Topic: hardware reviews
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This PC Hardware Was Made for My Small Hands
The 8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless controller is the author's top hardware choice, valued for its perfect fit for smaller hands and its appealing lilac color that matches their setup. Despite its low price, the controller offers premium features like Hall effect sensors to prevent stick drift and ex...
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PNY RTX 5070 GPU Drops Below MSRP - Get It at Walmart Now
The PNY GeForce RTX 5070 OC Triple Fan is available at Walmart for $499, a $50 discount from its MSRP, making it a compelling mid-tier upgrade. The card features a triple-fan cooling system, 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and a 250W power draw for strong, practical performance. It offers...
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Radeon RX 9070 16GB Hits Record Low Price - $95 Off MSRP
The PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 16GB is currently available at a record-low price of $519, offering significant savings and strong performance that competes with consoles and other GPUs at a lower cost. This graphics card provides smooth gaming at 1080p and 1440p, with viable 4K gaming using...
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Roborock's First Robot Lawn Mower Arrives in the US
Roborock has announced the RockMow X1 LiDAR robot mower for the US market, expanding its robotic lawn care line with a model featuring advanced LiDAR and VSLAM navigation for precise operation. The mower handles steep slopes and obstacles but has a reduced daily mowing capacity of about half an a...
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CyberPower's $2499 Gaming PC: RTX 5080 & 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM
The PC component market faces severe RAM shortages, causing prices to skyrocket and making prebuilt systems like the discounted CyberPower Supreme a cost-effective alternative. This high-end gaming PC features powerful hardware including an Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU, an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processo...
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Build a Complete PC for Less: Newegg's Ryzen 7 9800X3D Combo Deal Only $678
Newegg offers a gaming PC component bundle for $678.99, including a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, motherboard, 32GB RAM, and a liquid cooler, saving over $200 compared to individual purchases. The bundle ensures compatibility between core components and provides a strong foundation for a gaming build, tho...
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AMD 9800X3D Bundle: $799 for CPU, $700 Motherboard, RAM & Cooler
Newegg offers a $799 gaming PC bundle featuring the top-tier Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, a premium Asus ROG motherboard, and 32GB DDR5-6400 memory, representing a significant discount from the usual $1,500 cost. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the leading gaming CPU, delivering up to 30% better performance than ...
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Samsung's Ballie Robot: Is It Ever Coming?
Samsung's Ballie smart home robot, a CES fixture since 2020, was absent from CES 2026, strongly suggesting the consumer product has been shelved. Samsung describes Ballie as an "active innovation platform" influencing its work on smart home AI and privacy, but its statement made no commitment to ...
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The Folding iPhone: Is a Creaseless Display Possible?
Samsung Display has unveiled a prototype foldable OLED panel that appears completely free of any visible crease, a significant advancement for the technology. The company clarified this is a research concept with no confirmed timeline for market release, leaving its development stage unclear. Thi...
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Apple TV Gains Google Cast, But Only for Android
The Apple TV app on Android now supports Google Cast, allowing users to stream content wirelessly from their devices to compatible TVs and streaming hardware. This update is exclusive to Android, as the iOS app still uses AirPlay, highlighting the platform-specific nature of these streaming proto...
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Amazon's Starlink Rival Debuts With Fastest Satellite Antenna
Amazon has launched the Leo Ultra antenna for business and government customers, entering the satellite internet market as a competitor to services like Starlink, with a commercial release expected next year. The Leo Ultra is claimed to be the fastest customer terminal, offering download speeds u...
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TiVo Ends DVR Production After Decades
TiVo has permanently ended production and sales of its standalone DVR hardware, with the TiVo Edge from 2019 being its final release, following its 2020 merger with Xperi. The shift away from hardware was driven by the rise of on-demand streaming services and integrated recording features in cabl...
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Roborock Saros 20 Robot Vacuum Gains Climbing Ability
Roborock's new Saros 20 series features an upgraded AdaptiLift Chassis 3.0, enabling the robots to autonomously climb obstacles up to 3.3 inches and navigate complex thresholds between rooms. The adaptive chassis intelligently adjusts for different floor types, lifting on carpets up to 1.2 inches...
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SwitchBot's AI Recorder: Your Memory's Second Brain
SwitchBot has launched the MindClip, a lightweight AI voice recorder designed to capture and organize conversations into summaries and searchable notes, entering a competitive market. The device supports transcription in over 100 languages and features a discreet clip-on design, but its advanced ...
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iPhone 17 Pro Loses Night Mode Photo Feature
The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max lack the ability to use Night mode while shooting in Portrait mode, making low-light portrait photography more difficult compared to older Pro models. Apple's official support document confirms the omission, listing previous iPhone Pro models as compatible, and the c...
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Raspberry Pi Price Hike: What It Means for Makers
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has raised prices for its 4 and 5 model lines by $5 to $25, citing a temporary surge in global memory costs driven by AI infrastructure demands. To maintain an affordable entry point, the company is introducing a new 1GB variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 for $45, which ret...
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Nike's First 'Powered Footwear' Is an E-Bike for Your Feet
Nike has launched Project Amplify, the world's first powered footwear system that uses a lightweight robotic framework to enhance walking and running speed for everyday users. Developed with robotics firm Dephy, the system acts like extra calf muscles to help people move farther with less effort,...
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Keychron Debuts World's First Ceramic Mechanical Keyboard
The Keychron Q16 HE 8K is the world's first fully ceramic mechanical keyboard, featuring a ceramic body and keycaps for a unique tactile and sound experience, available via Kickstarter starting at $229.99. It uses kiln-fired ceramic for durability and scratch resistance but is not portable or imp...
