Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Scientists create a face for robots out of 'cultured human cells' and it's something that I wish I could unsee now
news That's not a smile, it's a grimace, cursing its existence and longing for the silence of dark eternity.
Ever wanted to rip open an NFC travel card to see how it all works? One engineer has done just that and it's way cooler than you'd think
news Compared to CPUs and GPUs, the 'processor' used is so small that it honestly beggars belief.
Grab your popcorn as Microsoft lands in hot water again with the EU for its 'insufficient' changes to how it bundles Teams
news There's a potential fine of up to $20 billion if the Commission finds Microsoft guilty of breaching antitrust laws.
MSI is using cut-down RTX 4090 GPUs in at least one of its RTX 4070 Ti Super models, with a higher TGP but no extra performance
news No amount of BIOS hacks will turn it back into a full-blown RTX 4090, though.
Corsair M75 Wireless gaming mouse review
Ambidextrous delight Righties and lefties rejoice! A wireless gaming mouse that's genuinely suitable for any hand.
'Devastating loss': Digital lending library, Internet Archive, removes 500,000 books after being sued by publishers
new It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books.
LG brings tandem OLED panels to laptops, claiming three times the brightness and double the lifespan of current self-emissive screens
news The new display is also claimed to be 40% thinner, 28% lighter, and up to 40% lower power consumption than existing OLED panels. Crikey.
The first technical deep dive of the Zen 5 architecture is here, with preliminary benchmarks supporting AMD's IPC claims
news It looks like AMD's new laptop cores are going to be quite a bit less capable than their desktop counterparts, though.
Sad times: The big Shadow of the Erdtree Elden Ring patch is still tarnished with micro-stutter. And it's not always that micro
Scarlet Stutter The persistent stutter issue is elusive, and some systems won't see it at all, but Elden Ring on at least one of my testing PC is still full of scarlet rot.
Hackers claim to have carried off an enormous data heist on AMD, selling info on employee and customer information, future products and specs
news Remember folks, nothing is 100% secure when you store it via a remote service.
Intel clarifies what BIOS settings 13th/14th Gen CPUs should be used for power and current
news No fix for the instability issue yet but using the right settings will certainly help.
XFX's new Magnetic Air graphics cards let you hot-swap fans, solving the apparent plague of fan hub axle separation. What do you mean you've never heard of it?
news Forget the fancy fans, though, as XFX is using PTM7950 for the thermal interface. Praise be!
This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia
news Fan-favourite Karlach looks a tad pixel-y but it's a brilliant achievement.
Intel found a bug in its high-end CPU microcode is 'potentially contributing to instability' though 'is not the root cause' of those long-reported game crashes
news Our advice is to stick to using the default power and current settings until a complete fix is found.
Asus agrees to a whole raft of US warranty service improvements after it meets with Gamers Nexus
news Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath, so a very old saying goes.
Microsoft chickens out of rolling out Recall to all Copilot+ PCs, choosing instead to push the all-seeing AI tool out to Windows Insiders first
news So, not a total recall of Recall, then. Shame.
Retesting Ghost of Tsushima with a fresh Arc A770 shows that Intel has a mountain to climb to compete against AMD and Nvidia
Ghost of Arc But at least the latest game patch and AMD drivers mean RDNA 3 owners can fully enjoy the game now.
Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm over technology licences stop Copilot+ PCs from really taking off?
news Nearly two years on and there's still no sign of the two companies coming to an agreement.
MediaTek is aiming to do a Qualcomm and make Arm chips for Copilot+ PCs, targeting a 2025 release
news But does this mean the Nvidia collaboration is still on or has that gone the way of the dodo?
AMD's new Ryzen AI laptop chips aren't officially supported on Windows 10, thanks to its NPU and Copilot+
news But don't worry, Ryzen AI laptops should still run that operating system perfectly fine.
Fresh rumours claim Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell cards won't have a wider memory bus or more VRAM—apart from the RTX 5090
news Are we reaching the limits of GPU innovation or is it just a lack of serious competition? Place your bets now, folks.
Ryzen 9000 X3D chips could be with us by September, just three months after AMD's Zen 5 launch
news Only one source claiming this right now but Zen 5 appeared sooner than we expected, too.
Microsoft makes Recall an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
news Better security has been added too but does that matter when you now have the option to ignore a feature nobody asked for?
