Keeping cool during summer heat waves doesn’t always require huge expenses for air conditioning or insulation. Every device you have plugged in consumes power and generates heat. So, to cool your home […]
Anyone who’s bought or researched buying a new SSD for their PC understands their limitations: they’re often constrained by the PCI Express bus to the rest of the PC, and they generate […]
Almost every CPU designed for a laptop includes an integrated graphics processor, a low-power chip that handles basic video duties. That “iGPU” doesn’t go away if your laptop also includes a discrete […]
If you own a cell phone, you know the pain and fury of a 9 a.m. call from “Microsoft Windows support.” These and similar scams send out literally billions of robo-calls every […]
One of the most exciting features in the 14th-generation “Raptor Lake Refresh” line is Application Performance Optimization, or APO. This thread-optimization tech allows for dramatic boosts in gaming performance, with some seeing […]
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray wrap up the year with the holiday tradition of eating our own words. Journalists make predictions all the time, and normally […]
Intel has tacked an additional dozen games to its Intel Application Optimization technology, meaning that several popular games will receive a higher framerate if you’re using a supported processor and the technology […]
If there’s one buzzword that’s inescapable in 2024…well, it’s probably “Israel” or “election” or “Musk.” But if there’s one that’s specific to the technology industry, it’s AI. Fortunes are being made on […]
Microsoft may have finally solved my biggest problem working with multiple sources of information: information fragmentation. As in, where was I told this crucial bit of information? Microsoft’s Recall is arguably the […]
