AMD chief Dr. Lisa Su tells MIT graduates, ‘Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do’

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su gave a commencement address to the graduating class of 2026 at her alma mater, MIT, this week. In many ways, Su’s speech was typical fare, congratulating the graduating class for their hard work and offering reassuring anecdotes of overcoming challenges in order to achieve professional success. And then Su starts…

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Counter-Strike is good for personal development, but don’t let me tell you, listen to this bona fide Buddhist monk with a beast RTX 4090 rig instead

I play Counter-Strike 2 most nights, and I can’t say I’ve found anything particularly Zen about trying to clutch a 1v4 after my teammate on A-site dies to his own molotov and proceeds to shout expletives in Russian while I try to listen to enemy footsteps. But who am I to say? Not a Buddhist,…

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It’s only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams

With its latest update for Windows 11, codenamed KB5089573, Microsoft has finally started to fully roll out something that it began late last year, and something that phones have supported for even longer. It’s a Bluetooth feature called Shared Audio, and as long as everyone’s hardware ticks off the right boxes, you’ll be able to…

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Anbernic claims quiet memory size downgrade in its retro handheld devices is ‘an unexpected error’ without addressing criticisms over speed decreases

If you recognise the name ‘Anbernic’, it’s likely because you’ve had your eyes on the company’s gorgeous retro gaming handhelds. You might want to think twice before buying one, though, as some folks have accused it of quietly downgrading the DDR4 memory to DDR3 and cutting memory size in half, with Anberic reportedly only denying…

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