Zak Killian
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Windows 11 has faced significant backlash as of late. Even before Microsoft integrated a number of controversial Copilot AI related features, users balked at the many changes to the operating system that diminished functionality, like the...
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AMD has finally revealed the price of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, so let's not waste any time: it's $899 USD. That is, of course, the suggested price, and retailers are free to price it higher, but $899 is already a pretty stiff ask...
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Going down the list of leaked Intel codenames, we have Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, Serpent Lake... wait, what the heck is Serpent Lake? Well, according to prominent hardware leaker Jaykihn (@Jaykihn0 on Xwitter), "Serpent Lake" is...
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If you use Steam consistently you'll likely have noticed that many reviews now include the user's system specs thanks to a new checkbox you can check when you're adding a review for a game. You may also have seen a pop-up dialog recently...
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Intel's "HX" processors have, for several generations now, been its top-end laptop silicon. That's because they hold a little secret: they're not really laptop-specific silicon, exactly. Instead, the "HX" processor family is typically a...
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Google's "Gemma" isn't the same thing as Gemini. Instead, Gemma is Google's series of open-weights models, which means you can download them and run them on your own hardware. Gemma 4 comes in four sizes, ranging from 2 billion to 31...
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Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's...
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A new poll from Quinnipiac University suggests a growing unease around artificial intelligence even as usage continues to climb. Surveying 1,397 adults, the poll finds that 55% of respondents believe AI will do more harm than good in their...
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If you've ever desperately wanted to know exactly what your golden retriever is yelling at the mailman, a newly emerged tech startup claims to have the answer. Enter Pettichat, an AI-powered smart collar currently courting early adopters...
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It would be easy to assume from the name that Wildcat Lake is the successor to Intel's recently launched Panther Lake CPUs, but wildcats aren't as big as panthers, and there's your clue as to what these CPUs actually are: the successors to...
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As the global AI boom continues to fracture the traditional semiconductor supply chain, manufacturers are searching for novel ways to increase memory density and throughput without the astronomical cost of flagship HBM solutions. According...
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Way back at CES 2026, NVIDIA promised major updates to DLSS. No, we're not talking about the recently revealed and roundly controversial DLSS 5; rather, we're talking about the final revisions to DLSS 4.5. We already covered the new models...
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Look, I'm not going to lie to you and tell you RAM is cheap again. It may never again be as cheap as it was nine months ago. Prices absolutely are trending the right way, though, likely impacted by a few different factors. Everyone's...
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What does "FSR" stand for, PC gamers? If you said FidelityFX Super Resolution, well, you're mistaken. It turns out FSR doesn't stand for anything; instead, it's simply a brand for AMD's graphics technologies. AMD told us this back around...
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In case you missed the news on Thursday, AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition is a real product, and it's coming to market next month for an as-yet-undisclosed price. This CPU is a Socket AM5 desktop processor with fully sixteen Zen 5 CPU...
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We missed this in our coverage of Dell's commercial PC announcements this week, but the company has new keyboards and mice coming too. There's the latest revision of the classy Dell Pro 7 Slim setup, and the Dell Pro 5 Fingerprint ESS...
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Did you read our review of the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Plus" processors? These chips are still Arrow Lake, but the new "Plus" descriptor marks the parts as being targeted at enthusiasts, and offering the highest performance...
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AMD's Ryzen 9 processors with more than eight CPU cores use two different pieces of silicon, known as complex core dies or CCDs, for their CPU cores. Well, ever since AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the original 3D V-Cache CPU, users...
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Well, it's not coming quite the way some might have hoped, but today is the day that Intel's BMG-G31 GPU arrives, in the form of the new Intel Arc Pro B70. This long-rumored card sports Intel's most powerful Arc GPU to date, with a full 32...
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To go along with Intel's Pro Day announcements this morning, Dell's got a whole pile of new Dell Pro machines. Dell says that these commercial computers offer exceptional scalability and reliability to make life easier for business and...
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This may come as a shock, but unless you're on the latest builds of Windows Server, your Windows machine doesn't know about your NVMe disk. The standard StorNVMe.sys driver used since Windows 8.1 talks NVMe to NVMe SSDs, but it tosses that...
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Nostalgic console gaming aficionados have it good, man. You've got all kinds of options for playing retro console games, up to and including systems like the Analogue 3D that painstakingly recreate the original hardware using Field...
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