Best gaming and productivity laptop deals under $1,000 — beat rising laptop prices with these refreshing deals
The best available gaming and productivity laptop deals that you can still find under $1,000.
Hardware
TCL 27R944K 165 Hz gaming monitor review: Mini LED with high brightness and high performance
TCL rolls high brightness and saturated color into its 27R94. It’s a 27-inch gaming monitor with 4K resolution, a Mini LED backlight with 2,304 dimming zones, HDR1400, Adaptive-Sync, and 165 Hz.
Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production
The two sides are meeting through South Korea's National Labor Relations Commission after earlier rounds of mediation in February and March collapsed.
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Arm's $2 billion in AGI CPU sales are still not enough to penetrate 5% of overall market share, analyst reveals — at least $90 million worth of CPUs to be shipped before FY2027
Orders for Arm's AGI CPU double to $2 billion over the next two years in 1.5 months. While will not make Arm a major supplier of data center CPUs, it will make it a strong contender.
AI data center developers target rural territory to bypass city construction bans and regulations — rural locations allow sites to bypass city council approvals, rezoning votes, land-use reviews, and reduce public scrutiny
Data center projects are increasingly being put on unincorporated land to reduce the regulatory friction brought about by municipal level permits. These rural sites also offer larger parcels, giving more spaces to build various building and could potentially affect less people.
Intel, SK hynix shares surge following reports of chip packaging partnership — SK is said to be testing Intel's 2.5D EMIB for HBM integration
The rally followed a report claiming that SK is conducting R&D with Intel on 2.5D packaging using Intel's EMIB technology.
Save $210 on this 9800X3D bundle that includes 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM and a 1TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD — start your AM5 build for just $979 and get a free power supply
Get a brilliant 9800X3D processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and a PSU for just $979.
$500 slashed off this potent gaming PC with RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and an AMD Ryzen 7800X3D — mid-range iBuypower beast is just $1,599 in this deal
Save $500 on an iBuypower Element 9 gaming PC from Newegg. $1599 PC includes a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti GPU and superfast Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU.
Scammers are selling fake DDR5 with empty plastic chips relabeled to pass as legit — fake components mounted to PCBs are yet another sign of the RAMpocalypse
DDR5 memory is overpriced right now, which might make some people desperate to get their hands on a good deal. Unfortunately, that could lead to you being taken advantage of with fake modules that are literally empty inside. A Japanese buyer warns of how this scam works and how to stay away from it.
IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily
The oil and shipping choke point of the Strait of Hormuz looks set to become a digital pressure point with internet cabling under threat.
Portable 40mm launcher kills drones by firing 6.5-feet-long steel chains at 80 m/s — German researchers' low-tech mechanical 'bola' outshines textile drops quadcopters without lasers or EMPs
The concept draws on the same physics as the bola, a weighted throwing weapon used for centuries by South American herders.
AMD's excellent Radeon RX 9070 with 16 GB of VRAM hits all-time low pricing — PowerColor Hellhound variant is 23% off list price
If you've been looking for a GPU upgrade but were disappointed by the ongoing market conditions, a small window of opportunity has just sprung open. AMD's fantastic RX 9070 is on sale for just $554, discounted $165 from its typical retail price. It's a very capable 1440p card that can even game a...
MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures — 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds
MIT researchers have developed a 3D-printed three-sided zipper that rapidly transforms floppy structures into rigid beams, robotic limbs, and deployable frameworks using triangular geometry.
Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people'
A heavyweight games industry veteran says he is building a fully European alternative to popular games engines from American and Chinese companies.
China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer — 200-qubit claims incredible power efficiency, but lacks critical performance benchmarks
CAS Cold Atom Technology, a Wuhan-based firm affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), unveiled what it calls the world's first dual-core quantum computer.
3DMakerPro Toucan 3D Scanner review: All-in-one 3D scanning
Designed to be used as a standalone device, the 3DMakerPro Toucan allows users to capture a point cloud, generate a 3D model, and export it without using a computer. The hardware has a premium feel, and the Class 3R laser can create detailed point clouds quickly. However, the software lacks polis...
AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use
QTS says the extra 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation.
Tiny credit card computer includes eInk screen and is just 1mm thick — Muxcard is powered by the ESP32-C3 microcontroller
A GitHub project shares details of the prototype for 'a fully working computer that is literally the size of a credit card,' dubbed the Muxcard
AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden
AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.