Gaming peripherals have reached astounding prices for the latest and greatest pieces of tech, but you may still pick up a bargain on some of the older models without losing out on the functionality stakes. The Logitech G Pro was first replaced by the G Pro Superlight and then the G Pro Superlight 2, and although more recent iterations reduced the weight of the mouse, not everything was an upgrade. The Logitech G Pro still has a sensor with a high accuracy 25K DPI and is even truly ambidextrous which unfortunately was a feature that was dropped in the newer models....

Minisforum (via the company’sWeiboaccount)has introduced a new lower-tierV33-in-1 Windows PC variant. The latest version, V3 SE, features an older AMD Ryzen mobile CPU and less memory than its regular counterpart. The V3 SE has the same 14-inch form factor as the standard V3 but guts some primary internal components for lower-end counterparts to save cost. Whereas the standard V3 came with a Ryzen 7 8840U and 32GB of LPDDR5-6400MH RAM, the SE model drops to an older and lower-powered Ryzen 7 7735U and 16GB of LPDDR5-6400M RAM....

NATO has launched Operation Baltic Sentry to protect its undersea power and communications cables in the Baltic Sea from sabotage. According toThe War Zone, the alliance will deploy uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) also referred to as “drone boats” to enhance its overall situational awareness in the area. At least 20 USVs are assigned to the mission, which will be deployed alongside around 12 ships from the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 and Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 and an unknown number of maritime patrol aircraft....

A new DNA storage method has emerged which seeks to revolutionize the existing methods of encoding data on strands of DNA. A team of researchers from Peking University and three other research institutionsrecently published their findingson using DNA methylation to selectively mutate “epi-bits” on pre-existing strands of DNA. Simply put, it works, writing faster than other DNA methods, but still falling short of real-world utility for now. DNA is incredibly informationally dense....

According to a report published by theNew York Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori are among the largest tax dodgers in the U.S. Huang is ranked the 10th richest person in the U.S., with a $127 billion fortune. Still, the NYT reckons a string of tax dodges already in place will reduce his family’s estate (inheritance) tax bill by roughly $8 billion. No laws are being broken here; the exploitation of entirely legal swerves and loopholes to minimize the estate tax (40%) will need to be paid by those who will inherit the Huang family’s wealth....

Best Buy hasinadvertently listedseveral high-end gaming laptops featuring Nvidia’s upcomingRTX 50-series GPUs, offering an early glimpse of what consumers can expect when these devices officially launch in March. Discovered by hardware enthusiastmomomo_us on X, the listings include eight models from Asus and one from HP. While these laptops are currently unavailable for purchase, they are marked as “Coming Soon.” It’s important to note that pricing and configurations might change at the very end, as the listings could be placeholders set by Best Buy before the official launch in March....

Rumors suggest that Nvidia will launch the RTX 5080 with 30 Gbps GDDR7 memory, while the remaining Blackwell lineup will stick with slower 28 Gbps modules, viaBenchlifeas spotted byHarukazeon X. Do note that this also includes the flagship RTX 5090. Still, given the substantial disparities in CUDA core count and other specifications between the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, a small memory nerf is unlikely to make a difference to the flagship....

Nvidia andMicrosoftannounced on Thursday that they would be addingneural shading support to the Microsoft DirectX previewthis April.Neural shading will use cooperative vectorsand Nvidia’s Tensor cores (matrix operations units) to speed up graphics rendering in games that support the technology. It will better allow for the generic use, via HLSL (high level shading language) of traditional rendering techniques alongside AI enhancements. While real-time computer graphics and graphics processing units (GPUs) have come a long way, the graphics rendering pipeline itself has evolved slower than hardware....

Apart from performance improvements, one of the major peculiarities of theGeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, which rivals thebest graphics cards, is its considerable thinness compared to its predecessor. The company had to reinvent its printed circuit board (PCB) and cooling system to achieve this. One of the notable features of the new cooler is that it uses a liquid metal thermal interface material (TIM), a rather unconventional interface for a Founders Edition graphics card....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang willdeliver the main keynoteat theConsumer Electronics Showin 2025, reportsPR Newswire. Huang will deliver his keynote on Monday, January 6th, a day before the show officially starts on January 7th in Las Vegas, Nevada. “We are thrilled to welcome Jensen Huang as a keynote speaker at CES 2025,” said Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Trade Association (CTA). “Jensen is a true visionary in the tech industry. His insights and innovations improve the world, enhance the economy, and will inspire our CES audience....

Nvidia’sRTX Remixtoolkit, which is used to mod DirectX8 and DirectX9 games with ray-tracing and remastered materials, was announced on June 2 to be going open source, with the Beta already available for download and the complete Toolkit set to be updated later in June. Besides the open source announcement, Nvidia also demonstrated RTX Remix’s new functionality with Portal (the original game, not the pre-Remix RTX remaster) and demonstrated both upscaling and remastering existing texture work with physically based rendering (PBR) and allowing AI prompts to customize the look of the game even further....

The United States is set to receive up to $500 billion in private sector investment for artificial intelligence infrastructure from Stargate, a joint venture led by Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday, reportsReuters. The three companies intend to build 20 huge datacenters and create 100,000 jobs in the U.S. This announcement followsa report from March 2024detailing a $100 billion data center project by OpenAI andMicrosoft, also named Stargate....

OpenAI once considered buying Cerebras, an AI hardware startup, aiming to secure chipmaking capabilities that would lessen its reliance on Nvidia, reportsTechCrunch. Recent legal filings from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI reveal discussions between Musk, OpenAI executives, and Tesla about acquiring Cerebras, though the plan ultimately did not proceed. The discussions originated with Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, who suggested in 2017 that Tesla could be the acquisition vehicle for Cerebras....