Tech3 Oct 2026
PS5 QSSR: 1.8ms to turn 864p into 1440p
Sony's new upscaler reaches the base PS5 five years in. Digital Foundry measured 1.5 to 1.8ms reconstructing Wolverine from 864p — a tenth of a 60fps frame.
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Tech2 Oct 2026
DGX Spark 64GB: half the memory, $1,000 more
Nvidia's 64GB Spark arrives 23 October at $4,999 — a thousand dollars above what the 128GB box cost at launch. Smaller pool, higher price.
Tech1 Oct 2026
Demon's Souls: 1 to 50 FPS on a PS5 emulator
KyTyPS5 took Demon's Souls from one frame a second to 40-50 in about three weeks, and a new jailbreak opened every PS5 still on July firmware.
Tech23 Sept 2026
DRAM per mm² has passed TSMC's N2 wafer price
An analyst chart puts 1b DRAM at $0.654 per mm² against $0.424 for TSMC N2. The arithmetic holds. It measures revenue per area, which changes the reading.
Tech22 Sept 2026
Raspberry Pi 5 RAM lock: why a swap won't boot
A Pi 5 compares its fitted memory against a record burned into the chip and stops the boot on a mismatch. The check shipped in 2024. DRAM prices made it news.
Tech21 Sept 2026
RAM prices: Acer says the peak is mid-2027
Acer's CEO calls a shortage running to 2030 impossible and says warehouses are full. The same week, CXMT put its fifth-gen DRAM into mass production.
Tech15 Sept 2026
Steam Frame costs $1,059 because of RAM prices
Valve's standalone headset went on sale at $1,059. The 16GB of LPDDR5X inside it is the one component Valve could not shrink to hit a cheaper number.
Tech7 Sept 2026
DLSS 5's 50% frame cost, moved to a second GPU
Nvidia's neural rendering takes half your frame rate in NBA 2K27. A ReShade add-on hands the pass to a second card and claims a good deal of it back.
Tech4 Sept 2026
Game Pass cloud gaming: 15 hours a month
From November, Ultimate gets 15 streaming hours a month, Essential gets 5. Divide the price by the cap and all three tiers land on roughly the same hourly rate.
Tech2 Sept 2026
LTO-10 tape drives can't read your LTO-9 archive
For nine generations an LTO drive could read the tapes before it. LTO-10 reads only LTO-10, and the servo format is why. What that means for old archives.
Tech28 Aug 2026
Samsung Odyssey G6: 1,100Hz, but only at 720p
Samsung's 1,100Hz Odyssey G6 only reaches that number at 720p. Its QHD mode moves more than twice as many pixels a second, so throughput is not the ceiling.
Tech26 Aug 2026
Apple M5 Ultra: 1.2TB/s through the same 512GB ceiling
The new Mac Studio keeps the half-terabyte unified memory ceiling Apple set in March 2025 and raises the bandwidth behind it by half.
Tech25 Aug 2026
A new monitor can install software you never approved
LG's monitor app has been showing McAfee pop-ups since 2024, installed through Windows Update with no consent screen. The ad is the part that made news.
Tech24 Aug 2026
Valve turns 30. Steam's cut hasn't moved since 2003
Valve turned 30 on 24 August. The 2018 revenue-share reform only starts past ten million dollars in lifetime sales, which is not where most studios live.
Tech21 Aug 2026
Framework GPU module: 500 dollars for 4GB VRAM
Framework shipped a 12GB RTX 5070 module that drops into the existing Laptop 16 chassis, no new mainboard required.
Tech20 Aug 2026
LG FLiPP: OLED without the 25-year-old metal stencil
LG Display unveiled FLiPP, a photolithography process that patterns OLED subpixels without the fine metal mask every panel has used since the format existed.
Tech19 Aug 2026
Memory prices are why Sony still can't date the PS6
Sony's CEO says PS6 pricing and timing are still undecided because DRAM stays expensive through FY2027.
Tech18 Aug 2026
GoldenEye 007 decompiled: how N64 games were built
Six and a half years of reverse engineering, and the C now rebuilds the 1997 ROM byte for byte. It preserves the 4KB texture budget too.
Tech18 Aug 2026
Hydra can overclock RTX 50 VRAM. Not on a render box.
Overclocker 1usmus updated Hydra with direct VRAM and power-limit control for RTX 50-series cards, territory Nvidia normally locks down.
Tech17 Aug 2026
GIMP is finally retiring XCF as its project format
A zipped-XML format that only rewrites what changed, autosave finally within reach, and a PSD importer that stopped choking on adjustment layers.
Tech14 Aug 2026
The first arcade game had no computer inside
A 1973 Computer Space cabinet is at auction with no CPU, no ROM and no frame buffer. The spaceship on screen is wired straight into transistor logic.
Tech14 Aug 2026
RAM prices pushed Intel to un-retire Raptor Lake
A 32GB DDR5 kit went from about 95 dollars to over 500 in a year, so builders are quietly going back to Raptor Lake and DDR4.
Tech11 Aug 2026
Meta just put a 30B model on a desktop GPU, and gave it away
Muse Glimmer runs offline on one consumer card, the weights are Apache 2.0, and nothing you type leaves your machine.
Tech9 Aug 2026
Why your next GPU costs as much as a used car
An RTX 5090 launched at 1,999 dollars. Nvidia's own store is asking 4,929 for it today. The reason has almost nothing to do with gaming.