In 2022-2023, AI-powered PCs made quite a splash with their automatic generation and built-in virtual assistants. Those features are cool, sure, but they’re a little gimmicky at first blush. That said, amid the hype, the…
I’m a smart home expert. Writing about smart home technology, smart devices, and voice assistants is my job. Yet, I don’t remember the last time I actually spoke with Alexa. Just to be clear, I…
The Microsoft Excel World Championship handed the 2024 trophy to a beaming, bearded Canadian: Michael Jarman, whose spreadsheet skills topped all others in a heated competition in Las Vegas this week. Jarman, a modelling director…
You may know that biochemist David Baker shares the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry with two researchers from Google’s DeepMind. But a video game helped get them there, and you can still play — and…
Techniques drawn from physics The win is already turning heads on social media because it seems unusual that research in a computer science field like machine learning might win a Nobel Prize for physics. “And…
If you, like me, skim through the technology headlines most days, then you’ve probably been bombarded with what feels like every other headline featuring some permutation of artificial intelligence and how it’s going to change…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent 20Gbps performance Super-slim, trim profile 5-year warranty Cons Slower writing 48GB of files and folders than its SL600 cousin. Our Verdict If what you seek is a fast,…
For the launch of Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG Starfield, AMD made a customized version of its flagship GPU, the fire-breathing Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Only 500 of these limited edition cards were made, and you can’t…
Just weeks after a judge found Apple at fault in its patent case with Masimo, forcing the company to disable the blood-oxygen sensor on new units, Apple got some good news in a separate Apple…