From The Verge: Discord has announced that Activities — a feature for voice channels that allows members to play games or watch content together — will remain free for all Discord users.

While most Discord Activities were previously locked behind a subscription to Discord Nitro (which starts at $2...

From PC World: Last month we heard that Intel was planning on shaking up the branding for its long-running series of Core i3, i5, i7, and i9 CPUs. Not a huge shake-up — in fact about as innocuous as things can be, simply dropping a single letter from each one. Today it’s official: Starting with...

From CNET: Intel has built a quantum processor called Tunnel Falls that it will offer to research labs hoping to make the revolutionary computing technology practical.

The Tunnel Falls processor, announced Thursday, houses 12 of the fundamental data processing elements called qubits. It's a major...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR today introduced a new entry in its winning assortment of high-performance gaming mice: DARKSTAR WIRELESS. Made for excellence in any genre, this versatile wireless mouse reimagines the way gaming mice are designed, featuring a unique side button configuration...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is proud to announce the launch of the Toughpower iRGB PLUS Titanium series, Thermaltake’s first digital power supply with ATX 3.0 standard and available in 1250W and 1650W. The PSUs are fully modular and come in the dimensions of 150mm(W)x86mm(H)x180mm(D)...

From PC World: Most home PC builders just got their hands on PCI Express 5.0 hardware, or are still waiting on it to make sense in terms of either price or compatibility. But progress, or something that looks like it if you squint hard enough, marches on. The Peripheral Component Interconnect...

From The Verge: Microsoft is preparing to remove its built-in Microsoft Teams client in Windows 11 nearly two years after the integration was first announced. The Chat functionality will be replaced with the more flexible free version of Microsoft Teams that’s also available as an app for Windows 10...

From CNET: The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to move forward with a draft law to govern how artificial intelligence is used in the European Union. It's one of the first pieces of sweeping legislation focused on establishing guardrails to oversee the technology.

Called the AI Act, the...

From The Verge: The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business. In a preliminary opinion, the regulator says Google has abused its dominant position in the digital advertising market. It says that forcing Google to sell off parts of its business may...

From PC World: Have you tried out Windows 11’s ability to run Android apps? Pretty neat, right? But as you probably expected, the system has a few limitations in its early implementation. One of those is that you can’t access files on your standard Windows drive or any attached storage via Android...