Valve has already unveiled the Steam Machine , but kept two crucial details under wraps: pricing and availability. While the launch date remains a mystery, Czech retailer Smarty broke the silence by listing the Steam Machine at $950 for the 512GB model and $1,070 for the 1TB version, before taxes.
Although Smarty appears
Would you like to face a gaming challenge every time you start up your computer? If you answered in the affirmative, then Alejandro Armas, AKA mycroftsnm on GitHub, has a treat for you. The Linux enthusiast has created a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of “Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown.” Head on over to the UEFIGame
Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” The new Superheat H1 is a $2,000 water heater that warms up your H2O using waste-heat from its built-in Bitcoin mining ASIC hardware, rather than an immersed resistive heating element.
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When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at Nvidia's CES 2026 keynote , the conversation stretched across Rubin, power delivery, inference economics, open models, and more. Following this, Tom's Hardware had the opportunity to sit down and attend a press Q&A session with Huang himself in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nvidia's marketing and PR strategies and campaigns have always been second to none, but ironically, the company has never had a dedicated chief marketing officer (CMO), as people who were in appropriate teams have reported to vice presidents of marketing. Instead of training a special AI model for the job, Nvidia has recruited former Google executive Alison Wagonfeld as its first
CES may have started out as the Consumer Electronics Show , but it has never been solely about consumers. That was true before the AI boom, and it’s even more true today. Jaded tech journalists who’ve prowled the halls for a decade (and usually more) don’t want to hear the AI talk, but the topic
Meta just signed multiple deals, making it the biggest purchaser of nuclear power among its AI tech giants. According to Bloomberg , these contracts are expected to deliver over 6 gigawatts to the company, which it will need for its upcoming data centers. At the moment, the company is building the 1GW “Prometheus” data center in Ohio, which will come online
Following Intel's keynote at CES 2026, where it formally launched consumer Panther Lake products, our resident CPU reporter Jake Roach attended a press Q&A at CES in Las Vegas, featuring some of the senior staff behind Intel's Panther Lake architecture. The following article is a transcript of that Q&A session. We've edited
We've reported on it before, but 3D printing has a materials problem. Most filament is still petroleum-based, non-biodegradable, and destined to outlive whoever printed the cute little Benchy boat miniature. That's why a newly patented breakthrough out of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (of course) is interesting: researchers have
President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on social media to praise Intel and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, after the successful launch of the Panther Lake processors . Trump called Tan “the very successful Intel CEO” on his social media platform , saying that the 10% stake the White House took in Intel is already showing a good return for