Sony tests PS5 power saver mode 
Published in Gaming


New feature will throttle games to cut energy use

Sony is fiddling with a new Power Saver mode for the PlayStation 5, promising lower power consumption at the cost of reduced performance.

Palmer Luckey wants to build made-in-America laptops
Published in PC Hardware


Oculus and Anduril founder reckons some Yanks will pay extra

The bloke behind Oculus and the defence-tech darling Anduril, Palmer Luckey wants to take on laptops. But not your usual “assembled in the States with bits from Shenzhen” nonsense. He’s wants to build a Made in USA machine that ticks the Federal Trade Commission’s uncompromising box.

OpenAI's UK arm swimming in cash after ChatGPT boom
Published in AI


Profits soar while government rolls out the red carpet

OpenAI’s Blighty outfit has gone from pocket change to piles of cash in barely a year.

AMD's triple-slot RX 7000 cooler leaks
Published in News


Three 8-pins, three slots, and three years too late

Sometimes cancelled products often reveal more than those that launch. A leaked Radeon RX 7000-series cooler, unknowingly bought on a Chinese marketplace, has dwarfed an RX 7900 XTX when compared.

Nvidia’s H20 chip ban is lifted, but the production mess is just beginning
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Supply chain pressed snooze

The much-hyped lifting of the US ban on Nvidia’s H20 AI chips sounds like a win, but the reality is a lot messier.