AMD‘s new mainstream graphics cards and mobile GPUs will be coming to midpriced gaming systems just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Radeon RX 5500 and 5500M are based on the same Navi 7nm architecture as the higher-end RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. They’ll go head-to-head with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 …

It’s been hard for Windows devices to break free of Intel’s gravity, but Microsoft’s giving it another shot with the new 13-inch Surface Pro X, a tablet running Windows on an Arm processor. The company announced it Wednesday at its annual Surface hardware event in New York. It incorporates the Microsoft-custom version of a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the SQ1 Arm chip. …

A decade after it launched the original fan-favorite Sensei ambidextrous mouse, which we called “phenomenal,” SteelSeries is bringing out an upgraded Sensei Ten in the original design with internal advancements over the current Sensei 310. Most notably, the wired Sensei Ten introduces the PixArt TrueMove Pro sensor, which bumps up the performance with a maximum CPI (counts per inch) of …

As promised in August, cross-play for PUBG gamers on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles has gone live with the game’s update 4.3. PUBG Corp. tweeted the console news for its Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds on its European feed Tuesday morning. Console Players: Update 4.3 is now available on live servers!This update also brings Cross Platform Play, allowing PlayStation and Xbox …

Every manufacturer shaves a few millimeters off its laptops and boasts about a size reduction. With its new 13-inch Spectre x360 update, HP has shrank the bezels on the display and somehow managed to carve almost an inch off the laptop’s depth (23mm). HP also boosted the network throughput by doubling the antennas, allowing it to use LTE and Wi-Fi 6 simultaneously, …

Finally, there’s a reason to pay more for those Tensor cores: that AI-acceleration silicon in Nvidia’s GeForce RTX graphics cards will be able to drive some pretty cool features in game livestreaming software like OBS, thanks to its new RTX Broadcast Engine programming interface. The first, and probably most useful, is the incorporation of RTX Greenscreen that’s debuting in OBS, …

Apple’s App Store has some problems, but Google’s Play Store is a mess: a confusing wall of icons punctuated by ads disguised as suggestions and useless recommendations. Search results appear in no discernibly logical order, and in-app purchase information and other pertinent details can be buried in low-contrast gray text at the bottom of a page that’s already a wall …

HyperX’s latest variation of its excellent Cloud Alpha gaming headset, the $130 Cloud Alpha S, adds noise canceling to the mic’s repertoire. It also introduces a better version of the in-line HyperX Amp USB sound card, now dubbed the USB Audio Control Mixer — it still delivers 7.1 virtual surround at the touch of a button, now with the much-needed …

Nvidia is moving slowly with its GeForce Now cloud-gaming service at a time when it really can’t afford to do so. On Thursday, the company announced a new look (more information!) and an updated search engine for its still-in-limited-beta service, following up its August announcement of an upcoming Android app. But it’s still without a price or launch date at …

Welcome to Apple’s latest round of “What the iPhone has in store for us for 2019 and 2020!” We got updates on Apple Arcade, a new entry-level iPad for 2019, a new Watch Series 5, and of course, an iPhone 11. But the biggest deal was the iPhone 11 Pro and its big brother the Pro Max, new flagship models sporting three …