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Adrianna Nine 2023-05-31 15:40:00 www.extremetech.com A driver in Hawaii followed her GPS directions into a harbor on Monday. GPS has guided a driver into deep water for the second time in a month, prompting questions about …

Josh Norem 2023-05-31 13:54:53 www.extremetech.com With Computex fully underway, the war for showing off the most audacious RTX 4090 has begun in earnest. Several companies have announced beastly versions of Nvidia’s flagship GPU, but a new …

Josh Norem 2023-05-31 08:23:00 www.extremetech.com If you’ve ever built a PC with an AIO cooler with RGB fans, you know what a rat’s nest it can become when attempting to connect all six cables required for …

Josh Norem 2023-05-30 12:25:00 www.extremetech.com Over the years, Asus has reserved its ROG Matrix branding for luxurious, one-off GPU designs that straddle the line between ultra-premium and a “concept” product made in a lab just for …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-30 11:00:00 www.extremetech.com Tesla’s Model Y is currently the world’s best-selling car, outranking popular models like the Toyota RAV4 and Corolla in the first quarter of 2023. It’s the first time an all-electric vehicle …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-26 15:42:44 www.extremetech.com Google announced several experimental search features at Google I/O earlier this month, and now it’s opening up access to them in the new Search Labs. Naturally, the search experiments are based …

Josh Norem 2023-05-26 12:45:59 www.extremetech.com Computex is about to get underway in Taipei, and first out of the gate are some new PCIe Gen 5 SSDs that finally live up to the spec’s promise of offering …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-26 11:30:00 www.extremetech.com When we picture Saturn, we picture its rings. But those big, beautiful rings might not always be there. A trio of new studies show that the planet’s legendary adornments are gradually …

StackCommerce Team 2023-05-26 06:59:00 www.extremetech.com Having a well-functioning computer can make a world of difference for professionals, students, and everybody else in today’s digital age. For Memorial Day and the kickoff of summer, you can save …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-25 17:00:00 www.extremetech.com The existence of black holes is no longer in question—we’ve detected plenty and even taken pictures of two of them. However, all the black holes we’ve found are either big enough …

Josh Norem 2023-05-25 13:49:41 www.extremetech.com Nvidia released its fiscal Q1 2024 earnings report yesterday, and for once, it was a doozy, but in a good way. The company announced blockbuster revenue that shattered Wall Street predictions, …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-25 11:00:00 www.extremetech.com Most of us know about the planet’s increasingly dismal plastic waste problem. To offer somewhat of a solution—and, let’s be real, make some money—brands and their marketing departments have whipped up …

Josh Norem 2023-05-25 08:00:00 www.extremetech.com It’s previously been reported that Intel will drop the “i” from its CPU branding, starting with Meteor Lake. Instead of calling a CPU a Core i3 or Core i5, it will …

Josh Norem 2023-05-24 14:00:00 www.extremetech.com At this week’s Build conference, Microsoft doubled and tripled down on integrating AI into all aspects of its products. Now Intel has joined the fray by announcing how its 14th generation …

Josh Norem 2023-05-24 12:03:46 www.extremetech.com Now that the clone midrange GPU wars have begun in earnest with the arrival of the RTX 4060 family and Radeon 7600, Intel is trying to insert itself into the scrum. …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-24 10:15:00 www.extremetech.com Part of a crumbling pyramid in El Mirador. Credit: Geoff Gallice/Wikimedia Commons Researchers have spent the last eight years investigating part of northern Guatemala with lidar, and their findings are upending …

StackCommerce Team 2023-05-24 06:59:00 www.extremetech.com With Memorial Day weekend right around the corner, it’s easy to get caught up in the deals and savings in your inbox. But, you might be in the market for something …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-23 07:00:00 www.extremetech.com Scientists know which general areas of the brain are responsible for memory storage: the hippocampus, the cerebellum, and the neocortex. But until now, exactly where memories hide in those areas has …

