Latest articles by Andy Edser
A vital rare earth element you've probably never heard of has surged in price by nearly 1,500% this year and it's essential for global chip manufacturing
News A very rare earth, apparently.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
Rodents My guide to buying the right gaming mouse for you.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset
Headgear If you're eyeing up potential headset purchases, you've come to the right place.
Microsoft's updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including 'Remote Attestation' for online system verification
News Cheaters never prosper. I mean, they do, but they shouldn't.
I don't know how I missed this playable Windows 95-era 3D Maze screensaver, but it's making me feel like I'm tripping out, man
News The endless walls of my perception, they're melting as we speak.
Despite Intel dropping the desktop CPU ball this year, its share of the market fell by just 4.9%—while AMD still lags significantly behind on mobile
News Existing OEM agreements to the rescue, it seems.
'We're facing [what has] never happened before: HDD, DRAM, HBM, NAND... all in severe shortage in 2026' says Silicon Motion's CEO as memory prices continue to soar
News Good news, everyone! I mean, terrible news, everyone!
$1 billion AI company co-founder admits that its $100 a month transcription service was originally 'two guys surviving on pizza' and typing out notes by hand
News And that tall guy buying a movie ticket was just two mischievous kids in a trench coat.
A Wall Street Journal investigation claims to have tracked how 2,300 Nvidia Blackwell AI chips made their way to China via an Indonesian telecoms provider
News A hop, a skip, and a jump across the ocean.
Best PC joysticks in 2026: These are my top picks for everything from flight sims to space shooters
Locked On The best PC joysticks take you to new heights.
AMD's FSR 4 Redstone Ray Regeneration update finally arrives in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which is better late than never
News Good things come to those who wait. Probably.
Task Manager can no longer become immortal after the most recent Windows update and I'm unreasonably sad about it
News It dared to dream.
Dbrand has teased a render of a Portal companion cube Steam Machine case, so you can... put a case around your case?
News You have to make it now, no takesie-backsies.
Apple's $230 iPhone-carrying 'sock' looks like something you could buy from an Etsy seller for $20, and it's already splitting the room like a busted seam
News Brand loyalty pushed to its stretchy limits.
SanDisk has launched the world's teeny-tiniest 1 TB USB-C drive, which looks to be one sneeze away from total oblivion
News I'm not the only one that constantly loses USB drives, right?
WhatsApp is reportedly becoming a dreaded web app again on Windows 11, with RAM usage increasing to a claimed 2 GB under the weight of all your spicy group chats
News If only you could upgrade your RAM cheaply to compensate...
AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D review
Score: 86% All the gaming benefits of 3D V-Cache for a reasonable sum.
You can slot a Switch 2 into this CRT-equipped retro console like a games cartridge, which sounds like the most satisfying use of a Nintendo product ever
News Probably won't need to blow on it first, though.
This bright spark built a 90 KB Minecraft server and got it running on a Wi-Fi-equipped lightbulb
News Lighting options.
Logitech MX Master 4 mouse review
Score: 78% A mixed bag, but it's still a great productivity mouse.
I think this $23 Amazon Basics USB desktop microphone should make more expensive models a little nervous
Budget or bust It sounds surprisingly good for the cash, and no one's happier about that than me.
Arc Raiders and Battlefield 6 prove that great performance and low system requirements are king for multiplayer PC games in 2025
Lean and mean People power.
Thermal Grizzly's WireView Pro II keeps an eye on your 12V-2x6 GPU power connector and can turn your PC off entirely if things get... melty
News The bear protects. Presumably, it does not attack.
Elon Musk suggested a novel use for 'bored' Tesla cars during a recent earnings call: combining their processing power to create a huge distributed 100 gigawatt AI inference fleet
News 'If they're not actively driving', of course.
'On a scale of 0-10... the meeting was a 12': The US and China have agreed on a one-year trade truce after Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping, although Nvidia Blackwell wasn't on the table
News 'Every year, we will review the deal, but I think the deal will go . . . long beyond a year' said Trump.
