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5 stress tests built to crash your PC on purpose, and why you want them to

Your PC might pass every normal day without an issue and still be one Prime95 run away from finding out about a cooling ...
HotHardware

NVIDIA RTX Spark vs. Apple M5 Pro: The Unified Architecture Battle

Announced earlier this week at Computex, NVIDIA's RTX Spark has finally been revealed after what seems like years of leaks and rumors concerning the "N1/N1X". These chips are the consumer versions of ...

Valve finally confirms when its Steam machine will launch

It increased the price of the Steam Deck in late May by 40 per cent, which could be a bad sign for the Steam Machine ...

Microsoft Weekly: Big Start menu upgrade and a new era of PC

Catch up with this week's Microsoft news in our weekly recap. New processors, big Start menu updates, and Microsoft promising ...
Design And Reuse

Edge AI-Driven Matter Controller for Next-Generation Smart Homes

The smart home world is changing quickly. The Matter standard is reshaping how connected devices work together, and true ...
IEEE

An Enterprise Solid-State Drive Controller Supporting Spin-transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory

Abstract: Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) incorporate DRAM for data cache, which significantly optimize performance. Due to the volatile nature of DARM, the essential metadata information and ...
MacRumors

Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra ...
Popular Mechanics

A Husband and Wife Escaped From a Locked Memory-Care Unit. He Solved the Door Code Just by Listening.

In March 2020, a husband and wife in a Tennessee memory-care unit escaped after deciphering a keypad code. The husband used his military background to crack the exit code, revealing a significant ...
TweakTown

Valve confirms why it launched the Steam Controller before the Steam Machine: it doesn't have RAM

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. It almost seems like all the problems in the PC hardware space nowadays are somehow linked to the global DRAM shortage. Every other day, another component ...
IGN

Valve on Steam Controller Pricing, the RAM Shortage, and the Latest on Steam Deck 2

Back in November 2025, Valve revealed an entire suite of new gaming hardware, led by the Steam Machine. Initially, the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame and the Steam Controller were supposed to launch ...
Polygon

'This doesn't have RAM in it': Why Valve is selling the Steam Controller before the Steam Machine

Following a delay earlier this year, players will be able to order a Steam Controller starting on May 4. That means that it will get into players hands before the Steam Machine or the Steam Frame, two ...
Kotaku

Valve Says Its New Controller Is Shipping Before The Steam Machine Because It’s Unaffected By RAM Shortage And Is ‘Ready Now’

The ongoing RAMaggedon, fueled in large part by AI hyperscalers and data centers, has caused PC parts and memory components to become more expensive and harder to find. Valve isn’t immune to this ...