Zak Killian

The beauty of the PC platform is its backward compatibility. The whole reason that x86 and Windows have survived as long as they have is because they have largely preserved compatibility with old software. “Nuts to that,” says NVIDIA, who has officially ended support for GPU-accelerated PhysX and CUDA on 32-bit applications with the release of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. It’s specifically the “Blackwell” architecture; 32-bit applications that use PhysX or CUDA simply

AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ Powered ROG Flow Z13: Starting At $2,299.99Our first AMD Strix Halo-based machine isn’t flawless, but it impresses in many ways, including content creation and gaming performance, AI horsepower, style and efficiency. Solid All-Around Performance Eye-Catching Stylish Looks Surprisingly Good Keyboard Long Productivity Battery Life Gorgeous 180Hz Display Tedious ASUS Software Vendor-Restricted Driver Updates Actually Quite Heavy For Its Size You could be forgiven for thinking the ROG Flow Z13 is just

If you read this website regularly—or even if this is your first time here—it’s almost a given that you use or have used Windows Notepad at some point. It is one of the most basic text editors possible—or at least, it used to be. Microsoft has been slowly bloating it with additional features, some of dubious value, but none as questionable as the new AI-powered “Rewrite” feature. If you want to try Rewrite in Notepad,

Despite persistent rumors that Intel’s discrete GPU ambitions are dead in the water, a new rumor suggests otherwise. According to well-known leaker Raichu, Intel’s upcoming third-generation Arc “Celestial” GPU is still in the works and may be built on Intel’s own process technology, rather than relying on TSMC. The rumor also states that Celestial will use a revision of the Xe3 architecture, dubbed “Xe3P,” rather than the standard Xe3 design expected in Intel’s upcoming “Panther

So the Superbowl is over and Valentine’s has passed. Did you watch a movie with your sweetie? How was the watch party for the big game? If either event got you thinking that it’s time to upgrade your TV viewing experience, well, you’re in luck, because we’ve discovered a whole pile of big-screen 4K smart TVs on deep discounts this weekend. Up top there is the Hisense 75U7N, a 75″ “ULED” smart TV with a

SanDisk just held its first Investor Day since being spun off from Western Digital, and while most of the event was the usual financial talk, the company also gave a glimpse into its R&D priorities. Like nearly every tech company right now, SanDisk is zeroing in on AI, and specifically, the growing memory capacity problem in AI processing. The rise of massive AI models has put unprecedented strain on GPU memory, and as a memory

A new FromSoftware game is plenty of cause to get hardcore gamers hyped, even if it’s a spin-off title like Elden Ring Nightreign. Unsurprisingly, the response to the call for participants in the pre-release “Network Test” for the game was met with a tsunami of applicants. Only the favored few who were awarded an access key were allowed to play, but it turns out that a huge portion of even those selected may not have

Our post on Tuesday about melting 12V-2X6 connectors on RTX 5090 GPUs concluded with a grim prediction that we could see more melting power plugs on GeForce graphics cards. Well, you already know from the headline, but just to say it plainly — more power connectors are melting. Another GeForce RTX 5090 case has surfaced, but it seems like that fellow was foolishly mixing modular PSU cables, so the less said about that situation, the

A Danish Redditor posted up a thread last night called “So this just happened” with a picture of his scorched Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor. You can clearly see the heat damage to the bottom of the CPU; some of the landings have come off of the chip and melded with the LGA socket. The user says he simply “watching some [TV] series” when his machine shut off. The user, known as /u/t0pli, had his shiny

Well, not your thoughts, probably, but Meta has unveiled a new AI-powered brain scanner that can apparently translate thoughts into text. That’s according to the company itself, which posted two research papers and a blog about it. The system, which relies on non-invasive brain recordings, represents a major milestone in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. However, it’s not something you’ll be wearing as a headset anytime soon. Meta’s work in this space dates back to at