Over the past few months, Microsoft senior executives have quietly made a promise to me directly, as well as to other journalists: They’re going to improve Windows. Today, they’re making that same commitment to the public, with an emphasis on “performance, reliability, and craft.”
In a highly detailed memo, Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s executive vice president of Windows + Devices…
Game devs say Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal blindsided them
March 20, 2026
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PCWorld reports that Nvidia’s DLSS 5 announcement caught major game developers from Ubisoft and Capcom off-guard, who were unaware their games would be featured in demonstrations.
The generative AI technology faces…
With Vivaldi 7.9, the Scandinavian browser company makes a good point: Do you really need to see all of a browser’s visual cruft, all the time?
Vivaldi is launching UI auto-hide, a new feature that’s available within the free web browser in an upgrade that’s available…
Intel is joining Microsoft in releasing precompiled shaders for its own graphics cards, which will save you time in loading and then playing PC games.
Intel said earlier this week that it will store precompiled shaders in the cloud, and then download them when needed to your PC. Intel debuted the technology inside its Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.8626, which includes the first iteration of what…
Though Internxt Drive rightfully touts its 256-bit encryption and dedication to privacy, there’s no feature in particular that sets it apart from the crowd.
As with services such as Dropbox, Sync.com, OneDrive, iDrive, etc. there’s sync and storage. There’s also…
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…
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 lavish among us would probably wince at dropping nearly $16,000 USD on an M.2 drive, even if it does have a capacity of 16…
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…
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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 applies an “AI skin” over game models rather than true enhancement.
Huang clarifies DLSS 5 offers developers controllability…
