Enlarge / With or without the “AI,” AMD’s new laptop processors are pretty good. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 12 For all the noise about neural processing units (NPUs) and the generative AI capabilities of new and upcoming chips, NPUs don’t yet do all that much in terms of day-to-day, bread-and-butter computing. So when I’m evaluating ..
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sandergroffen/Getty Images reader comments 33 Back in the 1950s, when color TV was invented, everything was simple. TVs were either color or black-and-white, and you could tell at a glance which was which. Today, you can find TVs and monitors that somehow promise more colors, but what does that mean? And why do manufacturers use ..
Getty Images reader comments 89 According to The Wall Street Journal, there’s internal conflict at OpenAI over whether to release a watermarking tool that would allow people to test text to see whether it was generated by ChatGPT. To deploy the tool, OpenAI would make tweaks to ChatGPT that would lead it to leave a ..
Enlarge / NZXT’s subscription program charges $169/month for this build. reader comments 164 NZXT, which sells gaming PCs, components, and peripherals, has a subscription program that charges a monthly fee to rent one of its gaming desktops. Subscribers don’t own the computers and receive an upgraded rental system every two years. NZXT’s Flex program subscription ..
Enlarge / Even mainstream CPUs like the Core i5-13400 could theoretically be affected by Intel’s crashing issues. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 40 Intel will be releasing a microcode update to prevent further damage to crashing 13th- and 14th-generation desktop processors sometime this month if it can stick to its previously announced schedule. This fix should ..
Enlarge / The Pocket 386 is fun for a while, but the shortcomings and the broken stuff start to wear on you after a while. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 28 The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. ..
Enlarge / Samsung’s 2022 The Frame is one of the edge-lit TVs that RTINGs tested. reader comments 54 Thin LCD-LED TVs are appealing because they’re easy to find space for and are aesthetically pleasing. To stay slim, most thin TVs, like Samsung’s The Frame pictured above, use edge-lit backlights. But beyond the image quality limitations ..
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images reader comments 64 Apple reported its earnings results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, and it satisfied investors’ expectations at the top level with 5 percent growth year over year. The company set a third-quarter record with $85.8 billion in revenue. Despite that ..
reader comments 26 Nothing has a new smartphone—the Phone (2a) Plus—nearly identical to the Phone (2a) it released earlier this year, but with slightly beefed-up specs. It costs $399 and is available in the US through the same beta program. But it isn’t the new Android handset we find most interesting, it’s the company’s new ..
Enlarge / A marketing image by Microsoft for the desktop version of Skype. reader comments 66 If you’ve used Microsoft’s Skype in recent years, you’ve probably noticed that the user experience is less than ideal because of the pervasiveness of ads in the software. Fortunately, that’s going to change in a new update coming to ..
