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The smartphone market shrank overall in 2020, but Apple managed to take back Q4 from Samsung for the first time since 2016. Samsung remained the largest smartphone company for full-year 2020.

AMD is looking into reports of USB disconnection problems on its X570 and B550 motherboards, particularly with PCIe 4.0 enabled. If you've had issues, we'd like to hear from you.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars for several days, giving the team here on Earth time to run system checks and download preliminary data from the robot. The agency has now released the first large batch of media from the mission, including hundreds of still images and the first video and audio ever recorded on Mars.

Smartphone updates have been a mess for as long as the modern smartphone has existed, but Samsung just took a big step in the right direction: The company has decided to extend security update support to a full four years.

iFixit has torn down the Sony DualSense controller and their prognosis for its new drift problem is not encouraging.

Blizzard has confirmed that World of Warcraft Classic is getting a partner. Step through the Dark Portal once again when The Burning Crusade Classic comes online.

Blizzard is remaking Diablo II, with a number of quality of life improvements. Revisit one of the greatest hybrid RPG titles ever made. Fight the Lords of Hell. Then, kick back, stay awhile, and have yourself a listen.

Scientists have been looking for black holes ever since general relativity predicted such an object could exist. Cygnus X-1 made history in 1964 as the first likely candidate black hole. Astronomers have revisited Cygnus over the years, and a new analysis suggests the first black hole spotted by humanity might be larger and farther away than believed.

We're living in a perfect storm for GPU price inflation, between crypto mining, pandemic gaming, and the global semiconductor shortage. Nvidia hopes to combat the resulting high GPU prices with the upcoming RTX 3060 while letting existing cards mine at full speed.

If you're looking to mine cryptocurrency with midrange cards, Nvidia would really rather you bought one of its new CMPs, not a GPU.

A report has been going around online that AMD CPUs are suffering much higher than normal failure rates after PC builder PowerGPU shared an alarming tweet.

NASA used Curiosity as a model for this new robot, but its instrument suite is upgraded to scour the red planet for signs of ancient life. This mission will also be the first leg in a three-part process to get bits of Mars back to Earth for more intense study. And it all starts today.