Here I am genuinely curious as to what Noctua, a company that specialises in making fans, is cooking up. Over on the company’s official X account, the company has teased “something new is coming…” with a short teaser video showing what it might be. From that, it’s not entirely clear what we’re looking at, but […]
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Razer forced to pay more than $1M in refunds for its RGB ‘surgical N95 respirators’ that were not N95 respirators
Back in January 2021, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Razer unveiled Project Hazel, a “surgical N95 respirator” with—of course—RGB lighting. There was just one problem: The Zephyr, as it came to be known, wasn’t actually N95 rated at all, and that little oversight is going to cost the company more than $1.1 million. […]
Read MoreThe tech I’m most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn’t x86
Dave James, once saw a laptop (Image credit: Future) This week I have been mostly: Playing around with one of the most ridiculous handhelds… which I still can’t help but like, and losing myself gazing lovingly at the Razer Blade 16’s glorious OLED screen. I’m a PC gamer, a tech obsessive, and probably a bit […]
Read MoreWalton Goggins reveals that parts of the Fallout show were filmed at a diamond mine where ‘there’s still diamonds on the ground’
Walton Goggins plays The Ghoul on the Fallout TV show, who over the course of the series becomes a memorable and conflicted link between the world as-was and as it is in the present day. It’s a fantastic performance, which will be no surprise to those who’ve followed Goggins’ career, and while basking in the […]
Read MoreSuffering so you don’t have to, this streamer has doubled up on haptic suits to feel the real pain of Skyrim VR
Having already spent over $15,000 on building the ultimate VR gaming set-up, one streamer has decided that the level of haptic feedback it offered simply wasn’t immersive enough. Cue an additional vest that replicates health damage in the form of electric shocks to the skin, to make sword hits, magic blasts, and dragon fire really […]
Read MoreEarly benchmark suggests Intel’s Battlemage GPU in Lunar Lake has lots of low-power promise
Intel’s forthcoming Lunar Lake CPU architecture, aimed at the low-power mobile market, will be the first processor to sport the chip maker’s Battlemage graphics chip. Very few details about the updated design exist in the wild but some early benchmark results (via Videocardz) have come to light, and they look very promising. Lunar Lake will […]
Read MoreIntel points at motherboard vendors for recent CPU instability issues but the chip maker isn’t entirely blame-free
You might recall reports of Unreal-based games crashing when running on gaming PCs using high-end Intel processors toward the start of this year. As the problem was getting flagged up around the world, things were serious enough for Intel to investigate the problem formally. That’s still ongoing but Intel has made an early statement on […]
Read MoreTSMC looks set to hit Intel where it hurts, announcing its A16 node with ‘Super Power Rail’ backside power delivery
While Intel has been busy making bets on its 18A node as part of its accelerated roadmap towards chip making dominance, TSMC appears to have been beavering away in the background to undercut it. It’s just announced its own “angstrom-class” process, A16, which thanks to its backside power delivery implementation looks set to not only […]
Read MoreGigabyte Aorus FO32U2 review
Another day, another 32-inch, 240Hz, 4K OLED messiah monitor, this time from Gigabyte. This is actually the third such panel we’ve reviewed in recent weeks, so safe to say we’re becoming quite familiar with what was, until very recently, a radical new segment in the monitor market. Indeed, for some time, the basic proposition of […]
Read MoreMicrosoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 and it’s giving me all the nostalgia feels
Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games. I didn’t really know how they worked, and I wasn’t very good, but there a hardware and gaming enthusiast was born. Now Microsoft has released the source code […]
Read MoreFancy a borked Intel CPU for just $3.25? This Japanese Gacha machine is just for you
I’ve sometimes toyed with the idea of building a wall display of dead hardware, so I can live out my fantasies of a house covered in futuristic greebles. This Japanese Gacha machine might be the cheapest way of getting hold of a large number of borked chips for my project, as it dispenses them for […]
Read MoreIntel CEO claims Core Ultra laptop chip is ‘hot’ but the company’s near-term outlook still isn’t exactly on fire
Intel’s Core Ultra laptop chip is hot. So says Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. No not that kind of hot, but instead selling like hotcakes, apparently. Despite that Intel’s latest forecasts were below expectations as the firm continues the battle to turn its fortunes around. During its latest earnings call (via Seeking Alpha) with analysts, Intel […]
Read MoreHP spends big to secure title sponsorship rights for the Ferrari Formula One team
It’s been a pretty big 24 hours in the world of Formula One. On top of rumors that Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey could be leaving the team for unknown pastures comes the news that Ferrari has named HP as its title sponsor for the next several years. That means the red team is […]
Read MoreMeta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return
VR is sometimes dismissed as a fad, with some seemingly desperate to ring the death knell on virtual reality and its associated hardware at the earliest opportunity. While we’re not so convinced, the latest financial report from Meta shows staggering expenses in regards to its VR headset and augmented reality division that are difficult to […]
Read MoreDough Spectrum Black 27 review
It feels weird when you’ve got a shiny new gaming screen sitting on your desktop, with all the rich OLED-ness we’ve been wanting from our monitors, to find yourself pining for the old-school IPS screen it’s just displaced. But that’s where I am with the new Dough Spectrum Black screen. If you were to just […]
Read MoreThis Fallout-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland game runs in Excel, because spreadsheets will outlive us all
If productivity apps were party guests, Microsoft Excel would be the guy who sits in the corner, interrupting every anecdote with the phrase “actually, I think you’ll find…”, and as a result, rarely gets invited back. It’s a dependable old workhorse of a program, depressingly accurate and dry as the apocalyptic wastes. However, this Fallout-inspired […]
