April 2025
Taking apart a wall wart
[ad_1] Topic themes Although in general I strive to cover a diversity of topics here in the blog, regular readers may have noticed that some amount of chronological theme-grouping still goes on. A few years back, for example, I wrote a fair bit about building PCs, both conceptually and in un-teardown (i.e., hands-on assembly) fashion….
Emergence AI’s new system automatically creates AI agents rapidly in realtime based on the work at hand
[ad_1] Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Another day, another announcement about AI agents. Hailed by various market research reports as the big tech trend in 2025 — especially in the enterprise — it seems we can’t go more than 12 hours…
Teaching AI to Give Better Video Critiques
[ad_1] While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can be useful aides in interpreting some of the more arcane or challenging submissions in computer vision literature, there’s one area where they are hamstrung: determining the merits and subjective quality of any video examples that accompany new papers*. This is a critical aspect of a submission, since scientific…
6 popular scams and the warning signs for each
[ad_1] Online scams aren’t just becoming more common, they’re changing in approach, and getting harder to spot. These days, there are scams all over the internet, and while some are relatively easy to spot, others are highly sophisticated – and you might not notice them until it’s too late. That said, a bit of knowledge…
Joy, Rage, Collaboration, Uncertainty, and Optimism: the state of the video game industry from GDC 2025
[ad_1] A common phrase around the video game industry last year was the mantra of “Suvive ‘til 25”. Times were hard, layoffs were rife – and people felt bad. But a new year could only bring better, right? Well, 2025 has so far proved that 2024’s motto was a little over-optimistic to say the least…
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: A no-compromise CPU for demanding gamers
[ad_1] How can we push CPUs forward? That’s the question the computing industry has been asking since the Intel 4004 processor launched in 1971. Chipmakers have tried cranking up clock speeds, adding multiple cores and miniaturizing chip architectures to make them faster and more efficient. The conflict between RISC and CISC chip instruction sets (ISAs)…
The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
[ad_1] Apple executives always describe new hardware and software as the “best” or “biggest” ever, but the delivery doesn’t usually live up to the hype (see last year’s iPads). However, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 might be deserving of a few of those adjectives. The latest version of the operating system has the usual degree…
Security could be the use case AI PCs need | TechTarget
[ad_1] In an era where interest in AI PCs is soaring and injecting life into what was a stagnant endpoint device market, the enthusiasm has been met with a lack of clearly defined use cases. The early use cases touted by hardware and software vendors often revolved around unified communications and collaboration. While that’s…
The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked
[ad_1] GPU Benchmarks & Performance Hierarchy (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, and Tom’s Hardware exhaustively benchmarks current and previous generation GPUs, including all of the best graphics cards. Whether it’s playing games, running artificial intelligence workloads like Stable Diffusion, or doing…
Wi-Fi Sensing: Smart Tracking With No Wearables, No Cameras, And No Privacy Worries!
[ad_1] – Advertisement – What if tracking movement and actions indoors using just Wi-Fi, without any privacy concern? Channel state information-powered AI has the answer. Smart sensing becomes faster, lighter, and deployable on everyday edge devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionising how we interact with our surroundings—from adjusting lights in a smart environment…