Content and news by Rob Williams

With our Ryzen 7 review, we found that AMD had released three powerhouse CPUs, chips able to do proper battle against the competition – and in many cases, win. Now, we have Ryzen 5. Will we see the same kind of bang-for-the-buck with these chips as we did with Ryzen 7? Obviously, there’s only one way to find out!

A little over a month ago, after what’s believed to be a response to downvoting trolls, Netflix replaced its 5-star rating system with an even simpler up / down voting one. From the get-go, I hated the change, but for the sake of not jumping to conclusions, I decided to use it…..

When debit and credit cards first hit the market with “Tap” – the ability to tap your card on a reader in lieu of punching in a PIN code – I couldn’t believe how insecure it felt. I first learned of the feature when I was at a coffee shop and the…..

If you’ve been wondering where the 11Gbps updates to EVGA’s iCX GTX 1080 line have been kicking about: wonder no more. The company has today released updates to both the SC2 and FTW2 iCX products to include the 11Gbps framebuffer, with the SC2 priced at $569.99 USD, and the FTW2, $589.99. As…..

Cannabis, either for medicinal or recreational use, has been slowly becoming more accepted as time goes on, with 8 US states this past fall voting to legalize it for either purpose. At this point, seven states have legalized the drug for recreational use, and with California being one of those, there are…..

A website landing page which once previewed an upcoming Intel Developer Forum for fall 2017 has just been replaced with a much simpler one bearing a grim message. Seemingly out of nowhere, Intel has decided to cancel all of its Intel Developer Forum – not just one event, but all of them.…..

Last summer, Nintendo won the Internet for a day when it announced that it was going to release a mini Nintendo Entertainment System with 30 built-in games. The hype was incredible, and really hasn’t died down much since the device’s launch this past November. Even today, months after the initial release, people…..

To call AMD’s Ryzen family of processors highly anticipated would be an understatement. The market has been craving innovation in the CPU space for some time. With a trio of competitively priced desktop chips configured with 8 cores that have experienced major IPC boosts over past chips, all of that waiting has paid off.

In an in-depth article posted to Gamasutra this week, lots is being revealed about Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One Scorpio – a high-performance competitor to Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro. With these details, we get to see what the dev kit looks like (physically and specs-wise), and get confirmation on certain features. Sharing common…..

Right on schedule, AMD has today released its first Ryzen 5 processors, targeted at those who are dying for the chance to own a Zen-based chip, but don’t want to open their wallets wide enough to let $329 slide out (especially with Vega coming out soon!). As we covered a couple of…..

Malware, in all of its forms, is designed to be a nuisance, and sometimes destructive. But of all of the different forms of malware out there, one of the most infuriating has got to be “ransomware” – malicious software designed to score a quick buck for its creator. In many ransomware cases,…..

When NVIDIA unveiled its second-generation TITAN X last summer, it was a bit of an odd launch in that it came out of absolutely nowhere. Unlike most launches, the media was not given a heads-up that go-around. Instead, NVIDIA chief Jen-Hsun Huang decided to reveal the card to researchers, and given its…..

In some shocking news that comes a wee bit too close to April Fools’ Day, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced via the Ubuntu blog that the Unity desktop environment is not going to be in the OS’ future. Canonical moved Ubuntu from GNOME to Unity about seven years ago; now,…..

Leading up to the Destiny 2 reveal yesterday, I had been holding out hope that despite Bungie’s silence, a PC version of the game would rise to the surface. After looking at the announcement trailer (seen below), I didn’t have much confidence, as the end of the video didn’t reveal platforms at…..

After many months of speculation and growing excitement, Bungie has finally unveiled the next chapter in the Destiny universe, to come to us in the form of an aptly named Destiny 2. While Bungie has given it no fanfare, Destiny 2 will become the first game in the series to be available…..

Hot on the heels of Microsoft accidentally releasing the ISOs for the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update to the Internet yesterday, the company has gone ahead and confirmed that April 11 is the day we’ll all be able to jump on in. It’s all but a short wait at this point. The…..

It’s almost hard to believe, but after twenty-one years of faithful service, Blizzard has decided to push the Battle.net name to the shadows. Going forward, the developer’s front-facing PC (Windows, Mac) client encompassing all of its games will simply be called ‘Blizzard’. Blech. It works, but it doesn’t have that same kind…..

Earlier this week, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks released a trove of information that detailed CIA efforts to gather information through the use of malware. It also talks about some of the tools the CIA used to break into mobile devices, such as Apple’s iPhone. It’s been a secret to no one that the…..

GOG announced this week that its GOG Galaxy game client has just received its biggest update of all time, bringing it to version 1.2. This version becomes a milestone release, as it signifies the software’s exit from beta – a beta which began over two-and-a-half years ago. This stable version also comes…..

Impossible Foods has a task that itself seems impossible: to create fake meat that tastes like real meat. We’ve all heard about the lab-grown meat that’s coming, but this is a bit different. Impossible Foods creates “veggie” burgers, but with an important extra ingredient that helps create a realistic enough burger that…..