Apple Google Walmart will finally accept Apple Pay and Google Pay starting August 24 The retailer is finally giving up its decade-long fight against Apple Pay By Daniel Sims, August 22, 2026, 6:52 AM 26 comments
The Web AI The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price" Businesses must disclose if they use consumer data to set individual prices By Skye Jacobs, August 20, 2026, 3:43 PM 12 comments
Hardware Industry A four-year-old budget CPU is outselling AMD's best gaming chip in some markets AMD marketing director's tweet inadvertently shows how distorted the CPU market is By Daniel Sims, August 12, 2026, 8:06 AM 22 comments
Gaming Tech Culture GameStop now makes more money from Pokemon cards than video games GameStop's CEO says physical games are "totally irrelevant" to the company By Kishalaya Kundu, July 18, 2026, 8:57 AM 9 comments
Gaming Industry Data shows physical PlayStation games can be up to 90% cheaper than their digital versions Once Sony ends disc production in 2028, newer games will only be available at full digital price By Daniel Sims, July 10, 2026, 8:37 AM 24 comments
Tech Culture Electronics Most Americans want digital shelf labels and surveillance pricing banned Consumers fear retailers will use the technology to raise prices faster and more often By Rob Thubron, May 27, 2026, 7:56 AM 28 comments
Electronics Amazon blocks sales of e-bikes that exceed legal speed limits The move follows an investigation into listings for models capable of topping 40 mph By Rob Thubron, May 12, 2026, 8:13 AM 11 comments
Hardware Mobile Snapdragon X2 laptops launch with up to 18 cores, 5.0GHz clocks, and 80 TOPS NPU New laptops ditch conservative RAM and storage choices in favor of configurations built for heavier workloads By Skye Jacobs, April 8, 2026, 3:17 PM 16 comments
AI The Web Target puts customers on the hook for AI shopping assistant errors Terms say AI-made purchases are considered authorized by the user By Rob Thubron, April 6, 2026, 9:43 AM 29 comments
Electronics The Web Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts for smart features Account not required for basic TV functionality By Daniel Sims, March 27, 2026, 8:53 AM 10 comments
The Web Industry Amazon adds 1-hour and 3-hour delivery options, but convenience comes at a premium New paid delivery tiers are rolling out to more than 2,000 US cities and towns By Rob Thubron, March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM
Hardware The Web Amazon sold 60% fewer CPUs than a year ago, pointing to a stalled PC refresh cycle "Obsolete" CPUs like the Ryzen 5800X and Ryzen 3600 are up YoY By Daniel Sims, February 14, 2026, 12:15 PM 32 comments
Apple Hardware Apple redesigns its Mac buying experience with a new build-to-order configurator Taking a page out of Dell's playbook? By Skye Jacobs, February 1, 2026, 2:08 PM
Hardware Nvidia may have ended its Open Price Program that incentivized MSRP, "massive" GPU price increases expected From bad to even worse By Rob Thubron, January 23, 2026, 10:22 AM 20 comments
Gaming The Web GameStop fixes "infinite money" glitch in Switch 2 trade-in program Gaming GameStop By Alfonso Maruccia, January 22, 2026, 1:50 PM
Gaming GameStop is closing hundreds of stores as the physical game era fades Is GameStop on track to become the next Blockbuster? By Rob Thubron, January 11, 2026, 3:27 PM 11 comments
Hardware The Web AMD dominates Amazon's best-selling CPU chart, taking 19 of the top 20 spots All 14 of Amazon's best-selling processors come from Team Red By Rob Thubron, December 22, 2025, 5:16 AM 22 comments
Hardware Industry Global DRAM shortage squeezes OEMs, but PC retail prices remain stable for now Acer and Asus warn that higher costs will eventually reach consumers By Skye Jacobs, December 18, 2025, 12:05 PM
The Web AI Online shoppers in New York are seeing a new warning: "This price was set by an algorithm" New York now requires retailers to admit when prices come from your personal data By Skye Jacobs, December 2, 2025, 11:01 AM 12 comments
The Web Mobile A retailer sold iPad Airs for $17, now it wants them back Would you return it? By Rob Thubron, November 25, 2025, 10:34 AM 27 comments
Gaming Industry Switch 2 sales outpace original by 75%, driving record July hardware growth Nintendo's fastest-selling console, topping 2 million US sales By Daniel Sims, August 28, 2025, 12:34 AM 14 comments
Gaming Hardware Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 prices finally edging toward MSRP across US retailers Promising listings have appeared for the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti as well By Daniel Sims, August 22, 2025, 10:32 AM 11 comments
The Web Tech Culture Ebuyer could be next major UK PC parts retailer to shut down Another one bites the dust By Kishalaya Kundu, August 7, 2025, 5:13 PM 16 comments
The Web Industry Online spending hits $7.9 billion at start of Amazon Prime Day, up nearly 10% year over year Shoppers respond despite economic and tariff concerns By Rob Thubron, July 10, 2025, 8:59 AM 7 comments
Hardware Gaming Despite lukewarm reviews, Nvidia's RTX 5070 is Amazon's best-selling GPU A flawed market makes the RTX 5070 the least painful buy By Daniel Sims, July 8, 2025, 6:15 AM 9 comments