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Nvidia has announced the RTX 3080 Ti with 12GB of VRAM and more GPU cores, with theoretical availability starting June 3. An updated RTX 3070 Ti will follow, with theoretical availability on June 10.

A small, unidentified object hit the station earlier this month, causing minor damage to one of the station's components.

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a very useful one. Today, "RISC versus CISC" obscures more than it explains.

The new Chromium-based Edge browser was a step in the right direction, but Chrome continues to dominate. Microsoft hopes to change that with ongoing Edge improvements, like the new startup boost and sleeping tabs features that are rolling out in version 91.

Happy fifth birthday to Pascal, Nvidia's last rasterization-only flagship GPU microarchitecture.

AMD has prioritized shipping its most profitable products as the pandemic squeezes chip supplies. That's good news for Threadripper customers, bad news for low-end Ryzen fans.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella teased what will allegedly be the biggest update to Windows in years, promising it will improve the OS and create new opportunities for developers.

Valve is reportedly working on a handheld gaming device dubbed "SteamPal," possibly launching before the end of the year.

If you want to kill a midrange or low-end consumer SSD, or even the wrong high-end models, for that matter, mine Chia on it.

NASA first proposed a dedicated mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa way back in the 1990s, but it wasn't until a few years ago that the Europa Clipper mission got funding. The agency now hopes to launch this spacecraft in 2024, and a new study could point the way to volcanic activity.

There's a rumored chip on the way from AMD with far more memory bandwidth than anything the company has shipped before. If the rumor is true, Milan-X will offer a mammoth amount of HBM bandwidth.

Samsung just dipped its toe in the waters of upcycling, but iFixit says Samsung lost its nerve, and that the original version of Galaxy Upcycling was going to be much more ambitious and useful.