Tag: computing
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Wednesday, January 8 (game #311)
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints…
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Lenovo unveils world’s first rollable display laptop, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, at CES 2025
After a couple of years of development, the world’s first rollable display laptop, the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, was finally unveiled at CES 2025 this week. The laptop, which can transition from a 14-inch landscape display to a 16.7-inch vertical display with a single button press, was first…
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How high do you want your frame rates? Nvidia boasts that RTX 5090 GPU can drive Valorant at over 800 fps with jaw-dropping low latency
Nvidia’s Reflex 2 reveal packed a nugget of info about the RTX 5090 Team Green shared that the flagship GPU can run Valorant at 800+ fps The graphics card does this with an input lag of under 3ms, too Among Nvidia’s cluster of CES 2025 revelations, including new RTX 5000…
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ASUS unveiled the Zenbook A14 at CES 2025 and it’s the MacBook Air competitor I’ve been dreaming of
I knew I had found my favorite computer of CES 2025 early last December, long before I had a chance to see what most other PC makers were cooking up. It comes from ASUS and it’s the new Zenbook A14, a system that the company had joked about calling the…
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X9 is the least ThinkPad ever
Lenovo came to CES 2025 to prove that there’s still room in its ThinkPad family for fresh designs. It may seem sacrilegious to ditch the carbon fiber frames and Trackpoint nubs found in classic ThinkPads, but that’s exactly what the new ThinkPad X9 line does. Lenovo may not admit it…
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Still worried RTX 5000 GPUs don’t have enough VRAM? Nvidia’s secret weapon is powerful AI texture compression, and it’s calmed some of my fears
Nvidia has detailed some clever new RTX Neural Shaders tech This includes Neural Texture Compression to fit more textures into VRAM It helps make sense of why Nvidia chose leaner video RAM loadouts with some RTX 5000 GPUs Nvidia just unveiled its new RTX 5000 GPUs over at CES 2025,…
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