If you want to build yourself a gaming PC, brace yourself for sticker shock when you start shopping for a graphics card. Cryptocurrency mining has derailed the prospect of building a gaming PC from the ground up by driving up the price of GPUs and creating a shortage. That’s the bad news. The good news? Thanks to AMD’s new Raven Ridge APUs—or

For the last few years, flagship smartphones have gotten thinner and sleeker and have dedicated a much larger percentage of their front surface to the screen. Back in 2011, for example, the front surface of a Samsung Galaxy S2 was 64% screen, whereas the front of today’s Galaxy S8 is 84% screen. There are many more examples of the same trend

The effect that cryptocurrency mining has had on the graphics card market has been so extreme, very few people could have predicted it. GPUs that were as easy to purchase as a gallon of milk became as hard to find as the hottest deal at Best Buy on Black Friday.

In addition to the rarity, inflated pricing has been a real issue as well,

Atari has just announced something that will surprise all the gamers out there who grew up on its consoles and games. The company made a big unveil today and while it’s not a new console or game, Atari will actually be minting its own new type of cryptocurrency. The new altcoin type will be called “Atari Token” and no, it isn’t trying to take

The smartphone world never stops spinning, and there is always something new and shiny right around the corner. Or as it pertains to LG, around the block and down the road a piece. Word on the web is that LG is working on a new flagship smartphone codenamed “Judy” with an anticipated release (or announcement) coming in June. If the early information

Microsoft’s Xbox One X hasn’t needed a lot of incentives for it to sell well with gamers, but with a cost of $499.99 USD, it’s a hard pill for some to swallow for some – especially if they already have an original Xbox One. Regardless, as it turns out, etailer Rakuten (formerly known as Buy.com) is currently offering a stellar deal that could

If you have been thinking about getting a game console, now is the time to pull the trigger. There are multiple sales out there, the latest of which is a flash sale in the PlayStation Store with Sony marking down a whole bunch of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 games by up to 70 percent. And by “a whole bunch” we mean well over 100 titles

It is amazing what a little public shaming will do, especially in this day and age of social media. Not that we are advocating being an online bully or anything like that (please don’t be). However, Facebook is making a change to the way it handles two-factor authentication on mobile devices after it was lambasted online for spamming users

One of the strengths of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL is battery life, as both perform well compared to other smartphones in the same size and performance class. And because they are official Google devices, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL both receive frequent and timely updates. Unfortunately, Google’s latest update appears to be working against

AMD has run into a bit of trouble with a “specific boot issue” that might be affecting some second gen Ryzen desktop processors, specifically Raven Ridge APUs, when those chips are socketed into an early AMD Socket AM4 mainboard. According to AMD, since the release of the AMD Socket AM4 mainboards in early 2017, alongside the Ryzen desktop