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Why Incognito Mode and Private Browsing are Not Private
Are you expecting to have complete privacy when you enable incognito mode or private browsing within...
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How CPUs are Designed and Built
We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is goi...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Optical Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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Explainer: What is SSD Trimming?
Have you ever noticed when you go into Windows to optimize your storage drives, it says retrim for S...
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How USB Works: From 'Plug and Pray' to Being Everywhere
For a quarter of a century, the USB port has been a faithful old friend. Connecting and powering our...
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What's Thermal Throttling and How to Prevent It
Heat is an inevitable byproduct of work. It's generated when you start a car's engine, go for a bris...
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Cyrix: Gone But Not Forgotten
Most of you are no doubt familiar with Intel and AMD, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and possibly even...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: March 2022
It's been one year since we've been tracking GPU prices, and honestly we were not hoping to be here...
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DOOM Eternal Tested on Low
Earlier this week we benchmarked Doom Eternal extensively, but only using modern GPUs. Seeing that t...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Vertex Processing
In this first part of our deeper look at 3D game rendering, we'll be focusing entirely on the vertex...
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Anatomy of a Graphics Card
Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of pow...
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Why You Can't Buy Books from the Kindle app on iPhone or iPad in 2018
Spoiler alert:It's the same reason you couldn't in 2017 or previous years for that matter.Apple user...