Josh Norem 2023-05-23 08:20:00 www.extremetech.com AMD was quite cheeky with the launch schedule for its Zen 4 V-Cache CPUs. As you might recall, it first launched the 12-and-16 core versions at sky-high prices to collect an …

Josh Norem 2023-05-22 15:27:20 www.extremetech.com Two new midrange GPUs are arriving this week, but this battle is likely over before the first shot is fired. Nvidia’s new RTX 4060 Ti and AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 launch …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-22 16:45:00 www.extremetech.com Interest in artificial intelligence has exploded in recent months, ever since Microsoft and Google unveiled dueling chatbots. These rapid advances in AI don’t just happen, though. It takes unfathomable computing power …

Josh Norem 2023-05-19 13:00:00 www.extremetech.com Intel’s PR team has been busy behind the scenes, cracking the whip on a group of testers in the Intel labs. Together they have examined which Intel CPUs are best paired …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-19 11:35:00 www.extremetech.com The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned Wednesday that global temperatures are “more likely than not” to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next five years. Should this occur, …

Josh Norem 2023-05-19 07:00:00 www.extremetech.com Intel and AMD have taken very different paths to arrive at almost the same spot in the CPU hierarchy. Intel famously adopted a hybrid big.LITTLE core architecture for its Alder and …

Josh Norem 2023-05-18 14:00:00 www.extremetech.com The midrange GPU showdown is about to commence as both Nvidia and AMD prep their middleweight contenders for battle. Today Nvidia pulled the wraps off its entire 4060 family of GPUs, …

Josh Norem 2023-05-18 10:47:36 www.extremetech.com Today Nvidia is pulling the wraps off the entirety of its RTX 4060 family of GPUs, possibly to get out in front of any upcoming announcements by AMD. Despite the collective …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-18 07:00:00 www.extremetech.com Scientists have long suspected that other solar systems are made of the same things as ours. Indeed, the more we look, the more these alien solar systems start to look like …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-17 15:20:00 www.extremetech.com Next time you’re trying to catch a flight, you might spot a new initiative from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with a controversial component: facial recognition. The TSA has ramped up …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-17 10:00:00 www.extremetech.com It was a valiant effort, but NASA has called it quits on the Lunar Flashlight mission. The tiny cubesat was supposed to enter orbit around the moon to hunt for ice …

Josh Norem 2023-05-17 12:13:52 www.extremetech.com The Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti will allegedly launch one week from today, on May 24. Given its proximity, it’s not surprising we’re starting to see more leaks about what it will …

Josh Norem 2023-05-17 08:20:00 www.extremetech.com AMD rocked the PC industry to its core, pardon the pun, in 2019 when it launched the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 3950X. This Zen 2 CPU built on TSMC’s 7nm node …

Josh Norem 2023-05-16 13:23:21 www.extremetech.com Asus has been spending some time in the woodshed lately, thanks to the recent spate of melted CPUs and the company’s unforgiving warranty policies related to the issue. In just the …

Josh Norem 2023-05-16 15:45:00 www.extremetech.com Warren Buffet and the investment firm he controls—Berkshire Hathaway—are known to be wise prognosticators via timely investments. The most stunning example of this is that it bought 9.8 million shares of …

Ryan Whitwam 2023-05-16 14:15:00 www.extremetech.com It’s undeniable at this point—2023 is the year of generative AI. The demos and research fodder of past years have morphed into experimental products vying to reshape the internet as we …

Josh Norem 2023-05-16 09:00:00 www.extremetech.com It was always a given that Apple would be the first company in line for TSMC’s most cutting-edge process, as it’s repeatedly done so. Now that TSMC has begun to ramp …

Adrianna Nine 2023-05-15 10:20:00 www.extremetech.com Suppose you’re sick of YouTube ads but don’t care about video downloads or exclusive content. You might use an ad-blocking browser extension to avoid marketing without paying for YouTube Premium. Around …