From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake unveiled The Tower 500 Mid-Tower Chassis, the first mid-tower form factor model in The Tower series. The Tower 500 is a vertically designed case with three 4mm tempered glass panels for panoramic viewing, which comes in two editions, black and snow. Not...

From The Verge: Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, will announce its first smartphone at an event on July 12th, the company has announced. The Nothing Phone 1 will be the company’s second device, following the release of its Ear 1 true wireless earbuds last year...

From PC Mag: Taco Bell is attempting to redefine fast food with its new Defy restaurant—a first-of-its-kind, app-focused, four-lane drive-thru in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

The two-story eatery has been opened in partnership with Border Foods(Opens in a new window), and uses a vertical "food tube"...

From CNET: Apple has shown that the kind of chips that serve as the brains of its iPhones are also powerful enough to handle the company's Mac lineup, and it's stepped things up with the Worldwide Developers Conference debut of its second-generation M2 chip, which powers the newly redesigned MacBook...

From CNET: Apple broadened its processor ambitions on Monday with the new M2, a chip that improves core processing performance 18% over the M1 without hurting battery life in the company's new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops.

The 18% speed boost comes from the M2's redesigned central...

From PC Mag: Intel's 14th Gen Meteor Lake processors are expected to launch in 2023, and anyone planning to invest in one should also budget for a new motherboard.

Initially, hardware leaker Moore's Law Is Dead(Opens in a new window) stated that Meteor Lake chips will require the LGA 2551 socket as...

From The Verge: European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on legislation that will force all future smartphones sold in the EU — including Apple’s iPhone — to be equipped with the universal USB-C port for wired charging by fall 2024. The rule will also apply to other electronic devices...

From The Verge: Microsoft is testing some updates to the Microsoft Store on Windows 11 that will improve how updates are handled. Currently, some store apps will close and reopen while they’re being updated, which means you could lose work if you opened the Microsoft Store and selected update apps...

From PC Mag: Orange Pi has been making single-board computers to compete with the Raspberry Pi for years, but now it's going after the Raspberry Pi 400 keyboard computer.

As Liliputing reports(Opens in a new window), Orange Pi announced the Orange Pi 800(Opens in a new window) keyboard computer...

From CNET: The Apple Store went offline Monday, ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote. The company's annual developer gathering is running June 6-10, and it's expected to reveal software upgrades like iOS 16, as well the new versions of iPadOS, WatchOS and MacOS.

"Developing news...