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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State 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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5 Great Chrome Extensions You Should Install
With almost 60 percent share of the browser market, Chrome is around three times more popular than i...
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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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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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How We Test: CPU Gaming Benchmarks
This a topic that's often raised when we do our CPU gaming benchmarks. As you know, we perform a ton...
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iOS 7: Six Things Apple Got Right and Six That Are Still Missing
Despite how much people claim to like change, at the core we are creatures of habit. Just as we saw...
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The Ideal Smartphone for 2016
In 2015 I saw a ton of great smartphones hit the market; so many, in fact, that it's getting harder...
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Biggest Tech Fads of the Last Decade
A number of industries are well known for their fads: fashion, food, health. But technology has expe...
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The Homebrew Litecoin Mining Project
It's hard not to be intrigued by Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency devised by the mysteriou...
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AMD B450 or B550 Motherboard for Ryzen 5000 CPUs?
With the announcement of AMD's Ryzen 5000 desktop CPU series, we noticed a lot of chatter about B450...
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25 Years Later: A Brief Analysis of GPU Processing Efficiency
The first 3D graphics cards appeared 25 years ago and since then their power and complexity have gro...