What just happened? Steam’s refund policy is a feature we can appreciate as gamers. But, like everything in life, there are those who will exploit something meant to help people. One player got a refund for a short game despite calling it “amazing” in a review, leading to the... Read more

What just happened? AMD has confirmed today that new Ryzen desktop APUs featuring Zen 3 cores and Vega integrated graphics are joining the fray. Ranging from 4 to 8 cores, clocked up to 4.6GHz, and available with 35W and 65W TDPs, AMD claims Ryzen 5000G APUs are considerably faster... Read more

Bottom line: For those using the Discord app on iOS, it just became a little more inconvenient to access any servers designated NSFW. The app now blocks mature content, including entire communities, regardless of user age. From now on if users must access NSFW content on Discord from an... Read more

Forward-looking: Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) kicked off today in an all-digital format. CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage to give us all the annual tidbits of juicy GPU news… and more. This time around, that news came in the form of a roadmap, which lays out Nvidia’s... Read more

Why it matters: Like much of the world, Uber’s ride-hailing service came to a screeching halt in early 2020 as the pandemic ramped up. Share value plummeted but Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi never lost focus, noting at the time that in any crisis, liquidity is key. The company successfully... Read more

The big picture: The global chip shortage is reported to be getting worse, with forecasts of the supply chain not able to fully recover until 2022 or even 2023. However, PC shipments for the first quarter of the year at least, were far from hindered. Nearly 84 million machines... Read more

What just happened? Elon Musk’s Neuralink company has just released a video of a monkey playing a video game using only his mind. The macaque is able to move the paddles in a game of Pong just by thinking about it. As explained by the narrator, nine-year-old Pager had... Read more

In context: Apple’s services purposefully lock consumers into the iPhone ecosystem, preventing them from making an easy switch from iOS to Android, and iMessage is among the top culprits for this. At least, that’s according to an Epic Games court filing, which cites information from several of Apple’s top-ranking... Read more

In brief: Amazon has been criticized for treating its workers poorly in the past, with said critics citing the company’s hyper-focus on productivity and efficiency as the primary reason. To improve the tech giant’s working conditions, employees of its BHM1 fulfillment center in Alabama attempted to unionize — unfortunately,... Read more

Facepalm: Trademark disputes over logos are routine. Most of the time, the contested brands only look passingly similar. Occasionally one comes along that has people scratching their head wondering, “What were they thinking?” A bottled water company has just triggered that reaction with branding that looks like a photoshopped... Read more