Fast-charge your laptop anywhere with this juicy power bank, now $54
A power bank that can charge both your phone and your laptop is worth its weight in gold while on the go because you never know when you’ll be near an outlet again or if…
October 2024
October 2024
Nintendo’s fun new alarm clock helps you wake up, fall asleep, and more
Right now, lots of gamers are waiting with bated breath for the sequel to Nintendo’s Switch gaming console. But instead of dropping the Switch 2, Nintendo just came out with a different piece of hardware.…
Whoa! Get $650 off on Samsung’s 49-inch ultrawide OLED monitor
Prime Big Deal Days has come and gone, but we’re still seeing some amazing discounts, like the coveted Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 that’s now $950, a massive $650 off its normal $1,600 price tag. This…
Update Firefox 131 now to patch a critical zero-day security flaw
Yesterday, Mozilla released the Firefox 131.0.2 update in response to reports that Firefox users are actively being hit by a zero-day vulnerability in the browser. Surprisingly, this is the first zero-day vulnerability discovered in Firefox…
Apply now for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s free alpha test
Are you eager to try out the latest bells and whistles in Microsoft’s bellwether flight sim? Good news, then! You don’t have to wait for Flight Simulator 2024‘s full release in November. In a week…
Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs offer ‘parity’ performance at half the power
Intel’s latest “Arrow Lake” desktop processor, otherwise known as the Core Ultra 200S, delivers a shocking one-two punch: significantly lower power consumption and package temperatures compared to its predecessor, while delivering comparable performance. Well, that’s…
Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs keep AI simple to make gamers happy
Intel’s new Arrow Lake architecture, aka the Core Ultra 200S series, brings AI capabilities onto Intel desktops. But the chip doesn’t use the Copilot+ capabilities of Intel’s mobile Lunar Lake chip — its designers used…
Intel’s Arrow Lake roadmap includes laptop gaming chips too
Intel’s “Arrow Lake” processor plans include both desktop and laptop chips, creating two new performance tiers atop its existing “Lunar Lake” laptop processors plus the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors it’s launching today. Intel disclosed…
Intel’s new PC chips strike another blow against hyperthreading
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been banned from Intel’s…
Ars’ next conference is coming October 29 in Washington, D.C.
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation’s capital. If you’re on the East Coast and want to come hang out…