For these reasons I was interested to check out the Razer Lancehead, the latest ambidextrous mouse offering from Razer that comes in both wireless and wired iterations. The wireless version will set you back a whopping $140 for what is essentially a top-of-the-line product in this category, while the wired Tournament Edition comes in at a more reasonable $80. We’ve had hands-on time with both versions for this review....

The Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at The University of Toronto, analyzed Microsoft Bing’s autosuggestion system and found that the names of Chinese party leaders, dissidents, and other persons considered politically sensitive in China were censored from appearing in the search engine’s autosuggestions—i.e., they don’t appear when users start typing them. Politically sensitive people are the second-largest category of names censored by Bing’s autosuggestion feature—only those relating to eroticism had more....

For comparison, an Apple Watch Series 7 is 10.7mm thick. You could stack six of these together and it still wouldn’t be as thick as one Apple Watch. The watch’s skeletonized baseplate and bridges are constructed from an alloy that is 90 percent titanium, six percent aluminum and four percent vanadium. The combination, which is frequently used in advanced aerospace applications, boosts the material’s strength compared to commercially pure titanium....

The new 830 Series SSDs receive a new Samsung S4LJ204X01-Y040 controller. This purportedly 3-core ARM-based controller supports the SATA 6Gb/s interface and can also be paired with the latest 20nm NAND flash memory. The 470 Series featured a pair of 128MB Samsung DDR2-667 cache chips for total cache capacity of 256MB. The 830 Series is also equipped with a 256MB cache but using a single chip, Samsung has used their own DDR2-800 (K4T2G314QF-MCF7) memory....

The Galaxy S8+ ships with the display set to a non-native 2280 x 1080 resolution, so one of the first things we did is increase that to its full 2960 x 1440 for all testing. The full resolution does provide a slight increase in clarity and overall display quality, and there’s not much point having such a high resolution display on a high-end phone if you’re not going to use its native resolution....

Samsung had anticipated plans to start mass production on a 3 nm process node (3GAE) sometime in the first half of 2022, with the second-generation node following in 2023. This week, the company told investors it is on track to start volume production in the coming weeks. This means the South Korean giant will be the first to achieve this level of miniaturization, and its 3 nm process will also be the first to use gate-all-around field-effect transistors (GAAFET)....

However, it’s been almost two months since the Extreme Pro was first released and in that time things have changed – namely the arrival of Samsung’s SSD 850 Pro, which is faster than the Extreme Pro in seemingly every way, but not by a huge margin. The 480GB Extreme Pro matches the 512GB SSD 850 Pro when looking at cost per gigabyte, but with Samsung’s drive up to 12% faster in our file copy tests it seems like the obvious choice....

Well that depends. If you already have a modern gaming monitor that supports variable refresh rate (FreeSync or G-Sync), you don’t need to use this guide at all. But if you have a regular, fixed refresh rate monitor, or if you like to play games on your TV, this guide will help you get a tangibly better experience in terms of screen tearing and input lag. By leveraging millisecond-accurate frame-capping in RTSS (Rivatuner Statistics Server), you can enable low-lag vsync on....

Chinese hardware enthusiast and content creator 苏baka recently posted a video (below) in which she tested a PC outdoors in -63-degree weather. The experiment resulted in some amusing obstacles and workarounds. Last Sunday, the northern Chinese city of Mohe posted the aforementioned temperature – one of China’s lowest on record. To see the extreme weather’s effect on a PC, Baka tested a rig containing an Intel i9-13900K and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 outside over two nights....

Insiders told Bloomberg that Sega has at least two retro games in active development. Both are from the Dreamcast days — Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. They are the first two entries from a list of titles somehow tied (or not?) to Sega’s “Super Game” program announced last year. These will not be simple ports to modern systems. According to the insiders, Sega is sinking big budgets into these reboots....

