Earlier this month, Google and the Janelia Research Campus released the blueprints to a fruit fly's brain. Researchers probably expected people to study the brain, learn about how the neurons worked, and further their interest in neuroscience, but the internet instead played Bad Apple on its neurons and stuffed several of them into The Amazing Digital Circus. You know, the things the internet tends to do with significant scientific findings.

Filling all four slots on a motherboard always feels right, especially when you're building a high-end PC. After all, you'd want the lighting from your RGB memory to fill the entire DIMM area instead of leaving half the slots empty. I have to admit it's one reason I bought a 4x16GB kit when I built my AM4 PC in 2020. And even if you couldn't care less about aesthetics, simply adding another pair of identical sticks whenever you need more memory just makes sense when you have two free slots.

You're comparing routers late at night, and one box says BE19000. It looks like a speed. It looks like your speed, the one your laptop will hit once the new router is plugged in.

This mossy green looks great, but the 9 Pro Max is also launching in black and silver. | Image: Honor Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery.This is Honor's first flagship launch - Robot Phone aside - since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera island is Arri-inspired, drawing from the "three-lens turret" design first introduced in 1937's Arriflex 35, complete with a knurled texture around the main lens.Arri has played a part in the camera itself, contributing the ability to shoot in Arri LogC3, together with 14 preset Arri Look LUTs, access to Arri's wider library o …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you were to ask me what game or game series I've sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn't like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball. It's not graphically impressive. It's not a blast of simple arcade fun. It is basically a spreadsheet pretending to be a video game. It's fantasy baseball, but without having to wait six months to see how disappointing that sleeper draft pick will be, because you can plow through an entire season in as little as a few hours.You can play individual games and dig in …Read the full story at The Verge.

I hit Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V more times in a day than I realize. Windows' Win + V shortcut makes it easy to access my clipboard history, but it only keeps the latest 25 items. That limit started becoming frustrating when I was working with dozens of snippets, links, screenshots, and pieces of text throughout the day. I didn't want to keep copying something just because I had pushed it out of my clipboard history. So I decided to try a few open-source alternatives and use them during my normal work.

One thing I've realized, beyond the fact that AI tools are only getting more expensive by the day, is that every LLM has different strengths. One might be excellent at frontend work, while another is far better at debugging, reasoning through a messy codebase, or handling a completely different kind of task. Beyond code, a model might be great at reasoning but fall short when it comes to writing, research, or working with large amounts of context.

When Nvidia announced DLSS 5 earlier this year, I thought this might finally be the feature that would make me regret not upgrading to the RTX 5090 sooner when prices were reasonable. I was already pretty happy with my RTX 4090, so paying $2,000+ for a GPU that improved my frame rates by nearly 30% always felt like a tough pill to swallow. But Nvidia's decision to call a neural rendering feature that has nothing to do with upscaling "DLSS 5" made it seem like a much bigger deal, especially with how it transformed lighting, skin texture, and other surface details in its demos.

In any discussion that fixates around how Windows is hoarding your system's resources, memory compression is a recurring item. On the internet, it often shows up in a list of features you can disable to gain some performance, or free up some RAM in an increasingly memory-impoverished economy.

GPUs are already way too expensive these days, so I have a hard time recommending a premium aftermarket model to anyone. At this point, I'd just say get the cheapest model of the GPU you want and call it a day. But not everyone wants to settle for the bare minimum, especially when you're spending thousands on an RTX 5080 or 5090. The problem is, aftermarket models of high-end GPUs cost hundreds of dollars on top of the FE's MSRP, and that's when you start questioning what you're actually getting for the premium.

Windows 11 made a bold move with its system requirements and pushed a huge section of legacy hardware into the past. The lack of TPM chips, high baseline memory requirements, and other BIOS features like Secure Boot weren't available on hardware released a decade ago. Surely you can upgrade some elements like memory and storage, but Windows 11 requirements are way more complex than that.

I love e-ink displays, and Boox has been spoiling us with some excellent releases recently. If you haven't been keeping up to date with your Boox news, the company recently showed off three devices, all of which use e-ink technology but handle different use cases.