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8BitDo’s wireless N64-inspired controller is 30 percent off

I’ve been seeing emails in my inbox every week about how RTX 50-series GPUs are in stock at many retailers, but the bigger news is that stock is apparently so plentiful that we’re seeing deals worth sharing. Whether you have a small form factor desktop build or not, thewith a triple-fan setup takes up just 2.5 slots in your case, making it a compact option if you’re trying to keep your components neatly tucked. This model debuted at $829.99, but for the past couple of weeks it has been available

Asus gives its $4,000 creator laptop a 4K tandem OLED and RTX 5090

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Asus’ ProArt P16 laptop is getting RTX 50-series GPUs and a unique new screen in its high-end configuration. Its biggest upgrades include Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a bright 16-inch 3840 x 2400 tandem OLED touchscreen, capable of up to 1,600 nits of brightness in HDR and 120Hz refresh with VRR. The new flagship P16 will c

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Nvidia GeForce Now RTX 5080 (Blackwell) Review: RTX 5080 in a MacBook

Nvidia hasn't broken the limitations of time and space, but its GeForce Now platform is now close enough to having an RTX 5080 inside your MacBook. Starting with a handful of locations, Nvidia is upgrading the servers of its cloud-based game-streaming service with RTX 5080 SuperPods, replacing the RTX 4080 models available with the Ultimate subscription tier. If you subscribe to GeForce Now, you'll get to enjoy the upgrade without paying an extra cent. It's not just a slight bump in GPU speed,

Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 5080 is better and worse than I hoped

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousa

Nvidia’s latest GeForce driver is ready for Borderlands 4 and RTX Remix mods

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready driver today in preparation for the Borderlands 4 release later this week. There’s also an Nvidia app update arriving today that includes a new RTX Remix update to allow modders to improve fire and smoke effects in older games. Today’s Game Read

Ford's F-150 Lightning STX replaces the XLT while boosting range and power

Ford has unveiled a new F-150 Lightning variant called the STX that brings extra range and a rugged attitude to the lineup. The model is likely a response to slipping F-150 Lightning sales and was designed based on customer feedback, the company said. It will replace the current XLT model at the same starting price. Slotting in near the bottom of the lineup after the Lightning Pro, the STX trim offers an upgrade in range and power over the XLT. The new dual motor system delivers 536 horsepower

Ford introduces F-150 Lightning STX to replace XLT trim

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It hasn’t been the greatest year for the Ford F-150 Lightning, with sales so far this year down nearly 10 percent as compared to last year. In the hopes of boosting interest in the battery-powered truck, Ford today announced a new appea

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

Blurs are the basic building block for many video game post-processing effects and essential for sleek and modern GUIs. Video game Depth of Field and Bloom or frosted panels in modern user interfaces - used subtly or obviously - they’re everywhere. Even your browser can do it, just tap this sentence! Effect of "Bloom", one of many use-cases for blur algorithms Conceptually, “Make thing go blurry” is easy, boiling down to some form of “average colors in radius”. Doing so in realtime however, to

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Top Spec Razer Blade Laptops Are Average 14 Percent Off Right Now

If you're in the market for a new gaming laptop, Razer is running a variety of discounts on both the Razer Blade 16 and 18—the one to buy depends on the size of your budget and your desk. The price reduction varies but is right around 14 percent off for most models, with some versions excluded from the sale. Our reviewer Luke Larsen gave high marks to the 2025 revamp of the Razer Blade 16 (8/10, WIRED Recommends), largely thanks to its extremely thin footprint and excellent keyboard. Razer does

Top Spec Razor Blade Laptops Are Average 14 Percent Off Right Now

If you're in the market for a new gaming laptop, Razer is running a variety of discounts on both the Razer Blade 16 and 18—the one to buy depends on the size of your budget and your desk. The price reduction varies but is right around 14 percent off for most models, with some versions excluded from the sale. Our reviewer Luke Larsen gave high marks to the 2025 revamp of the Razer Blade 16 (8/10, WIRED Recommends), largely thanks to its extremely thin footprint and excellent keyboard. Razer does

Nvidia’s RTX 5080 upgrade for GeForce Now arrives on September 10th

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia announced last month that it’s planning to upgrade its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to RTX 5080 GPUs. Now, we have a date for that upgrade: September 10th. The upgrade will allow GeForce Now subscribers to rent what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud, with a huge 48GB of memo

