Latest articles by James Bentley
You can now apply DLSS 5 to your entire desktop with a free app and it even works with RTX 30-series cards
News That includes doing the neural rendering dance all over videos and photos.
After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
News Still better than some of my teammates.
Check out this wild custom PC build with actual spinning parts that took four months to make [updated with corrected attribution]
News Yes, that's a PSU spinning in the middle.
Ex-Anthropic researcher argues AI progress 'could kill us all by the end of the decade' and 'progress is not slowing'
News So nothing to worry about, then?
Gaming monitors are one of the only good things about PC hardware right now, but one niche feature is underloved
Seeing double. Doubling your refresh rate with just a few clicks? Yes please.
Owner of nearly decade-old Dell laptop reportedly wore through the wrist rest and is 'being stabbed by carbon fibers'
News Ouch.
This video of a power supply blowing up shows why you should never cheap out on your PSU
News New fear unlocked.
Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn't in the clear yet
News Linux gamers stay winning (unless you ask them to fix their audio).
Fable system requirements seem reasonable but with a 30 fps target and no mention of upscaling it's hard to say for sure
News And you may want to make some on your SSD too.
I tried the sequel to Task Manager and it has too many special effects
News If Task Manager is so good, why isn't there a Task Manager 2?
Chinese memory maker YMTC wants to dethrone Samsung and SK hynix by the end of 2027
News YMTC has some big plans.
Pulsar's new mouse is sliced in half to make it genuinely 'crazy-light'
News 'I swear it came like that,' I say as I chew through half a mouse.
'I'm done. I used up my luck for this timeline': Redditor accidentally saves $5,000 on RTX 5090 Razer Blade 18 thanks to labelling error
News Why can't this kind of thing ever happen to me?
Xbox discs will now grant digital access to games as part of Microsoft's self-proclaimed 'broader commitment to game preservation'
News Microsoft saw Sony's open goal and took the shot.
Linus Torvalds details his 'debug session from hell' pushing an AI to fix an error it repeatedly said was 'impossible and unsolvable'. He then made it write the report
News Even with AI, Torvalds seems to want a hands on approach.
Nvidia says it would be making a whole lot more money if it weren't for the memory crisis it's contributing to
News And gaming doesn't even get a mention in its earnings call.
Micron, the trillion-dollar memory company, refused to replace a crucial drive for current market value until Reddit got mad
News 'Pushing back actually worked.'
Lenovo says it is 'clear' Legion Go faults 'not user error' and even devices out of warranty could be repaired 'free of charge'
News Users have been complaining about this problem for a few weeks now.
Microsoft had to change the anti-piracy hologram on the Windows 95 box because an undisclosed government assumed the baby on it was naked
News Microsoft says the government "shall remain nameless for obvious reasons".
Two architectures on one chip: Arm and IBM team up in a legendary crossover, but alas it's for 'enterprise infrastructure'
News It will reportedly operate at more than 5.7 GHz.
