Nvidia RTX 5050 is official: 8GB, $250, coming in July

From PC World: “Affordable graphics card” seems like something of an oxymoron these days. But after six months after the launch of the RTX 5000 series, Nvidia finally has one that broadly fits into that category. The GeForce RTX 5050 is now official, in both desktop and laptop flavors. The former is...

Verizon's Project 624 Is an AI-Powered Customer Service Initiative

From CNET: In April, Verizon's CEO of its consumer group, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, dropped a cryptic teaser on his LinkedIn Page: "Project 624. All about the customer. Coming soon." And then… nothing more about it. Until today.

Now we know that 624 represents the date, June 24, and the project is an...

Xbox-Branded Meta Quest 3S Reportedly Launching on June 24

From PC Mag: Xbox may be teaming up with Meta to release an Xbox-branded Meta Quest 3S this week.

Citing anonymous sources, Gaming website GameSandwich reports that the Xbox Quest 3S will drop on June 24 and cost $399, just over $100 more than the existing Meta Quest 3S.

For that, you’ll get a...

Logitech MX Master 4 mouse spotted in leak, with a new button

From PC World: Logitech’s MX Master series of mice have been the gold standard for anyone who doesn’t need gaming capabilities for a while now. It’s been a couple of years since it had a major redesign, but it looks like the MX Master 4 is almost upon us, if some leaked images out of a regulator are...

Cooler Master Hyper 612 Apex Review (Page 1 of 4)

Whenever people around my age talk about childhood TV shows, I often find myself not being able to join in on the conversation. I moved to Canada when I was around 5 years old, which put me in a weird situation for watching TV. My English was not good enough to watch the shows others watched here, but my Chinese reading skills were also not sufficient for me to watch Japanese shows with Chinese subtitles. My friends' childhood usually fell within...

Kiwi Ears Aventus Review (Page 1 of 4)

Some combinations are an interesting choice because you wonder how they complement each other. For example, I was recently participating in a limited budget cooking competition. For this event, we could make any main dish with a certain secret ingredient. When the organizers told us the ingredient was dark chocolate, my thought was to do something that would hide it, which is not easy to do. Initially, I was thinking about doing a chocolate mole...

Aflac Confirms Breach as Hackers Target US Insurance Providers

From PC Mag: Aflac is warning that a cybercriminal gang briefly breached its systems as part of an ongoing hacking campaign against insurance providers.

Aflac noticed "suspicious activity" on its network on Thursday, June 12, at which point its cybersecurity team stepped in to prevent any malware...

Data for 86 million AT&T customers leaked again. I take it as a warning

From PC World: AT&T lost information on millions of its U.S. customers last year—not just account numbers, but full names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, birth dates, and even social security numbers. But that wasn’t the end of the story, as the stolen data surfaced again. And...

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