Category: Hardware


  • Cyberpunk 2077 Mac benchmarks show most Apple Silicon can run the game at over 30 FPS on medium settings — results vary from a smooth 130+ FPS to a unplayable 24 FPS

    FPS benchmarks 1920×1200, Medium Preset, MetalFX Balanced 1920×1200, Ultra Preset, MetalFX Balanced 1920×1200, Ray Tracing: Medium, MetalFX Performance 2500×1600, Medium Preset, MetalFX Balanced 2500×1600, Ultra Preset, MetalFX Balanced 2500×1600, Ray Tracing: Medium, MetalFX Performance M4 Max (14 CPU + 32 GPU), 36GB – MBP14 132.35 96.69 70.65 91.70 63.23 47.51 M3 Max (14 CPU +…

  • I'm Rethinking Amusement Park Rides for Good After Watching Netflix's 'Critical' Docuseries

    Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 21, the new original docuseries Critical: Between Life and Death made a big impression on viewers, ranking No. 7 in the platform’s most-watched shows. While medical shows — including series like The Pitt, Pulse and…

  • Microsoft offers mysterious Windows 11 upgrade on incompatible PCs

    So many people haven’t been able to upgrade their older Windows computers to Windows 11 because of the latter’s TPM 2.0 hardware requirement. (Learn more about why you need TPM 2.0 for Windows 11, why TPM 2.0 makes PCs better, and why Microsoft is adamant about not letting older PCs without TPM 2.0 run Windows…

  • Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 just came out and you can already save $50

    The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Smartwatch is on sale starting at $299.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to upgrade an older Android smartwatch, or want to give wearables a try for the first time, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is a compelling choice. It has a new design, lets you access Google’s Gemini AI from your…

  • YouTube has started testing a new collaboration feature, similar to Instagram’s and TikTok’s. A Google employee explained on YouTube Help that it will allow creators to add collaborators to a video so that they can be recommended to each other’s audiences. The test is only available to a small group of creators for now, but…

  • The enforcer that could break up Apple and Google is facing upheaval

    The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top deputies to Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater were fired earlier this week for what a DOJ official would only explain as “insubordination”…

  • The ‘Epstein files’ implosion bleeds into foreign policy

    While the summer doldrums have hit Washington, the MAGA influencers can never truly go on vacation, especially if they’ve spent their careers promising to reveal the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. Although their politicians are now in power, they’re getting stonewalled, and in the absence of juicy “Epstein files” to feed to their audiences, a new…

  • Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

    For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who…

  • 9 creative ways to use ChatGPT that you probably haven’t tried yet

    You might already be one of the millions around the world using ChatGPT to help out with mundane tasks and automate menial chores. But ChatGPT is capable of much more than just answers and automations. Indeed, ChatGPT can actually be fun! With some creative prompting, you can use ChatGPT for all kinds of out-of-the-box stuff—social…

  • You Should Download iOS 18.6 Now to Fix This Zero-Day Flaw

    Apple released iOS 18.6 on July 29, ahead of the company’s release of iOS 26 this fall. While the next major iOS update will bring Liquid Glass and more to your iPhone, iOS 18.6 doesn’t change much on your device. Instead of new features, the update is filled with about two dozen bug and security fixes, including a…