With rising DRAM costs and chattier chatbots, prices are only going higher. Frugal things you can do include being nicer to the bot.

About a year ago, Nikolay Denisenko, a former lead backend engineer at European fintech firm Revolut, began to formalize a process whereby “special customers” of his new crypto payments app, Brighty, ...

A customer paid my appliance business a large sum of one-dollar bills so I did the only thing a responsible person would do during the Coronavirus pandemic: Wash & dry the bills. What happens when you ...

Vivian Gerrand receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Josh Roose receives funding from The Australian Research Council and Department of Home Affairs. Michael Flood receives funding ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. What’s the best way to make a great deal of money? The most reliable method is to come up with something that ...

For almost all of its 129-year existence, the Big Ten has positioned itself as a moral custodian of college football. This was a conference of hulking stadiums and buttoned-up traditions that was ...

Why this is important: If Valve prices the Steam Machine like a proper PC, it immediately sets a different expectation for buyers. Let’s be real, you’re paying PC-level money, not subsidised console ...

Valve’s second big foray into first-party PC hardware isn’t a sequel to the much-imitated Steam Deck portable, but rather a desktop computer called the Steam Machine. And while it could go on your ...

TL;DR: Valve designed the Steam Machine using data from its Steam Hardware Survey, targeting performance equal to or better than 70% of users' PCs. The console features an AMD RDNA 3 GPU with 28 ...

As you'd absolutely expect, Steam Machine price predications are making the rounds following Valve's announcement. As an editor who's been on the ground for many major hardware launches, I have my own ...