Author: [email protected] (Jorge Jimenez)
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Nvidia really wants you to smell good
[ad_1] Need a gift for the gamer in your life? Why not have them smell like their favorite graphics card brand? Nvidia has made limited-edition gift box sets that come with one of two RTX 30-series gaming laptops, and, wait for it, body spray and shower gel. Can you smell that? No? That’s the point,…
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Dell wants to change how we repair and recycle laptops in the future
[ad_1] “We don’t throw away an entire car when we need new brakes or tires,” says Dell, and yet laptops are more or less designed to be junked when they’re out of date. The American tech company says it wants to change that, giving its laptops longer life cycles while reducing their carbon footprint. Luna…
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LG’s new OLED 240Hz monitors give 1440p gaming the respect it deserves
[ad_1] Here at PC Gamer, we feel strongly that 1440p (opens in new tab) is where PC gaming belongs, and no amount of 4K gaming propaganda will change that. So, you can imagine my intrigue when I first heard of LG’s claims of making not only the ‘world’s first’ 240Hz OLED gaming monitors but also…
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Microsoft has been working on tabbed browsing for almost 30 years
[ad_1] I love tabs. I can’t imagine a moment when I don’t have more than two dozen tabs open on a handful of Google Chrome browser windows. As it turns out, Microsoft had been testing out tabbed browsing since the early days of Windows 95, way before they became popular in web browsers. This video…
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Defying the wishes of many artists, Adobe will be selling AI-generated stock images
[ad_1] Axios (opens in new tab) reports that Adobe now allows images created using AI art tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to be sold on its stock image site, Adobe Stock (opens in new tab). As someone who regularly uses ridiculous stock imagery (opens in new tab) in their articles all the time this might…
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Crypto lenders are suffering as bitcoin miners are unable to pay back gigantic loans
[ad_1] Things don’t appear to be getting better for the cryptocurrency scene following the collapse of FTX (opens in new tab). According to a report from Bloomberg (opens in new tab), bitcoin mining companies are unable to pay back millions of dollars in loans, leaving their lenders stuck with thousands of mining rigs. Ethan Vera,…
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Intel says there will be one trillion transistors on chips by 2030
[ad_1] During the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (or IEDM (opens in new tab)), Intel claimed that by 2030, there would be circuits with transistor counts of a trillion, roughly ten times the number of transistors currently available on modern CPUs. At the meeting, Intel’s Components Research Group laid down its prediction for the future…
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The GTX 1650 is now the most commonly used GPU among Steam users
[ad_1] There’s a new top graphics card on the Steam charts these days. Unsurprisingly, it’s not the massively power-hungry and expensive RTX 4080 (opens in new tab). It’s Nvidia’s GTX 1650 that has overtaken the GTX 1060, which was in the top spot for years. According to Steam’s November hardware survey (opens in new tab),…
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These inflatable farm pods are straight outta Surviving Mars
[ad_1] Interstellar Lab’s Biopod looks like something out of Surviving Mars. It’s a climate and oxygen-controlled inflatable dome capable of housing plant life, making it what they call a “super-advanced autonomous greenhouse.” In an interview with Wired (opens in new tab), CEO of Interstellar Lab (opens in new tab), Barbara Belvisi, says the whole point…
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HyperX Procast microphone review | PC Gamer
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[ad_1] HyperX microphones have come a long way from the QuadCast launch in 2019. Since then, the company has made a mic to suit almost every type of content creator, which have been both impressive and affordable. This time around, HyperX is hoping to catch the attention of users looking for pro-level sound by releasing…