From Forbes: There was an unexpected moment towards the end of the Intel Arc graphics briefing, punctuated by the distinct absence of something. A moment when the journalists and content creators in attendance collectively realized Intel must have simply forgotten to show its competitive benchmarks...

From CNET: WhatsApp is updating voice messages for all those times when sending short audio recordings is more convenient -- or expressive -- than typing out your texts. The voice message feature is apparently quite popular, with WhatsApp announcing that 7 billion of these are sent on average per...

From The Verge: T-Mobile is reportedly delaying its planned shutdown of Sprint’s 3G network again to May 31st (via The T-Mo Report). If the report is accurate, it would be the second time the company has pushed the date back; originally, it was going to phase out the network in January but said in...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced the ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards, arriving in Standard and OC editions. The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti features a record-breaking 10,752 CUDA cores, 78 RT-TFLOPs, 40 Shader-TFLOPs and 320 Tensor-TFLOPs of...

From Forbes: NVIDIA (NVDA) has begun offering up it's new flagship desktop PC gaming graphics card - the RTX 3090 Ti, with initial prices at $1,999 in the US - thankfully far lower than initial rumors, which had it pegged at $4,000. Reviews are also out for the new monstrously powerful graphics card...

From PC World: This is not a drill: If you use Chrome or Edge, update your browser immediately to protect against a newly discovered vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine. Released on Friday, Chrome version 99.0.4844.84 patches issue CVE-2022-1096—which Google says already has a known exploit...

From PC Mag: SpaceX is aiming to double the number of Starlink satellites in orbit over the coming 18 months, which promises to let more people subscribe to the satellite internet service.

CEO Elon Musk tweeted about the goal on Monday. “Expecting over 4200 Starlink satellites in operation within...

From CNET: If you're a Verizon customer who's been getting mysterious spam text messages that have a link attached and come from your own phone number, you're not alone. Multiple Verizon customers have reported receiving similar messages this week, in which they're encouraged to click an obscure...

From Tom's Hardware: Sony's long-rumored (and long-awaited) answer to Xbox Game Pass is finally coming. The Japanese gaming giant announced today that it is combining the two subscription services that it currently offers to PlayStation gamers. As a result, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now are...

From PC World: Antimalware provider Kaspersky Lab has been blacklisted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, adding its name alongside Huawei and ZTE as companies that are deemed a threat to national security.

The FCC maintains a list of companies which are “deemed to pose an unacceptable...