One eager beaver PC builder has decided it can’t wait any longer and has spilt the beans on AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D mega chip, two weeks before all the reviews

If you’re someone who spends a lot of time gaming and using the same rig to grind through demanding content creation tasks, you might be holding off buying a PC upgrade until the reviews of AMD’s forthcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D go online. But if you’re as impatient as one particular system builder, pretty much everything…

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So long and thanks for all the space junk: China-based Starlink competitor SpaceSail plans to have 15,000 satellites deployed by 2030, and it’s not the only one with its eyes on the skies

If I say to you “satellite-based internet provider”, your first thought is probably Starlink. A subsidiary of Elon Musk’s space technology company SpaceX, Starlink has launched a total of 8,000 internet-providing satellites as of February 22, with many more planned in the future. However, rival satellite companies are waiting in the wings, including the reportedly…

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Razer Barracuda X Chroma review

I know a tonne of people aren’t ready to hear this but RGB lighting is now a fashion accessory, and you should get ready to see more of it. For better or worse, PC gamers have had front row seats to the development of this technology, and in this time we’ve seen some real rubbish….

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Monster Hunter Wilds review

Monster Hunter Wilds is both a return to meat-and-potatoes monster combat and a dramatic revision of the hunting format. It’s a more approachable lizard-slaying sandbox, and it’s a tangle of multiplayer quirks that still feels like something out of 2007. It’s the cleanest Monster Hunter has ever played, and it’s a temperamental piece of software…

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Fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim has a new video, looks amazing, is set for release ‘this year,’ and I struggle to imagine the rumoured official Oblivion remake doing much better

Remaking an old game in a new engine is a venerable and usually doomed mainstay of the modding scene. Always has been, always will be. They either stay ‘in development’ forever, get cease-and-desisted, or shrivel up in their incubators. It’s the natural order of things. Unless, apparently, they’re Skyblivion, the remake of The Elder Scrolls…

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Lemokey L5 HE 8K keyboard review

Far be it for me to bore you with physics, but the Hall effect—the production of a potential difference across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current, as you well know—is brilliant. At least, it is when it’s applied…

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FF14 streamer yields to the MMO’s bounciest catgirl, after inspiring them to beat his new speedrunning record 3 times before he could finish making a video about it

If you’ve been paying attention to the Kugane Tower speedrunning race in Final Fantasy 14—and not, say, watching football or touching grass or something—you might’ve seen Pint, a known streamer, strive to conquer the world record back in 2023. The video in question was impeccably edited, very funny, well worth a watch, and basically immediately…

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AMD’s ‘official’ performance figures for RDNA 4 leak out early, with the RX 9070 XT claimed to be 42% faster than the RX 7900 GRE at 4K

After a relatively muted ‘launch’ at CES 2025, AMD’s next-generation GPU architecture, RDNA 4, has been left to leaks and rumours, as to how much better it’s going to be compared to previous Radeon iterations. One tech site, however, is claiming that it has the real deal—AMD’s own performance claims—and depending on what you were…

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Ex-Intel exec, Raja Koduri, blames the bureaucratic ‘Powerpoint snakes’ within the company for its current issues: ‘These processes multiply and coil around engineers’

Raja Koduri, the former chief architect and executive vice president of Intel’s architecture, graphics and software division, has written an X article outlining his thoughts on the troubled waters Intel currently finds itself in. In his piece, he highlights Intel’s current “treasures and snakes” and what he believes is the way forward for the company….

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