Maingear’s ‘Super 16’ Gaming Laptop Has a Blistering Fast 300Hz Display

The jump to the Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and the avalanche of tariff woes make our gaming gadgets more costly for only marginal performance gains. Out of this murk of price gouging is Maingear, a company best known for making custom gaming desktops. Its new “Super 16″ 16-inch gaming laptop, announced at the same time as IFA 2025, does more than most companies to set itself apart, but it’s the starting price for its specs that makes it more enticing than competing notebooks. Maingear worked wit

Acer Has Some Massive Gaming Laptops and Desktops Coming This Fall

In the world of gaming PCs, Acer is perhaps better known for its more budget-friendly Nitro options, while its Predator brand is overshadowed by Alienware, Razer, Omen and others. That said, with every new generation, its gaming systems get easier to recommend over the competition, and that includes its latest batch of gaming laptops and desktops announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin on Wednesday. Desktops At the top of line for Predator gaming desktops is the Orion 7000. Judging by what Acer is pac

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

I am a huge fan of my Rock 5 ITX+. It wraps an ATX power connector, a 4-pin Molex, PoE support, 32 GB of eMMC, front-panel USB 2.0, and two Gen 3×2 M.2 slots around a Rockchip 3588 SoC that can slot into any Mini-ITX case. Thing is, I never put it in a case because the microSD slot lives on the side of the board, and pulling the case out and removing the side panel to install a new OS got old with a quickness. I originally wanted to rackmount the critter, but adding a deracking difficulty multi

Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping bookmarks in plain text files. Principals Bookmarked URLs are stored in files named bookmarks.txt . The format is described below. . The format is described below. A "global" bookmarks file is located in the home directory ( $HOME/bookmarks.txt ). ). "Local" bookmarks files could exist in different directories as well. Format URLs are stored one per line and could be accompanied with optional titles. Titles are separated from URLs with one space charac

The Framework Laptop 16 Can Now Be Upgraded to an RTX 5070

It has been a big year for repairable-laptop maker Framework. After launching the Framework Laptop 12 and the Framework Desktop this summer, the company is now rolling out a big update to the Framework Laptop 16. The machine can be configured with (or upgraded to) an Nvidia RTX 5070 laptop graphics card. You can also upgrade to the new 2025 mainboard, which includes the next-gen AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips. Why is this a big deal? Well, Framework is a company we've grown to appreciate a lot o

‘ReAnimator’ Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary With a Re-Release and Glowing Green Merch

Somehow it’s been 40 years since Stuart Gordon‘s H.G. Lovecraft-inspired Re-Animator hit theaters, boasting an instant-classic performance by Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, Miskatonic University’s most unhinged medical student turned mad scientist. There’s splatter, there’s gore, there’s body horror, and there’s the most distressing severed head scene in the history of cinema. To mark the monumental anniversary of one of the most beloved cult classics ever, Re-Animator is returning to theate

PNY’s Overclocked RTX 5070 Ti Is Finally Selling at Retail

If you've been hunting for a new GPU, you already know that getting one for its suggested retail price isn't guaranteed. High demand, low supply, and a constantly shifting economic space have caused the new 50 Series graphics cards to hit the market well above the expected price, at least at launch. Thankfully, the situation seems to be stabilizing a bit, as indicated by this deal on PNY's overclocked example of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which is available on Amazon for its MSRP of $750. Even be

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Nvidia gives fake Harrison Ford better hair using spheres

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the first game to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair features next month. Instead of using triangles to model hair, Nvidia will use spheres to improve Harrison Ford’s virtual hair in the Indiana Jones game. Image: Nvidia RTX Hair is designed to improve li

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming gets RTX 5080 GPUs, better image quality and more

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly playtime (with 15 hours of rollover), up to eight-hour long sessions and acce

Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE ROBOTS.TXT is a stupid, silly idea in the modern era. Archive Team entirely ignores it and with precisely one exception, everyone else should too. If you do not know what ROBOTS.TXT is and you run a site... excellent. If you do know what it is and you have one, delete it. Regardless, Archive Team will ignore it and we'll delete your complaints, just like you should be deleting ROBOTS.TXT. For the unfamiliar, ROBOTS.TXT is a machine-readable textfile that sits on w

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Framework Desktop Review: A Delightful Surprise

The Framework laptops did something no other laptop could. With the ability to upgrade or swap out nearly every internal component, they are sustainable, unlike any other. But the Framework Desktop isn’t so unique. After all, one of the primary reasons people buy (or build) desktop PCs is the ability to upgrade the system on their own. This 4.5-liter mini-ITX PC isn’t so different from many of the compact PCs you can already buy. And yet, Framework’s distinctive approach makes this stand out.

