Month: March 2023
Lenovo LOQ15 hands-on: Affordable but not cheap
Just a few months ago Lenovoannounced updates to its high-end Legion gaming PCs. But now the company is back to introduce some fresh budget-friendly fare as part of its new “value-oriented” LOQ line. Though they aren’t quite as powerful as their more expensive siblings, after checking them out, I like…
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Withings Body Comp Scale and Health+ Review: Not Enough for Too Much
This smart scale measures your body composition and nerve and artery health, and it includes a year’s subscription to Withings Health+. Source
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Can AI generate a way to pay for itself?
I’ve heard a lot of talk about how AI is going to make me — a journalist, someone in the workforce, a human — obsolete or whatever, and so I wondered: is that even true? Here’s Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaking in 2019: “I really do believe the work…
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Inside Taiwan’s ‘Sacred Mountain’ of Chip-Making
This week, we learn how semiconductors are made. It’s easy! You just need light, water, a few billion transistors, and total geopolitical stability. Source
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This formidable AMD 64-core CPU may be the last of its breed; here’s why I’m excited about that
AMD is likely to launch its Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series later this year if a video posted on Chinese social media platform Bilibili and featuring Tony Yu, General Manager at Asus China, is to be believed. In the video, Yu seems to confirm that AMD will unveil the processor…
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The Morning After: TikTok CEO says its owner is ‘not an agent of China’
TikTok CEO Shou Chew is preparing to tell lawmakers that banning it will damage the US economy. “Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew said in written remarks released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee before today's hearing on…
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