There are plenty of reasons to buy a refurbished laptop, mainly that you can get a great laptop at a fraction of the price — but also because refurbished laptops are better for the environment. Or are they? And if they are, how much impact do they actually have?
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AMD’s new Ryzen 9000 series looked promising from its initial benchmarks, but the first reviews and user impressions painted a much more disappointing picture. As it turns out, AMD was testing with a bit of flawed methodology.
Fortunately, an adjustment in Windows brings those dramatic performance boosts to life. The only problem is, the relevant update was
Never before has it been easier to clone a human voice. New AI tools can take a voice sample, process it, copy it, and say anything in the voice of the original. It’s been a thing since as early as 2018, but modern tools can do it faster, more accurately, and with greater ease.
Don’t believe it? OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, pr
When it comes to important files, it’s best practice to keep offline backups in case of emergency. If you have a lot of data to store, you might want a 4TB drive… if only they weren’t so pricey.
Well, right now, this 4TB Samsung T5 EVO portable SSD just dropped in price fr
If you’ve resisted moving to Windows 11 because you hate the Start menu…well, it appears that it may get slightly better.
Keen-eyed code hounds digging into recent Windows betas have unearthed a “category” view that organizes Start apps in a way that looks somewhat like the Windows 10 Start menu of old. The category view isn’t totally customizable — for exa
There’s no better time than the present to pick up a gaming laptop, especially if you’re heading to school in the fall and need a proper rig for both work and play. Fortunately for you, Intel Gamer Days came crashing down like a falling meteorite, bringing with it a deluge of steep discounts on powerful gaming laptop
Although Microsoft allows Windows users to tweak all kinds of system settings, not everything can be customized. Even when playing around in the Control Panel, there are hidden features that are hard to find, making it hard to tap the full pote
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A startup, Phononic, says that it has a new twist on what sounds like a Peltier cooler, using electrical energy to cool a processor in a PC or a data center.
Phononic announced the Hex 2.0 CPU cooler at the Hot Chips conference, which is targeting at the data center. The company showed off while using an AMD Ryzen 9950X for stress testing, however. The cool