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Keychron priced its all-ceramic Q16 HE 8K at $229.99. Its all-aluminum Q1 HE 8K also costs $229.99. Same brand, same switch family, same polling rate, identical sticker price, and yet the ceramic board weighs 1,060 grams while the aluminum one tips the scale at 1,860 grams, according to Keychron’s own product pages. Drop a $114.99…
GPD has added a cheaper on-ramp to its most powerful handheld gaming PC. The Chinese manufacturer confirmed a new GPD WIN 5 configuration built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 388 accelerated processing unit, priced at $1,722 for a 32GB unified-memory, 1TB SSD build, according to VideoCardz. The configuration became available in mid-September 2026, with deliveries…
Microsoft has finally put a name and a sentence to something PC buyers had noticed for years: there is no AMD processor anywhere in the current Surface lineup. Surface Corporate Vice President Brett Ostrum told Windows Central that the gap is not a verdict on AMD’s silicon, but a side effect of how few Surface…
Fortnite’s six-year exile from Android’s biggest storefront in Australia is ending in pieces, not all at once. On September 2, 2026, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued Final Determination AA1000718, authorizing Google and Epic Games to implement a settlement that unwinds the Google Play ban first imposed in August 2020. The authorization took…
AMD used the final week of September 2026 to put a number on the table that server buyers have been waiting for: 256 cores. The company’s sixth-generation EPYC family, code-named “Venice” and sold under the EPYC 9006 branding, is built on the new Zen 6 architecture and is now confirmed to be in production, according…
CoreWeave confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it will bring NVIDIA Vera to its cloud, a processor NVIDIA is calling the first CPU built specifically for AI agents. The announcement lands alongside CoreWeave’s rollout of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, and it marks a shift in how cloud providers think about the “boring”…
Three companies raised a combined $289 million in the seven weeks between August 3 and September 24, 2026, all chasing the same problem: nobody is watching what AI agents actually do once they start acting. Zenity closed a $125 million Series C on August 3. HiddenLayer followed with a $100 million Series B on September…
Grasshopper Manufacture is an independent studio again. The Osaka-based developer behind No More Heroes and Killer7 confirmed on September 30, 2026 that it has separated from NetEase Games, ending a five-year run as a subsidiary of the Chinese publishing giant, according to reports from Game Informer and Insider Gaming. The change takes effect October 1,…
A stock fan curve is a compromise. Motherboard makers tune it to keep every chip alive across a huge range of cases, coolers and ambient temperatures, which means most gaming PCs either run louder than they need to at idle or ramp too late once a game actually loads the CPU and GPU. Setting up…
Polymarket Puts October Fed “No Change” at 60% as Rate-Hike Bets Collapse in 24 Hours. A Polymarket contract asking whether the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates unchanged after its October meeting jumped to a 60% implied probability of “yes” as of September 30, 2026, a move of about 27 points in a single day.…
