Dual-screen handheld game consoles are having a moment. The AYANEO Pocket DS is a premium model that went up for pre-order this summer for $400 and up. The AYN Thor comes in two models: one with competitive specs to the Pocket DS, and a cheaper model that starts at $249. But the upcoming Anbernic RG DS is set to be the most affordable of all, with prices starting at under $100.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor is expected to be one of the fastest chips available for smartphones. But as with any processor, you can eke even better sustained performance out of it if you use enhanced cooling to keep the chip from throttling as it gets warm. And the upcoming REDMAGIC 11 Pro aims to prove that with the kind of cooling you'd normally find in a PC.

Intel has been a major contributor to open source projects over the years, but the thing about open source software is that anybody can use it - including the company's competitors. Now Intel says it plans to be more strategic about how it contributes to open source projects moving forward as part of an effort to make sure that it's benefiting 

The Pebble App Store is back, and this time it's powered by Rebble

: Kevork Kechichian says x86 giant's contributions should benefit Intel first

The ONYX BOOX P6 Pro and ONYX BOOX P6 Pro Color are phone-sized eBook readers with 6.13 inch E Ink touchscreen displays, support for 5G cellular networks. They're the most phone-like devices from Onyx BOOX to date, but they're not phones - that 5G modem is data only and it's designed to keep you connected to the internet on the go, not for phone calling.

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and using the GNOME 49 desktop.

Intel is starting to reveal more details about its upcoming Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" chips for mobile devices. Unsurprisingly the company is promising big performance and efficiency gains. But what's probably more interesting is how the company plans to divide up its Panther Lake mobile chips into three segments. The least powerful chips feature 8 next-gen CPU cores and 4-core graphics.

The best combination of portability, performance, and quality visuals to help you engineer a brighter future. Up to 8TB storage and 96GB DDR5 RAM. Featuring a 12-core, 24-thread AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370…

In a significant shift for the home entertainment industry, TiVo, a pioneer in digital video recording, has officially ceased selling its DVR products. The company confirmed this development in a…

We've seen a bunch of efforts to develop free and open source smartphone operating systems over the past decade. But most have relied on at least some proprietary drivers and other software - even on hardware like the Pinephone and Librem 5 smartphones that are designed to run mobile Linux distributions. Now there's a new initiative that aims to go even further.

Earlier this year Synology announced that you'd need to use Synology-branded hard drives in its 2025 line of "Plus" branded network-attached storage devices if you wanted full functionality. While you could theoretically use a non-Synology drive with the Synology DiskStation DS225+, DS425+, DS925+ and other models, you'd be unable to create data storage pools, or use volume deduplication. The move was…

Starting on October 22nd Android users in the US might be able to download third-party app stores from the Google Play Store, or find apps in the store that direct users to third-party billing systems rather than Google Pay. While Google has appealed a court ruling from this summer, the Supreme Court denied the company's motion for a temporary stay while the appeals process moves ahead.

The story of the upcoming MediaTek MT8189-powered Chromebooks just keeps getting more interesting. We recently uncovered that the 'Jedi' baseboard and its first offshoot, 'Padme', are being developed…

The HMD Touch 4G is an unusual looking phone that features a 3.2 inch, 320 x 240 pixel IPS LCD touchscreen and relatively thick borders along the top (where you'll find a speaker and camera) and bottom (which houses a home button). HMD's new phone borrows some classic design features from Nokia's Lumia brand, including colorful rounded sides and a large circular camera bump on the back.

Shutting down LTE already? It seems T-Mobile is aiming to quickly become the first "5G Only" carrier with a planned phase-out of LTE.

Global Standards for the Microelectronics Industry

Two weeks till an Epic reckoning.

Chip maker Qualcomm Qualcomm has announced its planning to acquire Arduino, a company that makes open source hardware & software including single-board microcontroller kits. If you're wondering what that means in terms of future products, the companies are already offering some clues. In addition to revealing that there's an acquisition agreement in place, Arduino has introduced its first "dual-brain" board.

Amazon's Prime Big Deals Days run from October 7 through October 8th this year. And as pretty much always happens, a bunch of other retailers have decided to run their own sales on the same days - and some have decided to start theirs a day or two early. Here are some of the best deals I've found so far on laptops, tablets, media streamers, download & streaming deals, and more.

HMD is preparing to launch a new smartphone with an unusual design - it's not just that the HMD Touch 4G has a 3.2 inch display at a time when most phones have 6 inch or larger screens. It's also that the phone has a squad design that almost makes it look like half a normal phone, while also keeping a Nokia Lumia-style camera bump on the back.

Well it was fun while it lasted. Last month xda-developers forum members Pro-me3us unveiled a method for gaining system user privileges on Fire OS devices, giving users more control over the software that runs on their Amazon Fire TV devices and Amazon Fire tablets. Among other things, it allowed users to replace the default home screen and disable certain Amazon apps and services.

8BitMods are taking pre-orders of their new Sega Dreamcast VMU replacement, the VMUPro. More than a memory card, the VMUPro is also a retro handheld!

Speedy touch typists might want to look away.