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This recently spotted object is the oldest known quasar in the universe, with a supermassive black hole more than 13 billion years old. In fact, it's so old and huge that scientists don't know exactly how it could have formed.

Qualcomm will buy Nuvia for $1.4B. The ARM CPU developer has been working on a server chip to challenge x86, but we don't know yet if Qualcomm will continue those plans.

Intel is rumored to be building its upcoming DG2 GPU at TSMC, on a yet-unnamed 7nm process.

AMD is bringing its 8-channel Threadripper Pro family to the retail channel after previously restricting it to OEMs only.

The new machines combine AMD's latest CPUs with Nvidia's new mobile GPUs. The price tags won't be in the budget range, but they're much lower than some competing gaming laptops.

AMD has announced its new Ryzen Mobile 5000 family, with a heavy emphasis on 35W-45W chips and a couple of new 15W Zen 3 cores.

Nvidia's new RTX 3000 graphics cards represent a significant improvement over the last-gen RTX cards, but finding the latest and greatest can be a challenge. Supply might loosen up a little next month with the launch of Nvidia's latest GPU, the RTX 3060.

NASA builds its hardware to last — missions like Curiosity, Hubble, and New Horizons have survived long past their initial design life. This allows NASA to wring out every bit of science from its most successful missions, and now you can add Juno and InSight to the list.

The great semiconductor shortage of 2020-2021 has hit the automotive industry, slowing vehicle shipments as companies jostle for hardware.

Congress previously required that this mission launch on the massively delayed Space Launch System (SLS), but the most recent NASA budget has untied the agency's hands.

Intel talked up multiple aspects of its 2021 strategy at CES this year, with a particular focus on new mobile chips and platforms in the Tiger Lake 11th Gen family, as well as confirming details on the upcoming Rocket Lake desktop launch.

PC sales have skyrocketed in 2020, and the trend should continue into 2021.