Latest articles by Andy Edser
Diamonds are for chip cooling, not just forever—at least according to this tech startup promising 20°C temperature reductions
News Shine bright like a, err, GPU cooler?
US hacker sentenced to five years in the slammer for laundering the proceeds of nearly 120,000 stolen bitcoin worth $10,800,000,000 at today's prices
news No, less. No wait, more. No, it's less again.
Obsidian quietly adds Avowed system requirements to the Steam listing and that 75 GB storage target seems downright reasonable
News SSDs, breathe easy. For now.
Valve just announced the Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition White, a 'second experiment' in new colorways for the classic Deck that looks eye-searingly snazzy
News No specs changes I'm afraid, and only a hint of work on future hardware, but a sign of more color options to come if all goes well.
Support for Windows Mail, Calendar and People apps will finish at the end of this year as new Outlook elbows its way onto the center stage
News What do you mean it's new and scary?
Break out the world's tiniest violin: PS5 Pro scalpers are having a tough time reselling units because it's in stock basically everywhere
News A story sure to keep us awake at night with worry.
An SK Hynix employee printed out 4,000 pages of confidential info and carried it out the door in shopping bags before leaving for their new job at Huawei
News Old school espionage is alive and well, it seems.
I want one: For just $2,900,000 you can own a proper Batmobile with a 6.2 litre V8, and that's a downright bargain if you ask me
news Da na na na na na na na, da na na na na na na na...etc.
Simulated CPU-building speedrun attempt ends with a functioning processor in a mere six hours
news About the same amount of time it takes me to decide what to have for lunch.
Semiconductor sales rose to $166,000,000,000 in a single quarter this year thanks to all that demand for AI-crunching silicon
news The AI boom goes hypersonic for some.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming headset
Headgear If you're eyeing up potential headset purchases, you've come to the right place.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming mouse
Rodents My guide to buying the right gaming mouse for you.
Robots can play the cello with an orchestra now, and that sound you can hear is the point whistling over the top of its creator's heads
News Technically perfect, completely soulless. That's what I love about my favourite musicians.
The goggles, they do everything: These scratch-built AR glasses even have homemade lenses
News Quite the fashion statement, too.
Ex-AMD fab GlobalFoundries has been fined $500K after admitting it shipped $17,000,000 worth of product to a company associated with China's military industrial complex
News The CHIPS-funded manufacturer takes a significant slap on the wrist.
'One million street-level deals' worth of methamphetamine smuggled in PC case shipment
News How's that for a case mod?
I asked the PC Gamer hardware team to name the underrated bits of gear they use every day and these are the results
Ibuprofen doesn't count. Ok, maybe it does.
Bluetooth is the bane of my hardware existence
Teething Issues Go on Andy, say what you really think.
I know what these weird ocean-bound liminal spaces in Google Street View actually are and they're still giving me the creeps
News Neither here nor there.
Tim Cook says his daily routine involves using 'every [Apple] product' which sounds genuinely exhausting
News Well, in for a penny, in for a pound.
Former Intel execs are fighting over whether splitting the company in two is a good idea and if the US government should step in to cleave it in twain
News Some serious "judgement of Solomon" vibes going on here.
Intel's former CEO pushed for the chip maker to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005—the GPU company is now worth $3.5 trillion
News I don't think this so-called "Nvidia" will turn out to be much, anyway. Best left alone, I reckon.
Microsoft CEO's new $79.1 million pay package represents a massive 63% increase despite a year of layoffs and cybersecurity failures
News Beats a pizza party and a complimentary mint, doesn't it?
