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The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demon

We had these in the studio and figured we would do a quick look at the G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB Neo DDR5-6000 32GB 2x 16GB kit. You may have seen these used recently in the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Review. Also, before we get started, we know. Memory prices have gone wild.

Grab a 1440p-capable gaming rig with an RTX 5060 for just $1,049 — Save up to 25% on ABS Flux & Cyclone prebuilts that also feature 32 GB of RAM A whole lot of gaming value. It's a tough time for PC building enthusiasts right now, with all the component shortages causing us to de

Ask.com, the search engine and question-and-answer service formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. Ask Jeeves first launched in 1996 and, with its focus on answering conversational questions posed in natural language, was arguably a precursor to today’s AI-powered chatbots.

Google Is A Full Stack AI Player, And Is Playing Well Google might have come late to the cloud game and it might be a distant third compared to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, but Google Cloud is making up for lost time thanks to the killer app that GenAI has become. And

Audiences will have to wait a few months longer to see “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew,” with the release date pushed back from Thanksgiving to February 12, 2027. In addition to relaunching “Narnia” on big screens and serving as writer-director Greta Gerwig’s first film since “Bar

This must-have miniature Macintosh retro dock gives your M4 Mac Mini a 1980s makeover — equipped with a 5-inch HD display and M.2 NVMe SSD slot Old school meets new school. Many people love adding retro accessories to their modern devices to evoke the nostalgia of the ‘80s and ‘9

AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate — unless you spoke with a particular accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed that, producing systems that can dec

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Sony increases prices for refurbished PS5 slims by $100 — PS5 Fortnite bundle is out of stock, marking the end of new $399 consoles You'll have to pay more to buy a PlayStation 5. Sony just increased the price for refurbished PlayStation 5 Slim consoles by $100, bringing the Digi

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage — code was open-sourced to mark 86-DOS 1.00’s anniversary Microsoft VP confirms transcribed document “is perfect and recompiles byte for byte to the original binaries.” Microsoft

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. April’s list includes tracking Roman ship repairs, the dis

Retailer selling broken RTX 5090 GPUs for as low as $1,760 — GPUs were damaged during transport, but include all components on the PCB Intended only for repair professionals or recycling. Not that they were ever a great deal, but an RTX 5090 today costs upwards of $3,500 thanks t

FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices China currently handles the majority of device testing for the U.S. market. The Federal Communications Commission (F

US Navy signs deal with AI firm for training underwater drones to detect mines in Strait of Hormuz — $100 million would allow drone minesweepers to update their detection algorithms in days instead of months This should make clearing undersea mines faster and less dangerous for U

Europe should be known for BottleCap AI, not bottle cap memes. With its tongue-in-cheek name, this Prague-based AI startup is one of the teams that VCs think you should know. It is not that European startups never cut through the noise — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of it. Bu

Enthusiast creates Peltier thermoelectric cooler from scratch — impressive rig uses two 360mm AIOs, homemade DC controllers, and a custom loop It works, but the performance results are underwhelming Peltier liquid cooling has always been exotic and niche, but only CPU coolers hav

Celebrate Star Wars Day 2026 with these upgrades to your gaming PC setup — May the 4th bring you peace and prosperity with brand-new peripherals, games, collectibles, and more Get ready to fight the Sith with this seriously good Star Wars kit It comes around just once a year, but

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X is a well-rounded mid-range board with strong connectivity and CQDIMM support for those few who need the increased density and speed it provides – and it's a solid value under $280. The board faces stiff competition, but

A week into the Musk v. Altman trial, which features two towering figures in the tech industry facing off in a case that could have major implications for OpenAI, the plaintiff has made his central message clear to the jury. "You can't just steal a charity," Elon Musk, the world'

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In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor acti

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based

We tested supercharging the RTX 5090 in PhysX games using an RTX 5060 as a secondary GPU — SLI may be dead, but how much can dual GPUs boost performance in classic PhysX titles? Dialing PhysX back up. Today, we're testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to

Apple warns Mac mini and Mac Studio shortages could last for months — local AI boom and memory crunch drive demand beyond Apple’s manufacturing capacity Customers may have to wait months to get the devices Speaking during Apple’s second fiscal quarter 2026 earnings call, CEO Tim

Tech teardown specialist delids a Xeon with a blowtorch and hunting knife — wood chopping block makes a worthy stage for the sacrifice The video climax shows a clean die shot and you’d never know the ordeal this silicon had been through. A tech channel that uses rather unconventi

Redditor gambles $20 on a 4TB Temu external HDD — receives a microSD card reader hot-glued inside a plastic box This is definitely a scam. A Reddit user who gambled a mere $20 on a 4TB external HDD from Temu has revealed, to the surprise of absolutely no one, that the drive was a

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated use

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years o