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Gigabyte Announces Its First RTX 3050 Series Laptops and a Core i9 Flagship

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Gigabyte is announcing seven new laptops featuring the hardware from Intel and Nvidia, two of which are packing Nvidia’s brand new RTX 3050 Ampere mobile GPU. The new Gigabyte G5 and G7 are the company’s latest budget-friendly offerings for mainstream buyers. Both models are packing Intel’s 11th Gen Core processors,… Read more

AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 Could Have 8GB of Memory

Home News (Image credit: AMD) An ASRock filing to the ECC has indicated that AMD’s future RX 6600 and RX 6600XT could be equipped with an 8GB memory configuration. ASRock’s ECC filing showcases model name names for ASRock’s custom RX 6600 and RX 6600XT graphics cards and will be ready when (maybe if) AMD releases… Read more

New HTC Vive Pro 2 VR Headset Taps AMD, Nvidia for Display Stream Compression

Home News (Image credit: HTC) HTC kicked off its Vivecon 2021 virtual event with a big announcement. During the opening keynote today, the company revealed a pair of near-5K resolution VR headsets, the HTC Vive Pro 2, which connects to a PC, and a standalone product called the HTC Vive Focus 3. HTC said these… Read more

Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition

Our Verdict The new Atom’s headline ability is headphone playback, but don’t underestimate its value as a preamplifier. It’s a classy and versatile addition to Naim’s Uniti range. For Top-notch streaming Great headphone stage Also a great smart preamp Against No HDMI ARC input Sound+Image mag review (Image credit: Future) This review originally appeared in… Read more

Walmart could undercut Roku and Amazon with $30 4K Android TV streamer

Home News (Image credit: Walmart) Earlier this year we reported that Walmart was prepping a new streaming stick under its affordable ‘Onn’ brand. The big-box retailer is yet to release details of that product, but now another Onn media streamer has shown up on Walmart’s website. First reported by 9to5Google, the official listing for the… Read more

Instacart tells entry-level team to return to office, senior managers can stay home

Instacart is shifting to a primarily remote-first workplace, but employees say the company has arbitrarily chosen which teams have to come into the office in a way that hurts junior employees. Workers on the central operations team — which includes logistics and trust and safety — have been told they need to return to the… Read more

You can now buy NFTs on eBay, and ‘blockchain-driven collectibles’ are coming soon

eBay is now allowing NFTs to be sold on its platform, making the digital collectibles available side by side with physical ones. Whether you’re looking for a physical Dogecoin replica or a digital representation of Elon Musk holding Doge, eBay is apparently now the place to get both. At the moment, eBay wants to make… Read more

Blizzard is showing off two hours of Overwatch 2 next week

Blizzard has been relatively quiet of late when it comes to Overwatch 2. The developer teased some new character designs in February at Blizzcon, but there hasn’t been much news about the core game. It looks like that’s about to change, though: on May 20th, Blizzard will hold a two-hour-long live stream focused on the… Read more

Bose gets into hearing aid business with new FDA-cleared SoundControl hearing aids

Bose announced today that it will begin selling direct-to-consumer SoundControl hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss on May 18th. They’ll cost $849.95 and will be sold directly by Bose in five states — Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas — before they’re available nationally. The hearing aids are meant… Read more

Matter is the new name of Project CHIP, the partnership that promises to simplify your smart home

Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) — the ambitious smart home partnership that will see Apple, Apple, Google, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance, and dozens of other companies work together on an open standard — has gotten a new name: Matter. The rebranding comes ahead of the first Matter certifications, which are set to arrive before… Read more

Subaru teases its first electric car, the Solterra EV

Subaru has released a pair of teaser images of its first electric car, which will be called the Solterra EV. Coming to the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan in 2022, it will be powered by the electric vehicle platform that Subaru has been co-developing with fellow Japanese automaker Toyota. In true teaser fashion, the images… Read more

HTC unveils new Vive Pro 2 with 5K resolution display and 120Hz refresh rate

HTC has unveiled the new Vive Pro 2, an update to its high-end virtual reality headset that adds a host of small but worthwhile improvements. The biggest change is the new display, which now offers 5K resolution (or 2448 × 2448 pixels per eye), 120Hz refresh rate, and a 120-degree field of view. That’s a… Read more

Nearly Every Big Tech Company Joined the New Semiconductors in America Coalition

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Apple, Microsoft, and many other big tech companies today announced the formation of the Semiconductors in America Coalition (SIAC) lobbying group, whose first order of business was lending its support to the CHIPS for America Act. The companies said in a press release that SIAC’s “mission is to advance federal… Read more

Phison Says SSD Hikes Coming Due to Chia, Supply Issues

Home News (Image credit: Phison) Phison expects SSD pricing to increase by at least 10% in the coming months due to rising demand driven by Chia cryptocurrency mining coupled with supply constraints. Furthermore, the company expects a currently short supply of SSD controllers to persist through 2022 and 2023. Phison sells SSDs and other NAND… Read more

How Initial D Manga Inspired My First PC Mod

My first case mod started when I prepared to attend my first LAN party, PDXLAN 2019 in Ridgefield, Washington. I had seen a couple of simple mods done by others that inspired me to mod my computer before attending. I opted for a very low budget build with a few older components, handmade parts and only… Read more