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WCCFTech

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Gaming Handheld Review – Intel Disrupts The Handheld Segment With Arc G3

PC gaming handhelds have become a vibrant segment that is seeing continued innovations thanks to modern-day CPUs' ability to deliver outstanding performance and efficiency. All major hardware manufact...

Jul 10, 2026
Rock Paper Shotgun

Guide a living landship through a deadly fungal world in Trailblazers, a roguelite colony sim inspired by Rimworld, Moebius, and Darkest Dungeon

If you are fond of Nausicaa, Moebius, Andrei Tarkovski, Jeff Vandermeer, Rimworld, FTL: Faster Than Light, fungus, coral, and furiously bright colours in general, you may wish to take an interest in ...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

id Software Downplays Xbox’s Brutal Reset, Claiming Its Gutted Team Still Matches the Crew That Made DOOM 2016

Following the mass layoffs enacted by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma as part of her "big reset" of the division, Texan developer id Software repeatedly made headlines as evidence mounted that it may no longer b...

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

id Software provides proof of life, says it 'still has the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for' after massive layoffs

"The team today is about the same size we were when making DOOM (2016)."

Jul 10, 2026
TechPowerUp

Palworld Exits Early Access With 72 New Pals and Pages of Update Notes

As promised previously, Palworld 1.0 has officially launched on Steam, bringing with it an absolutely gargantuan list of updates, features, and fixes. The update officially launches the game out of Ea...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Colorful Smashes CXMT DDR5 Record At 8600 MT/s, Beating MSI And ASUS As China’s Memory Matures

The CXMT DDR5 memory chips appear to be mature enough to be pushed beyond 8000 MT/s easily. Colorful Pushes CXMT-Based iGame Shadow II DDR5 Memory Kit to 8600 MT/s on iGame X870E Vulcan Motherboard In...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Warned Helium Could Choke AI Chips in June, and China’s Export Ban Might Prove Him Right

In a surprising move, China has decided to restrict global helium supplies. The export ban appears to be blanket, but given China's limited market share of the global helium industry, it is unlikely t...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Anthropic’s Terrifying Billing Glitch Charged A Software Developer $16.6 Million For Using Claude API, Despite The Dashboard Showing A $0.00 Amount

AI chatbots are notorious for hallucinating, but what about the companies behind those Large Language Models like Anthropic? One Korean software developer could add to that, given he just faced a soul...

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

How to unlock Samael's romance and begin dating the brooding bartender in Moonlight Peaks

Samael definitely is datable, even though it doesn't seem that way at first.

Jul 10, 2026
TechPowerUp

Death of Console Discs Pushes Gamers to PC

The reception of PlayStation's recent decision to stop producing physical games media in early 2028 has been heard far and wide across the internet, with fans even going as far as to start the "D...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Intel EMIB-T Breaks Past Existing AI & HPC Scaling Limits, Enabling Ultra-Large Die Complexes With Over 10x Reticle Dies & 12 Gb/s+ HBM4e DRAM

Intel demonstrates the various use cases of its EMIB-T advanced packaging solution at ECTC26, as the tech is poised to become an industry favorite. EMIB-T, Advanced Packaging Solution, Will Be Intel's...

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it'

Mateo Covic said his 'rage game' is actually doing quite well on Steam, and its refund rate is normal—but that wasn't his point.

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Monster Fantasy Wants Different Player Types Living Together, As Producer Rejects the Compare-and-Compete Trap of Same-Type Socializing

Around three weeks ago, Chinese indie developer Jotoyo unveiled Monster Fantasy, an interesting game that blends elements from Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, and Stardew Valley, among others. The ga...

Jul 10, 2026
Tom's Hardware

SK hynix and TetraMem collaborate on experimental chip to bolster energy efficiency for edge AI devices — memristor-based in-memory SoC research leaves performance questions up in the air

SK hynix, TetraMem, and the University of Southern California built a memristor-based in-memory computing system-on-chip for AI edge devices, achieving promising energy efficiency, but failed to demon...

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

Where to find the fallen tree and unblock the waterfall in Moonlight Peaks

Help your new friends rejoin their neighbors by learning a spell to hoist a blockage.

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

Ubisoft tells Black Flag microtransaction critics that they control the DLC they buy

I'm sure they'll be glad to hear it.

Jul 10, 2026
Tom's Hardware

Anthropic says it can read Claude's 'thoughts,' as detailed in new research paper — models observed to have a global workspace, revealing more of what makes LLMs tick

Anthropic has discovered an internal "J-space" for its Claude AI that displays similarities to human internal processing. While the AI developer anthropomorphizes it as thought, it may yet prove usefu...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

Samsung Will Take Three Generations To Unveil Its First 1.4nm Exynos SoC, But The Delay Could Prove Beneficial Despite TSMC Obtaining A Lead

The quest to be the first foundry in advanced lithography is slowly being less and less prioritized by Samsung, as a new Exynos chipset roadmap reveals that the Korean giant will stick to its 2nm GAA ...

Jul 10, 2026
Tom's Hardware

Intel's midrange Core Ultra 5 245K is down to its lowest price ever at just $179 on Amazon — save up to 42% on a solid gaming CPU with 14 cores and PCIe 5.0 support

Intel's forgotten 14-core SKU from last year has received a sizable discount on Amazon, making it one of the best value propositions in CPUs right now. It performs amicably in gaming and professional ...

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

T-Mobile Now Wants More Of Your Personal Information, Presumably To Serve You Targeted Ads

T-Mobile these days is a gift that keeps on giving, and that too of the toxic, malignant kind, and not the cutesy ones you'd want for your birthdays. First, the carrier foisted its T-Life app on its c...

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

Meta says its working on 'multiple next-generation headsets' despite the struggles of VR and the heat death of the metaverse

Down but not out.

Jul 10, 2026
PC Gamer

Multiple motherboard and PC component makers move forward with Chinese-made memory validation

A new challenger has appeared.

Jul 10, 2026
WCCFTech

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPER – Specs, Performance, And Price, Everything We Know So Far

NVIDIA’s RTX 50 SUPER lineup has been in the rumor mill for quite a while now, and out of all the SKUs expected to be part of Team Green’s mid-cycle Blackwell refresh, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPE...

Jul 10, 2026
TechPowerUp

KAMRUI July Deals: AK1PLUS and Pinova P1 Mini PCs from $230.84

KAMRUI is currently running a July promotion on Amazon US, offering discounts of up to 34% on its AK1PLUS and Pinova P1 mini PC lineup. The promotion covers three configurations, with prices starting ...

Jul 10, 2026
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