Read MoreThe first official reference to the ‘AMD Ryzen 9000 series’ gives Zen 5 a name and hints at an imminent release date
We’ve suspected AMD’s Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it’s aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex keynote on June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS […]
Read MoreHyperX Cloud III Wireless review
The HyperX Cloud III Wireless offer a more affordable alternative to the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless we recommend as the best wireless gaming headset. For many PC gamers, that’s likely to be a tantalising offer. However, the Cloud III and Cloud Alpha are very different headsets, and I’m not entirely convinced by this cheaper unit. […]
Read MoreNASA manages to fix Voyager’s garbled data problem, even though it’s more than 15 billion miles away
Back in November, NASA’s second longest-running spacecraft Voyager I began sending data that made no sense whatsoever. Instead of information about its status and what various sensors were recording, all the scientists got was a meaningless repeated pattern. Well, after much head-scratching and hard work, engineers have fixed the issue and confirmed that Voyager I […]
Read MoreThe full Snapdragon X CPU line-up has now been unveiled, and according to Qualcomm’s numbers it should put the fear of ARM into AMD and Intel’s laptop divisions
Qualcomm has just taken the wraps off its new Snapdragon X range of laptop PC chips, giving us the full details of its first flush of ARM-based CPUs and a new lower-end model, too. The NEW Snapdragon X Plus processors will sit alongside the higher-spec X Elite chips, bringing the ARM architecture to the traditionally […]
Read MoreHomeworld 3’s latest system requirements won’t fill up your SSD but you’ll need all the CPU and GPU you can throw at it
With Homeworld 3 just weeks away from launch, Blackbird Interactive has done what surprisingly few developers do these days: updated and released a comprehensive system requirements chart. For gamers using a modest PC, it looks very promising, but if you’re hoping to play it at 4K with maximum graphics, you’re going to need the very […]
Read MoreApple reportedly slashes Vision Pro headset production and cancels updated headset as sales tank in the US
Apple has reportedly slashed production volumes of the Vision Pro mixed reality headset by nearly half. So says analyst and leading Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo reckons the original plan was for up to 800,000 units of the headset in 2024. This has now been cut to 400,000 to 450,000. He also notes that Apple […]
Read MoreRDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware
AMD has uploaded a set of new files to its Linux repository, something that it does regularly. What makes these special is the one specifically for graphics chips uses a codename that tallies with a previous update to its Linux compiler, all of which confirms that a refresh to the RDNA 3 architecture is nearing […]
Read MoreMeta is creating a Quest VR headset in the style of an Xbox, which probably means it’s black with a bit of green
Ready yourselves for a special edition of the Meta Quest 3. The theme? Xbox. The point? It comes with Xbox controllers and Game Pass in the box. Meta has announced that it will be opening up the OS included with the Meta Quest 3 to other hardware manufacturers, including Lenovo and Asus. The latter is […]
Read MoreAsus ROG Carnyx review
The new Asus ROG Carnyx marks the company’s entry into the hugely competitive streaming microphone industry. On paper, it has everything the discerning streamer needs; beautiful, all-metal design, USB connectivity, 24-bit audio, studio-grade 25mm condenser with a high-pass filter, internal pop filter, sidetone and of course, Aura Sync RGB lighting for the camera. All these […]
Read MoreAsus is creating the VR ‘gaming headset of the next generation’ built on Meta’s Horizon OS lifted off the Quest 3
The operating system powering Meta’s Quest headsets is going to be released to third-party hardware makers. The newly-named Meta Horizon OS is built on the foundations laid for today’s most popular VR headsets, and includes new tools and frameworks for utilising features we’ve come to expect from Quest headsets into new, original designs. And if […]
Read MoreNew rules to massively strengthen EU’s right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against
The European Parliament has just adopted new rules making the right to repair much stronger across EU member states. The new rules not only give consumers a hand in requesting support for repairing items from manufacturers but also crack down on ways to block third-party repairs. All of which should see everything from laptops to […]
Read MoreNew rules to massively strengthen EU’s right to repair successfully pass through European Parliament with 584 votes for, just 3 against
The European Parliament has just adopted new rules making the right to repair much stronger across EU member states. The new rules not only give consumers a hand in requesting support for repairing items from manufacturers but also crack down on ways to block third-party repairs. All of which should see everything from laptops to […]
Read MoreEK admits fault for financial issues facing employees and business partners: ‘We are committed to fulfilling our financial obligations and regaining your trust’
Update: EK’s current CEO and founder, Edvard König, has published a statement on the financial issues claimed by contractors, business partners and employees of the liquid cooling company. In which, König admits to delayed payments and a lack of communication, and outlines some corrective measures to attempt to address issues brought to light by various […]
Read MoreAsus adds ‘Intel Baseline Profile’ to new BIOS files to combat stability issues but the TDP is still higher than Intel’s actual baselines
With some Intel i9 users reporting issues with games crashing, Asus has responded by releasing new BIOS files for a raft of its Intel-based motherboards. The main update sports an ‘Intel Baseline Profile’ which is claimed to apply stock power limits to the CPU. However, the feature isn’t quite doing what it says it is, […]
Read MoreDDR5-10000 memory is closer than ever after JEDEC, the managing body of the standard, extends the base DDR5 spec
The march towards DDR5-10000 continues. Although overclockers have already well and truly passed that mark, those kinds of speeds are all but out of reach without extreme cooling and you have the combination of top quality memory and a CPU with an equally good memory controller. JEDEC is the body that defines and maintains the […]
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