We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Anker is well known for its wide range of phone accessories that are better than the official versions from Apple and Samsung, but the brand is much more than just cables, power bricks, power banks and wireless chargers. Anker…
“The company’s deception continues to this day,” the lawsuit states. Hapabapa/Getty Images Amazon has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 states over its handling of advertising auctions. The company made billions of dollars by “secretly” inflating its prices for more than six years, according to an FTC…
Nintendo has set a deadline for hardware sales in Europe of 2027, but there is no equivalent expiration date for consoles already in people’s hands. Luza Studios/Getty Images While the original Nintendo Switch will soon celebrate its 10th anniversary, there is no specific date when a game console suddenly becomes unplayable. Nintendo can…
Qualcomm is raising its chip prices by double digits starting tomorrow. Qualcomm announced the impending price hike in July, informing customers that prices would increase for chips shipped after September 1. Qualcomm said it could not continue to absorb rising supplier costs. “We’re just experiencing big cost increases,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said in an…
When we look back at the annals of video game history, certain consoles are appreciated (Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)), criticized (Google Stadia) or terribly ahead of their time (the Sega Dreamcast, of which we have almost everything). And then there are those systems that are frankly bizarre and polarizing, like the Nintendo GameCube. Burdened with…
He claims a laptop proves a former employee accessed and used proprietary files for the AI company. Marvin Samuel Tolentino Pineda/Getty Images Apple has presented new evidence to support its claims that OpenAI used trade secrets recovered from former employees to support its new hardware business. In a move to seek…
Adnan Ahmad Ali/Getty Images Unfortunately, if replacing your aging graphics card was on your itinerary for the year, you’re probably out of luck. The lack of memory that we can thank AI for has pushed prices into the stratosphere. For example, a GeForce RTX 5070…
PlayStation 5 owners in the United States will be able to stream free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels starting today. The console’s media tab will feature more than 100 live channels from Sony Pictures Television as well as on-demand options. There are channels for movies, TV shows, anime (of course, since Sony owns Crunchyroll), news, sports,…
A blast from the past edited onto another blast from the past. Sean Gallup/Getty Images With the current “analog” technology trend encouraging hobbyists to find new ways to exert ownership over hardware, console modding is attracting more and more attention. Although taking apart and putting back together video game technology has long been…
Apple today released the sixth public beta of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, allowing anyone with a compatible device to download and test the new software. The sixth betas come a week after Apple launched the fifth betas and a few hours after the eighth developer betas. You can get…