Those Intel, AMD, and Nvidia stickers on your laptop aren’t just pretty decoration. They’re part of some big (and very intentional) branding programs with huge amounts of money behind them. That’s why Valve is turning heads with some adjustment to its branding guidelines, with new and very official “Powered by SteamOS” logos and trademarks.
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I’ve been mounting my desktop PCs under my desk for years because it’s a great way to free up space and avoid cable issues, especially when you’re using a standing desk like I do.
But a German company has made an itty-bitty desktop PC that can truly disappear down there, mounted directly to the underside of the desk itself and protruding only just a couple
As a tech journalist, it’s rare that I get the chance to evangelize for old technology, but today I’m going to take a shot at it. While my colleagues have upgraded their virtual reality setups over the years to new Pimax and HP headsets, and while my casual VR friends are all playing on their Meta Quests, I’m still rocking a Vive Pro.
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Ah, the PC gaming versus console gaming debate. As we head into 2025, the discussion is no longer about whether playing Super Mario on the SNES is better or worse than Doom on the PC. The line between console and PC gaming has grown so blurry that the similarities now far outweigh the differences. There’s little that separates them.
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Though it was a bit rough around the edges in terms of backwards compatibility, my first look at 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 storage reveals a very nice uptick in performance — about twice the 40Gbps of Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 in certain benchmarks. Logical.
By way of comparison, that’s roughly as fast as an NVMe SSD on the PCIe 4.0 bus. And a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is exa
Shopping for a smart thermostat that works with the new Matter standard? There aren’t many to choose from, but now you’ve got one more option.
Smart home manufacturer Meross has just unleashed its first thermostat to support Matter, the 2-year-old protocol that allows the big smart-home platforms to play nice with each other.
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