Latest articles by Andy Edser
The new HyperX SoloCast 2 looks like a return to gaming microphone simplicity, whereas its bigger brother is covered in all the bells and whistles you could think of
News Chalk and cheese.
HyperX just updated one of our favorite wireless gaming headsets with a new RGB base station... and slightly worse battery life
News Rough with the smooth, but the smooth looks plenty slippery, at least.
The gaming laptop deal I've been waiting for is finally here, as the RTX 5070 version of the OLED-equipped Asus G16 has dropped down to a reasonable sum
Deal It's a bit noisy and hot-running these days, but I'd still have one in a heartbeat.
I'm genuinely excited to check out Beyerdynamic's first 2.4 GHz wireless gaming headsets, but they'll only be available in Canada and the EU for now
News Tariff-related, perhaps?
Softbank announces it's buying a $2 billion stake in Intel as the Trump administration reportedly considers a 10% slice of the bright blue chipmaking pie
News Suddenly Intel looks like hot property again.
Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks
News Harrison Ford has been at the pomade, apparently.
Nvidia announces the official release of Smooth Motion for RTX 40-series GPUs, enabling Frame Generation in unsupported games
News Smooth frames in many, many games.
Can't afford the $7,000 gold-plated Asus RTX 5090? How about the downright reasonable $2,589 RTX 5080 Core version?
News It's practically budget. By comparison, I mean.
Colorful's cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn't think I'd be writing today
News FurMark scores are currently unknown. Yes, I know it's a GPU benchmark. I'm trying, okay?
China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech
News What was once a local policy now appears to be nationwide.
'Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money' says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. 'When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth'
News Not OpenAI investors, though. Obviously.
'You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,' says OpenAI's Sam Altman about AI relationships. 'You will not see us do that'
News Well, that's a... relief?
If you were ever worried about a machine uprising, check out the World Humanoid Robot Games and have a giggle with me
News I haven't had this much fun in ages.
Biwin has announced a teeny-tiny new type of SSD with shock and water resistance built-in, but it might be a while before you see one in your next mobile device
News MicroSD, eat your heart out. Prepare for Mini SSD.
Valve says Steam's performance monitor should now report GPU utilisation more accurately than Task Manager in the latest beta, and as a nerd, this pleases me in ways I can't describe
News Mmm, sweet accuracy.
Talks are reportedly underway for the US Gov. to take a stake in Intel, and its share price has already jumped 7% in response
News My, how the turntables have... turned.
AMD made major gains on Intel in the desktop CPU market over the last year, but still lags significantly behind in mobile, according to a Mercury Research report
News Those X3D desktop processors appear to be flying off the shelves.
A 'massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish' has partially shut down one of Europe's biggest nuclear power plants with four out of six of its reactors taken offline
News It's definitely had a major wobble. Sorry, not sorry.
'Just a tap water, please': Starbucks Korea asks customers to stop bringing desktop PCs, printers, and pop-up dividers into its coffee shops for a cheeky work session
News I'll leave the 39-inch ultrawide at home, yes?
Things I have (sort of) learned: Audio fades are one of the most CPU-intensive tasks you can possibly do, and my maths is too awful to properly explain why
News The more you know. Well, the more this video tells you, anyway.
Still using WinRAR? It might be time for an update, as a zero-day vulnerability is being 'exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents'
News WinArrrrgh.
I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops
News Things I will never attempt, item one.
Trump says Nvidia's 'super-duper advanced' Blackwell AI chips might be part of future China deals as long as they're 'somewhat enhanced, in a negative way'
News 'I think he’s coming to see me again about that, but that will be an un-enhanced version of the big one.'
