.
Robotaxis can drive themselves, but still pay humans $20 to close the door
Door glitches and power outages are creating a new kind of gig work
TL;DR: For all the talk of self-driving cars erasing human labor, hundreds of Waymo vehicles across LA and San Francisco are proving the opposite. The company's robotaxis depend on people – some paid through a towing app called Honk, others working behind computer screens – to handle simple physical tasks that the machines can't manage on their own.
The PlayStation 5 is powered by a GPU roughly equal to which PC graphics card?
Is it closest to a Radeon, GeForce, or Intel graphics equivalent?
Google is finally letting you change that embarrassing old Gmail address
Good news, LimpBizk1tfan182
Ten former Samsung employees charged over DRAM technology leak to China
Investigators say hundreds of 10nm DRAM process steps were copied by hand and funneled through shell companies
AI data centers may run on nuclear reactors from retired Navy aircraft carriers and submarines
The concept repurposes Cold War-era technology for modern computing needs
Magnetic cloaking is moving from theory to real-world engineering
The approach could enable custom magnetic shielding for MRI machines, quantum sensors, and fusion tech
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Nvidia RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580: Budget GPU Battle
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Single Stick vs. Dual Channel RAM: How Much Performance Do You Actually Lose?
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AMD FSR Redstone Looks Sharp on Paper, Plays Rough, Launches Broken
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6 Years of Mid-Range Radeon GPUs Tested: The 9070 Comes Out on Top
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The Best SSDs and Storage - Late 2025 Update
No Ryzen Killer: Intel Core Ultra 5 225F Review
Almost no one asked for it, but curiosity won out. We're taking a close look at Intel's Core Ultra 5 225F – a locked, budget-focused CPU that's been quietly sitting on shelves for nearly a year.
This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch
Officially available on Windows Server 2025, but works with Windows 11
In a nutshell: Microsoft recently updated Windows Server 2025 with a native NVMe driver that can significantly increase SSD performance. While the new driver is not officially available for consumer versions of Windows, enterprising developers have seemingly found a neat registry hack to enable it in Windows 11, potentially boosting NVMe SSD performance by up to 80 percent.
Lost Unix v4 source code from 1973 recovered from decades-old magnetic tape
Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M magnetic tape dates back to 1973 and contains roughly 40 megabytes of data – the earliest surviving Unix release in which both the kernel and core utilities were written in C.
Intel's Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs spotted with up to 86 cores, 336MB cache, and $9,300 pricing
Threadripper Pro competition, anyone?
Missile-grade magnets at risk as China tightens grip on rare earths
Samarium-cobalt components for Tomahawks, fighter jets, and hypersonic weapons now hinge on a finite European stockpile
The global robotaxi rollout is accelerating faster than expected
From London to Abu Dhabi, driverless taxis edge closer to mainstream deployment
Star Citizen's single-player spin-off is now playable start to finish, still set for 2026
Star Citizen funding reached $900 million in 2025, likely to break $1 billion next year
Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration
Speeding up BitLocker, but only on new hardware
Why some video games improve brain function – and others don't
New research ties strategy games like StarCraft II to more efficient neural networks
Connecting the dots: Far from being a mindless escape, video games help the brain process information more efficiently and adapt more readily to complex tasks, according to a growing body of research. The emerging evidence suggests that the type of game and how it taxes the brain's systems are key to whether playing strengthens cognition – or simply consumes time.
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Zen 6 and Nova Lake set to clash with massive 3D V-Cache designs
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Corsair replaces $1,000 96GB DDR5 memory kit with $35 RGB-only RAM
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AMD dominates CPU charts, taking 19 out of 20 top spots
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Epic Games Store's holiday free games keep on coming
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Nvidia's 100-hour GeForce Now cap hits all users next month
AMD Zen 6 and Intel Nova Lake could clash with massive 288 MB 3D V-Cache designs
Gaming performance could hinge on massive cache increases
Samsung's next Odyssey monitors push refresh rates to 1,024Hz
The company is also developing a glasses-free 3D 6K monitor
Maingear responds to DDR5 crisis with bring-your-own RAM program
Other PC builders are introducing similar programs
Android's Bluetooth car audio problem has gone unfixed for over a year
Google acknowledged the problem, but users are still waiting for a fix
Two-year preservation project recovers 144 lost ROMs from the Sega Channel streaming service
Sega was also working on a Genesis web browser
Gigabyte removes leaking thermal paste from RTX 5000 GPUs, replaces it with thermal pads
The RTX 5070 Ti Windforce OC V2 is the first to ditch the leaky gel
Trump wants to bring Japan's tiny kei cars to US roadways
US safety regulations and consumer tastes stand in the way of Japan's small vehicles
Switch into savings: Nintendo's holiday game sale is here
Buy something new or stock up on deeply discounted classics
Asus teases ROG G1000 case with spinning holographic display ahead of CES 2026
Not the first of its kind
Intelligence agencies warn Russia may be developing a new way to take out Starlink
NATO outlines a concept built around high-density pellets too small to track
A 300TB pirate archive claims to contain nearly every song ever streamed on Spotify
86 million songs and metadata for almost all of Spotify's 256 million tracks
Viral video asks if you'd take a $240,000 office job or $120,000 remote position
Which would you choose?
Hackers exploited BitLocker in ransomware attack on Romania's water agency
Around 1,000 systems were taken offline across the country
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