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

Fall is a perfect to go Apple picking, especially with Amazon serving up lots of great deals on a variety of hardware. Need a new set of earbuds with active noise cancellation? How about a tablet or a laptop? Whatever the case, if it's an Apple product, there's a good chance it's on sale right now, with juicy discounts as high as 32% off the

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, crippled major websites, apps, and corporate services across the globe this morning. Thankfully, Amazon has been on the case (having dealt with biggies like this in the past) and most key services are already back online. The disruption began shortly

There is speculation that Grand Theft Auto VI could cost as much $100 for the standard edition when it comes out next year, and when given the opportunity to squash the rumor, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick opted to keep gamers in suspense. Whatever it ends up costing, though, gamers in Mexico may have to pony up even more to cover

Lenovo has quietly introduced a new 16-inch laptop that it claims is the world's first of its kind to weigh under a single kilogram (or right around 2.2 pounds). To Lenovo's boast, the laptop is not in an unprecedented weight class as far as notebooks go, though as it applies to the 16-inch form factor, there are not a lot of options that

Following the worldwide launch of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, Microsoft announced some interesting upcoming features for both of the initial models specifically, and for Windows 11 gaming PCs at large. While this launch has been successful, the market is still rife with competition from handhelds like Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, and

Have you read our review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X? It's an interesting device, with a powerful AMD SoC that outstrips the one in the original ROG Xbox Ally X, and it also debuts a new "full screen experience" for Windows PC games through the Xbox App—a feature that we're currently working on additional testing for. If you picked up a ROG

Multiple game publishers are dipping into their back catalogs to breathe new life into fan favorites. EA is hoping to ride this wave of nostalgia with a modernized version of the tower defense classic Plants vs. Zombies that will be “packed with new secrets to uncover.” Plants vs. Zombies Replanted will bring several upgrades to freshen

Sometimes you just need to drown out the noise in life, am I right? That's easier said then done, though if you're looking to knock out two birds with one stone, a solid set of headphones with noise cancellation provides an escape to musical bliss while literally suppressing outside noise. Even better, Amazon is serving up hundreds of dollars

Amazon is serving up some big discounts on gaming mice from brands like ASUS, Logitech, Razer, and others, with some deals knocking more than half off the MSRP. The more interesting bargains apply to flash deals that will expire by the end of the day, and limited time markdowns where it is anyone's guess how long the reduced price will be

Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an overclock seems stable. That's why we require extensive validation before considering a memory overclock

Since Battlefield 6's wildly successful launch on PC, low-spec gamers everywhere have been eager to put it through its paces—and have come away pleasantly surprised at how well it performs on GPUs of yesteryear. One particular YouTuber whose tests we'll be highlighting today is RandomGamingInHD, an enthusiast known for producing low-spec PC

Windows updates usually bring security enhancements, bug fixes and new features. Sometimes, though, these updates can also break parts of the operating system. Unfortunately, some updates for September and October fall into the latter camp, and many users are now having issues using a key feature of Windows 11. After applying the October

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter particles or rapidly spinning neutron stars—are, for the first time, equally viable. Researchers believe the glow coming from inside our own galaxy