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InWin’s new luxury case goes on sale for over $7,100 — Infinite is an overly large and heavy case with an eye-watering price tag

InWin, known for its limited-edition artistic showcase PC chassis, just put its latest 11th-generation signature case, “Infinite.” InWin says this case uses a 180-degree curved glass, the first ever used on a desktop computer, that wraps around your components to deliver a unique viewing experience for your PC’s parts. Aside from being a unique artistic… Read more

Intel Core 7 240H shows similar performance to Core i7-13620H on Geekbench — Core 7 240H could be a rewarmed Core i7-13620H

An upcoming Intel laptop processor has surfaced on Geekbench, revealing intriguing details about its performance and specifications. The Core 7 240H will potentially be part of Intel’s rumored Core 200H lineup, boasting ten cores (6-Performance + 4-Efficient cores) and 16 threads. Notably, the Geekbench listing (via Benchleaks) suggests the codename as ‘Raptor Lake,’ which could… Read more

This Raspberry Pi Pico 2 WalkPi puts music in your pocket and on-the-go

What’s the best way to listen to MP3s today? With a custom Raspberry Pi project, of course! Maker and developer Arnov Sharma has created a Raspberry Pi MP3 player from scratch modeled after the classic Walkman system. Sharma has dubbed his creation the WalkPi, and it features our favorite microcontroller—the Raspberry Pi Pico 2! We recently published our review… Read more

Crysis 3 source code has reportedly been leaked a decade after launch — Crysis 3 mods incoming?

nineEleven years and 9 months after the original February 2013 launch of Crysis 3 and three years following the Remastered launch, the source code of Crysis 3 has been acquired by a known code leaker/researcher, @SvenTek_667 on Twitter, as reported by @vxunderground (an account for a platform dedicated to archiving malware and other niche software)…. Read more

Intel’s B570/B580 Battlemage and AMD Navi 44 RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly keep pace with the RTX 4060 Ti — AMD and Intel vie to capture the budget GPU market

A new leak from hardware sleuth Golden Pig Upgrade Pack alleges that Intel’s budget B570/B580 and AMD’s Navi 44-based GPUs can beat Nvidia’s existing RTX 4060 Ti, which currently retails for $400. Do note that the leaker has not mentioned the exact metrics used for this comparison, which could be gaming performance or synthetic workloads—who… Read more

Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices — users strike back, saying Snapdragon CPUs can’t game and have “less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips

Microsoft has been pushing its Copilot+ PCs to users since its launch last May, with the company posting a five-second clip claiming that it’s “The fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever.” However, its post on X (formerly Twitter) received a Community Note debunking the tech giant’s claims. According to users, “These are not the fastest… Read more

Intel GPU vendor teases Arc Battlemage reveal for December 4 — GPUs may launch a little over a week later

Chinese GPU manufacturer Gunnir (via Weibo) has teased an announcement set for December 4, which strongly hints at the reveal of Intel’s next-generation Arc Battlemage GPUs. Intel seemingly plans to launch Battlemage ahead of Nvidia and AMD’s new offerings. Gunnir’s short teaser features a cryptic video in which a thief steals a tactical case only… Read more

How to upgrade your PS5 storage with an SSD for as little as $73 (1TB) or $113 (2TB)

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Most PS5 consoles only come with about 600GB of usable disk space for installing games. My nephew ran headfirst into this problem as he had to start erasing games from his console and some games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and NBA 2k25, weren’t even able to download… Read more

MSI’s two new Lunar Lake-powered gaming handhelds go up for preorders at Amazon — Claw 8 AI+ sells for $899, while Claw 7 AI+ costs $799

(Image credit: MSI) Amazon (via VideoCardz) has listed the upcoming MSI Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld for $899 with specifications, including the CPU and RAM options. This will be the first gaming handheld to feature Intel Lunar Lake CPUs. MSI will also release the refresh MSI Claw 7 AI+ with an earlier shipping date. The… Read more

Facebook parent company Meta plans to build its own sub-sea cable — the source says the company plans to “avoid areas of geopolitical tension”

Meta is planning to build a 40,000-kilometer fiber-optic subsea cable to span the entire length of the globe. This project is expected to cost over $10 billion, say some experts, and will connect the East Coast of the U.S. to South Africa, India, and Australia before going up across the Pacific to the West Coast…. Read more

AI created a Minecraft AI village with up to 1,000 inhabitants — Project Sid sees AI bots implement a taxation system and spread Pastafarianism religion

Speaking to the MIT Technology Review earlier this week, AI startup Altera disclosed that it had successfully run several experiments of varying scales. It deployed AI-powered “players” into a Minecraft server and saw them dynamically socialize based on their personalities, including picking their roles within the village to create a “society” of up to 1000… Read more

Samsung and SK hynix will detail GDDR7 with transfer rates up to 42.5 GT/s — Samsung 24Gb GDDR7 expected to deliver 170 GB/s of peak bandwidth

The GDDR7 SGRAM specification supports a maximum data transfer rate of 48 GT/s, but the first generation GDDR7 memory devices can operate with up to 32 GT/s data transfer rate. But it looks like GDDR7 will evolve pretty quickly as at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), both Samsung and SK hynix plan to… Read more

Huawei’s homegrown AI chip examined — Chinese fab SMIC-produced Ascend 910B is massively different from the TSMC-produced Ascend 910

Die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910 chip for AI produced by TSMC and its sibling Ascend 910B, allegedly manufactured by SMIC, reveal that while the chips have many similarities, they exhibit significant differences. The 910B features fewer cores. Kurnalsalts has published die shots of Huawei’s HiSilicon Ascend 910, Ascend 910B, and a currently unknown Ascend 610… Read more

Elegoo’s Editor’s Choice-winning Neptune 4 Pro 3D Printer drops to its lowest-ever price of $269

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware / Amazon) 3D Printing used to be expensive and difficult. I remember my first 3D printer was an Anet A8 and it printed OK, but it was difficult to use, and it looked like a droid found at the back of a Jawa’s Sandcrawler! Oh, and it had the nickname “Firestarter,”… Read more

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger visits Elon Musk’s Memphis data center, touts Xeon deployment — praises xAI team for building it “in such a short amount of time”

(Image credit: Future) Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of embattled tech company Intel, praised the xAI team after visiting Elon Musk’s Memphis Supercluster. He posted on X (formerly Twitter) that xAI uses Intel Xeon processors for its AI head node — the dedicated server that manages the entire 100,000-GPU-strong cluster — and that it’s “incredible what’s… Read more