Latest articles by Jorge Jimenez
Million dollar GPU counterfeiting ring busted by Chinese police
News The crooks cleaned, repackaged, and sold used GPUs as new to unsuspecting customers online.
Intel may be about to out-AMD AMD in the budget CPU market
News Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh is pulling from a very familiar playbook if leaked details are correct.
Nvidia hasn't done it, so a redditor made an adorable mini RTX 3060 Founders Edition with a 3D printer
News Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself.
Turns out Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart CAN run on a hard drive... thanks to DirectStorage 1.2 on PC
News This becomes the first DirectStorage 1.2 game with GPU decompression support.
Your next router could be a lightbulb: Ultra-fast 'Li-Fi' tech just took a major step toward mass-market availability
News Li-Fi is said to be 100 times faster than Wi-Fi or "the equivalent of downloading 18 HD movies every second."
Audio-Technica AT2020USB-XP review
Speak up A solid premium mic with some interesting features for anyone with a soft voice.
Thank the GPU Gods! A new graphics card power connector to replace the troublesome 12VHPWR connector
News The new power connector will be part of the upcoming ATX 3.1 and PCI Express 6.0 specs.
Someone made a ChatGPT-powered bot that says 'dumb things that are somewhat funny' to waste telemarketers' time
News Finally, get some sweet revenge on those annoying telemarketers and record it for your pleasure.
The Stream Deck mobile app turns your phone into a handheld livestream control room
News The new Pro version of the app will support 64 keys and custom layouts.
HP Omen 16 (2023) review
Ill Omens Intel Core i7-13700HX | Nvidia RTX 4080 | 32GB DDR5 | 2TB NVMe SSD | $2,750
This simple feature is the reason I'm still using this $99 headset over objectively better ones for the last two years
flat ear-er I'm surprised more gaming headsets don't do this.
A humble RFID scanner is at the center of a fresh scandal in Formula 1's all-electric alternative
News One of the team's drivers said they weren't trying to "steal data" from rivals.
Amazon's 'dark patterns' alleged to have deceived millions of customers into signing up for seemingly endless Prime memberships
News Amazon reportedly called Prime's complicated cancellation process "Iliad", a new case by the FTC suggests.
Researchers smash 'energy density' record for rechargeable lithium batteries
News The first ever 711 Wh/kg rechargeable lithium battery isn't ready for practical use, but it's exciting for mobile electronics.
I demand you stop what you're doing and look at this cute Mac-shaped charger
News Power your laptop with a charger that looks like an old-school Mac smiling at you.
I felt like a multitasking monster in front of Samsung's new 49-inch OLED ultrawide gaming monitor
Going Wide The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 is looking to become the king of the ultrawide.
Alienware X16 (2023) review
X style Intel Core i9 13900HK | Nvidia RTX 4080 | 32GB LPDDR5 6000MHz | 1TB NVMe SSD | $2,949
Dough's new glossy OLED gaming monitor aims to reduce screen 'reflections by 70%'
News The Swiss company's flagship OLED 1440p gaming monitor is looking to make its mark against the Alienwares and Philips of the world.
Intel asks for more money to build its German megafab, government says nein
News Intel's plant would be the biggest foreign investment in postwar Germany.
HyperX Cloud III review
Head in Clouds A comfy headset that doesn't quite stand out in the crowded $99 gaming headset field.
EU commissioner calls for AI regulations: 'I don't see any right of machines to freedom of expression'
News Specifically, she's seeking new rules designed to prevent AI from being used to generate false information.
AI is being used to 'supercharge' phone scams with the cloned voices of your relatives
News Crooks are using voice cloning technology to trick sympathetic folks out of money.
