From TechCrunch: In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential.

Several government sites are currently inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after their HTTPS certificate expired. With...

From PC Mag: If the latest rumors are to be believed, Amazon is set to join the fray and offer us another gaming platform to play on, only this one would be streamed.

Subscribing and streaming video games looks increasingly likely to replace purchasing physical games and downloading digital ones...

From Gigabyte Press Release: GIGABYTE, the world’s leading premium gaming hardware manufacturer, today announced the latest GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards powered by NVIDIA Turing architecture. GIGABYTE launched 6 graphics cards - AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 XTREME 6G, GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING OC PRO 6G...

From EETimes: AMD President and CEO Lisa Su took to the stage at CES to give what some analysts suggested was the most important appearance by AMD at a tradeshow since a keynote at the now-defunct Comdex by then-CEO Hector Ruiz in 2002. She did not disappoint.

Su announced that the Radeon VII GPU...

From CNET: Phones don't typically get a lot of love at CES, but Samsung managed to steal the spotlight by using the show to announce the launch date for its 10th anniversary Galaxy phone, widely expected to be called the Galaxy S10.

The event will take place Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 11 a.m. PT at the...

From TechCrunch: Do you frequently record super-slow-motion 8K video? Do you want to back up your entire computer to your coin pocket? Then these measly 512-gigabyte SD cards probably aren’t cutting it. Fortunately, Lexar has a 1-terabyte card for you. Only $500!

Terabyte cards have been promised...

From PC World: RGB lighting on gaming PCs is about to get a whole lot brighter and a whole lot more efficient thanks to Corsair’s new Capellix LED technology, which promises to be 60 percent brighter while using 40 percent less power.

The new LEDs are incredibly tiny and dense compared to typical...

From The Verge: AMD introduced its latest Radeon VII graphics card yesterday, just days after Nvidia revealed it was bringing its RTX 2080 line to gaming laptops. AMD’s new chip is designed to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 2080, but outspoken Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has laughed off the competition. In a...

From Forbes: This week I’m in Las Vegas attending CES 2019. The annual consumer electronics conference is a virtual who’s who of consumer tech, with most companies seizing the opportunity to announce flashy new products for the new year. Industry stalwart HP Inc., the #1 unit share PC manufacturer...

From Recode: Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are planning to divorce after 25 years of marriage, the couple announced in a joint statement posted to the Amazon CEO’s Twitter account on Wednesday morning.

“As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial...