Author: Andy Edser

Boston Dynamics’ Spot has been around for a while now, and in that time we’ve seen the four-legged robot dance to music, be confused by doors, and inspire various levels of existential dread in regards to the inevitable robot uprising to come. This week, as part of “International Dance Day” (I missed that one, didn’t…

The Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset has had something of a rough ride since its release. While the engineering involved is impressive, the $3,499 price tag in combination with some early adopter woes seems to have taken some of the shine off of a device that Apple CEO Tim Cook described as “the beginning…

We’re always on the hunt for hardware deals here at PC Gamer, but this might be a bit much even by our standards. The US General Services administration is currently auctioning off a decommissioned 5.34 petaflop supercomputer, and although the starting price was a mere $2,500, the top bid is currently $280,085. A bargain, we…

Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games. I didn’t really know how they worked, and I wasn’t very good, but there a hardware and gaming enthusiast was born. Now Microsoft has released the source code…

While Intel has been busy making bets on its 18A node as part of its accelerated roadmap towards chip making dominance, TSMC appears to have been beavering away in the background to undercut it.  It’s just announced its own “angstrom-class” process, A16, which thanks to its backside power delivery implementation looks set to not only…

I’ve sometimes toyed with the idea of building a wall display of dead hardware, so I can live out my fantasies of a house covered in futuristic greebles. This Japanese Gacha machine might be the cheapest way of getting hold of a large number of borked chips for my project, as it dispenses them for…

The rise of AI has many wide-ranging implications for the future of the human race, but it’s perhaps the potential military uses that raise the biggest causes for concern. It seems we’re now starting to see what an AI versus human battle might look like, at least in the skies above us, as the US…

Sometimes I feel a pang of sympathy for Twitter’s AI chatbot, Grok. Not only has it been cursed with perhaps the most unflattering name one could bestow upon an AI chatbot, but it’s had a bit of a rough time of it since release. In no small part because it’s been inextricably tied to Elon…

I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t bother with HDR. While the effect can look spectacular in the right game and on the right monitor, anyone who’s regularly tried to use the feature on PC over the years will grump and grumble about manually turning it on and off, why in some games it works…