As reported by Macworld, the settlement covers anyone who paid for a subscription to iCloud at any time from September 16, 2015, to January 31, 2016, and had a US mailing address associated with their account. If the email used to sign up for iCloud storage during that time is still active, users should receive a notification informing them they are a member of the class-action suit. The amount of money each person receives from the settlement will depend on how long they were subscribed during those four months and which subscription tier they were on....

The Xperia Z2 is the culmination of a series of refinements to Sony’s formula, it doesn’t stray significantly from the Z1 that came before it, but every upgrade since the original Xperia Z has been of note. As the third flagship Xperia device release since the beginning of 2013, it shows the company’s efforts to build beautiful devices with generally well-rounded features. The headlining feature of the Xperia Z2 is a brand new 5....

Previous-gen mid-range products such as the GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7950 can also deliver playable performance at 1080p. Even budget graphics cards such as the GTX 950 will get you by with 48fps, which is not an ideal but certainly playable. For 1440p gaming the GPU requirement is still reasonable, with $300 options such as the Radeon R9 390 or GeForce GTX 970 able to provide perfectly smooth gameplay....

After the new policies come into effect in December, standard residential users will start each month with 1 TB of “Priority Access” included in their $110 monthly fee for use during “peak hours,” 7 am to 11 pm. Data used outside of those hours won’t count toward the cap. If a subscriber uses more than 1 TB they’ll be transitioned to “Basic Access,” which is unlimited but potentially much slower than Priority Access when there’s congestion....

The Kraken 7.1 Chroma has been constructed almost entirely from plastic. The build quality is fine but the design leaves a little to be desired in our opinion. The circular ear cups for example aren’t the most comfortable because they don’t cover your entire ear. My ears hurt an hour into gaming. Built into each drum is a 40mm driver with a frequency response of 20Hz-20kHz and an impedance of 32ohm....

While the DS1512+ failed to outpace its forerunner in our download and upload tests, it has a clear edge when executing on-disk copying. Our single large 6GB file test revealed a significant 24% increase – enough to also place the DS1512+ ahead of the Thecus N7700PRO and our Core 2 Duo test system. The game copy performance was also impressive and while the DS1512+ was 10% slower than the N7700PRO, it was 13% faster than the DS1511+ and 4% faster than our Core 2 Duo test system....

The typical thin and light sports an 11-, 12- or 13-inch display, Intel’s third-generation Core i3, i5 or i7 processors, 4GB of RAM, 6+ hours of battery life, and start with around 120GB SSD storage – although you can find some models with standard or hybrid HDDs if you need the extra space or want to save a few extra bucks. The vast majority of them also drop the optical drive for the sake of portability....

Motherboard, Processor, Memory In our review of the Richland APUs, we found the part’s general execution to be slower than Intel’s offerings while consuming more power, but its integrated graphics core was significantly faster, exceeding some entry-level discrete graphics cards. At ~$100, the A8-6600K is a great solution for budget system builders, especially if you intend to run some lightweight games without a dedicated graphics card. However, if you do plan to employ a discrete GPU, we’d opt for Intel’s $125 Core i3-3220 as it’s more efficient and costs less while offering solid performance, particularly with single-threaded tasks....

However, in-between doorbusters and not-so-great yet deeply discounted products, it’s easy to forget that it’s better to spend wisely on a solid well-reviewed item. We’ve built a shortlist of some of our favorite and most recommended tech gear in various categories covering PC hardware, to electronics and gaming. PC Hardware and Components Smartphones, Laptops & Desktops Electronics and Gadgets PC and Console Gaming Tech Stocking Stuffers (under $50) PC Hardware and Components CPUs Motherboards As reviewed by TechSpot As reviewed by TechSpot As reviewed by TechSpot...

Tesla revealed it had purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin in February last year, helping push the digital coin to a then-record high of $44,000. It sold 10% of those holdings that April, and now the company has confirmed the sale of 75% of its remaining Bitcoin, converting the digital currency into $936 million of cash. Tesla said it still holds digital assets worth $218 million. Elon Musk spoke about the sale in an investor call, noting that the company has not sold any of its Dogecoin and that the selloff “should not be taken as some verdict on Bitcoin....