After a tough few years for the best graphics cards, it's not surprising that a crop of older, inexpensive GPUs still top the most popular cards among PC gamers. The GPU market is rapidly changing, though, as are games, and if you stick with the old guard, you'll find yourself being able to play fewer and fewer games.

Deciding which graphics card will power your gaming or AI PC is a big decision. Whether you go for an AMD, Nvidia, or Intel GPU, you'll need to weigh the specifications, compatibility with your hardware, budget, and even software features. GPUs are complex pieces of hardware, and the drivers and the software package they come with can be just as important as the silicon specs. The software from all three makers does the job of controlling your graphics card's settings, but they're not equal, and there are a few important features that the AMD Adrenalin software has that the Nvidia app is missing.

With both the RTX 50 series and RX 9000 series now available, it's time to revisit the Nvidia vs. AMD debate. The RX 9070 XT from AMD is being hailed as the best GPU launch in ages, and rightly so. It's almost as fast as the RTX 5070 Ti, which is priced $150 more (if you can even find it at that price). And AMD's ray tracing and FSR technologies have seriously improved compared to the RX 7000 series.

If you have an older AMD Ryzen CPU based on the Zen 1 through to Zen 4 architecture, your CPU can now be "jailbroken." This is thanks to an exploit that allows users to write their own microcode for those affected CPUs,

If you're looking for a laptop that offers a fantastic balance between price and performance, going with one powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X chip is going to be a pretty safe bet. The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge scored high in our review, and we loved that it offered a sleek design, lots of power, and great battery life.

The biggest YouTuber in the world is looking beyond videos to build a multibillion-dollar empire. For the last several months, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries, at more than $5 billion. An investor pitch deck I’ve obtained gives an unprecedented look at the fast-growing, money-losing business of MrBeast and his future plans. (Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw first reported that MrBeast is raising money last week.)To justify that eye-popping valuation of at least $5 billion, investors are betting that the future of MrBeast’s business will be selling physical products, not making videos. Beast Industries and its roughly 500 employees see future revenue growth coming from a series of consumer packaged goods (CPG). Revenue from the company’s chocolate brand, Feastables, matched the core video business in 2024 and is expected to exceed it this year. Meanwhile, Beast Industries has never been profitable and doesn’t expect to be anytime soon. The company lost roughly $200 million over the last few years alone. Investors are planning to buy tens of millio …Read the full story at The Verge.

Discord is a premier communication app used by both gamers and non-gamers worldwide, with over 200 million monthly active users leveraging the social platform to chat with friends, join millions of dedicated Discord servers on various topics, or use it for work and productivity.

Sometimes, when I download a file from the internet, it doesn't show where the downloaded files usually go. It's usually because I used a new browser or reinstalled my old one, so the default download location changed. So now I have to either go through the browser settings and see where I put the file or begin digging through files where it might be.

Growing up, I heard a lot about PC cleaning apps, and used many of them myself. Everyone always wishes they could get a little more performance out of their PC, so seeing all these apps claiming to speed up your computer is bound to grab the attention of more than a few people.

The Steam Deck is a fascinating bit of handheld machinery, capable of taking thousands of PC games with you on the go. But for all the games verified to work on the Steam Deck, there are thousands more than you might not think that work on the system.

This image captured during the IM-2 landing livestream shows Athena “about 10 meters” above the lunar surface.The second lunar lander made by Intuitive Machines has touched down on the Moon, but like the private aerospace company’s first spacecraft, it may not be upright. The Athena vehicle for Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission landed yesterday just 100 miles from the lunar south pole, but there’s uncertainty around its orientation which may impact the mission’s duration.“We don’t believe we’re in the correct attitude on the surface of the Moon yet again,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said during the post-landing news conference.“We’re going to get a picture from the lunar reconnaissance orbital camera from above and we’ll confirm that over the coming days.”Data from Athena’s Inertial Measurement Unit indicates that “we’re oriented somewhat on our side,” according to Altemus. Odysseus, a near-identical Intuitive Machines lander that became the first privately owned spacecraft to reach the Moon’s surface last year, shared a similar fate when it toppled over during its own landing. Athena touched down just a few days after the Blue Ghost private lander created by Firefly Aerospace, which landed “in an upright, stable configuration” on March 2nd.The IM-2 mission is part of Intuitive Machines’ partnership with NASA to help return future crewed missions to the Moon. Athena was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26th, and carries 11 payloads and scientific instruments designed to find evidence of water on the lunar surface.The Athena lander is charging on the surface according to Altemus and is communicating with the mission ground network team on Earth, but performance is sub-optimal, which may cut Athena’s ten-day lifespan short. “We have done some power conservation steps as prudent measures to see how long and what objectives we can accomplish in the mission going forward,” said Altemus. “It will be off-nominal, because we’re not getting everything that we had asked for in terms of power generation, communications.”Once the orientation of the lander is confirmed, the IM-2 team can then establish how many of Athena’s payloads and scientific instruments are fully operational — including a drill designed to search for ice, and a hopping drone vehicle named Grace that aims to explore a permanently shadowed crater for the first time.

When designing products or protocols, there's often a trade-off to be made. Often, it's in favor of convenience instead of security, like with WPS pairing for Wi-Fi devices or UPnP, which lets devices open their own ports to the internet through a firewall. But did you know there's another network protocol that's similar to UPnP in scope that you should probably turn off in your router?