Hardware
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How to look better on webcam — tips for the average person to look better and more professional
You don't need to be a professional streamer, but you also shouldn't look like a MySpace teen from the 90s.
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Teacher arrested for clapping in support of opposition at an AI data center meeting — gigawatt-scale project gets approved anyway despite community resistance
Is clapping politely disruptive enough to get you arrested?
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Webcams
Webcam reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Drones
Discover more about Drones with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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State of play: SSD pricing one year into the AI component crisis — 220% price increases are crippling the DIY market
Solid-state storage is a solid mess.
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DRAM chip supply to module makers could drop by more than 70% year-on-year in 2027, says Apacer CEO — demand for HBM and server RAM continues to devour manufacturing capacity
Apacer stockpiles $383 million in memory and raises another $124 million to secure supply
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Developer uses AI to bring a native version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to iOS — no emulation required to play one of gaming's all-time greats on an iPhone or iPad
A Nintendo 64 classic comes to iOS devices, as long as you have a ROM
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RAM
RAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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DRAM
DRAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip production on advanced processes
Intel is ready to produce sensitive chips domestically for defense customers
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China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute
The US gov't says Moonshot has purchased Blackwell systems and rented time on foreign clouds to help it train models.
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Tech Industry
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Retro Gaming
Discover more about Retro Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI's incident report describes models burning inference compute to steal answers.
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Laptops
Laptop reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Macbooks
Macbook reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Mystery reviewer 'finds' Nvidia RTX Spark prototype laptop and puts it through its paces — Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia N1X chip shows promise, though prototype warts are still quite visible
The machine displays potential, but it definitely needs to be in the oven a good while longer.
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RAM
RAM reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Motherboard VRM thermal testing – budget vs. high-end boards, does it really matter?
You don’t have to buy a high-end motherboard to get the most out of your processor
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to pre-order starting from $249 — game cartridges cost $90 each; the Ultimate Edition with all games and accessories will run you $1,000
How far are you willing to go for physical media?
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GPUs
GPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Console Gaming
Discover more about Console Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Motherboards
Motherboard reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console
Microsoft has promised a full post-incident review.
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DDR5
DDR5 reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Apple launches official program for leasing Macs as AI price crunch bites — 24- and 36-month leasing options provided by Klarna
Mac leases will start at $24.99 per month
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One year into the AI-induced RAM apocalypse — how much does memory actually cost, and is there hope for a more affordable future?
A year that feels like a lifetime
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Storage
Storage reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Xbox
Xbox reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Tech Industry
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Leaked Radeon RX 9050 hints at the return of 4GB VRAM GPUs in 2026 — new budget RDNA 4 card also spotted in 8GB config with half the power of an RX 9060
It would be the first and only current-gen 4GB GPU.
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Testing old drives as external storage to avoid price hikes — hard drive, SATA SSD, and NVMe in enclosures up to 80 Gbps, tested
For as little as $10 (or even less), you can use an old drive as external storage, but will that dusty drive deliver the speed you need?
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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second
He definitely thought he could, but not whether he should.
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Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe — held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, company says smuggling 'a nonstarter'
Taiwan has no law criminalizing the export of AI chips to China.
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Re-examining the DDR4 gaming gap with Intel’s LGA 1700 CPUs in mid-2026 — performance drops of 14% on average, and up to 25% in some games
The DDR4 tax is becoming more severe.
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Programming
Discover more about Programming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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MSI and Colorful raise Nvidia RTX 50-series prices in China by up to 59% across the entire lineup — change in distributer pricing suggests GPU price hikes are on the way
AMD and Intel GPUs also receive price hikes.
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GPUs
GPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic absent from Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance — 30+ companies join security alliance after OpenAI agent breach
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, companies behind proprietary, "closed" AI models are conspicuously absent from the alliance.
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Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi-K3, firing a shot across the bow of OpenAI and Anthropic — open-weight model performs almost as well as frontier models while being 2-3x easier to run
Cached prompts can reach a 10x inference cost gain versus Anthropic and OpenAI's offerings
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Upgrading an MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC with a 2TB SSD
If you do a lot of gaming, 1TB might not be enough default storage.
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Semiconductors
Discover more about Semiconductor with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Intel unveiled its iconic Core 2 Duo family 20 years ago — legendary chip dethroned AMD Athlon, restoring the chipmaker’s performance lead
Team Blue crowed these efficient 65nm CPUs were “simply the best processors in the world” and reviewers tended to agree.
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CPUs
CPU reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery
Sometimes you just don’t want to share your precious devices.
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Handheld Gaming
Discover more about Handheld Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.