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Waze names former Hotwire president Neha Parikh as CEO

Waze has a new CEO: Neha Parikh, the president of Hotwire and a board member of Carvana. Parikh replaces Noam Bardin, who stepped down as CEO of the Google-owned navigation service last November after leading the company for 12 years. Parikh will join Waze as CEO starting in June, the company says. She is a… Read more

Watch How Intel’s Rocket Lake CPU Burns Up Before Dying

Home News Intel Core i5-11400 (Image credit: Fritzchens Fritz) Ever wonder how long Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake processor can survive without a CPU cooler? Well, famous chip photographer Fritzchens Fritz has killed a Core i5-11400 for the sake of science. The Core i5-11400, which is the current budget CPU king, arrives wielding six Cypress… Read more

XMG’s Neo 15, Neo 17 Packs Tiger Lake-H and Ampere in a Single Package

Home News XMG Neo 17 (Image credit: XMG) XMG has added a new processor option to the company’s existing Neo 15 and Neo 17. Intel’s new Core i7-11800H (Tiger Lake) processor will be powering XMG’s refreshed gaming laptops. Built on Intel’s 10nm SuperFin process, the Core i7-11800H wields eight Willow Cove cores with Hyper-Threading and… 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

ASRock Z590 Taichi Review: Cogs Aplenty

Our Verdict ASRock’s Z590 Taichi is a well-rounded premium mid-range motherboard, with more-than-capable power delivery, Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports, three M.2 sockets, Intel- and Killer-based networking, including Wi-Fi 6E. For + Unique style + Killer 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E Networking + Robust 90A power delivery + 2x Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports (40 Gbps) Against… Read more

Engineering sample leak gives our latest look at Intel ‘Alder Lake-S’

Intel Alder Lake-S is leaking again. This time around, we have new details on an engineering sample for an Intel Core-1800 CPU, a 16C/24T processor. A datasheet has also found its way online, detailing all remaining specifications, including maximum operating clocks, power limits, T-Junction, and more. The datasheet, which was shared by Igor’s LAB, shows that… Read more

Tile’s trackers will work with Amazon’s Sidewalk network starting June 14th

Tile has announced that it’ll be launching support for Amazon Sidewalk — the company’s local, Bluetooth network — on June 14th, allowing Amazon’s Echo devices to strengthen Tile’s network. The two companies had already announced plans for Tile to join Sidewalk last fall, but today’s announcement gives an actual date and details for the integration…. Read more

Ryzen 5 5600G Falls to the Core i5-11400 In New Benchmarks

Home News AMD Ryzen Processor (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) desktop APUs will make their debut in OEM and pre-built systems before hitting the retail market by the end of this year. However, the hexa-core Zen 3 APU (via Tum_Apisak) is already showing up in multiple benchmarks around the Internet. The Ryzen 5… Read more

Intel’s NUC 11 Essential Arrives With 10nm Jasper Lake CPUs

Home News Intel NUC 11 Essential (Image credit: FanlessTech) The specifications for Intel’s NUC 11 Essential (Atlas Canyon) device have emerged, courtesy of FanlessTech. The upcoming NUC utilizes the chipmaker’s 10nm low-powered Jasper Lake processors. Armed with Tremont cores, Jasper Lake checks in with thermal limits between 6W and 10W, so it doesn’t require any… Read more

Robert Koda Takumi K-15 EX preamp joins Absolute Sounds’ lavish Ten hi-fi series

Home News (Image credit: Robert Koda (Absolute Sounds) ) How do you get your aspirational audio fix when High End Munich is cancelled (again)? Absolute Sounds has the answer. Having brought some of the world’s finest audio equipment to the UK for over 40 years, the firm launched a new distribution concept called Ten at… Read more

Intel’s 35W 8-Core ‘Rocket Lake’ T-Series CPUs Arrive, Just Not in the US

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s latest low-power eight-core Core i9-11900T and Core i7-11700T ‘Rocket Lake’ desktop processors with a 35W TDP for LGA1200 motherboards are already available in Europe and Japan. But there’s no sign of them in the U.S. yet. Most performance enthusiasts are eager to get Intel’s unlocked K-series processors with a… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-11600K: Mid-Range Rocket Lake and Ryzen 5000 CPU Face Off

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware, Shutterstock) The Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X rivalry is a heated battle for supremacy right in the heart of the mid-range CPU market. AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors took the lead in the desktop PC from Intel’s competing Comet Lake processors last year, upsetting our Best CPU… Read more

CORSAIR K70 RGB TKL CHAMPION SERIES Keyboard + Mint Green Replacement Keycaps Review

Introduction We just had a new CORSAIR keyboard launch a couple of weeks ago, and the company did introduce a few new things with the flagship K100 keyboard late last year, including a standard bottom row of keycaps and stock PBT doubleshot keycaps that necessitated a new mold. Now, anyone with an inkling of how… Read more

The visual jazz of Genesis Noir

Genesis Noir is set at the start of existence, reimagining the Big Bang and the natural expansion of the universe as the violent end result of a love triangle gone wrong. It’s a marriage of jazz and film noir in a point-and-click adventure game that sometimes works better as an audiovisual plaything than it does… Read more

ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more