Researchers create a drone that becomes almost invisible by spinning 25 times per second
It exploits motion blur rather than camouflage to hide in plain sight
New Ryzen 7 7700X3D drops to $279, just days after launch
Newegg is knocking $50 off AMD's Ryzen 7 7700X3D with promo code PKC337, bringing it down from its $329 to $279. At that price, it becomes a stronger value proposition against the Ryzen 7 7800X3D while gaming performance stays nearly identical. Our full review is coming this week.
7-Zip patches a flaw that could run malware just from opening a bad file
Unlike most software, 7-Zip has no auto-update mechanism, so users must install the fix manually
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
FluentCleaner ditches the bloat with a new 3.5 MB Classic edition
FluentCleaner Classic swaps the WinUI 3 shell for a portable 3.5 MB WinForms build on .NET Framework 4.8, no runtime install needed. Same cleaning engine, just far less overhead than the standard app's 140 MB footprint. The result is a fast, no-frills cleaner that runs on virtually any Windows installation.
VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 brings architectural upgrades and expanded OS support
VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 is the latest version of the go-to desktop hypervisor for developers and power users. Now fully free for commercial and personal use, it runs Windows, Linux, and BSD virtual machines side-by-side on a single PC – no rebooting, no repartitioning.
Marvel drops the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer, set to open against Dune: Part Three this December
Doctor Doom, the X-Men, and Steve Rogers return as Marvel tries to make superhero movies feel like events again
Highly anticipated: Marvel has released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, bringing together nearly every corner of its cinematic universe for what may be the studio's biggest test since Endgame. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the MCU as Doctor Doom, facing a lineup that includes the Avengers, the New Avengers from Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four, Wakanda's heroes, and characters from Fox's original X-Men films.
A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk
No single byte is going to be wasted
Rufus improves Windows installs, adds RISC-V and UEFI:NTFS fixes
Rufus is a free utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISOs. Version 4.15 brings RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS, improves unattended Windows installations, and fixes Snapdragon X Arm64 boot crashes, and more.
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CD sales are up 16%, but half the buyers don't even own a CD player
Young buyers see physical media as collectibles
AWS billing goes haywire, hits customers with bills as high as $7.8 trillion
Customers watched penny-sized monthly charges balloon into economy-sized bills
Samsung cuts hundreds of US jobs while AI boom sends chip profits soaring
The company is relocating its US consumer electronics headquarters from New Jersey to Texas
Valve's Steam Machine may be selling between 12,000 and 15,000 units per week despite its high price
Valve's latest hardware could be selling far better than many expected
Indie Gaming's Next Big Wave Is Coming From Outside the West
The next great game could come from anywhere. Developers across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Oceania are turning local stories and fresh ideas into global hits that are reshaping the industry.
The latest Microsoft Office 2024 Pro suite is now $55 in this limited-time deal
Unlock your productivity with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and Outlook
FBI arrests 21-year-old accused of infecting 8,000 PCs with malware through fake Steam games
The scheme stole roughly $220,000 from about 80 crypto wallets over nearly two years
Nvidia may have RTX 5000 Super GPUs ready, but costly 3GB GDDR7 is holding them back
The new memory chips reportedly cost more than three times as much as standard 2GB modules
Bethesda confirms Fallout 5, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, and new Obsidian Fallout game
Microsoft is betting on Fallout and Elder Scrolls to reassure fans after brutal Xbox layoffs
India fined HP $14.4 million for rigging government bids and fixing ink and toner prices
WhatsApp messages allegedly show HP India and resellers splitting contracts and coordinating prices
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Repair shops are booming as people keep putting phones in fridges
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Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
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SoftBank says AI will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble
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This PC gamer turned old SSDs into gorgeous physical cartridges for Steam games
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Nvidia and Sega are teaming up, 30 years after Sega saved Nvidia from bankruptcy
GameStop now makes more money from Pokemon cards than video games
GameStop's CEO says physical games are "totally irrelevant" to the company
San Francisco warns Apple and Google to stop profiting from AI nudify apps
Apple and Google were given 28 days to explain how they will address the apps
iPhone owners hit 87% loyalty rate this year, Android-to-iPhone switching drops to 12%
Apple and Google spent years trying to steal each other's users. New data shows it barely worked
Spotify is deleting millions of AI-generated music tracks to fend off spammers
A dedicated team within the company is now fighting against AI-powered audio slop
Chinese memory maker CXMT's output has grown from 40,000 to 720,000 wafers in a few years, and it's closing in on Micron
Corsair and other brands are increasingly relying on CXMT-made DRAM chips
OnePlus confirms exit from US and European markets, will replace OxygenOS with ColorOS
Customers will continue to receive software updates and after-sales support, however
Japan's first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks
Japan wants 30% of the global robotics market by 2040
Apple's OLED iPad mini could arrive this October, kicking off a major iPad overhaul
The OLED Air and Pro are expected to follow in spring 2027, alongside a new standard iPad in Q1
The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same access as Gemini on Android
The decision forces equal footing for external AI assistants and mandates anonymized search data pipelines
This Lenovo laptop is the first to use inkjet-printed OLED, a technology that could make OLED screens cheaper
Inkjet-printing produces cheaper, longer-lasting, and more power-efficient OLED panels
Over 4,500 Google workers demand layoff protections as Alphabet's value hits $4.3 trillion
"Make no mistake: this is a company that is enjoying massive, unprecedented success"
A Doom developer says Microsoft "destroyed an immense amount of value" at id Software
John Carmack is losing faith in Microsoft's stewardship
GTA 6 hacker who was sentenced to life in a secure hospital is moved to prison ahead of retrial
His retrial is scheduled for the same month GTA 6 launches
Researchers synchronize 105,000 tiny magnetic oscillators in 45 nanoseconds, pointing to faster, low-power computing
This computing trick skips quantum's biggest problem
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