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We’re starting the week with coverage of this year’sConsumer Electronics Show(CES). The show officially begins today, but many big names in the industry have already started announcing new products aimed squarely at the gaming audience. From Nvidia to Intel to AMD, there is plenty of hardware news to tickle your fancy. We even have some updates on the display standard side in the form of DisplayPort 2.1b and HDMI 2.2....

A Chinese group led by China Telecom Quantum Computing Group has unveiled Xiaohong-504, a 504-qubit quantum computing chip, and Tianyan-504 superconducting quantum computer. The achievement can be considered a groundbreaking milestone in China, reportsInteresting Engineering. The heart of the Tianyan-504 is Xiaohong, a superconducting chip with 504 qubits, which is a record for China. The report says that Xiaohong’s performance metrics, such as qubit lifetime, gate fidelity, and quantum circuit depth, are designed to rival international platforms like thoseoffered by IBM....

Nvidia dominates the market of AI processors controlling over 80% of sales, according to some recent estimates. But Jim Keller, a legendary designer of processors and current Chief Executive Officer ofTenstorrent, believes that there are markets not served well by Nvidia. As a result, there are opportunities for Tenstorrent and other developers of AI processors. “There are lots of markets that are not well served by Nvidia,” said Jim Keller in an interview withNikkei....

The controversial Windows Recall feature appears to be ready to make a comeback.Microsoftannounced inan updated blog poston Wednesday it will begin rolling the AI feature, available only on Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, to members of the Windows Insider program in October. Microsoftpaused its rolloutof Windows Recall shortly after it began testing it in the Windows Insider Canary channel. The software giant hit the pause button after multiplesecurityconcerns about the new feature were raised....

Intel’s latestCore i9-14900KSquickly became one of thebest CPUsfor enthusiasts. The special-edition 14th GenerationRaptor Lake Refreshchip is also fun to overclock, as an elite team of overclockers atAsushas overclocked it to 9,117 MHz on a single performance core and broken various world records. The Core i9-14900KS already features an impressive 6.2 GHz boost clock, the highest of any consumer processor. However, what’s even more outstanding is that a team of talented individuals, including Swedish overclockerElmor, SkatterBencher, and Shamino, managed to overclock the 24-core chip to 9,117 MHz on a single P-core....

Another upcoming Arrow Lake chip, which will compete against thebest CPUs, has appeared for the first time in the Geekbench browser. This time, it pertains to the iGPUless Core Ultra 7 265KF. Discovered byBenchleaks on X, the chip was benchmarked in Geekbench 5.5.1 (the source of the results has now been pulled). It boasts good single-core performance but falters in multi-core performance, lagging behind the last-generationCore i7-14700K. The Core Ultra 7 265KF scored 2,252 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core test and 17,722 points in the multi-core test....

Corsair is making a big splash atComputex 2025with the launch of its new products, including new cases, a fully customizable keyboard, and new power supplies. The most eye-catching of them all is the Air 5400, which is its first PC case with a triple-chamber layout. The new Air 5400 comes with a dedicated radiator cooling chamber that can accommodate up to 360mm AIO cooling solutions. The unique aspect here is that all the heat from the CPU is dumped directly out of the case as it is channeled separately without interfering with other components....

We want the best for the ones we love and that absolutely extends to our beloved pets. Today we’ve got a wonderfulRaspberry Piproject to share with you that highlights the significance of our relationship with our feline companions in the form of an amazingly luxurioussmart home made just for cats. Maker and developer Visible_Turnover3952 is using our favorite SBC to automate a plethora of features to keep his cats totally spoiled and pampered in style....

Some of us prefer keeping the desktop screen filled with files, folders, and shortcuts. It becomes a real fuss to search these files when the desktop icons suddenly rearrange on their own. Are your desktop icons moving around your home screen and don’t stay at one place? Many windows users have reported facing this problem especially after rebooting their computer. In this article, we will go through this issue and suggest some fixes that will help resolve the problem....

The U.S. Senate has finally passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets the U.S. military’s budget for 2025. The‘Countering CCP Drones Act,’ whichwould ban DJI dronesimmediately, is omitted. The law(PDF, page 1084) called for an analysis of certain unmanned aircraft systems entities, specifically DJI and fellow drone maker Autel Robotics, by “an appropriate nationalsecurityagency.” If this analysis isn’t done within one year from the law’s effective date, the manufacturer’s products and services will automatically be included in the list by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), effectively banning these two companies (and their subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, and even license holders) from the United States....

Reddit user u/ProjectPhysX shared his PC build onr/pcmasterrace, showcasing two Intel Arc B580s used for running simulations on FluidX3D. The system, which has a Build/Battlestation flair, also has an Nvidia Titan Xp 12GB, giving it a total of 36GB of VRAM. But despite the three GPUs connected, u/ProjectPhysX surprisingly only uses an 800-watt PSU for this build. The rest of his system is composed of an Intel i7-13700K and an Asus Z790 ProArt motherboard, but he didn’t give the amount of RAM his PC has....

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Former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich was recently hired to lead at Cerence Inc., an automotive AI technology company based in Burlington, MA. However, Cerence’s celebratory statements about its new CEO, shared via social media, have quickly turned sour as commenters scorn the firm’s chief-exec hiring decision. Even on LinkedIn’s usually sedate, reserved space, Cerence has felt compelled toturn off user comments, noted analystIan Cutress. Cerence began its Brian Krzanich publicity blitz a week ago, announcing the ex-Intel boss’s appointment as its new CEO and member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately, as part of its Q4 2024 fiscal guidance statement....