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Coinciding with Nvidia’s incredible surge in value over the last 12 to 18 months, CEO Jensen Huang has gained significant star power. At the recent GTC 2024, the founder and leader of this$2 trillion companytook to the stage to deliver a keynote in an atmosphere some senior analysts likened to being ata rock concert. Thus, it comes as little surprise that Jensen Huang has become a celebrity magnet, withCNBC noticingthat A-listers like “George Lucas, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Trevor Noah, Ashton Kutcher and more,” streamed out of the venue after the event wrapped up....

Nvidia has revived an April Fool’s Day joke from 2017. Itreposted a tweetintroducing an AI assistant for gamers. This timely revival suggests Nvidia may announce new AI features for gamers at its upcoming keynote just beforeComputex 2024 kicks-off. Along with its highlighting of the classic prank, Nvidia included the tagline, “the future is never far away.” It’s outlandish to think Nvidia would make the fictionalNvidia GeForceG-Assist into a real product, but it could be teasing AI assistant features coming soon for gamers....

It’s been a very busy year so far for GPUs, with Nvidia launching theRTX 5090,RTX 5080,RTX 5070 Ti, andRTX 5070in the span of just two months. AMD also launched itsRX 9070 XT and RX 9070, while Intel released theArc B580late last year and theArc B570in mid-January. The only problem? Outside of the Arc B570 (kind of but not really), every GPU launched so far has ended up being sold out or severely overpriced....

The Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super is one of the latest generation of GPUs and part of the most recent refresh of the Nvidia stack. Several Super variants were introduced at the beginning of the year, giving a small performance boost for some of Nvidia’s RTX cards. The RTX 4070 Ti saw a boost from 12GB of VRAM to 16GB of VRAM on the Super and a small performance uplift for the same MSRP as the original RTX 4070 Ti....

NZXT is showing off a range of new PC cases and AiO liquid coolers at itsComputex 2025exhibit. In terms of chassis, the firm has gone big and little with its newH9 Flow and H3 Flow cases. It also showed an assortment of new Kraken series AIO CPU coolers. Nothing is very surprising here, but there are some good new options for those planning an all-white build and who have a soft spot for NZXT design....

One of ourfavorite gaming headsetsin the “budget” category is on sale for just $66 on Amazon’sOctober Prime Day, the lowest-ever price we’ve seen. TheHyperX Cloud IIIis a wired headset with powerful drivers and an amazing soundscape, great bass, and a premium quality build. It’s hard to find anything to compete with these gaming cans at this low price. You can find this deal at Amazon where theHyperX Cloud III wired gaming headset is only $66in the Prime Day sales....

Phison was the first company to offer an SSD controller with a PCIe 5.0 x4 host interface and was the indisputable leader in the market of enthusiast-grade SSDs for a couple of years. This week, the company cemented its lead by introducing its next-generation PCIe 5.0 SSD controller for thebest high-end SSDs, the PS5028-E28. The new chip promises even higher performance and compatibility with next-gen 3D NAND. The Phison PS5028-E28 is a brand-new, eight-channel controller that can work with upcoming types of 3D NAND featuring a 4200 MT/s interface and supports SSDs with a 32TB capacity....

Sony’s upcoming port ofGhost of Tsushima’s Director’s Cutfor PC is going to bring with it a new goody: a PlayStation overlay that gives PC gamers access to their PlayStation account, friends list, trophies, and settings.Windows players will be able to access the overlay by pressing Shift + F1 on the keyboard, or they can get to it through the in-game menu if they use a controller. To make use of most of the features, you’ll need to be signed in with your PlayStation account....

PlayStation’s portable console remains a popular choice for playing on the go. It has a nice catalog of games you may play, but it also comes without drawbacks. To help you with the device, we’re teaching you what to do when thePS Vita doesn’t charge. The PlayStation Vita is a small item, making it susceptible to heat, time, firmware errors, and physical damage. The final solution revolves around the system’s Safe Mode....

Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon told the company board that purchasing Nuvia outright would save it as much as $1.4 billion per year in payments to Arm. This admission was revealed during theArm vs. Qualcomm trial, where the former claimed that the Snapdragon X chips the latter released earlier this year were infringing on its patents. According toReuters, Amon testified that he used this reason to justify the acquisition of Nuvia, which cost Qualcomm $1....

Rainmeter gives you the freedom to completely change how your desktop looks. It allows anyone to create skins, so you can find any specific one you want, or create your own. Among all the widgets and skins, the weather widget is useful and it even tells you if you should wear a jacket or not. However, these weather skins can sometimes stop working. The weather won’t load or you get an error message....

TheRaspberry Pi 5introduced a dedicated PCIe connection to theRaspberry Piform factor, and while we wait for the official M.2 HAT board to materialize, there have been a few community designs that have crossed our workbench.Pimoroni’s second NVMe-based board, the $30NVMe Base Duo, follows the aesthetics of the previousNVMe Base, but as the name suggests, this new board supports two NVMe drives. Sporting a similar black and white silkscreen print, the first thing we notice about the NVMe Duo is the dual NVMe connectors....

The Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced Raspberry Pi Connect earlier in 2024, limited toRaspberry Pi 4and newer devices. The latest version of Raspberry Pi Connect expands on that withsupport for older Raspberry Pi boardsand a new remote shell feature.Remote control options for Linux-based computers are nothing new or exciting. However,Raspberry Pi Connectmakes it possible to remote into your Pi from any web browser. You can be anywhere in the world and log into your Raspberry Pi desktop without any special software....