Zak Killian
Recent posts
This story is a bit odd but potentially huge, so sit up and pay attention to this one carefully. You may have read previously about NVIDIA's Project DIGITS, which was formally renamed to DGX Spark back in March at GTC. It's a tiny mini-PC...
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Google I/O was about a week ago, and if you haven't heard, one of Google's biggest announcements was the company's Veo 3 generative AI model for video. Gone are the days of creepy, low-quality clips that vaguely look like Will Smith eating...
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We recently posted an article that explored the idea of serious gaming on integrated graphics. In that post, we were using an older Ryzen 5 5600G chip to prove our point, but AMD's Ryzen 8000G processors are much faster. (We're about to...
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If you're reading this, chances are high that you got here via a Google search because someone told you to "update the BIOS" on your PC, and you're wondering what the heck that means. Don't worry; we're gonna get you sorted out. "BIOS"...
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In what has become the most notorious will-they-or-won't-they saga of the graphics market this year, rumors have yet again revived the idea that Intel will launch the Arc B770 sometime in Q3 or Q4. We first heard whispers of the BMG-G31...
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If you're a die-hard "Soulsborne" series veteran, you probably already know about this unusual spinoff title's rather quiet launch. Instead, we're going to try and pull in some of the folks who may have bounced off of Dark Souls or Elden...
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It might surprise you to learn this, but cybercriminals are usually fairly protective of the data they steal, because things like credentials and login details have value, and can be sold to the right buyer. That's why it's so unusual that...
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If you've ever played with an original 8-bit computer—a Commodore, an Atari 400/800, or anything else of that vintage—you already know that getting clean video output can be a terrific struggle. These systems were primarily built to output...
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If you've been keeping up with Nintendo Switch 2 news, you've probably already seen that the Joy-Con 2 controllers can be used like mice thanks to optical sensors on the inside edge, where they connect to the Switch 2 console. This is an...
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The latest generation of mainstream GPUs has arrived, and as has been the case for several generations now, the most affordable parts only have 8GB of memory onboard. This has caused some consternation among portions of the gaming public who feel that 8GB of video RAM is simply not enough in...
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The DIY PC market is in a tough spot. If we disregard older, previous-gen graphics cards for a moment, the only company currently selling anything approaching a modern entry-level GPU is Intel, and those cards are nearly impossible to find for anything approaching MSRP. Quality motherboards...
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Let's talk about gaming handhelds for a moment. Actually, first, let's introduce a new product -- the ASUS ROG Bulwark, shown at Computex 2025, which is a dock primarily (but not exclusively!) for those very same handhelds. It connects to...
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Regular readers will probably know this already, but AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs are quite good at machine learning workloads. The company's FSR 4 AI-powered upscaler delivers excellent results, much closer to NVIDIA's DLSS in terms of image quality...
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Have you read our review of the MSI Claw 8 AI+? If you haven't, please do! We were quite fond of the machine and had a lot of nice things to say about it, although one of our complaints was about the aesthetics; the odd beige color that...
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File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big computational simulation. Yep, we're talking...
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In a twist straight out of a sci-fi flick, researchers have discovered that AI agents—specifically large language models (LLMs)—can independently develop their own communication systems and biases, all without human intervention. This...
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DOOM is back—and it's never looked meaner. DOOM The Dark Ages is the latest installment in Id Software's iconic franchise, which just launched, bringing with it a brutal blend of medieval mayhem and modern firepower. Powered by the latest...
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AMD's "AMD Gaming" account just dropped a spicy little teaser on Xwitter reminding everyone about its May 20th Computex conference—and in the process, all but confirming the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The post features a sleek, compact dual-fan...
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Intel is once again in the crosshairs of a fresh speculative execution exploit, this time dubbed "Branch Privilege Injection." The new vulnerability, revealed by researchers at ETH Zurich's COMSEC group, is capable of extracting sensitive...
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If you asked us what we would want out of an upgraded Arc B-series ("Battlemage") GPU, it probably wouldn't have been "more video RAM," but that's because we're primarily gamers, not primarily AI researchers. The B580's 12GB of video RAM...
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When it comes to "companies that gamers groan in irritation," you probably think of names like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Activision, NCSoft, Konami, and maybe Nexon or Capcom. You might not think of Nintendo just yet, but the company is...
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Almost two years ago, people were already complaining of stability problems in Unreal Engine games played on Intel CPUs, but the issue really came to light when huge numbers of customers trying to play Tekken 8 in Korea started returning...
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