Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast'
Trace back The 1980s computer produces surprisingly gorgeous ray-traced results, but be prepared to measure performance by hour rather than second.
The plucky Raspberry Pi 5 gets the full liquid treatment with this slightly absurd water cooling kit
News You need to have a pretty good reason to want to liquid cool a Raspberry Pi.
Elon Musk's Neuralink has stuck a device in someone's brain and he's already talking up its theoretical uses: 'Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist'
News Transhumanism can wait. For now, Neuralink's first human patient is "recovering well".
MSI's new Claw handheld goes head to head with Lenovo and Asus at $700
News Though you only get the pared back Intel Meteor Lake chip for that money.
Best power supply for PC gaming in 2024
Power play Watt's the best power supply unit for PC gaming? Best PSU puns, FTW!
The PC's greatest nemesis was born 40 years ago today
News The Apple Macintosh was unveiled on this day 40 years ago, but ignoring the PC/Mac feud it's an awesome piece of tech worth celebrating.
'The key thing is that the good guys have better AIs than the bad guys' says Microsoft founder Bill Gates on the threat from artificial intelligence
News 'If the good guys' cyber defence AI is as good or better than the bad guys' cyber attack AI, then that's a good situation.'
Secretlab's launching a slightly cheaper version of the excellent Titan Evo, starting at $449
News The Titan Lite is stripped of a couple features to shave a modicum of expense.
Lenovo Legion Go review
On the Go A handheld gaming PC made bigger, which makes sense once you detach the controllers and sit back.
Disney looks to have figured out a limitless VR floor prototype that's a careful step towards a real-world holodeck
News They call it the HoloTile and it's up and running over at Disney Research.
GitHub has a copy of every open source project in its database during 2020 located deep inside a frozen mine
News Humans may go, but open source lives forever.
The best PC cases in 2024: These are the chassis I'd use for my next gaming builds
Best Case You'll want the best PC case if you're building your perfect gaming PC.
Low-profile memory module headed to laptops might be destined for desktops too
News The CAMM2 memory module standard would effectively replace 'sticks' of RAM in laptops. Maybe some desktops, too.
After a deluge of AI-powered products CES 2024 is making it tougher than ever to define what AI actually is
AI, eh? Algorithms, automation, and smart features—what does it really mean to have a product powered by AI?
I just played Lies of P on Samsung's glasses-free 3D gaming monitor—and it definitely beats a 3D TV
CES 2024 Lies of P looks darn good in 3D.
I saw many gaming laptops at CES 2024 but the redesigned Zephyrus G14 is my pick of the bunch
CES 2024 A change worth making.
AMD believes it has the upper hand over Nvidia in upscaling thanks to driver-based frame gen: 'they're probably going to need to do something similar'
CES 2024 As Nvidia and AMD continue to trade blows, AMD's Aaron Steinman thinks Nvidia may need to change tack.
MSI built its own version of a Founders Edition for the RTX 4080 Super and it's just as hilariously large
CES 2024 MSI is borrowing the best bits of Nvidia's FE design.
Motherboards with hidden connectors are shaping up to be one of few fun concepts that make it mainstream
CES 2024 Us PC gamers might just be vain enough to make these tidy and clean motherboards a thing.
Melted GPU power connectors shouldn't be something to worry about with these new PSUs and connectors at CES 2024
CES 2024 Let's hope these solve the melty-connector problem once and for all.
I don't know whether to be afraid or impressed by this PCIe 5.0 SSD with a tiny liquid cooler attached
CES 2024 Friggin' SSDs with friggin' liquid coolers.
I spoke to an Nvidia AI-powered NPC about his ramen and his responses were frighteningly good
CES 2024 Ramen, chit chat and AI-powered people.
