Stars Reach’s Raph Koster confirms layoffs but assures fans that work on the sandbox continues
Whether this is another unfortunate sign of the games industry times or a worrying portent of things to come we’ll leave up to you fine...
The Daily Grind: Should more MMOs adopt a ‘reincarnation’ feature to reboot your character?
Dungeons and Dragons Online has a feature that I don’t think I’ve ever seen in any other MMORPGs. Higher-level players may elect to reincarnate their...
Ponzi schemer behind $201 million Bitcoin scam sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — promised 3% daily returns on Bitcoin investments, left investors reeling
BTC Ponzi scheme yields 20 years in prison for mastermind
7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive
7x DRAM price jump affecting ISP routers, gateways, and STBs
AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D faceoff — an extra $30 buys you very little performance
The Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Ryzen 7 9800X3D are the fastest gaming CPUs around, but which one is better? We tested both in a head-to-head gauntlet on in games, productivity apps, overclocked scenarios, and more to find out.
ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose digital computer, turns 80 years old today — legendary hulking machine was 1,000x faster than its nearest rival
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was unveiled to the public today in 1946.
First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
Micron is the first SSD maker to introduce the world’s first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 datacenter SSD. The Micron 9650 series is capable of speeds of up to 28 GB/s.
Budget RGB Fan Roundup: Are cheap PC fans always this bad?
We pit five budget-friendly RGB fans against each other, in tests that don’t quite lead us to a clear winner. The most complete isn’t the best performing. There is, however, one clear loser that might be worth avoiding.
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn’t tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — ‘The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn’t,’ notes the experiment creator
An experiment revealed that people cannot differentiate between audio signals sent through premium audio cables, wet mud, and a banana.
iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws ‘a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair,’ Adafruit 3D prints a solution — BMW’s connector reverse engineered using patent filing as a design blueprint
Automaker BMW has filed a patent for a new fastener which takes design cues from the its iconic segmented roundel logo. but it has been accused of creating this design for service and repair gatekeeping.