From CNET: Increasing prices across the board are becoming a plague now, fueled by everything from tariffs to wars to the AI industry's devouring of hardware components. Sony's PlayStation hardware is the latest to get an increase, according to a blog post from the company on Friday. It's the second...

From PC Mag: Your next web browser on Windows may be made by a smartphone maker. Samsung Browser is now officially available on Windows devices after a six-month test, bringing the previously exclusive mobile browser to desktop for the first time.

Samsung’s main selling point is that users can...

From PC World: A popular benchmark tool, Geekbench, says it will issue a warning when Intel’s new “Arrow Lake Refresh” desktop chips enable Intel’s new IBOT feature. Why? Because the benchmark vendor can’t be sure that scores reported with it can be considered trustworthy.

Intel’s new Core Ultra...

From CNET: Security company Ring on Wednesday announced a significant expansion of its video doorbell line, notably battery-powered versions of both its 4K and 2K models, priced from $80.

Both Amazon's Ring and Google Nest debuted high-resolution video doorbells with new AI features in the fall of...

From PC Mag: One of Ring’s biggest smart home limitations has been the lower resolution of its battery-powered doorbells, but that’s no longer the case with a refreshed Battery Doorbell Pro. The new top-end Ring offers better video clarity with a 4K camera, and it doesn't require a hardwired...

From PC World: The architect of many modern smartphones and some PCs, Arm Ltd., just put on a hard hat and picked up a hammer and a nail.

Arm, whose intellectual property formed the blueprints of smartphones designed by Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, said Tuesday afternoon that it has entered the...

From CNET: Samsung's announcement of the new $450 Galaxy A37 and $550 Galaxy A57 today brings good news and bad news for value-conscious customers looking for a cheaper phone.

Much like we've seen on the flagship-level Galaxy S26, both phones are priced higher than the A36 and A56 they are...

From PC Mag: You can no longer buy Ayaneo’s upcoming Windows handheld due to the global memory shortage.

Prices for the Ayaneo Next 2, a Steam Deck-like device running Windows 11, were already remarkably high at $1,999 for a 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage version. Now, the brand says rising memory...

From PC World: In an unwelcome surprise, the FCC has placed all foreign-made routers on the so-called Covered List, effectively banning new products from sale within the United States.

The decision follows the FCC’s National Security Determination, which concluded that routers used by homes and...

From CNET: Smart-ring company Ultrahuman made its grand return to the US market on Tuesday, following a patent dispute with rival Oura that locked it out of the country since late 2025. Now, US Customs and Border Protection has cleared the company to operate in the US, and its newly announced Ring...