Author: Nick Evanson

With generative AI being a key feature of all its new software and hardware projects, it should be no surprise that Microsoft has been developing its own machine learning models. VASA-1 is one such example, where a single image of a person and an audio track can be converted into a convincing video clip of…

Product reviews are the staple far of any tech publication or channel. Visitors expect them to be entertaining but also informative, and the vast majority of folks always don’t want things sugar-coated or misleading. They want the truth, no matter how painful it is, but is honesty really damaging to the company that made the…

It won’t have escaped your notice that Intel has been in the news a lot recently, either talking about its race to be at the cutting edge of chip manufacturing, getting billions of dollars from the US administration, or having a few issues with its high-end CPUs running the latest games. It’s certainly been very…

Known for offering bags of storage in a teeny tiny format, SD cards have been pretty slow at piling on the gigabytes over the years, compared to HDDs, SSDs, and other storage formats. Western Digital plans to step things up a notch or two, though, stating that it expects to launch 4TB models in its…

The new Intel CPU socket, set to house the upcoming Arrow Lake desktop processors, has been unveiled. In a bit of a weird way. It’s going to be the socket for desktop versions of the Meteor Lake chip architecture, which are only going to appear in the boring embedded space. At this year’s Embedded World…

Let’s say you were in the market for a new PC, but you couldn’t afford to spend more than $700. You could go down the second hand route, though the lack of any warranties may well put you off. Lots of people go for a low-cost desktop PC with an APU—a CPU that has a…

You’ve probably seen posts on social media platforms before that go along the lines of ‘I ordered this product from that company, but they sent me something else.’ Sometimes the tales are genuine, sometimes it’s made up to garner attention, but it rarely goes any further than that. But when one Reddit user claimed that…

Graphics card prices have been a contentious issue these past few years, with PC gamers having to cough up increasingly more money for a new GPU, thanks to inflation, fabrication cost rises, inventory restrictions, and a general lack of competition in the market.  Reports from China claim that Nvidia’s add-in board (AIB) partners are set…

The second largest chip manufacturer in the world, Samsung, has announced its forecast for the company’s first quarter results of 2024. While it’s only expecting a reasonable 8% increase in sales, compared to this time last year, operating profits are expected to improve by more than 900%—from a mere half a billion dollars up to…