Bruno Ferreira
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Speeds for DDR5 memory have been increasing to dizzying heights, especially after the introduction of CU-DIMMs. Desktop motherboard makers are always trying to outdo each other, and one particular battle of inches is about memory speeds...
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Windows 11 customization utilities are a dime a dozen these days, and more enthusiasts are customizing their installs every day, in a bid to remove unnecessary cruft and save on disk space. NTDEV's Tiny11 is one of the most popular...
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Yesterday Apple let loose the iPhone 17 lineup upon the world, with the svelte Air and the magnificent cameras on the Pro line, but that wasn't all that came out of the announcements. The Cupertino tech giant also revamped its Apple Watch...
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It seems that contrary to previous doom-and-gloom rumors about missed yield targets, Intel is actually making good headway on its upcoming mobile Panther Lake chips. The latest confirmation of sorts comes from known leaker...
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After months of leaks that revealed most everything about the Apple iPhone 17 lineup, apart from battery life and details about the SoC, Captain Cook's mothership has made the official announcement.
While most flagship phone upgrades...
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If you had trouble or slow speeds when trying to connect to Asian websites (or vice-versa) over the weekend, you're not alone. The underlying reason for the slowdowns were a few undersea fiber cables cut nearby Jeddah, South Arabia...
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We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at that. Today, Microsoft open-sourced the...
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Autumn is fast arriving, and there's a crop of high-end ThinkPad laptops, grown in the fertile fields of Lenovo. The Chinese giant bought the ThinkPad line from IBM quite a few years back, and has been doing a pretty bang-up job of...
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There's little argument that although its inner workings are quite solid and speedy, Windows 11's UX choices are often best described as schizophrenic. One day Microsoft adds a useful feature, only to add yet another Edge-begging pop-up...
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Reports are coming in that NVIDIA is cutting down on supplies of 8 GB 5060 and 5060 Ti chip-and-memory sets. This information comes by way of a post in Chinese forum Board Channels, where industry folks like to hang out.
According to...
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IFA 2025 is chock-full of announcements for new hardware, and Acer decided to bring everything plus the kitchen sink to the trade show. The PC giant has pulled back the curtain on its refreshed Nitro and Predator gaming gear lineup...
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The U.S. government increased technology export restrictions into China today, in a move that delivered crushing blow to Korean manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix. The restrictions specifically affect production of memory (DRAM) and...
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Great news today for TSMC shareholders worldwide, and computing technology in general. The Taiwanese chip giant is reportedly ahead of schedule with its A14 semiconductor fabrication process, and is moving ahead the timeline for...
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The impending autumn is the season of harvest, and the reaper has come for some of AMD's Wraith coolers. Specifically, the company is done with producing its Wraith Prism and Wraith Spire coolers that it introduced with its...
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We'd hazard a guess that ASUS is better known for its laptops, motherboards, and graphics cards, but the company's routers are both high quality and affordable—speaking from personal experience over the better part of two decades. The...
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Framework, one of the more underrated laptop makers around, has been making actual modular laptops for more than four and a half years. The company recently revised its modular Framework 16 laptop, and the new version carries AMD Ryzen AI...
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be quiet!, the eternal purveyor of high quality wares for silent PC operation, have added five more closed-loop liquid coolers (CLCs) to its arsenal, across the Pure Loop 3 and Pure Loop 3 LX families, with a new refill port feature among...
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'Tis the season for souped-up Ryzen motherboards, it seems. Hot on the heels of ASUS' Strix 870E-H WiFi, we have a fresh new offering, the ASRock X870 LiveMixer WiFi. The company claims this mobo is squarely aimed at content creators...
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Windows 10's imminent sunset on October 14th has been the subject of much ink lately. Windows 11 is a free upgrade, but some users wish to stick with the older version due to device or app incompatibility, fear of a botched upgrade, or...
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There have been many reports on AMD CPUs dying, with burnt pins on the socket. It's not frequent or particularly widespread, but naturally it caused concern, particularly among gamers, as the CPUs in question were often Ryzen 7 7800X3D and...
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Another day, another toasty NVI... Wait, sorry, force of habit. Breaking news, folks, the industry standard 12VHPWR connector has just claimed its first Radeon victim. The unlucky gamer was Reddit user Savings_Opportunity3 (Savings for...
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The engineers on Microsoft's DirectX team are always busy bees, constantly working on one improvement or another. Today, the team announced that it's taking initial steps to get rid of a perennial annoyance in PC gaming: shader compilation...
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