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Meta's Smartwatch Launch Planned for This Year
Meta is launching a new AI-powered smartwatch with health tracking in 2024, alongside updated Ray-Ban smart glasses, ahead of a delayed mixed reality headset. This marks Meta's re-entry into the wearables market after a 2022 cancellation, positioning it to directly compete with Apple and other es...
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OpenAI Considers Monetizing ChatGPT With Ads
OpenAI is introducing high-priced ads to ChatGPT, charging about $60 per 1,000 impressions, which is roughly triple the industry standard. Advertisers will initially receive only basic metrics like total views and click-through rates, lacking the detailed performance data common on other platform...
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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Get a Teleprompter and AI Writing Assistant
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are introducing an EMG handwriting feature, allowing users to send messages by writing in the air using muscle movements detected by the neural band. A new teleprompter feature enables users to display and navigate notes or scripts from their phone directly within the...
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MrBeast Acquires a Banking App
Beast Industries, owned by YouTube star MrBeast, has acquired the teen-focused banking app Step, marking its first major move into financial services. The acquisition aligns with MrBeast's plan to launch a personal finance channel, leveraging his massive, young audience to promote the youth-orien...
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Visible Now Offers Outage Credits to Customers
Visible Wireless is issuing a $5 bill credit to customers as compensation for a recent network outage, mirroring a larger credit offered by its parent company, Verizon. The credit was communicated via an in-app apology, but some users reported needing to contact support to receive it, indicating ...
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SwitchBot's AI Desk Light Mimics a Pixel Art Snow Globe
The SwitchBot Obboto is an AI-powered RGB desk lamp, unveiled at CES, that functions as a dynamic pixel art display for personalized animations and lighting. It features over 2,900 RGB LEDs, a motion sensor, and smart functions like music visualization, AI mood animations, and dedicated modes for...
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Score a $2,499 RTX 5080 & 9800X3D Gaming PC Deal Before It's Gone
The Skytech Azure 3 Plus is a high-value pre-built 4K gaming PC, priced at $2,499.99, featuring a top-tier AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU. Its core components deliver elite performance, with the CPU's 3D V-Cache for smooth gameplay and the GPU's support for DLSS 4 and ...
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MSNBC Rebrands as MS.NOW: A New Digital Era
MSNBC has rebranded to MS NOW with a new website domain and logo, modernizing its digital presence while removing the iconic MSNBC peacock. The rebranding is part of its strategic separation from NBC News, establishing an independent newsroom and brand under parent company Comcast's spinoff plan....
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Chrome to Block Annoying Web Notifications Automatically
Google is updating Chrome to automatically disable notifications from websites users frequently ignore, targeting high-volume alerts that contribute to digital clutter and distraction. The feature builds on existing Android functionality and focuses on sites with low user interaction, as data sho...
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Razer Cobra HyperSpeed Review: Is It Worth It?
The Razer Cobra HyperSpeed is a budget-friendly wireless gaming mouse that prioritizes core tactile performance over top-tier specifications, making it ideal for most players rather than esports professionals. It features a compact, lightweight design suited for fingertip grips and uses premium c...
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Russia Restricts and Slows Telegram Access
Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications regulator, is imposing new restrictions on Telegram, citing its failure to adequately combat fraud and criminal activity on the platform. Users across Russia are reporting significant service disruptions, including lag and failed connections, which disrupts a...
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Belkin's Wemo Smart Devices to Go Offline This Saturday
Belkin is discontinuing cloud services for most Wemo smart home products, ending remote access, voice control, and app updates. Only newer Thread-based devices and products fully configured in Apple HomeKit before the deadline will retain smart functionality. Other affected devices will revert to...
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Meta Halts Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Expansion
Meta has paused the international rollout of its Ray-Ban smart glasses to key markets like the UK and Canada due to overwhelming U.S. demand and limited inventory. The company is now focusing entirely on fulfilling existing U.S. orders, with waitlists extending into 2026, and has not set a new ti...
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Fitbit Users: Migrate to Google Account by May
The deadline for Fitbit users to migrate their accounts to Google has been extended to **May 19, 2026**, providing over two additional years compared to the previous date. After this migration deadline, access to original Fitbit accounts and historical data will be lost unless users either downlo...
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Spotify Launches Music Videos in the US and Canada
Spotify Premium has launched a beta for music videos in the US and Canada, allowing subscribers to watch videos across its apps. Users can toggle between audio and video for supported tracks, and a discovery feed shows related official music videos. The initial video library is limited to select ...
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Nintendo Switch Becomes Best-Selling Console Ever
The Nintendo Switch has become Nintendo's best-selling console ever, surpassing the DS with over 155 million units sold by the end of 2025. The Switch achieved this milestone despite the company shifting its primary development focus to its upcoming successor, the "Switch 2." To become the best-s...
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Nothing Phone 3A: Community-Designed with Colorful Style & Dice
The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition features a vibrant, 90s-inspired teal design with colorful accents and includes a unique accessory: limited edition dice in a matching case. This exclusive model, limited to 1,000 units globally, results from a community design contest where a winning concep...
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Spotify Adds Offline Lyrics, Translations, and Previews
Spotify has globally launched three new lyrics features: worldwide lyric translations, on-screen lyric previews, and offline lyrics for Premium subscribers, aiming to deepen user engagement. The global expansion of lyric translations allows all users to automatically see lyrics in their device's ...
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Android Users Can Now Live Stream Video to 911
Android's new Emergency Live Video feature allows 911 callers to stream live video to dispatchers, providing first responders with real-time visual information for better assessment and guidance during crises. The system prioritizes user privacy and control, requiring explicit permission to start...
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