Astronomers utilizing the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, have detected a signal with a lookback time of a phenomenal 8.8 billion years. The radio signal originated from the most distant galaxy so far at a specific wavelength known...
Gigabyte and its in-house overclocker, HiCookie, just set a new world record for the fastest DDR5 memory speed ever achieved. The official record to beat, as recognized by a validated HWBOT listing, now stands at 11,135MT/s, or 11,135MHz if you...
With the electronics wonderland that is the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES 2023, now behind us, it's time to announce the lucky winners of our "New Year, New Gear" giveaway with Lenovo! We had four prize packs lined up for this...
This whole Microsoft-buys-Activision deal is looking less and less likely by the week. Last week, NVIDIA and Google spoke up against the purchase, and the week before that, Microsoft had to revise its response to the FTC to remove remarks that...
Apple is rolling out the hits today. Fans of the company's compact desktops have a new Mac Mini over which to salivate, and the portable crowd can "ooh" and "ah" at the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro units. Inside, you'll find a new generation of...
Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before, it’s possible to sidestep these requirements and force a Windows 11 install or upgrade...
We often talk of upgrades for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM in terms of relative value, but the biggest driver of savings is usually in the storage space. Whether you are considering an upgrade to your SSD, finally swapping out that spinning platter, or maybe...
Ookla released its Q4 report for 2022, and it showcases T-Mobile's continued dominance in the mobile operator space. T-Mobile led the pack by a large margin in Q4, with a median download speed of 151.37Mbps. This is an impressive increase over the...
Samsung gives a sneak peek at things to come, as it announces its latest 200-megapixel image sensor, the ISOCELL HP2. The announcement comes just a couple of weeks ahead of the company's Unpacked 2023 event, and seems to confirm the rumors of a...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an intruder in one of its images as the space agency attempts to fill in the gaps of the Milky Way. When the project was first proposed, 75% of all the Milky Way nearby neighbors had been imaged by Hubble. The...
The next time you purchase a laptop, gaming or otherwise, you might be surprised to discover that it's rocking a different type of memory module than you're used to seeing. While the majority of laptops up to this point have employed traditional...
A photo of a graphics card PCB with an NVIDIA AD103-301 GPU installed has been shared on a Chinese language tech forum. The image is clear enough to make out the GPU model number moderately easily and, if genuine, shows the PCB in a new breed of...
Hardware vulnerabilities are never fun, especially when actively exploited in the wild. Forward-looking companies try to get ahead of bad actors by encouraging responsible disclosure and awarding bug bounties. AMD has worked with security...
It was almost four decades ago when the Beastie Boys exclaimed, "You have to fight, for your right, to paaaaarrrty!" Fast forward 37 years and consumers are instead fighting for their right to repair their own electronics without proprietary...
DirectStorage is out! No, seriously—DirectStorage 1.1, which can drastically accelerate game asset loading time, is already released and available for developers to use. Unfortunately, there aren't actually any games that take advantage of...
In a continued effort to design more components in-house, Apple is nearing the launch of its own microLED displays. The first device to receive one of the in-house screens is reported to be the Apple Watch Ultra toward the end of 2024, with the...
When we initially looked at the second generation of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution technology, we came away impressed. It was a tremendous upgrade over the spatial upscaling method used by the original "1.0" version of FSR, and we recommended...
The start of a new year is the start of a new generation of devices. For savvy consumers, this means there are discounts to be found on the great devices of generations past, for those who want to put in the legwork. Who wants to do all that work...
You've probably seen numerous reports of US states moving to restrict the sale of internal combustion engines and encourage the shift to electric vehicles. It's become so common you might have misread the above headline, but it's no typo—lawmakers...
New research indicates that something is awry within the Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302. A team of astronomers at the University of Washington found "dramatic changes in the material within the wings," after comparing two pictures captured...
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a government organization that sells alcoholic beverages within Ontario, Canada, has published a statement notifying customers of a cybersecurity incident affecting the retailer’s online store. According...
Preorders for laptops powered by NVIDIA’s most potent Ada Lovelace architecture GPUs will start a week ahead of the official launch date, a leak has revealed. At CES 2023 earlier this month, NVIDIA said that devices packing the high-end GeForce RTX...