If you've built a gaming PC at any stage in your life, then chances are you've heard about games being CPU-bound or GPU-bound. Some games will benefit from CPU upgrades, and others will benefit from GPU upgrades, but why is that? Why is it that some games, no matter how much you tweak their settings, won't get any more performance? These are typically CPU-bound games, but there's more than meets the eye here.

If you're not familiar with PhantomOfEarth on X (formerly Twitter), you will be soon enough. This digital sleuth is always hot on the heels of Windows Beta branches and digs through the files to locate any hidden features that haven't been enabled yet. Now, they're back again with a new Windows 11 feature that's posed to make sharing files a lot easier.

Successful content creators need to be on top of their time management. With social media marketing, graphic design, and video editing, its difficult to know how to prioritize your time. Fortunately, there are many tried and tested tips you can benefit from using so that you don't feel bogged down and lose hours of your day.

With their superb data sharing, backups, and archiving facilities, Network-Attached Storage devices are perfect when you want to add extra TBs to your computing setup. But just like everything else in the tech landscape, not all NAS devices are built the same. If youre having a hard time choosing a pre-built storage server from the endless number of options in the NAS market, youve come to the right place. In this article, well go over some of the most essential features to look for when buying the NAS enclosure of your dreams.

Illustration: The Verge Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs that lets you quickly whip up visuals for your writeups. Essentially, it's a clip art maker that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s AI-generated art feature in its Office products.Google’s image generator in Docs is available to paid Workspace accounts that include the Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education, Education Premium, or Google One AI Premium add-ons.Those with the new feature can find it under Insert > Image > Help me create an image, which results in a “Create an image” sidebar where you can type in a description of what you’d like to make. It also provides a drop-down to select an art style with options such as “Photography” or... Continue reading…

How much you should pay for anything isn't an easy question to answer. Everyone has a different definition of "value" and "worth," but in the world of PC hardware, particularly for gaming CPUs, the answer is rarely "the most expensive CPU is the best."

Disney Though the remainder of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’s final season is set to hit the Disney Channel and Disney Plus some time next year, the studio is reportedly keeping one episode from airing because of its focus on a transgender character.Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has often touched on ideas about race, class, and issues like gentrification as it followed the adventures of genius 13-year-old Lunella Lafatette (Diamond White) and her pet dinosaur, Devil (Fred Tatasciore). But according to now-deleted social media posts from animators who worked on “The Gatekeeper” — an episode about Lunella and other members of her school’s volleyball team being terrorized by a transphobic adult — Disney has chosen to keep the episode from... Continue reading…

Image: ESPN ESPN is testing an AI-generated avatar with the Saturday college football show SEC Nation. Dubbed FACTS, it’s going to be “...promoting education and fun around sports analytics” with information drawn from ESPN Analytics, which includes data like the Football Power Index (FPI), player and team statistics, and game schedules. We haven’t seen the avatar in action, but it sounds like a bot-ified version of stats encyclopedia Howie Schwab, who was ESPN’s first statistician and eventually the star of a mid-2000s game show, Stump the Schwab.ESPN has already brought generative AI to its website with AI-written game recaps. FACTS is still in development, and there’s no word on when it could make its first appearance on the network. FACTS... Continue reading…

While shopping for a great new laptop, you might have noticed that among the sea of clamshells and convertibles, most of them are pretty similar when you compare the specs sheet. That's because, for the longest time, there were three companies making the CPUs and GPUs inside laptops: AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. Now, we also have Arm-powered laptops running Windows, and every MacBook is also running Arm-based chips.

Microsoft Office is still the go-to productivity suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. You can get it as a downloadable software package or as the cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite. But if youre looking for alternatives for your new laptop, whether because its too pricey or you want something that doesnt require a Microsoft account, there are plenty of options out there. The best Office alternative, though, isnt LibreOffice or Google Workspace its MobiOffice (formerly OfficeSuite). It offers an interface thats almost identical to Microsoft Office, includes all the tools you need, and comes at a much lower price.

Image: Tesla Robin Zeng, the founder of the world’s largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology “is going to fail and never be successful.” Zeng, the chairman of China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, “We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He was silent. He doesn’t know how to make a battery.”Tesla’s “tabless” 4680 cells, which are used in some of its cars, including the Cybertruck, are supposed to have “five times” more energy capacity, and the company announced in September it had produced 100 million of them. A recent report by The Information said Musk had given the team working on the batteries an end of the year deadline... Continue reading…

Encryption is one of the best ways to prevent unauthorized access to your important data. Whether it's your work laptop, personal laptop, or even home desktop, encrypting your storage drive can make it next to impossible for someone to view your sensitive information by stealing your device or drive, or by gaining access to it virtually.