As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So, I use a browser extension to download WebP files as JPEG and PNG—or, at least, I’ve been doing so for a few years. Turns out it was the latest Chrome extension to be sold off and turned…
The first 16TB M.2 SSD on Amazon costs as much as a car
March 19, 2026
Do you need a lot of storage? Well, then, you’re going to have to pay for it—and you’ll be paying a lot more than you would have a year ago, as “AI” data centers gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the industry’s output of memory and storage. But even the most…
Noctua’s first PC case is big, brown, and pricey
March 18, 2026
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PCWorld reports on Noctua’s first PC case collaboration with Antec, the Flux Pro Noctua Edition featuring signature brown accents and premium cooling components.
This large E-ATX case costs $400, more than double the…
Corsair’s new low-profile keyboard makes me angry
March 18, 2026
Corsair, you’re killing me here. After a good showing at CES, your Stream Deck smashed into a mechanical keyboard proved me wrong: a little screen on a keyboard can make sense. And then you decided to do it again… but worse. In fact, the small LCD on the new Vanguard Air 99 keyboard is exactly why I hate this trend and want it to die.
Alright, let’s back up a bit. The Vanguard Air 99 is a…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defends DLSS 5 against user backlash, calling critics “completely wrong” about the generative AI graphics technology’s function.
PCWorld notes the controversy stems from concerns that DLSS 5…
Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis
March 17, 2026
RAM is insanely expensive right now, and it’s likely to get more so in the coming months. In the face of hundreds of dollars needed to outfit memory for a decent gaming system, at least one supplier is turning to an older idea: dummy RAM. It’s the hardware equivalent of…
Hardware specifications are generally trusted, if only because they’re hard to fake. But a recent batch of budget laptops from brands originating in China may have done just that, swapping in older, less-powerful AMD Ryzen CPUs and allegedly cheating customers. Chuwi and Ninkear have been the target of investigations showing Ryzen 7000 chips swapped for older 5000-series CPUs.
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Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering at its GPU Technology Conference, using AI to add photorealistic lighting and materials to games in real-time.
PCWorld reports this technology aims to bridge the gap…
Games are increasingly being rendered using AI, so Microsoft is bringing AI into the way future graphics chips will render games.
Microsoft introduced DirectX Linear Algebra as well as the DirectX Compute Graph Compiler into its DirectX programming interface on Thursday…
AMD wants you to buy a $2,000 ‘agent PC’ just for AI
March 16, 2026
You already have a laptop or desktop PC, but now AMD thinks you need another one—an “agent PC” to support your main machine.
AMD has responded to the growing success of OpenClaw’s AI agents with a new suggestion: customers should buy “agent PCs,” which would take the power of the Ryzen AI Max+ processor (surprise!) and repurpose it to run an agent swarm. AMD’s idea is that you should…
