RTX 5070 crashes to lowest-ever UK price — £484 in this fast-moving Lightning Deal

(Image credit: Asus)

If you're in the market for a new RTX GPU right now, then this is the best UK deal we've ever seen. Right now at Amazon, you can buy an RTX 5070 for just £484 , just £4 shy of the lowest-ever price we've seen on a 5070.

Not only is that a massive £120 off the list price of this ASUS card, it's also well

Continue reading...

Intel

Researchers pack a "quantum light factory" into a 1mm² CMOS chip — combines photonics, electronics, and quantum hardware with traditional silicon manufacturing that can achieve mass scale

(Image credit: Boston University)

Researchers from Boston University , UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University have created something that sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie: a “quantum light factory” squeezed onto a 1 mm² silicon chip. Built using a standard 45 nm CMOS manufacturing process—the same kind used for standard x86 and ARM processors—this breakthrough brings quantum hardware a step closer to the world of mass production. The work, published in Nature Electronic , could pave the way for scalable

Continue reading...

Microsoft to stop using engineers in China to work on U.S. Defense computer systems in wake of investigative report — fears of exploitation by foreign intelligence services spurs immediate change

(Image credit: Getty Images / NurPhoto)

Microsoft said that it no longer allows its China-based engineers to work on U.S. Department of Defense computer systems after a ProPublica investigation revealed the practice. According to Tech Crunch , Redmond’s previous system relied on digital escorts — American employees with proper security clearances — to monitor the foreign engineers working on the systems. However, it’s been noted that some of these U.S. citizens weren’t knowledgeable enough to determine if the person they

Continue reading...

AMD's FSR 4 gets a big boost in compatibility as OptiScaler now supports upconverting any modern upscaler to FSR 4 with frame-gen, as long as the game isn't Vulkan-based or has anti-cheat

(Image credit: AMD)

AMD has finally caught up to Nvidia's latest DLSS technologies with its recent FSR 4 update. For years, the Green Team have dominated upscaling, delivering near-native quality while boosting frame rates. Nvidia took the AI route from the start, training its neural networks on massive datasets, so each iteration improved automatically, even without manual intervention. FSR, by contrast, relied on traditional techniques — until this year, when FSR 4 finally made the jump to an AI-driven approach

Continue reading...

3D print

Ghost gun proliferation spurs crackdown at Thingiverse, the world's largest 3D printer model file repository — lawmakers also ask 3D printer vendors to create AI-based systems to detect and block gun

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

As much as we love 3D printing, there's no denying the dangerous potential that comes with something like a modern 3D printer. Creating a weapon is as easy as loading a print file in your print queue, which is why big companies like Thingiverse have taken action to make the file acquisition process as hard as possible on their part. According to ABC , Thingiverse is now implementing a new strategy to stop users from uploading things like gun-related files before

Continue reading...

The Samsung Odyssey G5 34-inch gaming monitor is now $279 at Amazon — 165 Hz monitor just dollars away from an all-time low

(Image credit: Samsung)

Right now, at Amazon, you can pick up the Samsung Odyssey G5 34-inch curved gaming monitor for one of its best prices to date. The Samsung LC34G55TWWNXZA has an MSRP of around $399, but today it's discounted to $279. This is one of the lowest prices we've ever seen for the Samsung Odyssey G5 34-inch gaming monitor since it first debuted.

Continue reading...

A Bitcoin whale just sold $9.5 billion in crypto that was originally acquired for $54,000 in 2014 — recent 80,000 BTC transaction nets an 18 million percent return

(Image credit: Shutterstock)

We seem to be in the middle of an especially frisky season for the so-called Bitcoin whales, as another remarkable crypto-cash-in, valued at $9.5 billion, has been spotted. This extraordinary financial transaction comes to light just a couple of weeks after an $8 billion sale hit the Tom's Hardware headlines.

The Bitcoin whale just sold all the 80,000 $BTC for $9.6B.Which was bought at 2

Continue reading...

Keychron K8 HE Special Edition Review: magnetic mid-century aesthetics

Keychron's K8 HE delivers great mid-century looks and modern magnetic switches with an 80% layout that feels comfortable, even if it has some oddities in key spacing.

Apple Silicon

Cyberpunk 2077 has been tested on several Apple Silicon generations, results range from around 13 to 105fps at 1080p, depending on Mac and game settings tested

(Image credit: Steam)

Mac gamer and YouTube creator Andrew Tsai tested Cyberpunk 2077 on four different Macs, where he found the game was able to perform relatively well on all models that are within spec. He shared the results of the test in a YouTube video , where he compared four MacBooks — an M4 MacBook Pro (16GB / 10-core GPU), an M3 Max MacBook Pro (48GB / 40-core GPU), an M1 Max

Continue reading...

A Windows Insider user discovers an undocumented ‘Shared audio’ feature in the latest build — quick setting allows you to play audio through multiple outputs

(Image credit: phantomofearth / X)

Microsoft has reportedly added a new feature to the latest Windows Insider build that lets you play its output across multiple devices or speakers. X (formerly Twitter) user phantomofearth shared screenshots that showed a new ‘Shared audio’ button in the Quick Settings panel beside the ‘Project’ button (that’s already widely available on Windows 11 devices). When clicked, it reveals a selection of audio devices connected to your computer. You can then tick the checkboxes on the devices

Continue reading...