Month: October 2024
Intel’s 15th-gen CPUs are all about power efficiency and thermals
Despite all the inroads AMD has made in recent years with its Zen desktop CPUs, Intel has broadly managed to maintain one critical edge against its longtime rival: gaming performance. For those looking to eke every possible frame out of the latest AAA games, the company’s recent Core 5/7/9 often…
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Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake H laptop chips will offer beefier GPUs for AI workloads
Alongside its new family of Arrow Lake desktop hardware, Intel today also gave us a few tidbits around its upcoming Arrow Lake H mobile chips for high performance laptops. First off, they're not expected to arrive until the first quarter of 2025 — but the slight wait might be worth…
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Intel’s new flagship CPUs will run cooler and more efficiently for PC gaming
Intel is finally addressing how hot and power-hungry its desktop CPUs have become. Intel’s new flagship Core Ultra 200S series of processors, arriving on October 24th, are focused on performance per watt to run cooler and more efficiently than the previous 14th Gen chips. Codenamed Arrow Lake S, these are…
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The best Prime Day vacuum deals that are still available include discounts of up to $400 off on Amazon today
Robot vacuums are some of the pricier smart home gadgets you can get, which is why waiting until a sale like Amazon Prime Day is a smart shopping move. October Prime Day may be behind us, but you can still save on some robot vacuums, and cordless stick vacuums, today…
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The best Prime Day deals you can still get after the October Big Deal Days sale: Apple, Anker, Sonos, Lego and more
Another October Prime Day is on the books, but all of the deals haven’t disappeared from Amazon’s site just yet. This year’s Fall Prime Day brought a bunch of discounts on smartphones, speakers, wearables, robot vacuums and more tech, and you can still grab some of the sale prices right…
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The impossible dream of good workplace software
On today’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking with my good friend David Pierce, cohost of The Vergecast and editor-at-large at The Verge. We’re talking about something that David spends honestly too much time thinking and writing about: software. In particular, we’re talking about the software that you use at work.…
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