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It looks like scalpers are trying to manufacture a storage shortage in parts of China and Japan ahead of a cryptocurrency launch.

Intel shipped a lifetime record number of chips in Q1 2021. Overall PC demand is expected to remain strong through the end of the year.

Microsoft is releasing a Known Issue Rollback (KIR) to address problems with a pair of system updates from earlier this month. The company now confirms that a "small subset" of Windows 10 systems suffered poor game performance after the updates.

This was the first test to feature significant side-to-side movement, which has helped to validate the drone's autonomous flight software. Plus, NASA has received some of the first color photos from the aircraft.

YouTube has developed its own video transcoding chips to break bottlenecks imposed by the slowing of Moore's Law.

Apple is apparently going to support RDNA2 GPUs in future Mac systems, implying Radeon might have a future with Mac after all.

Researchers are now discussing the possibility of designing a globe-spanning quantum telescope modeled on the successful Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that imaged a black hole in 2019.

At a certain point, do the machines even need us anymore?

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will travel to Europe next week to meet with EU officials about building additional fabs in Europe. This could be part of the EU's effort to take a much larger share of global semiconductor manufacturing by 2030.

The Israeli firm recently bragged that it has helped law enforcement retrieve data from the encrypted Signal chat app. Well, Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike had something to say about that.

Haunted by the idea that refusing to pay hundreds of bucks for a scalping bot means you won't get a new GPU? Good news! Buying one doesn't necessarily help.

This has the potential to change how we explore Mars and the rest of the solar system.