Category: Technology

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms have reshaped elite play and preparation, so top humans now use a combination of engines, surprise, and psychology to keep classical chess......

The product is an active optical cable (AOC) for HDMI. Instead of relying solely on copper, it carries most of its signal over fiber-optic strands. Inside the cable, HDMI electrical signals are converted into optical signals for the journey between the two ends, then converted back to electrical signals at......

The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 doubles down on AMD's V-Cache formula by equipping each of its two CCDs with stacked cache memory. The design results in a massive 208MB of total cache, a configuration that AMD claims can yield 5% to 10% faster performance in select rendering and content creation workloads......

YouTuber ETA Prime recently explained how installing copper plating over the MacBook Neo's CPU and connecting an external thermoelectric cooler can substantially enhance gaming performance. Furthermore, the modifications are relatively easy, requiring minimal disassembly. Read Entire Article

The idea came from social media. Catapano posted a short Instagram clip of himself slapping his MacBook, complete with sound effects and a mock groan. When the clip unexpectedly went viral, he decided to turn the gag into an app. Read Entire Article

Samsung's newly introduced QuantumBlack technology adds a film to the company's QD-OLED panels, enhancing immersion and reducing reflections from external light sources. The South Korean company said QuantumBlack improves both reflection control and surface hardness, and it will become a standard feature on all QD-OLED monitors expected to launch in...

In a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Dolby accuses Snap of infringing four video compression patents through Snapchat's use of both HEVC and AV1. The filing argues that AV1 implementations incorporate proprietary inventions that Dolby never licensed on royalty-free terms and that the......

Counterfeit SSDs usually look real to the untrained eye until their performance or capacity falls far short of the device's specs. However, Japanese outlet Akiba PC Hotline recently discovered a specimen that matches the genuine article in speed and storage. Read Entire Article

Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus pushes beyond the 250K Plus with more cores and cache for $300. It costs more, but could be a strong value for high-end productivity workloads. Read Entire Article

The announcement came this week in a blog post detailing Google's migration plan to post-quantum cryptography, a new generation of algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. Read Entire Article