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How to Open .HEIC iPhone Photos in Windows
Apple switched to High-Efficiency Image Container (HEIC) files as the default format for storing pho...
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Explainer: What Are Tensor Cores?
For the past three years Nvidia has been making graphics chips that feature extra cores, beyond the...
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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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A Brief History of In
These days, in-game advertising is the rule, not the exception. According to an Omdia survey, gaming...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: January 2022
It's that time of the month, time to assess the current GPU market and see what on earth is going on...
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King's Field Retrospective: Exploring the Roots of Elden Ring and Dark Souls
A little over 10 years ago, Demon's Souls launched on the PS3, an action RPG import from a little-kn...
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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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Anatomy of a CPU
The CPU is often called the brains of a computer, and just like the human brain, it consists of seve...
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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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Not Intel, Not AMD: Alternative CPU Architectures from Around the World
It's easy to think of the desktop CPU space as a duopoly: on the one hand you have Intel finally tra...
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The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet
In the realm of the Internet, few things carry as infamous a reputation as the Dark Web. Widely util...
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Patched Laptops: Testing Meltdown & Spectre Patches on Ultraportable
You've probably seen our coverage and tests over the past few weeks on the Meltdown and Spectre vuln...