In an industry rapidly accelerating toward an all-electric future, Porsche has just reminded us that the age of the internal combustion engine is far from over. How so? A newly-uncovered patent filing has revealed that engineers at Zuffenhausen have developed the design for a radical space-optimized W-arrangement engine featuring 18 cylinders

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peel back layers of our cosmic viewpoint: its latest discovery reveals that the youth of the universe was sometimes quite the jumbled mess. Astronomers have found that galaxies just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang were not the tidy, well-organized structures that current models

NVIDIA is determined to share the fruits of its labor with Unreal Engine 5 developers, and has now released a Bonsai Diorama demo showcasing several features, including RTX Mega Geometry, to the public. Before AMD users get too concerned: no, RTX Mega Geometry won't make an end product NVIDIA-exclusive—rather, it's meant to accelerate the

With the impending OnePlus 15 debuting in China on October 27, OnePlus has, like in the past, the potential to shake up the flagship smartphone market once more. The device's final details, pieced together from new leaks, point to a flagship that not only pushes the high-performance angle but comes with a more accessible MSRP plus upgraded

Lenovo is currently serving up the least expensive gaming laptop to sport a mid-range GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, though to get the low price, you need to input a couple of stackable coupon codes. Once you do, the retail cost drops by a staggering $530 versus MSRP, making this the most affordable laptop option with the aforementioned GPU. It's also

The teardown specialists at iFixIt got their hands on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X handheld (same model we reviewed) and promptly took it apart, and you can view all of the gory (and not-so-gory) details of the surgery in a short video spanning just under six minutes long. How did it fare? Quite well overall, with the ROG Xbox Ally X largely mimicking

There will definitely be another Xbox console and it's going to deliver a "very premium" experience, according to remarks made by Xbox CEO Sarah Bond. During an interview with Mashable's Timothy Bech Werth, Bond shared the first details about what to expect from Microsoft's next-gen console, essentially confirming that there will be at least

Samsung just officially unveiled the new Galaxy XR, to take the fight to Apple's Vision Pro. For the uninitiated, the Galaxy XR is an extended reality (XR) headset that Samsung claims is the first true AI-native gadget of its kind. Launching at an aggressive price point of $1,799.99 (for the base 16GB / 256GB version), Samsung hopes the Galaxy

Corsair just launched the Corsair Air 5400, which is being marketed as the world's first triple-chamber case. This somewhat-bulky advancement in PC case design does have a functional use, though—as Corsair demonstrates with its own benchmarks and airflow demonstrations, the whole purpose of the triple-chamber design is to further enhance cooling

Google is readying a new program to gather feedback from its most diehard Pixel smartphone fans. According to Bloomberg, enthusiasts accepted into the new Trusted Tester Program will receive prototype units, early during the development process and will play a role in shaping what future Pixel handsets will look and feel like. This group

Lenovo Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition: On Sale For $1,399 A premium OLED display with pen support, great build quality, and Intel's Lunar Lake platform make the Lenovo Yoga 9i a versatile 2-in-1 laptop. Gorgeous OLED display Flexible 2-in-1 Yoga design Robust and versatile performance Excellent battery life Lenovo Pen serves a purpose OLED is...

There was a time when processor companies released new CPUs a full generation at a time. In the last several years though, AMD has thrown that practice out the window. New CPUs come from the company whenever they're good and ready, it seems, and supposedly, there are two more Zen 5 desktop chips with 3D V-Cache on the way: the Ryzen 7 9850X3D,

A few unfortunate users of the Windows 11 October 2025 update (and Windows Server 2025) may have stumbled upon a critical issue where the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) failed to pick up mouse or keyboard input—but thankfully, Microsoft has finally released a patch fixing the issue. Well, to a point, anyway...if you were actually impacted

Already in full swing, the Orionid meteor shower may have reached its peak overnight on October 20-21, but the show is still set to go on for another couple of days. Like nearly every Orionid show, stargazers across the globe, especially those in the Northern Hemisphere, have been treated to "shooting stars" created by the debris trail from

If you're shopping for a new TV and set a budget for around $1,000 (or less), you might be inclined to think that you can either go monstrously big or opt for mini LED backlighting, but not both. You'd also be wrong. Generally speaking, you do have to choose between one or the other, but we found at least two exceptions in our hunt for the

This year’s version of iOS brought big changes to the user interface, and people either love it or hate it. Thankfully, Apple hasn’t tuned out the criticism and will include an option to give users more control over the look and feel of the OS. These optional settings have already appeared in iOS 26.1 Beta 4, which means it should be in the

Unabashedly lighting the fire under SpaceX, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced on Monday that the agency is opening its high-profile Artemis III human lunar landing contract to new bidders. The $4.4 billion contract, initially awarded exclusively to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in 2021, will now be open to rivals, such as Jeff Bezos’ Blue

It's usually gamers who are the most vocal about more more VRAM on their graphics cards, but it's especially beneficial in the workstation and server space as the industry puts a bigger emphasis on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. As such, NVIDIA is now offering an upgraded version of its RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell

Zotac has managed to stuff a desktop-class GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of GDDR7 inside a tiny 2.65-liter chassis. In doing so, Zotac's refreshed Zbox Magnus EN for 2025 the world's smallest PC to feature a desktop GeForce RTX 50 series GPU, the company claims. It's an impressive feat for a company that's been churning out potent mini PCs

Fancy all-in-one (AIO) CPU liquid coolers with integrated displays are a favorite of PC builders looking to add a bit of flair to their rigs. Most opt for the utilitarian route and use it as way to keep tabs on CPU temperatures or other system statistics, while others deploy memes or anime clips. Then there’s those who take things to the next

Up until Grand Theft Auto V, the 'GTA' series had one main producer: a man named Leslie Benzies. He was renowned for his work directing the development and marketing of the flagship AAA open world series, but left Rockstar in 2016, demanding royalties for the success of GTA V as he left to assemble Build a Rocket Boy. A new game development

A team of Columbia University engineers may have stumbled on a key to cooling the AI industry's energy fever. While trying to boost the power of chips for LiDAR—laser-based sensing used most notably in self-driving cars—the researchers noticed something strange. "As we sent more and more power through the chip, we noticed that it was creating

The highly anticipated ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X (see our review full of benchmarks and analysis), which is the first Windows handheld to officially implement the Xbox experience, is finally out in the wild. The launch of the device has sparked several discussions in the gaming community, including about its price point. Now, we have more context

The next step in personal health tracking has arrived, and it’s a tiny bit, well, gutsy. Plumbing giant Kohler has officially launched Dekoda (decoder, get it?), a slim, clip-on device that attaches discreetly to your existing toilet bowl and deploys a small camera and sensors to analyze your number ones and twos. Yes, dear reader, the Dekoda