Intel's long-anticipated 2-nanometer 18A manufacturing process is finally in production, powering the company's new Core Ultra Series 3 chips, code-named Panther Lake. The processors, unveiled at CES 2026, are targeted primarily at laptops and compact PCs and mark Intel's first mass-produced chips built on this advanced node. Read Entire Article
Razer just revealed a desktop AI waifu hologram that coaches you while gaming
We've seen several AI game coaches over the last 12 months. Project Ava was a concept Razer unveiled at CES 2025, when it called the AI an eSports coach. One year later, Ava has a more physical form. Read Entire Article
SanDisk is replacing WD Blue and Black SSDs with new Optimus models
The transition marks the unspooling of the 2015 merger between the two firms, when Western Digital paid $19 billion for SanDisk to combine hard drive and flash memory technologies under one roof. The 2023 corporate separation effectively undoes that union, dividing the business along technological lines: Western Digital for spinning......
Nvidia says its updated G-Sync Pulsar can make 360Hz monitors look like 1,000Hz
It's been two years since Nvidia unveiled G-Sync Pulsar. It combines variable refresh rate with adaptive backlight strobing, synchronizing the panel refresh, GPU output, and strobe timing to improve motion clarity across a wide range of frame rates. Read Entire Article
Windows 11 performs worse than older Windows versions in nearly every benchmark
YouTuber TrigrZolt ran several tests pitting six generations of Windows - from XP to Windows 11 - against one another to see which one can complete a range of tasks the fastest. Surprisingly, Windows 11 came dead last in most of the tests, including boot speed, battery life, app opening......
Trump says he’ll unleash Venezuela’s oil. But who wants it?
Shortly after launching a dramatic raid in which U.S. forces abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump justified the action with a promise to revive Venezuela’s moribund oil industry. The country has by far the largest claimed reserves of crude oil in the world, accounting for almost...
‘These guys are like family to me’: behind the scenes with Wolves’s kitman
Sean Ruiz and his team reveal the kit preparations and dressing room routines that make the players tick Sean Ruiz always leaves his training-ground office door wide open. He is no fan of enclosed spaces, but there is much more to it. The passing Wolves defender Yerson Mosquera spots Ruiz...
Lookman shines in Nigeria romp while Salah scores to help Egypt reach Afcon last eight
It’s not supposed to be like this. Nigeria, for at least two decades, have been a team that huffed and puffed, struggled with the weight of their own history and expectation, seemed always less than the sum of their parts. Even as they won the tournament in 2013, or got...
Manchester City weigh up move for Guéhi after Gvardiol breaks shinbone
Fee of around £40m needed to sign Palace centre-back Club say Croatian suffered tibial fracture in Chelsea game Manchester City are considering a move for Crystal Palace’s Marc Guéhi, with the south London club expected to demand around £40m for the defender who is out of contract in the close...
Trump, tactics and mid-season breaks: Liam Rosenior’s Guardian columns
The man widely expected to be the next Chelsea head coach once opined on a wide variety of topics in his Guardian column Coaching may be Liam Rosenior’s forte but, during his days as a Brighton defender, the man widely expected to be Chelsea’s new manager was also a pretty...