In context: Last year's Razer Blade Stealth 13 was a decent offering for a gaming laptop under three pounds. Equipped with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, the ultrabook was well equipped for portable PC gaming.

On Tuesday, Razer unveiled its 2020 Blade Stealth 13. The refresh comes with the same Intel quad-core processor as last year's model, but the notebook traded up the GPU slightly to a

One more thing: AMD additionally introduced its new B550 chipset for socket AM4 which adds support for PCIe 4.0. The company didn’t have much to say on this front save for the fact that manufacturing partners including Asus, ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte and MSI will have offerings available starting June 16, 2020.

AMD on Tuesday expanded its third generation Ryzen desktop family with the official introduction of the Ryzen 3 3100 and the Ryzen 3 3300

WTF?! It’s a bizarre turn of events, no matter how you slice it. In the mostly anonymous world of cryptocurrency, once funds have been transferred, there’s usually no recourse and no way to trace who took the currency. Presumably, the hacker(s) involved here either made some serious mistakes that pointed to their guilt or they suddenly developed a conscience and felt compelled to return the booty. Or maybe they are a white hat hacker that just wanted to exploit a vulnerability in the service

Now that we’re several weeks into work from home mandates and clearly still many weeks (and likely months) away from most people being able or willing to go back to their offices, companies are starting to extend and expand their remote access plans. Early on, most organizations had to focus their attention on the critical basics: making sure people had PCs they could work on, providing access to email, chat and video meetings, and enabling basic onramps to corporate networks and the resources they contain.

However, it

In brief: Smart speaker maker Sonos on Tuesday ventured outside the familiar confines of its hardware community for the first time with the launch of Sonos Radio, a free, ad-supported streaming radio service that is available exclusively to its customers. It's a little late to the party but there has arguably never been a better time to roll out a service like this.

Sonos Radio grants access to more than 60,000 radio stations from a variety of streaming partners as well as a healthy serving of

In context: With millions out of work and staying home, the gaming sector has been one of the few areas of industry that has not felt the pinch brought on by quarantine orders. In fact, it has seen the opposite with a spike in demand for games and gaming consoles.

Nintendo is reportedly planning to boost Switch production to meet the higher demand. According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asian Review, the company is preparing to increase the number of units made in 2020 by about 10 percent over

The big picture: Like many, the team at Kojima Productions has been forced to work from home due to Covid-19 mitigation efforts. Technology makes it possible to work remotely but even still, if you’re not accustomed to it, there are bound to be some growing pains as people adjust to their new work environments.

Death Stranding won’t meet its originally scheduled PC launch date due to complications from the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

Developer Kojima Productions revealed in a Twitter post on Tuesday that

A hot potato: Reports of WD, Seagate, and Toshiba quietly selling SMR disks have been confirmed by the respective manufacturers. SMR or shingled magnetic recording makes for denser and cheaper drives but also results in very slow write performance, limiting their use to archiving applications where such latency is endurable. The three manufacturers were previously accused of not mentioning this specification in user documentation of some models and marketing them as NAS drives, misleading consumers who were expecting high performance for their RAID configs.

HDDs don't usually get in the

In a nutshell: HBO Max, which will join HBO Now and HBO Go in a bid to further confuse consumers, will arrive with 10,000 hours of premium content in tow. In addition to the full HBO library, the service will be supplemented with movies and television shows from other WarnerMedia brands as well as original content exclusive to the service.

HBO Max will suit up and drop onto the streaming wars island for battle starting May 27, parent company WarnerMedia announced on Tuesday.

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