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Bowers & Wilkins PI7 initial review: B&W goes true wireless at last

(Pocket-lint) – Audiophile brand Bowers & Wilkins has always taken its sweet time in adopting new technologies. It told Pocket-lint in the past that this is intentional – it likes to wait until the market matures and its own high audio quality standards can be met. It was relatively late to market with a Bluetooth… Read more

Call of Duty: Warzone now has 100 million players — as does Apex Legends

In the battle royale of battle royale games, there doesn’t need to be a single winner. Call of Duty: Warzone now has 100 million players, the same number Apex Legends achieved just a week ago. They can share a victory royale with Fortnite, with its 350 million-plus players (as of May 2020), as well as… Read more

Ryzen 5000 Mobile RAM Guide: The Best RAM For AMD Ryzen Laptops

Home News AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile Memory Scaling (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Today we’ll dive in deep on the best memory settings for your Ryzen mobile laptop. Sequels don’t always live up to the originals, and that’s true even in the processor world. In AMD’s case, however, it’s the complete opposite. The Zen microarchitecture has… Read more

Vote in the KitGuru Reader Survey and win a Zotac ZBox Magnus One w/ RTX 3070

Home / Tech News / Annual Awards / Vote in the KitGuru Reader Survey and win a Zotac ZBox Magnus One w/ RTX 3070 Andrzej 7 hours ago Annual Awards, Featured Announcement, Tech News Once a year, we ask you, our readers, to tell us what’s hot and what’s not in our unique KitGuru Reader… 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

Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million

Today, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s NFT sold for about $5.4 million, or 2,224 ETH. The NFT is of an artwork that shows an image of Snowden’s face made from pages of a US appeals court decision that ruled the mass surveillance program Snowden exposed had violated US law. The image is called “Stay Free.” The… Read more

Microsoft is giving away a custom Flight Simulator PC that won’t play Flight Simulator at max settings

If I were the Microsoft marketing executive pitching a once-in-a-lifetime giveaway of an incredible custom-built Flight Simulator PC, I would do two things: 1) I would probably make it look like a full jet engine, not half an exposed jet engine, to avoid reminding people how airplanes can rarely (but terrifyingly) fail: 2) I would… Read more

Despite Shortages, PC Shipments Up 55 Percent in Q1

Home News (Image credit: HP) News stories about chip shortages for various applications have become so common in the past few months that they now sound like background noise. It’s no secret that demand for PCs and other electronics is high, but sales of personal computers have actually beaten all the expectations in the first… Read more

That Fyre Fest tweet with the sad sandwich will be auctioned as an NFT for medical expenses

Trevor DeHaas is auctioning his 2017 tweet of the “dinner” he received at Fyre Fest as an NFT. But unlike the Fest itself, the tweeted photo of the limp cheese slice on wheat bread with some greens and a sad tomato in a styrofoam container isn’t a grift; as first reported by Axios, DeHaas is… Read more

Sony X90J pricing revealed: successor to 2020’s Award-winning XH90 starts at £1149/$1300

Home News (Image credit: Sony) Sony has announced the UK and US pricing of its X90J range of TVs. Pricing is as follows: 50-inch Sony KD-50X90J: £1149, $1300 55-inch Sony KD-55X90J: £1249, $1500 65-inch Sony KD-60X90J: £1499, $1800 75-inch Sony KD-75X90J: £2299, $TBC The three smaller models will go on sale this month, with the… Read more

Vergecast: WWDC rumors, Clubhouse competition, and the cookiepocalypse

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. This week, Nilay and Dieter talk with Verge deputy editor Dan Seifert about this week’s rumors about the next big Apple product announcements… Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 GPU Is Seemingly Slower Than The Radeon RX 550

Home News Asus DG1-4G (Image credit: Intel) The first benchmark (via Tum_Apisak) of Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 is out. The graphics card’s performance is in the same ballpark as AMD’s four-year-old Radeon RX 550 – at least in the Basemark GPU benchmark. If we compare manufacturing processes, the DG1 is obviously the more advanced offering…. Read more

Intel’s 11th Gen Core i9 processor boosts Microsoft Flight Simulator by 20 percent

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I built a new gaming PC in September to play new games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk 2077, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I figured that picking Intel’s Core i9-10900K and Nvidia’s RTX 3090 would make this machine… Read more

12 of the best Cambridge Audio products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge) In the early 1960s, before it became known as ‘Silicon Fen’, the small university city of Cambridge, long a magnet for scientists and engineers, started to attract a new breed of technologically minded entrepreneurs. It was in this stimulating environment, with networks of like-minded people, that a group of young… Read more

PC Fan Faceoff: Noctua NF-A12x25 vs. Thermaltake ToughFan 12

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) When Noctua came out with the NF-A12x25 fan almost three years ago, it quickly went on its way to becoming arguably the world’s best PC fan. It performed great as an airflow fan, CPU cooler fan, and radiator fan. But bathed in the company’s iconic brown and beige, the… Read more