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This MSI RTX 5070 Ti hits a new low price of $729 — Newegg's Black Friday price protection guarantees a good deal

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 08:16 EDT

Pick up the MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX 5070 Ti for just $729 in Newegg's early Black Friday sale. Read more ›

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Best Motherboard Deals 2025 - deals on Intel and AMD motherboards

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 08:00 EDT

Here are the best motherboard deals. Read more ›

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Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC — tiny virtual machine can boot Windows 95 and Linux on ESP32-S3 chip

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 07:30 EDT

Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC Read more ›

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Kyocera develops wireless underwater communications tech that uses lasers to hit 5.2 Gbps — optical approach advances underwater drone comms, boasts blistering speeds at short distances

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 07:00 EDT

Kyocera built a custom system instead of using off-the-shelf parts to achieve this high bandwidth. Read more ›

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China accuses Washington of stealing $13 billion worth of Bitcoin in alleged hack — 127,272 tokens seized from Prince Group after owner Chen Zhi was indicted for wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. alleges

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 06:57 EDT

China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. Read more ›

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Meta's 'godfather of AI' departs the company to form his own startup — Turing award winner Yann LeCun advocates for the development of World Models over LLMs

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 06:37 EDT

The 12-year Meta veteran and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCunn, may be leaving Meta in the near future to set up his own AI venture, according to associates. He's reportedly keen to develop his "world model," AI concept that learns from video and spatial data rather than text, like the current-generation of large language models. Read more ›

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First images of exclusive custom Xbox 360 launch console shared ahead of HD-gaming pioneer’s 20th anniversary — project leader Major Nelson admits he has never powered on 'Launch Team 05' console

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 06:00 EDT

As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media. Read more ›

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AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025 — update delivers 15-second boot-up times with 256GB memory setups

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 05:00 EDT

An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release. Read more ›

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Secretlab's Black Friday gaming chair sale starts now, up to $249 off select products — sale includes desks and accessories

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Tom's Hardware · 11/12/2025 03:00 EDT

Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale. Read more ›

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Secretlab's Black Friday gaming chair sale has started, up to £200 off select products — sale includes desks and recliners

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 21:00 EDT

You can save up to £200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, thanks to Black Friday. Read more ›

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AMD reveals new roadmap for its Ryzen CPUs, teasing Zen 7 as the true "next-generation" leap with 2nm — Lineup confirms 2026 release for Zen 6, coming with expanded AI features

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 16:58 EDT

An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before. Read more ›

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SanDisk debuts Type-C 'Plug and Stay' flash drive that never needs to be taken out of your laptop — get up to 1TB of extra storage for just $120, with 400MB/s transfer speeds

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 12:19 EDT

SanDisk has created a new flash drive designed to be permanently integrated into your device, serving as a secondary storage solution. Read more ›

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SoftBank offloads entire $5.83 billion stake in Nvidia — firm sells off stock, cash will fund major investment in OpenAI, also in talks over Stargate

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 11:25 EDT

SoftBank has confirmed it sold its entire stake in Nvidia in October, offloading 32.1 million shares for $5.83 billion. The disclosure came Tuesday alongside the Japanese conglomerate’s latest earnings report. Read more ›

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PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs and says 'no new deals are being put in place'

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 11:20 EDT

PNY tells Tom's Hardware that it is suspending upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions on storage due to rising NAND costs. Read more ›

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$650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver 10% return on AI buildout investment, J.P. Morgan claims — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber 'in perpetuity'

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 11:13 EDT

A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030. Read more ›

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BTF 3.0 reveals the future of cable-less PC builds — single 50-pin connector supports up to 2,145 watts to power a CPU and GPU

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 11:11 EDT

DIY-APE has just revealed a next-gen concept for back-connect PCs, using the new BTF 3.0 spec. A single 50-pin connector powers most of the PC, with front panel I/O being simplified into one connector as well. BTF 3.0 is backward compatible with prior BTF standards and even compatible with non-BTF components with the help of adapters. Read more ›

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AOC Q27G4ZMN 27-inch QHD Mini LED 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Incredible performance and value

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 08:00 EDT

AOC packs tremendous value and performance into its Q27G4ZMN. It’s a 27-inch QHD VA panel with a 1,152-zone Mini LED backlight, DisplayHDR 1000, HDR10, a 240 Hz refresh rate, Adaptive-Sync, and wide-gamut Quantum Dot color. Read more ›

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D debuts in Micro Center pre-built PC — affordable gaming CPU seemingly exclusive to retailer for now

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 07:56 EDT

This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs. Read more ›

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Pay just $1299 for the MSI Vector 16 with RTX 5070 Ti graphics and 240Hz QHD screen in this early Black Friday deal — superb specs for such a well-priced gaming laptop

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 07:51 EDT

Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal. Read more ›

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Intel's CTO and AI chief leaves for OpenAI after just seven months in role — follows another AI data center exec out the door, Lip Bu-Tan to take up the slack

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Tom's Hardware · 11/11/2025 07:47 EDT

Intel's Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company's compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-Tan, will take over the role of managing Intel's AI efforts going forward. Read more ›

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