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Grab 35% off this Lenovo 1440p gaming monitor, thanks to Black Friday — £129.99 nets you an IPS panel with a fast 200Hz refresh rate

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Tom's Hardware · 11/24/2025 06:39 EDT

Save £70 on this Lenovo Legion R27QE display, featuring an IPS panel and a 200Hz refresh rate Read more ›

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MSI RTX 5050 GPU hits lowest price ever in Black Friday sale — entry-level graphics card now only $219.99, $30 cheaper than SRP

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 13:29 EDT

The MSI Gaming RTX 5050 Shadow 2X is now on sale at a 21% discount. Read more ›

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Hobbyist solo miner scores a full Bitcoin block worth $270,000 despite 1 in 180 million odds — 3.146 Bitcoins mined by a single low-powered 6 TH/s ASIC with about 0.0000007% of the network’s hashrate

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 13:27 EDT

A solo miner running just 6 terahashes per second of computing power has overcome odds of about one‑in‑180 million to mine a full Bitcoin block via the CKpool pool. Read more ›

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The upcoming Steam Machine won't be 'subsidized' like consoles to hit a more attractive price target, suggesting high relative pricing — Valve engineer confirms the device competes with only the PC market

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 12:27 EDT

Leaving out the price for the Steam Machine at Valve's 2026 hardware lineup reveal has turned the internet into rumor mill vultures, but now Valve itself has given us a big hint at what the device would cost. The company has confirmed the Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles, so don't expect it to be anywhere near a PS5. Read more ›

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Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 11/23/2025 11:55 EDT

Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025. Read more ›

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Titan Army P2712V 27-inch dual-mode 4K gaming monitor review: Solid performance and value

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 11:00 EDT

Titan Army delivers 4K gaming in 160 Hz and 27 inches from its P2712V. It also runs at 320 Hz in FHD resolution and sports a Fast IPS panel, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color. It promises solid performance for a low price. Read more ›

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Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 11/23/2025 10:30 EDT

MicroSD cards are now being swept up in Japan at alarming rates, thanks to the ongoing memory shortage wiping out most large-capacity hard drives from store shelves. Customers are buying models ranging from 512 GB - 2 TB to fulfil their storage needs, especially now that the microSD Express standard has lent a significant upgrade to compact flash. Read more ›

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Retro computing enthusiast creates perforated tape reader designed 'from scratch' — reads data at about 50 bytes per second

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 10:05 EDT

An electronics enthusiast has demonstrated a compact new perforated tape reader design. Read more ›

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DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs $13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 11/23/2025 09:48 EDT

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high‑power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650 km/h during recent trials in Scotland. Read more ›

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Best Black Friday tech deals live 2025 — best tech and PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 09:25 EDT

The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals. Read more ›

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Huge 28TB Seagate external HDD is a data hoarder's dream and just hit an all-time low price — grab this massive Black Friday storage upgrade for less than $11 per TB

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 08:27 EDT

Seagate's enormous 28TB Expansion HDD backup solution for your desktop is on sale for just $289.99, thanks to Black Friday. Read more ›

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ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being “Washington’s eyes and ears in China” after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country, says new book

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 08:25 EDT

ASML allegedly offered to spy on its customers for the U.S. after it was caught breaking a gentleman's agreement that limited the number of DUV lithography machines it could sell to China. Read more ›

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Frustrated users paid $2,000 dollars to fix Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error by posting a bug bounty — coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance eliminated in just a month

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 08:05 EDT

A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub. Read more ›

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The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history — a data streaming experiment rendered unnecessary by broadband

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 07:30 EDT

The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5. Read more ›

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The Winnebiko travelled 17,000 miles to complete the Computing Across America expedition 40 years ago — solar and 1980s portable gadgets powered digital nomadism in its earliest and purest form

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 07:00 EDT

In 1983, writer and computer whizz Steven K. Roberts began his multi-year Computing Across America quest, pioneering the digital nomad lifestyle. Read more ›

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Supersized chip family gathers for the 54th anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU — 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, and 4003 shift registers feature in a reconstructed Busicom calculator build

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Tom's Hardware · 11/23/2025 05:00 EDT

A sneak preview of a complete MCS-4 computer, built from discrete transistors, has been shown off to mark the recent Intel 4004 anniversary. Read more ›

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Pamper your Switch 2 with a 25% discount on storage upgrade — save up to $25 on Samsung P9 microSD Express cards

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Tom's Hardware · 11/22/2025 13:37 EDT

Samsung's excellent lineup of microSD Express cards is discounted right now, with solid price cuts on both the 256 GB and 512 GB models. Either model delivers up to 800 MB/s in sequential reads, along with random read/write rates of 65,000 IOPS and 52,000 IOPS, backed by a 3-year warranty. Read more ›

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Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060 — intern asked to hand in GPU won on an all-expense-paid business trip, refused

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Tom's Hardware · 11/22/2025 12:17 EDT

An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned after HR subtly told him to find a new job, refusing to give up the GPU in the process. Read more ›

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AMD ditches 'FidelityFX' in favor of apparently-meaningless 'FSR' branding, Fluid Motion Frames also renamed to FMF

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Tom's Hardware · 11/22/2025 11:52 EDT

AMD has set the full release date for FSR Redstone and also revealed that the full name is now simply 'FSR'. Read more ›

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Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

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Tom's Hardware · 11/22/2025 11:29 EDT

Tuxedo Computers, which builds Linux-powered desktops and laptops, has stopped work on Linux for the Snapdragon X1E, saying that the chip is less suitable for the open-source OS than expected. Read more ›

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