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I tested NotebookLM and found it very useful for academic, technical, and general research

I tested NotebookLM and found it very useful for academic, technical, and general research

1 month ago 31

Intel Arc B580 Gets Faster: Driver Updates Tackle CPU Overhead

Intel Arc B580 Gets Faster: Driver Updates Tackle CPU Overhead

1 month ago 35

AI-generated security camera feed shows Sam Altman getting busted stealing GPUs from Target — ironic video shows OpenAI CEO saying he needs it for Sora inferencing

AI-generated security camera feed shows Sam Altman getting busted stealing GPUs from Target — ironic...

1 month ago 41

After a couple of months with the Garmin MARQ Golfer (Gen 2), there’s no other way to put it: this is the best golf watch on the planet right now

After a couple of months with the Garmin MARQ Golfer (Gen 2), there’s no other way to put it: this i...

1 month ago 53

I tested Google Forms and found it perfect for basic surveys, but limited for complex, large-scale surveys

I tested Google Forms and found it perfect for basic surveys, but limited for complex, large-scale s...

1 month ago 34

AMD in early talks to make chips at Intel Foundry, report says

AMD in early talks to make chips at Intel Foundry, report says

1 month ago 41

TSMC reduces peak power consumption of EUV tools by 44% — company to save 190 million kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2030

TSMC reduces peak power consumption of EUV tools by 44% — company to save 190 million kilowatt-hours...

1 month ago 61

M5-powered iPad Pro breaks cover in GeekBench, scoring 4,133 in single-threaded tests — matches M4 Max and beats every single-core PC chip score

M5-powered iPad Pro breaks cover in GeekBench, scoring 4,133 in single-threaded tests — matches M4 M...

1 month ago 40

Microsoft slaps Game Pass Ultimate with a 50% price hike — PC Game Pass is now almost 38% more expensive, with hardly any new benefits

Microsoft slaps Game Pass Ultimate with a 50% price hike — PC Game Pass is now almost 38% more expen...

1 month ago 50

OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK hynix to the tune of up to 900,000 wafers per month

OpenAI's Stargate project to consume up to 40% of global DRAM output — inks deal with Samsung and SK...

1 month ago 36

Pick up a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for less than a 9800X3D in this Early Prime Day deal bundle from MSI — Tomahawk motherboard deal is cheaper with AMD's flagship than with its top gaming CPU

Pick up a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for less than a 9800X3D in this Early Prime Day deal bundle from MSI — Tom...

1 month ago 39

OpenAI's Sam Altman had secret TSMC meeting over future chip supply, report claims — AI pioneer in Asia as South Korea confirms 20MW data center deal with ChatGPT maker

OpenAI's Sam Altman had secret TSMC meeting over future chip supply, report claims — AI pioneer in A...

1 month ago 48

Hands-on with the new Google Home Speaker coming next year

Hands-on with the new Google Home Speaker coming next year

1 month ago 26

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: all-day smart glasses with the same tricky questions

Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: all-day smart glasses with the same tricky questions

1 month ago 23

Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit — U.S. court rejects Arm’s lawsuit, confirms Qualcomm’s can use Oryon cores acquired via Nuvia

Qualcomm scores big win over Arm in contentious lawsuit — U.S. court rejects Arm’s lawsuit, confirms...

1 month ago 37

Intel affirms commitment to $28 billion Ohio project despite delays — company responds to U.S. Senator's hint of 'a charade or potential fraud'

Intel affirms commitment to $28 billion Ohio project despite delays — company responds to U.S. Senat...

1 month ago 31

Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors

Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to b...

1 month ago 37

Peloton increases fees and introduces new hardware including a $6,695 treadmill

Peloton increases fees and introduces new hardware including a $6,695 treadmill

1 month ago 18

I reviewed Edifier’s palm-sized Bluetooth speaker, and it's one of the best small models of the year – here’s why

I reviewed Edifier’s palm-sized Bluetooth speaker, and it's one of the best small models of the year...

1 month ago 47

DJI fervently rejects Chinese Military Company designation following court ruling — drone maker says it 'is not controlled by the government and has no ties to the military'

DJI fervently rejects Chinese Military Company designation following court ruling — drone maker says...

1 month ago 38

Meta reportedly buying RISC-V AI GPU firm Rivos — acquisition to bolster dev team and possibly replace Nvidia internally

Meta reportedly buying RISC-V AI GPU firm Rivos — acquisition to bolster dev team and possibly repla...

1 month ago 45

DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia's CUDA — Chinese chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, and Hygon get first-class support

DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidi...

1 month ago 28

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 3 spotted in the upcoming AMD Adrenalin driver branch — could lean on AI model used in FSR 4

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 3 spotted in the upcoming AMD Adrenalin driver branch — could lean on AI mod...

1 month ago 34

$7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency recovered from newly convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' — funds from fraudster thought to be the largest seizure to date

$7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency recovered from newly convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' — funds from fra...

1 month ago 23

Portable 1TB bamboo SSD is fast, but smells even better due to built-in aroma diffuser — essential oil diffuser billed as bringing harmony to your workplace

Portable 1TB bamboo SSD is fast, but smells even better due to built-in aroma diffuser — essential o...

