From PC World: Intel’s long awaited Core i9-13900KS was unwrapped Thursday morning and will officially be the first x86 consumer to hit the 6GHz barrier. You pay a premium for the barrier-breaking privilege; the chip will cost $699 when it goes on sale today.

The 24-core Core i9-113900KS is...

From Tom's Hardware: AMD formally introduced its Ryzen 7000 X3D-series processors with 3D V-Cache at CES 2023, but it didn't say when these CPUs would be available. Thanks to the sharp eyes at Overclock3D.net, we now know that these new products will be available starting from February 14, 2023...

From The Verge: Microsoft is moving some Microsoft Teams features over to its more costly Premium edition. Microsoft Teams Premium has been available as a 30-day trial since last month and will soon have exclusive access to features like live translated captions, custom Together Mode scenes, and...

From PC Mag: Tesla has earmarked $717 million the company intends to spend on four new projects that will expand its Austin, Texas Gigafactory.

As the Austin Business Journal reports (via Electrek), the huge investment of cash was discovered through a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing...

From CNET: A major system outage disrupted air travel across the US on Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Authority ordered a temporary halt to all domestic flight departures to restore Notice to Air Missions system, a critical system that alerts commercial airlines to real-time flight hazards and...

From ROCCAT Press Release: ROCCAT today unveiled the newest addition to its PC gaming keyboard lineup – the Magma Mini 60% Gaming Keyboard. The Magma Mini’s compact footprint is 60% the size of a full-size keyboard – perfect for PC gamers who need more room for large mouse movements, and its fully...

From The Verge: SkyShowtime, a European streaming service jointly operated by Comcast and Paramount, has swooped in to acquire the exclusive streaming rights to 21 local HBO Max shows across the continent, the streaming service announced today. Rights to the shows became available after HBO Max...

From PC Mag: If you bought a Meta Quest 1, we have bad news: The VR headset will no longer receive new features and security updates.

On Monday, Facebook parent company Meta sent an email to users about ceasing work on new features for the device. The Meta Quest 1, also known as the Oculus Quest 1...

From CNET: Microsoft is in talks to invest a further $10 billion into OpenAI, creator of the wildly popular ChatGPT chatbot, according to Semafor report published Tuesday.

The report, which cites people familiar with the matter, says the proposal currently calls for Microsoft to inject money over...

From The Verge: Microsoft has been reportedly experimenting with building OpenAI’s language AI technology into its Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps. The Information reports that Microsoft has already incorporated an unknown version of OpenAI’s text-generating GPT model into Word in its...