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THIS YEAR at Intel’s ‘Vision’ event in Phoenix, Arizona, the tech company focused on bringing business and technology leaders together to learn about AI advances. It also announced that the 6th generation Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors w

WITH AMD’S RDNA 4 GPUs rumored for the end of 2024, there’s little room for AMD’s previous-gen RDNA 2 cards. The series launched in 2020, and the 16GB AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT was considered one of the best graphics cards of its time. Unfortunately, it

The US government has approved a ban, citing privacy and security concerns. YouTube videos via Meta Quest are now better quality, due to the app supporting 8K streaming. European researchers have developed a charging solution to make li-ion batteries

SEGA TOYS released its line of ‘Kimit’ toys in February 2024. The cat robots were supposedly trained on the data of over 100 cats, and can mimic typical feline behavior. This innovation, which cost ¥33,000 (around $215), seems more expensive than ado

LG DISPLAY has developed the first ever gaming panel with a switchable refresh rate and resolution. This is achieved through the company’s ‘Dynamic Frequency and Resolution (DFR)’ feature. Mass production is already underway. In theory, this will all

THE LATEST GENERATION of mobile GPUs and CPUs are now well established. That means prices are down from their peak, when all the hardware was new. At the same time, it’ll likely be a year before any significant chip updates arrive. This means that no

> Better NAS mobo? > Explorer crashes > Speed up Handbrake In your article on building a NAS system in the April 2024 issue, two possible N100I motherboards were mentioned. In doing research on the components in the system, I came across a third poss

PC GAMING has come a long way in the last 20-30 years. Let’s be fair—it has never been a cheap hobby. Consoles have and always will be cheaper than any PC you can buy or build, no matter what generation. In fact, over the years we’ve tried numerous t

REMEMBER WHEN 3D SCREENS were the next big thing? What about virtual reality? Or 5G? The truth is that the technology industry loves buzzwords almost as much as it loves the tech itself, and its latest crush is AI PCs. But if you ask five different v

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The internet has never been more dangerous. In April, a Microsoft Employee stumbled across a cunningly coded Linux backdoor that could have compromised virtually every major website. Generative AI promises to transform users’ desktop experience. But

media://mpc230.centerfold.planetpc_xr2_mini_desktop-1.jpg/ IF YOU’RE BORED of conventional tower rigs or x86-based mini PCs, then get a load of the new PlanetPC XR2 Mini Desktop. The idea is a zero configuration Linux PC. No more searching for driver

THE BENEFITS OF VPNs—Virtual Private Networks—are well-known, particularly when it comes to securing your connection to the internet. Nate Drake’s excellent feature in the October 2023 issue explains how that side of VPNs work, but another use for VP

CYBERATTACKS don’t look like you might expect—and they certainly don’t look like they do in the movies. If your security is compromised, you probably won’t see a big flashing sign saying ‘YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED’, or weird skull-and-crossbones graphics

Nobody panic—it’s finally happened. Google has implemented a ‘Dark mode’ for its Google Drive suite on web. To activate it, simply click the settings cog on the drive of your choice, scroll down to ‘Appearance’, and change it to what mode you’d like.

YOU’LL NEED THIS PHOTOSHOP CC 25.5 OR LATER Some images An internet connection ADOBE HAS DONE a lot of work to integrate generative AI—a system it calls Firefly—into Photoshop over the past year. The technology has made the jump from the beta version

YOU’LL NEED THIS AN ACTIVE MICROSOFT ACCOUNT for each family organizer/member WHILE THE INTERNET can be a great tool to help kids learn and socialize with their friends, children sometimes struggle to put down their devices. The more time they spend

YOU’LL NEED THIS Admin privileges Stable internet connection HAVE YOU NOTICED that no matter how many times you up your browser’s security level, decline cookies, and click ‘Do Not Track’, it feels like websites still know your browsing habits? Brows

YOU’LL NEED THIS An up-to-date version of VLC Media Player I SINCE 2001, VLC Media Player (Previously ‘VideoLAN Client’) has developed a solid reputation as a lightweight and free media player. It supports a huge number of media types, DVD playback,

FOR WHAT SEEMED like forever, I waited for the first high-refresh 32-inch 4K OLED monitors to arrive. Well, now they have, and I’ve spent quality time with a couple of them, namely the Alienware 32 AW3225QF and Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM. They both

I LEFT Maximum PC back in November of 2021. Corsair offered me a position as a PR specialist. I took the leap (this was before I realized just how much I’d miss journalism), thinking, given my skillset and ability to moan about products a lot, that m

WE ALL KNOW the story of the tortoise and the hare: the rabbit races along for short periods of time and then rests, while the turtle plods along at a steady pace and ultimately wins the race. AMD’s RX 7900 GRE, the ‘Golden Rabbit Edition’ that was o

http://media://MPC230.rev_2.HP_Omen_45L-1.jpg HP’S CURRENT RANGE of Omen desktop cases are imposing black monoliths that genuinely do look like something out of a science fiction movie. We’re referring to the type that’s about unknowable alien techno

IS THE AYANEO KUN the king of handheld gaming PCs? That’s what the company is clearly aiming for with a name like that, and it gets so damned close. Yet, there are the little things that get in the way of the full regal verdict. Hold that thought—the

ARE YOU READY for a really bad joke? There’s not a single Cuda core on this thing—not one—and it’s not on fire, either. What the heck, Seagate? You had one job: give your PCIe 5.0 drive a sensible name. Well folks, here we have it: Seagate’s top-tier

THERE’S SOMETHING TO be said for a chassis design that’s a little different. No matter where you turn these days, pretty much all cases look sort of the same. Let’s be fair, there’s only so much you can do with a metal box that holds your PC parts, b

FOR THE LONGEST TIME, two of the biggest names in the memory market have been Corsair and Crucial (or Micron, really). They’re without a doubt some of the largest manufacturers out there, with some serious market share both on the enterprise level an

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WE WEREN'T EXPECTING much from the new Elgato Facecam MK.2. It’s not a sequel, but it will go on to replace the existing Facecam we loved so well. It’s also a bit cheaper than the original camera’s launch price: the new one starts at $150, while the

MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS for the average Joe are a bit unique these days. Because the market and the enthusiast space has advanced so rapidly over the last few years, long gone are the times when manufacturers could forgo sound dampening, and use any old

XGIMI MIGHT NOT HOLD the same amount of clout as some of the other big projector brands out there, but when one of our colleagues offered us a chance to take a look at its latest portable projector for review, a quick glance at the product page quick

WOW. Look at those swaying aquatic plants as you dive underwater, ready to hide from mechanical foes in the 'stealth kelp'. Look at the neon lights that form the cyber-ghost of Las Vegas above the post apocalyptic dunes, and the lush grass as you sto

> Workstations, please! > High scores > OLED fears I’m the guy who suggested building the 'number crunching monster' rig that appeared in your October 2020 issue. You went with the AMD Threadripper 3970X for that build, which was awesome! Now that se

AH, THESE TWO TITANS. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the world of benchmarking, stress-testing your PC, or even if you’re just curious about how toasty that Ryzen 9 7950X is getting, you’ll have no doubt heard of HWMonitor and HWiNFO. On the s