PC components explained: learn what each part does, their functions, and how CPU, GPU, storage, and cooling impact performance and longevity.

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has gone through the roof. In July 2025, OpenAI reported that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, received over 2.5 billion ...

Prices on memory and solid state storage have surged globally, with some products selling for double or more in South Africa than they were two months ago. The increases are due to a supply shortage ...

Being a consumer has been challenging over the past few years. Between a global pandemic and sweeping tariffs, wallets have taken repeated hits — but for PC hobbyists right now, it might actually be ...

Jeep and Ford factories are paused due to aluminum shortages and a New York plant fire, affecting thousands of workers. Semiconductor and rare-earth material disruptions, compounded by geopolitical ...

Today’s PCs cost more than they ever did. While you can thank President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs for the most recent price spikes, there are even more headaches on the way. The next wave ...

Jodie Turner-Smith just short-circuited the red carpet. The actress brought new meaning to the term “wearable technology” at the “Tron: Ares” premiere in Paris Wednesday night, wearing a jaw-dropping ...

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...

I was wondering whether you had ever seen results during differentiable rendering where there are tiny degenerate output components, and what you had did to remove them? Since they are so small, ...

Abstract: This article presents a new nonisolated buck-boost dc–dc converter with a single bipolar output. The proposed converter incorporates a two-switch impedance network that facilitates ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. factory production edged up in June as a decline in motor vehicle output was offset by gains elsewhere, though manufacturing remains constrained by tariffs on imports.

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...