Zak Killian
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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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You might recall just a few days ago when, immediately after the launch of hotly-anticipated open world RPG Crimson Desert, it was discovered that it simply would not launch on Intel Arc GPUs, throwing up an error message saying that the...
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Have you been contemplating a MacBook Neo, but wishing there were Windows laptops with somewhat similar specs? Well, there already are quite a few laptops with similar capabilities, but none of them will have the MacBook Neo's specific...
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You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, where gamers can download pre-compiled binary...
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How much storage do you need? It's a fair bet you could be satisfied with 2TB or less, which is the typical capacity of M.2 SSDs. If you need more, it's likely warm or cold data that could be stuffed onto relatively inexpensive spinning rust. Some folks truly need storage that's high-density...
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Valve just rolled out a Counter-Strike 2 update that fundamentally changes reloading, and longtime players are sounding the alarm about the potential it has to completely overturn the meta-game. In short, instead of partially used...
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If there's one thing PC gamers universally despise, it's shader compilation stutters, but it's also a drag to launch a brand-new game, ready to play, only to be greeted by a "Compiling Shaders" progress bar slowly crawling across the...
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Let's talk about DLSS 5. If you pay any attention to gaming discourse at all, you'll have already noticed that there has been a tremendous pushback against NVIDIA's new DLSS 5. Gamers and gaming commentators have set to work, making a...
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Folks who pay attention to the enthusiast and DIY PC space will no doubt be familiar with NorthridgeFix. The occasionally controversial electronics repair shop is also a popular YouTube channel where the shop documents repair jobs...
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