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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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Windows 8.1: Six Things Microsoft Got Right and Others That Are Still Missing
Not unlike previous releases of Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop OS, Windows 8 has faced a lot of scru...
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The Portable Workstation: Dell XPS 13 + 32 UltraSharp 4K Monitor
The Internet has afforded me the ability to work from home for more than 15 years. What's more, I ca...
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How to Use the Amazon Echo Spot and Echo Show as a Security Camera
Amazon Echo devices offer a multitude of functions, but those with built-in camera and screens have...
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Video Games Are Better The Second Time You Play Them
Everyone remembers the first time they played a really good video game. The constant surprises of Ha...
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50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
Guest author Ken Shirriff is a Silicon Valley-based computer enthusiast who enjoys reverse-engineeri...
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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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Windows 11 vs. Windows 10 Performance: Gaming and Applications
Windows 11 is coming and some of you have been trying out the leaked ISO as have multiple media outl...
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The Last Time Intel Tried to Make a Graphics Card
Will history repeat itself? Intel's setting out to make a name for itself in the discrete GPU space...
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Quality Assured: What It's Really Like To Test Games For A Living
There's an old commercial for Westwood College that's become something of a running joke in the vide...
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The Steam Machine: What Went Wrong
2012 was an important year for Valve. The company introduced Big Picture Mode - a Steam interface de...
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Everything You Need to Know About SFF PCs
Small form factor (SFF) PCs are a niche corner of the PC market that's becoming more accessible than...