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If you want the world’s fastest gaming monitor, AOC may well have made it. The new 27-inch QHD monitor can do 500 Hz at 1440, or up to 1,000 Hz at 1080p, making it the monitor with the highest refresh rate in the world. Typically the best gaming monitors use …

OpenAI’s big announcement Monday morning is GPT-4o, a faster, multimodal successor to its famed ChatGPT. The new model uses existing large language model (LLM) infrastructure to respond to audio, visuals, and text in real time, both verbally and on-screen. While ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users will have full access to …

AMD has officially added a new flagship RDNA 3 mobile GPU to its stable. The Radeon RX 7900M is the world’s first chiplet-based mobile GPU—and its arrival is a bit of a surprise, as there were no indications AMD would battle Nvidia for mobile supremacy in this hardware generation. The …

Now that summer has officially arrived, Valve Software has updated its Steam survey to give us an idea of what our fellow gamers use in their rigs. The new survey results are dated July 2023 and include the first appearance of several new GPUs. The most notable debut is the …

Phone batteries may have peaked. We’ve been hovering around the 5,000mAh mark in Android phones for years, and there’s no magical technology on the horizon to increase that. High charging speeds are almost as good, and that’s increasing by leaps and bounds with devices like the new OnePlus 11. The …

A new startup called Clay, backed by $8 million in seed funding, has built a system designed to help you be more thoughtful with the people in your life, which operates somewhat like a personal CRM. With Clay, you build a collection of the people you meet by connecting your …

  It’s not uncommon for the latest computer hardware to be in short supply, but the pandemic has pushed everything into overdrive. Being stuck inside for months on end has led to an explosion of interest in gaming, and that has made new high-end hardware like the AMD Ryzen 5000 …

It’s CES 2021, and although we’re not live from Las Vegas, there’s plenty that companies want to share with us in digital form. Take Panasonic’s new wireless phone charger for the car, which forgoes in-place charging coils for mobile ones. To make clear what I mean by that — this …

When it comes to applied material science, it’s hard to beat NASA. Their solid-state wizards have been working on multiple ambitious projects, including silicon dioxide wafers and about a dozen kinds of ceramic composites. Now some folks at the JPL have debuted a new kind of engineered metallic fabric that …

When Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 Ti at the end of February, it short-circuited its own highest-end product, the 6-month old Nvidia Titan X, thanks to higher clocks and a much lower price tag ($700, compared with $1,200). Now, Nvidia is rectifying that issue with a full-fat GP102 part — …