Keyboard giant Keychron unveils new Nape Pro trackball with programmable buttons — low profile design promotes ergonomic scrolling without leaving your keyboard

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At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Keychron officially unveiled its Nape Pro trackball, designed in conjunction with Gizmodo Japan. The quirky-looking device is a trackball that nestles right up against any of the best gaming keyboards to give you instant access to a scrolling trackball and six programmable buttons without moving your hands.

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AMD claims Panther Lake has 'too much baggage' for handheld PC use — fights back after Intel jabs AMD for using 'ancient silicon' in its Z2 series APUs

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CES 2026 has brought us a wealth of friendly back-and-forth jabbing between AMD and Intel, and this latest piece is no exception. PCWorld reports that AMD has clapped back at Intel after it claimed its Z2 chips were based on "ancient silicon," riposting that its Panther Lake mobile chips carry too much baggage to be suitable for

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Best of CES 2026: Innovating amidst the RAM and storage apocalypse

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CES 2026 was dominated by AI and its accompanying hype, as

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Creality SPARKX i7 Review: Not just another color bedslinger

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Creality SPARKX i7 Color Combo is an excellent, entry-level four-color printer at an affordable price. The CFS Lite is a surprisingly adaptable, wonderfully low maintenance spool management system, that shouldn’t work, but does. Together, they make a package that is hard to beat.

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    Innovative CFS Lite

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    Speedy

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    Quiet

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    Excellent UI

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    Reliable auto bed leveling

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    16 page privacy policy that must be accepted at set up

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    CFS Lite does not

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Cooler Master introduces the Aquagate MAX Retro Mini cooling unit — delivers massive cooling capacity up to 2,500 watts

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Cooler Master just introduced a coolant distribution unit, or CDU, with a massive capacity of 900 to 2,500 watts. The Tom’s Hardware team saw the rather compact unit at CES 2026. The company says it is designed for CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs, balancing the ease-of-use of AIOs and

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Micron to begin work on $100 billion New York 'megafab' imminently — landmark site to produce 40% of company's overall DRAM output in the U.S. by the 2040s

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CES 2026 Day 2: Dell’s massive 52-inch 6K monitor, AMD unbothered by Intel’s new Arc B390 IGP, MSI PSUs guard against RTX 5090 meltdowns

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The Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) is well underway in Las Vegas, Nevada, and you can see our previous coverage of Day 0 and Day 1 . We're now on to Day 2, with plenty of news still pouring out of the show.

Monitors are a big draw at CES

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Samsung and Intel co-develop 'SmartPower HDR' for Panther Lake OLED laptops, with up to 22% power savings — dynamic voltage control lowers power without sacrificing panel brightness

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Samsung Display and Intel have co-developed a new technology for OLED laptops, dubbed " SmartPower HDR ," and it's exactly what it sounds like. Unlike traditional HDR-capable displays that keep the panel running at a fixed high voltage to account for brightness spikes, SmartPower HDR will dynamically adjust power to the panel, resulting in up to 22

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Boxes of 100 server-grade DDR5 memory now cost as much as property in Shanghai in China spot market — single 256GB server sticks now over $5,700

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Colossal DRAM prices are reaching China's spot market, prompting a viral comparison on social media after it emerged that a standard shipping carton of server memory now costs more than some real estate properties in Shanghai. In China’s spot market, vendors are quoting prices that put a box of 100 high-capacity DDR5 server memory modules at

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Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet

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A major Japanese PC and electronics store is pleading with customers to sell their old PC gear. “As a favor, if you buy a new one, please sell your gaming PC to our company,” begged the X-account of Sofmap Gaming in Akihabara, the Electric Town district of Tokyo (machine translation, h/t PC-Watch

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