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The Ingenuity helicopter is attached to the underside of the rover, but it won't be for long. NASA just took the first step toward getting it airborne.

GPU prices have continued moving in the wrong direction this spring. The only good news is that demand for the PlayStation 5 may be weakening.

While the 9 Pro is almost a thousand bucks, the OnePlus 9 is more than $200 less expensive. OnePlus is also finally talking about its long-rumored smartwatch, but it doesn't run Wear OS.

Windows 10X will reportedly ship on systems in H2 2021. Originally intended to compete as a high-end OS variant for premium devices, Windows 10X is now intended for educational markets, where Chromebooks have recently made huge strides.

It's the end of Q1 2021. Let's celebrate the ongoing non-availability of graphics cards by enjoying the relaunch of the GTX 1050 Ti, a 4.5-year-old GPU selling for almost 1.5x more money than it did at launch.

Unlike some past demonstrations, ELSA-d isn't designed to sweep up all those little bits of past missions. Rather, Astroscale hopes to make the ELSA system a part of future space missions.

A new leak suggests Intel will bump up base clocks for its high core count Tiger Lake chips, arriving later this year.

LG has been trying to turn its mobile unit around for the last several years, but it has yet to pull out of the red. In early 2021, rumors suggested LG was looking to sell off its smartphone business. Now, a new South Korean report says LG has tried and failed to find a suitor, and the next step might just be to shut down the division entirely.

AMD's 6700 XT offers a rare opportunity to investigate efficiency and performance gains between two GPU generations using a near-identical iteration of both cores. We compare the 5700 XT and 6700 XT clock-for-clock to measure IPC, power consumption, and generational improvements.

In the latest attempt to jumpstart the somewhat moribund market for a VR future, Microsoft has un-veiled an ambitious new mixed-reality platform, Microsoft Mesh. Running on its Azure services platform, it initially supports the company's own Hololens devices, and its Altspace VR application, but the plan is to make it work with other VR, AR, and MR devices as well.

Over the last few months, we've seen Intel go on the marketing offensive against Apple and the M1 in multiple ways.

SpaceX now has more than 1,000 Starlink nodes around Earth, and NASA has announced an agreement that will ensure those satellites don't get in the way of any of its missions.