The next-gen Steam Machine was unveiled a couple of weeks ago, teasing what a console-esque PC gaming experience could look like. With powerful, semi-custom hardware from AMD, Valve is aiming to match PS5 levels of power, but will it be able to match it on price? That's the million-dollar question on everyone's minds, and we finally have an answer from Valve itself, as a Valve engineer has noted that the
Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year
Valve , the owner of the Steam platform and maker of the Steam Deck, is one of the most efficient companies in the world. Research firm Alinea Analytics' head of market analysis posted on X that the Steam platform alone has already made $16.2 billion in revenue, with some suggesting that the company as a whole will hit $17 billion in 2025. The company employee count between 2012 and 2021 averaged around 3
Titan Army P2712V 27-inch dual-mode 4K gaming monitor review: Solid performance and value
Tom's Hardware Verdict
The Titan Army P2712V leaves out a couple of things but delivers a sharp and colorful image, and excellent gaming performance. Flexibility is also included with its dual mode operation. It truly maximizes the price/performance ratio.
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Very sharp and colorful image
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Accurate out-of-box color
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Premium video processing with low motion blur
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Terrific value
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No dynamic contrast option for HDR
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No USB
Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing
We're currently traversing through one of the worst memory shortages in recent times, a situation that's expected to only get worse next year. Alongside DRAM , storage is also affected on an unprecedented scale since data centers need every bit of flash they can get, leaving scraps behind for consumers to sift through. New reports are now coming in from Japan, courtesy of IT Media , highlighting how customers have started to pivot to high-capacity microSD cards to fulfill their
Retro computing enthusiast creates perforated tape reader designed 'from scratch' — reads data at about 50 bytes per second
A retro computing aficionado, electronics enthusiast, and maker has demonstrated a freshly created perforated tape reader , dubbed the Putapre. Skyriver says they designed this highly compact device from scratch (machine translation) using minimal parts. The maker’s device is said to be much faster than punched tapes or cards of old which used contact-based sensing technology, as this device uses an optical sensor and modern microcontroller to read the data.
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DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs $13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high‑power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650 km/h during recent trials at the Hebrides range in Scotland and has signed a £316 million ($413 million) contract with MBDA UK to begin deploying the system on the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers from 2027, five years earlier than originally planned.
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Best Black Friday tech deals live 2025 — best tech and PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals.
Huge 28TB Seagate external HDD just hit an all-time low price — data hoarder's dream Black Friday storage upgrade for less than $11 per TB
If you're looking for a big storage upgrade for Black Friday, then this Seagate external HDD deal is the one for you. A whopping 28TB of HDD storage space is on offer, leaving you plenty of room to store a massive collection of photos, videos, and documents.
Amazon has dropped the price of this Seagate Expansion Desktop 28TB HDD to just $289.99 , slashing it by 24% to a new record low
ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being 'Washington’s eyes and ears in China' after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country, says new book
ASML reportedly offered to deliver information to the United States on its Chinese customers. The offer came after it was caught selling more machines that went against an agreement stopping the sales of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) and deep ultraviolet light (DUV) lithography machines to China. According to NL Times , the Netherlands and the U.S. agreed in January 2023 that the former would stop the sales and export of its DUV lithography machines (with the EUV machines already banned beforehand
Frustrated users paid $2,000 dollars to fix Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error by posting a bug bounty — coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance eliminated in just a mon
A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub. Nadim Kobeissi, a Linux user, was fed up with the gaming laptop ’s “tinny and muffled” speaker output, thought to be due to an issue with the Realtek ALC3306 codec on the open-source OS. Kobeissi posted the project in October, with $500