Gaming Gear The Best OLED Gaming Monitors:
From $350 QD-OLED to Flagship Tandem WOLEDs |
OLED gaming monitors have never been better or more affordable. We tested the top QD-OLED and Tandem WOLED displays across every budget to find the best picks for 2026.
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OLED gaming monitors have never been better or more affordable. We tested the top QD-OLED and Tandem WOLED displays across every budget to find the best picks for 2026.
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Ban Explained Anthropic's Mythos AI reportedly cracked NSA classified systems in hours, that would explain the ban |
| "Not in weeks, but in hours" |
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| "Not in weeks, but in hours" |
PC Gaming Valve's Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version |
| Under the hood, the Steam Machine packs a semi-custom AMD platform: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.86GHz, an RDNA 3 GPU with 28... |
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| Under the hood, the Steam Machine packs a semi-custom AMD platform: a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.86GHz, an RDNA 3 GPU with 28... |
Prime Day Tech deals on Prime Day 2026:
Our picks for PC hardware, laptops, gadgets, and more |
| Amazon Prime Day is back, running from June 23 through June 26. While this year's event isn't overflowing with must-buy discounts, there are still a handful of... |
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| Amazon Prime Day is back, running from June 23 through June 26. While this year's event isn't overflowing with must-buy discounts, there are still a handful of... |
Backups How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998 |
| The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff... |
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| The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff... |
The Web Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off |
| The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds... |
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| The Wall Street Journal reports that Polymarket paid at least 10 influencers over the past several months to post videos in which they pretended to win hundreds... |
Hardware Intel and AMD are teaming up to make x86 CPUs better at AI, without needing a GPU |
| The specification, called Advanced Compute Extensions, or ACE, lays out a way to handle AI operations more efficiently on x86 processors. It is not aimed at replacing... |
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| The specification, called Advanced Compute Extensions, or ACE, lays out a way to handle AI operations more efficiently on x86 processors. It is not aimed at replacing... |
Gaming Industry The founder of Eidos-Montréal says the game industry has been taken over by spreadsheets and lost its soul |
| D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series,... |
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| D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series,... |
Car Tech Scientists created a paint so black it makes cars look like silhouettes |
| A team at Nipsea Group, working through its Color Technology and core R&D unit in Shanghai, has developed what it describes as an "ultra-black coating" capable of... |
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| A team at Nipsea Group, working through its Color Technology and core R&D unit in Shanghai, has developed what it describes as an "ultra-black coating" capable of... |
AI Yann LeCun says xAI is "kind of a failure" – and the whole AI industry might be headed for a reset |
| LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said,... |
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| LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said,... |
Electronics HDMI 2.2 doubles bandwidth to 96Gbps, enabling uncompressed 4K at 240Hz |
| HDMI 2.2 can carry uncompressed 4K video at up to 240Hz, something that currently requires Display Stream Compression (which as we've shown however, is not a big... |
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| HDMI 2.2 can carry uncompressed 4K video at up to 240Hz, something that currently requires Display Stream Compression (which as we've shown however, is not a big... |
Gaming A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop |
| Garriott says he has tried several times over the years to bring Ultima back with EA's help, but each effort stalled before anything concrete happened. "Every decade... |
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| Garriott says he has tried several times over the years to bring Ultima back with EA's help, but each effort stalled before anything concrete happened. "Every decade... |
Gaming Valve confirms FSR 4 for Steam Machine, AMD releases FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 GPUs |
| Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing support for FSR 4.1 upscaling in the Proton... |
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| Screenshots posted on X by YouTuber and XR analyst Brad Lynch appear to show that Valve is already testing support for FSR 4.1 upscaling in the Proton... |
Science Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference |
| Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with mechanical energy. It runs at room temperature,... |
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| Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with mechanical energy. It runs at room temperature,... |
Windows Windows 11 26H2 continues Microsoft's shift to smaller and faster updates |
| This approach dates back to Windows 11 24H2, released in October 2024, which marked the last traditional feature update. Since then, Microsoft has kept new versions on... |
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| This approach dates back to Windows 11 24H2, released in October 2024, which marked the last traditional feature update. Since then, Microsoft has kept new versions on... |
Gaming Cyberpunk's disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back |
| The Cyberpunk 2077 story is a familiar one. Following the disastrous launch in 2020, CDPR released numerous patches, eventually giving us the game we were expecting. The... |
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| The Cyberpunk 2077 story is a familiar one. Following the disastrous launch in 2020, CDPR released numerous patches, eventually giving us the game we were expecting. The... |
Modding Modder cools RTX 3060 with countertop ice machine, slashing gaming temps by up to 62% |
| The experiment was inspired by MrYeester, another YouTuber who recently built a CPU cooling loop around a hacked ice maker that constantly replenished its ice. |
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| The experiment was inspired by MrYeester, another YouTuber who recently built a CPU cooling loop around a hacked ice maker that constantly replenished its ice. |
Industry Google is spending billions to turn its TPU chips into a real challenger to Nvidia |
| One clear example of that shift is in western New York at an AI data-center cluster called Lake Mariner, on Lake Ontario's southern shore near Niagara Falls.... |
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| One clear example of that shift is in western New York at an AI data-center cluster called Lake Mariner, on Lake Ontario's southern shore near Niagara Falls.... |
Industry SK Hynix just surpassed Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company |
| SK Hynix's stock price closed at approximately 2.9 million Korean won on the Korean stock exchange on Monday. The 5.6% gain raised the company's total market cap... |
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| SK Hynix's stock price closed at approximately 2.9 million Korean won on the Korean stock exchange on Monday. The 5.6% gain raised the company's total market cap... |
Trivia Before it was known as Adobe Photoshop, what was the original name of the software in 1987? |
Photoshop started as a student's side project. |
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Photoshop started as a student's side project. |
Lawsuit The studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds is being sued over wage and hour violations |
| The case, Victoria Turner v. Obsidian Entertainment, was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2025. It appears to have gone largely unnoticed until Reddit... |
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| The case, Victoria Turner v. Obsidian Entertainment, was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2025. It appears to have gone largely unnoticed until Reddit... |
Industry Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, admits AI is reducing its workforce |
| The eliminations led to $1.8 billion in severance payments and other restructuring costs for Oracle, significantly higher than the $374 million restructuring costs it faced in the... |
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| The eliminations led to $1.8 billion in severance payments and other restructuring costs for Oracle, significantly higher than the $374 million restructuring costs it faced in the... |
Security Europeans are starting to see US tech as a privacy risk, survey claims |
| Proton's survey discovered that four out of five European consumers now consider the use of European technology a factor when deciding whether to buy from or work... |
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| Proton's survey discovered that four out of five European consumers now consider the use of European technology a factor when deciding whether to buy from or work... |
Neural Networks Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats |
| Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the fundamental challenges of AI and... |
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| Adrian de Wynter is an AI scientist at Microsoft and a researcher at the University of York. In addition to studying the fundamental challenges of AI and... |
The WebFeatured Story Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to tackle bot traffic without CAPTCHAs |
| Cloudflare says it's developing the protocol with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, with the group planning to submit it for standardization. |
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| Cloudflare says it's developing the protocol with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Shopify, with the group planning to submit it for standardization. |