Bolt Graphics claims 13x leap over Nvidia RTX 5090 with less wattage – and huge caveats

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Add a LARGE GRAIN OF SALT: The GPU market is hotter than ever, fueled by gaming, AI, and data center demand. But real competition to Nvidia remains scarce. That's where Bolt Graphics comes in, pitching its new Zeus architecture as a disruptor. The company claims it can beat Nvidia's flagship cards in raw performance, but a closer look suggests Zeus might be more smoke than silicon, possibly repackag

July Steam Survey: RTX 5000 surge, new top GPU, 4 in 10 participants using AMD CPUs

What just happened? Here's a clear indication that the supply and pricing problems which have plagued Nvidia's RTX 5000 series are easing: the cards experienced a large uptick in user share in the latest Steam survey. However, there's still no sign of AMD's 9000-series in the main GPU chart, where the RX 7600 XT has only just appeared. Elsewhere, we've got a new most-popular card among participants, and AMD processors have passed a milestone. Starting with the main GPU chart, July's results sho

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Can your PC run Battlefield 6? Full system requirements and multiplayer details revealed

What just happened? Most big PC releases these days come with the anxiety of whether your PC will be able to play them well – or at all. Thankfully, Battlefield 6's just-revealed PC requirements are pretty forgiving. DICE and EA have also unveiled a slew of extra information about the FPS, including more on its multiplayer element and next month's Open Betas. Battlefield 6's minimum system requirements ask for at least an RTX 2060, RX 5600 XT 6GB, or Intel Arc A380 paired with an Intel Core i5-

NVIDIA is ending support for its GTX 10-, 9- and 7-series GPUs

NVIDIA is calling time on its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, with one last significant driver release scheduled for October. This means that all graphics cards belonging to the GeForce GTX 7-, 9- and 10-series categories will only receive quarterly security updates beyond the October cutoff, with support ending entirely three years later in 2028. While they’ll still work after that, they won’t be optimized for new games and are more vulnerable to technical exploits. NVIDIA described its 11-yea

Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Review: Not Quite There

This should've been Nvidia’s victory lap after a fairly successful round of high-end GPUs. The RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 were expensive and hard to find at launch, but the performance was impressive for those who could get their hands on one. Most people spend less than $500 on a graphics card, and they've been waiting patiently for their turn to go shopping. Unfortunately, the RTX 5060 falls short of its similarly priced AMD counterpart, and the gap gets even worse when any pressure is applied. Si

Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs. Ryzen 5 7600X: CPU and GPU Scaling Benchmark

Time for a new benchmark series. CPU and GPU scaling tests have been high on the community's wishlist for a while now – and it's time to deliver. Several comparisons are already in the pipeline, including fan favorites like AMD's 5800X3D and Intel's discounted Core Ultra 7 265K, so expect those soon. To kick things off and establish a baseline, we're starting with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D versus the ever-popular Ryzen 5 7600X. It's a clash between a gaming powerhouse and a budget-friendly performanc

SK hynix confirms 3GB GDDR7 modules, paving way for RTX 50 Super VRAM boost

The big picture: Rumors about Nvidia's RTX 50 Super series graphics cards featuring more VRAM started circulating almost immediately after the standard variants launched with underwhelming memory capacities. Although the chipmaker has yet to comment, a recent announcement from SK hynix suggests that larger VRAM pools are indeed on the horizon. SK hynix has confirmed plans to develop GDDR7 memory modules with a maximum capacity of 24Gb (3GB), an upgrade from the long-standing 16Gb (2GB) standard

Hacking Coroutines into C

Hacking Coroutines into C 12.7.2025 A while ago, I was part of a team developing embedded software. The software was deeply rooted in state machines - dozens of them—spread across multiple functions. While this architecture is common in embedded development, especially for systems without an operating system, I started to question: Is this really the clearest way to express control flow? The state machines in our code worked fine, but understanding and maintaining them was often a headache. T