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Google Gemini vs. ChatGPT

Which LLM currently holds the crown?

Frostpunk 2

Endure a blizzard of tough choices and lasting consequences in the survival city builder sequel

Elgato Facecam Neo

Always sees us in the best light but lacks focus: 8/10 boyfriend, er, camera

Elgato Wave Neo

The Kanye West of mics: Easy to get into, but a little weird

Razer BlackWidow V4 75%

Solid and compact, with hot-swappable switches

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro

Razer's pro controller is even better than Microsoft's

Acer Predator GM712

2008 called, it wants its projector back

AndaSeat Kaiser 4 XL

A chair as big and as comfortable as they come

Gigabyte F027Q2

Speed is of the essence with this OLED screen

Acer Nitro 14

AMD puts on a good show, but it still lacks punch

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

AMD's top Zen 5 CPU looks very similar to its predecessor on paper

Rip the perfect media file

MEDIA FILES COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, and things are further complicated by the fact that video (and audio) files are constructed using codecs, which are required to decode and encode the various streams.

Find files and apps quickly

THE WINDOWS SEARCH TOOL—accessible from the Taskbar—is OK as it goes, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.

WHAT IS ZTNA?

Nate Drake explores the concept of ZTNA and the obstacles businesses face with its adoption

THE RACE FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION

Strong encryption hasn't always been freely available to the public. Nate Drake tells the story of how the first Data Encryption Standard transformed the cryptography landscape

THE ART OF ETHICAL AI

Is the advent of AI a force for good, or a ticking time bomb?

RYZEN 9000 UNLEASHED

Zak Storey puts AMD's latest chips and motherboards to the test

PS5 Pro makes the PC more relevant than ever

THE PS5 PRO has arrived. It's far, far more powerful than the plain old PS5, but it's also a lot more expensive at $700. Does the PS5 Pro make gaming PCs look like good value again? Or are GPU prices still so high, you'd have to be very serious about PC gaming to overlook Sony's latest console?

US wants Nvidia & Apple to use Intel's foundries

THE US GOVERNMENT has been busy over the past year or two handing out large subsidies and grants to help boost local silicon manufacturing efforts. Intel was once the undisputed leader in the race for ever smaller and faster fabrication nodes, but after major stumbles in the transition from 14nm-class to 10nm-class technologies, TSMC passed it by.

The Eagle has landed

Intel's Lunar Lake arrives on the mobile market

NZXT C1500 Platinum

Top-tier performance and efficiency

Nvidia DLSS vs AMD FSR

Which AI upscaling technique has the edge?

World of Goo 2

Goo-d enough for two

BenQ X300G 4K Short Throw Projector

Priced high, yet punchy

Hyte Thicc Q60

Almost more mobile phone than CPU cooler

Remove stalkerware from your PC

ACCORDING TO KASPERSKY’S LATEST ‘State of Stalkerware’ report, over 40 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they’d experienced stalking or suspected that they were being stalked.

BUILD AN IT SUPPORT HUB

Discover how to use RustDesk to provide remote assistance and control your own devices remotely with Nick Peers

AMD's turn to drop the ball?

WITH INTEL'S RAPTOR LAKE CPUs falling over, the company firing around 15,000 employees, and cancelling its 2024 innovation event, AMD must have been enjoying the view - until its new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs rolled out. So, is AMD's CPU a minor stumble or game-changing fumble?

Intel issues fix for Raptor Lake degradation

EARLIER THIS YEAR, I wrote about difficulties I was having with a Core 19-13900K processor (see MPC230 Tech Talk). Little did we realize that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. While most complaints have involved the unlocked Core i9 Raptor Lake CPUs, it appears the instability problems build up and potentially impact many Raptor Lake-13th and 14th Gen Core CPUs, with Intel identifying 22 different desktop parts.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

The new Zen 5 CPUs are here—time to benchmark!