From ExtremeTech: Nvidia started releasing its much anticipated RTX 40-series video cards over the past few months. Both the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are out there, if you know where to look, but the high prices have kept many gamers from upgrading. There may be some hope for slightly stingy...

From CNET: Next-generation chips from Apple partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just entered mass production, the company announced on Thursday. TSMC is highlighting the new chip's reduction in power consumption, possibly signaling longer battery life for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max...

From PC Mag: Twitter is continuing to slim down its operations, and it looks like the company’s financial crash diet is leaving a bad taste in the mouths of its workforce.

Under CEO Elon Musk’s direction, Twitter has closed its Sacramento data center, laid off security and cleaning staff in New...

From CNET: Google Voice users shouldn't have to worry about spam phone calls for much longer. Google said on Thursday that Google Voice will now label calls that are believed to be spam with a "suspected spam caller" label. 

To figure out which calls should be flagged, Google is using the same...

From TechCrunch: Twitter has resolved an issue that caused a widespread outage earlier Wednesday (Pacific time), according to web monitoring tool DownDetector. The site acted up weirdly for over five hours for many users. Our original story follows.

If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not...

From CNET: The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, is expected to enter his plea in court on Jan. 3, according to court documents. Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear in a New York City courtroom for his arraignment, where he'll either plead guilty to the eight...

From Tom's Hardware: Demand for graphics cards significantly increased during the pandemic as some people spent more time at home playing games, whereas others tried to mine Ethereum to get some cash. But it looks like now that the world has re-opened and Ethereum mining on GPUs is dead, demand for...

From The Verge: New York governor Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on December 28th, 2022, and the law will go into effect on July 1st, 2023 — a full year after it was originally passed by the NY State legislature. The bill establishes that consumers and independent repair providers...

From CNET: LG is set to unveil a new camera module at CES that could take the "bump" out of your smartphone.

G Innotek, a branch of LG that makes electronic components, said Tuesday that the new micro component combines the optical-zoom capabilities found in DSLR cameras with a thinner design...

From ExtremeTech: SpaceX recently asked for FCC approval to begin its Starlink Gen2 deployments before the end of 2022, and it followed through. Today, the company launched 54 new Starlink satellites to orbit that will form the first element of the firm’s Gen2 network. However, SpaceX hasn’t...