Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat

If you think the power consumption of today’s gaming graphics cards is bad, it’s nothing compared to how energy the massive processors in AI and data systems use. All that power ends up as heat, resulting in chip cooling being a serious challenge. Microsoft reckons it has a great solution, though, and it’s all about…

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Counter-Strike 2 invents a new way to monetise guns and, hoo boy, people seem to hate it even more than crates and keys: ‘I’m not paying 1000+ bucks for a skin!’

Last week brought a new update to Counter-Strike 2 that, among various tweaks to the game, added a brand-new way to obtain the game’s latest set of gun skins. The set is called the Genesis Collection, though sadly Valve neglected the chance to name them all after Phil Collins songs, and can only be bought…

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I just beat Silksong’s Act 3, and I’m not just thrilled the game was was hard—I’m glad it was mean to me, too

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Reviewing Borderlands 4, a game I like very much despite its many warts. There’s been a healthy heaping of difficulty discourse surrounding Silksong, and with good reason. This game’s tough as nails. I just wrapped up my 60-hour playthrough of all three acts, and…

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