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Intel announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger will retire and step down from the board of directors, effective immediately. Intel has appointed two interim leaders, CFO David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, as interim co-CEOs while the board begins a search for a new CEO. Speculation is rife that Gelsinger was forced out, especially in light of the company’s poor performance in the stock market — Intel’s stock price is down 61% since Gelsinger took over....

At first glance, the IntelCore i5-14400versus the AMDRyzen 5 7600Xseems to be a bit of a mismatch. Going by MSRP pricing, the Ryzen 5 7600X is nearly $100 more expensive than the Intel CPU, which is a substantial difference in this price band. However, recent price cuts to the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X have brought it closer to the Intel Core i5-14400’s price point, making this a heated duel for mid-range CPUs....

Intel unveiled its financial results for the third quarter of 2024 on Thursday. While the company’s revenue beat expectations and totaled $13.3 billion, Intel took massive impairment and restructuring charges and reported a huge $16.6 billion loss. Surprisingly, the company’s stock initially jumped up to 12% on the news, though that was closer to an 7% gain at press time. Intel’s revenue reached $13.3 billion, down 6% year-over-year but up $0....

It can be a challenge sometimes, upgrading to a new CPU if you don’t know what to look for. It helps to be familiar with specs, but if you’re not sure where to start, you can’t go wrong with understanding the core/thread count and speed. In the case of today’s deal, theIntel Core Ultra 5 Processor 245Koffers specs at more of an upper mid-range with a good deal of compatibility with modern technologies (like PCIe 5....

Most Laptop use fans to cool components like CPU, GPU and motherboard by sucking in the cold air and expelling hot air through the vents. If your laptop fans are broken or not functioning at all, they could lead to problems likeoverheatingand shutdown. Furthermore, your laptop may thermally throttle which will degrade its performance and shorten its lifespan. Issues in fans arise due to reasons such asdust and dirt build-up. Or, sometimes the problem with the software side of things can also lead to this issue....

Most laptops integrate SD card ports that help to transfer photos and videos from a camera or smartphone directly to the PC. But what if yours doesn’t have this dedicated slot? Often, when using an SD card, you may face plenty of issues that may be displeasing. Sometimes, yourSD card won’t format, while sometimes, your SD card gets corrupted. This could be why some manufacturers have stopped producing laptops containing these slots....

Sustainable design firm grape lab offers a laptop stand, called g.stand laptop, made from a single piece of recycled paper using origami techniques to provide strength and rigidity. Because of this, the paper stand could hold up to ten pounds or 4.5 kg, meaning it can carry most 13- to 15-inch laptops, all while weighing less than 1.6 ounces or 45 grams. Once you’re done working on your computer, you could collapse the stand to 1....

Preliminary test results of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in 3DMark have leaked, thanks toVideoCardz, where we see the new GPU stride 20% ahead of the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. This data was likely sourced from a reviewer, so it should be indicative of the card’s performance in these specific synthetic tests. Still, as these numbers are not official, we should tread lightly and season them with a pinch of salt....

Lenovo’s been at the forefront of convertible laptop designs since its first Yoga laptop shipped in 2012. But here ahead of IFA in Berlin, its latest Auto Twist AI PC concept attempts to take things into sci-fi territory, with a motorized “Dual Degree of Freedom” hinge that can track your movements to make sure you always have “optimum display visibility.” Of course, this means your webcam will also keep you in frame for meetings, presentations, or video calls with friends and family....

Open platform Frame Generation and Scaling tool Lossless Scalingupdated its LSFG (Lossless Scaling Frame Generation) to LSFG3.0recently. The update to this paid-for software on Steam greatly improved latency and performance while also (optionally) allowing users who opt into the beta branch to start using the Lossless Scaling 3.0 UI. Otherwise, the updated stable version is Lossless Scaling 2.13, and still includes support for LSFG 3.0 and its key performance and latency improvements....

If you’ve ever wanted a boat of your own, it turns out all you need is a3D printerand, well, a boatload of patience. Today we’ve got an incredible creation to share from maker Emily of the YouTube channel Emily the Engineer. She’s using one of our favorite tools—a 3D printer—to create a huge working boat. But it’s not just any boat, she’s 3D printed agiant working Benchy. Benchy is the name of a tiny 3D printable boat that makers use to test their 3D printers....

A common goal among the Nintendo Wii console modding community has been creating “trimmed” versions of the console in pursuit of creating the smallest Wii available yet, with the latest crown-holder being the “Short Stack”— until now, with the debut of the “Kawaii.” The Kawaii Wii, originallypostedto the BitBuilt Forums by its two creators, YveltalGriffin and Wesk, is the new crown-holder for the smallest unit yet by executing a full “OMEGA trim,” which has trimmed absolutely every non-essential part of the original Wii’s motherboard to create a hyper-compact, digital-only Nintendo Wii....

Ever wanted to see a Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1986 run the .NET Framework released for Windows platforms in 2000? If you’re the same kind of techno-degenerate who enjoyed.NET being backported to Windows 95, you’re most likely in the right place, though of course the NES isn’t going to be nearly as capable as your average Windows 95 PC. Before proceeding, let’s take a moment to put the processing power of the mighty Nintendo Entertainment System in context — since it was powerful for its day, after all....