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A PC walks into a bar… As part of a new research project, Microsoft is developing an algorithm that would help editors of The New Yorker Magazine cherry pick the funniest cartoon captions from several thousand submissions. Or in other words, a computer that appreciates comedy. According to Bloomberg, it’s typical for New Yorker’s 71-year-old…
Faster than a GeForce GTX 750 Ti Rumor has it Nvidia is planning to launch a new mid-range graphics card sometime this month, the GeForce GTX 950. It will mainly serve as a replacement for the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which can be found for as little as $90 after mail-in-rebate, or $110 without (some…
The Past through Tomorrow Earlier this week, we posted our review of Intel’s newest processor, sixth-generation Core series, aka Skylake. While we were able to provide comparison points with more recent processors like the fourth-generation Haswell/Devil’s Canyon and the fifth-generation Broadwell, that’s as far back as we went. Truth is, we’ve cleared our labs of…
Looking for a monitor that will help create a more immersive experience when playing games on the PC or console? Look no further than BenQ America’s new curved monitor, the XR3501. Measuring 35 inches and featuring a curvature of 2,000R, the panel doesn’t come cheap, costing a hefty $999. According to the specs, the new…
Thermaltake introduced on Friday the Core V1 Snow mini ITX chassis. The company said that the new chassis is built for high-end gaming systems, providing enough space for up to four HDDs or SSDs, power supplies up to 180mm, tower CPU coolers up to 140mm and cable management space of up to 80mm. According to…
Top Deal: Uh oh, do you see what’s happening? That’s right, summer is coming to an end and pretty soon we’ll be in the middle of the back-to-school season. Goodbye nice weather, pools, and vacations. But rather than pout and pound sand over the situation, you can turn it into a positive by building a…
King of the hill Lenovo’s been the number one supplier of PCs (in terms of shipments) for several quarters now, having shoved aside Hewlett-Packard to take the top spot. However, that hasn’t been the case (until now) if you talk to Canalys, which clumps tablets into the PC category. By considering tablet shipments when tallying…
Splitting the difference Intel has added a new capacity drive to its SSD 750 Series, one that slots right in between the existing 400GB and 1.2TB models. Like those two, the new 800GB capacity drive is a half-height PCI-E 3.0 x4 solution sporting 20nm multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. The Intel SSD 750 Series…
Pesky Firefox bug Mozilla on Thursday announced that it rolled out security fixes for a bug in Firefox that was discovered by a user. What the user found was that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was able to take advantage of a vulnerability in Firefox to search for sensitive files on a…
This article was published in the July 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Fitting multiple radiators into a new mid-tower case from Fractal Design Length of Time: 1–3 Hours | Difficulty: Medium The Mission When this editor took over the “Build It” section a couple of years…