Hardware

James Webb telescope’s latest discovery: newborn stars emitting jets of gas in the same direction

Webb of Stars: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reached its assigned destination, the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth,...

Apple rejects a couple of PC emulator apps for iOS, confusing developers

What just happened? It seems that Apple just can't help itself when it comes to controlling what apps make it onto the iOS App...

Over 700,000 concurrent players hit Elden Ring after expansion launch

What just happened? FromSoftware's hit action RPG is seeing an absolutely colossal resurgence in popularity, with Steam numbers spiking to levels not seen since...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Reviews, Pros and Cons

The Ryzen 7 7700 is interesting because again it's slightly worse value than the 7700X, but could head back towards the MSRP now that...

Modder tries spinning an entire PC to cool it, but centrifugal force has other ideas

WTF?! Usually, the fans go inside the PC, but a modder wanted to see if arranging things the other way around had thermal advantages....

Researchers say 280 million people installed malware-infected Chrome extensions over three years

In brief: Just how bad is the problem of malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store? That depends on who you believe. Google, for...

Nvidia hints at the future of DLSS for AI-generated textures and NPCs in games

Why it matters: With the advent of beastly GPUs packing hundreds of tensor cores, generative AI's ever-increasing use in gaming was inevitable. But the...

Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser’s latest version

A hot potato: It's the little things that can annoy browser users, especially when the program in question is Firefox – the last so-called...

Microsoft releases patch to fix critical Wi-Fi flaw in Windows, Windows Server

Why it matters: Compared to the monster update in April, this latest Patch Tuesday release is relatively small, but it contains a critical flaw...