DRAM Prices Expected to Decline as Much as 30 Percent This Quarter

TrendForce's division DRAMeXchange published a report in which it warned that server DRAM prices could fall over 20% in the first quarter of 2019, and reach an annual decline of almost 50% by the end of the year.

NZXT Announces (Barely) Overwatch-Themed H500 Case

NZXT has released another game-themed chassis. The H500 Overwatch Edition appeals to fans of Blizzard's competitive shooter.

Sphero RVR Bot Compatible With Raspberry Pi, Arduino Crowdfunded in Hours

Sphero announced RVR, "the go-anywhere-do-anything programmable robot," on Kickstarter and quickly raised more than its $150,000 funding goal.

Et Tu, Pentiums? GPU-Disabled Pentium Gold G5600F Appears

Intel's new practice of offering F-Series processors without integrated graphics seems to have worked its way down to the Pentium series.

Mandatory update coming to Windows 7, 2008 to kill off weak update hashes

Microsoft is phasing out SHA-1 hashes on its patches.

Varjo Tempts Pros With $7,000 VR-1 Headset

Varjo has released the VR-1 headset, which features an ultra high pixel density and high precision eye tracking, for professional users with a $6,000 price tag.

Not Your Kid’s Robot: Lenovo-Backed Vincross Offers Makers a Mature Robotics Building Kit

Lenovo-backed robotics vendor Vincross has launched a Kickstarter campaign selling a robot development kit with advanced functioning and programming capabilities.

UK Security Heads Say They Can Handle Potential Huawei 5G Threat

An arm of UK's foreign intelligence agency, GCHQ, advised the government not to ban Huawei's networking technology, used by telecoms, as the agency can manage the risk it poses to the country's national security.

Facebook Is Working On Its Own Semiconductor Design - Report

Facebook's chief AI researcher told Bloomberg the company is working on a semiconductor design made specifically to handle the mass amounts of data used by AI.

Samsung says it will stop making new Blu-ray players

Streaming, format wars, and declining physical media sales likely played a part.