1 month ago 10

Lego’s Nintendo Game Boy is a brick masterpiece just shy of perfection

Lego’s Nintendo Game Boy is a brick masterpiece just shy of perfection

1 month ago 18

Early Prime Day deals kick off as Crucial's superfast 4TB T705 PCIe 5 SSD hits a new all-time low price of $320

Early Prime Day deals kick off as Crucial's superfast 4TB T705 PCIe 5 SSD hits a new all-time low pr...

1 month ago 17

Redditor quoted absurd $11,000 labor fee for $4,000 PC build — bemused customer questions $6,300 labor, $4,700 pre-project labor, and $4,000 cancellation fee

Redditor quoted absurd $11,000 labor fee for $4,000 PC build — bemused customer questions $6,300 lab...

1 month ago 13

New York firm faces China investigation over $17M advanced trading hardware smuggling — accused of installing customized processors and networking hardware at Shanghai Futures Exchange

New York firm faces China investigation over $17M advanced trading hardware smuggling — accused of i...

1 month ago 34

OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip developed with Broadcom reportedly slips to Q3 2026

OpenAI might be building its own chip, but it’ll still be dependent on Nvidia — custom chip develope...

1 month ago 34

'Next-gen 3D printing' enables printing with two different materials at once — faster, lighter, and more precise multiplexing nozzle tech demoed by U.S. gov't scientists

'Next-gen 3D printing' enables printing with two different materials at once — faster, lighter, and ...

1 month ago 33

Hands-on with Amazon’s new Kindle Scribes, including one with a color screen

Hands-on with Amazon’s new Kindle Scribes, including one with a color screen

1 month ago 21

Amazon finally did the damn hardware right

Amazon finally did the damn hardware right

1 month ago 24

Huawei-powered mini-PC debuts with Huawei AI chip and 192GB of memory — Orange Pi AI Studio Pro wields Ascend 310 chip with 352 TOPS of AI performance, but relies on a single USB-C port

Huawei-powered mini-PC debuts with Huawei AI chip and 192GB of memory — Orange Pi AI Studio Pro wiel...

1 month ago 29

Microsoft adds Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry following cautious trials — Elon Musk's latest AI model is now available to deploy for "frontier‑level reasoning"

Microsoft adds Grok 4 to Azure AI Foundry following cautious trials — Elon Musk's latest AI model is...

1 month ago 24

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review: $599 for premium, pricey perfection

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Elite review: $599 for premium, pricey perfection

1 month ago 33

Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are as magical as ever on Nintendo Switch 2

Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are as magical as ever on Nintendo Switch 2

1 month ago 34

Maingear debuts new premium desktop PCs — Apex Rush, Force models start at $6,259, with top-end model featuring hardline tubing and dual 420mm radiators

Maingear debuts new premium desktop PCs — Apex Rush, Force models start at $6,259, with top-end mode...

1 month ago 38

Amid Intel's deals, Intel Foundry Services remains notably absent — 18A and 14A are on the way, but success isn't guaranteed

Amid Intel's deals, Intel Foundry Services remains notably absent — 18A and 14A are on the way, but ...

1 month ago 27

Wee Beastie crowdfunding project promises 4.75L fish tank SFF PC packing a 'desktop' RTX 4070 — $699 design features modded 12GB GPU mounted on a circuit board

Wee Beastie crowdfunding project promises 4.75L fish tank SFF PC packing a 'desktop' RTX 4070 — $699...

1 month ago 36

Data center boom sends some wholesale electricity prices soaring up to 267% in five years, says report — as global rollout of AI factories continues apace

Data center boom sends some wholesale electricity prices soaring up to 267% in five years, says repo...

1 month ago 27

Nvidia's new CPX GPU aims to change the game in AI inference — how the debut of cheaper and cooler GDDR7 memory could redefine AI inference infrastructure

Nvidia's new CPX GPU aims to change the game in AI inference — how the debut of cheaper and cooler G...

1 month ago 31

I tested the Pecron E3600 and found it to be an affordable and dependable portable power station

I tested the Pecron E3600 and found it to be an affordable and dependable portable power station

1 month ago 19

China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon — 13 chiplets per processor provide up to 384 cores on a single motherboard, but no word on power consumption

China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon — 13 chiplets per proce...

1 month ago 68

I tested Gmail and found it an excellent and reliable platform for business and personal use

I tested Gmail and found it an excellent and reliable platform for business and personal use

1 month ago 46

Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic feedback, circular Action Ring shortcuts

Logitech launches MX Master 4 flagship productivity mouse – the best mouse we've tested adds haptic ...

1 month ago 48

Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — researchers uncover broadcasting flaw via Bluetooth

Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — researchers uncover broadcasting ...

1 month ago 26

Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU — chip armed with core count approaching the flagship AMD Threadripper 9995WX, boasts a 4.8GHz boost clock

Intel aims at AMD's Threadripper with its new Granite Rapids-WS CPU — chip armed with core count app...

1 month ago 33

Get a 4TB Crucial P310 SSD for just 5 cents per gigabyte — PCIe 4.0 drive is available now with heatsink for $202

Get a 4TB Crucial P310 SSD for just 5 cents per gigabyte — PCIe 4.0 drive is available now with heat...

1 month ago 45

Sandisk launches officially licensed SSDs and MicroSD cards for the ROG Xbox Ally series — up to 4TB of storage for new Asus flagship handheld

Sandisk launches officially licensed SSDs and MicroSD cards for the ROG Xbox Ally series — up to 4TB...

1 month ago 45