Let the specs war begin! We now have key information about both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X , including details on the GPU, CPU, and storage. There's a lot that goes into making a console beyond just the hardware, and plenty of opportunity for custom features that haven't been disclosed yet, but with the latest Microsoft and Sony announcements, we're ready to compare the Sony PlayStation 5 to the Xbox Series X and crown a preliminary winner.

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It's the moment we've all been waiting for: Nvidia has been the exclusive maker of hardware-accelerated ray tracing graphics, and we've all been waiting for AMD to join the party. That's not quite happening today, but with Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PlayStation 5 supporting the technology on RDNA 2 hardware, it's only a matter of time before we start seeing RDNA 2 hardware for PCs. In light of that,

Intel has released two videos about its chip design and manufacturing process that give us a rare glimpse into not only the company's production process, but also into its problematic 10nm process.

Intel's woes with the 10nm process are well-documented. The company has suffered almost incalculable damage to its long-term roadmaps due to the delay of mass production of its newest node, and even recently cited that it didn't expect to reach parity with its competitors

Attention gamers and other PC enthusiasts on a tight budget. You may want to point your browsers toward Amazon for one of the best tech deals on a 24-inch gaming monitor. This 24-inch IPS display is selling for just $149, which is $50 off its recommended retail price and its lowest price yet.

Highlights begin with IPS, which bodes well for color accuracy and viewing angles. The BenQ EW2480 also sports a 7

AMD may want to be concerned. Based on alleged Time Spy benchmark results shared by hardware leaker @_rogame , the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X will have a strong rival in the upcoming Intel Core i9-10900KF.

The i9-10900KF is one of Intel's forthcoming Comet Lake desktop chips and will compete with AMD's recently launched Ryzen 3000-series (codename Matisse) CPUs .

Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 on Tuesday with mouse support, a settings update and other improvements to the open source utility.

The new Windows Terminal hit the Microsoft Store in June 2019 in what Microsoft called a "very early preview." That designation makes even more sense now--it's been almost a year and the utility still isn't anywhere near a stable release.

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Today, Microsoft's DirectX Developer Day livestream on Mixer spilled the details on the latest updates to DirectX. There's a new sheriff in town, going by the name DirectX 12 Ultimate. If that sounds like a major update to everything DirectX related, prepare to be underwhelmed. Fundamentally, DirectX 12 Ultimate is an umbrella that now encompasses everything previously under the DirectX 12 term, plus DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.1, then tosses in some extensions that are

Razer CEO, Min-Liang Tan, tweeted that Razer is converting its factories to make surgical masks. This comes in amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, to which the company wishes to contribute some of its resources.

"While there has been incredible demand for our products during this time with many staying home to avoid the crowds (and to play games), the team at understands that all of us have a part to play in fighting the virus – no matter which industry we come from,

With many of us working from home due to Coronavirus concerns, it's not surprising to see a few new innovative projects from the Raspberry Pi community. This week, a creator by the name of Jim Bob Bennett shared his Pi-powered busy light project. It's programmed to synchronize with an Office365 calendar,  automatically changing color when a meeting is scheduled.

The Raspberry Pi interfaces with the Office365 calendar using a combination of Azure IoT Central