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Forward-looking: The Chips Act was born out of a desire to give the US economy a boost following the pandemic and to improve its competitiveness profile on the global stage. Little did its advocates know how successful it would prove to be. Thanks to the investments, by 2030, the US will probably produce around 20% […]

What just happened? Owners of Intel’s latest 13th-gen Raptor Lake or 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors have been complaining about instability issues for a while. Now, the chip giant is finally shedding some light on what’s causing the problems. According to a leaked message seemingly intended for motherboard manufacturers, which was obtained by Igor’s Lab,

What just happened? Ring, the smart home security company owned by Amazon, found itself in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission back in 2023 over some serious privacy missteps. Now, over twelve months later, the commission is sending $5.6 million in refunds to customers as part of the settlement Ring agreed to last year.

The big picture: Customers are clamoring for Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs, but the chipmaker is facing a bottleneck in wafer-level assembly at the back end. It’s a significant problem – dire enough that Intel is projecting flat revenues for the second quarter, partly due to this constraint. Intel is moving swiftly to expand capabilities in

Why it matters: Applying thermal paste is one of those PC building tasks that sounds simple in theory but can be a real pain in practice. You can try to be as careful as possible when spreading that little dollop of goo evenly across the CPU’s heat spreader, but one wrong move and you end

It’s not your imagination: Google Search has gotten progressively worse over the years and at least one study confirms it. But until now most of us believed this was due to some corporate strategy hatched in a room full of executives. Not so, writes Edward Zitron, pointing the finger at Prabhakar Raghavan, current senior VP

TL;DR: The Pentagon’s mad scientists have been cooking up a beast of an unmanned combat vehicle, and it just took a major step forward. DARPA recently put its 12-ton RACER Heavy Platform (RHP) autonomous tank through a fresh round of testing out in the wild. For those not in the know, DARPA has been working

Why it matters: Advanced AI capabilities generally require massive cloud-hosted models with billions or even trillions of parameters. But Microsoft is challenging that with the Phi-3 Mini, a pint-sized AI powerhouse that can run on your phone or laptop while delivering performance rivaling some of the biggest language models out there. Weighing in at just

80 The Dell XPS 14 is a looker, but even though it can offer respectable performance, it comes at such a high cost above competent — and often faster — competitors that there’s little reason to consider it. By PCWorld on April 26, 2024 84 Dell’s XPS 14 is a beautiful and powerful MacBook Pro

What is it? Escape from Tarkov is a first-person survival shooter in the vein of multiplayer games like Arma 3 and Day Z. Players spawn on one side of a map with an extraction point on the other. They must fight against NPCs and other players to escape the map. Players can go it solo