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3 days ago | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |Devesh Beri
Generative AI has rapidly moved from science fiction to everyday utility, transforming the way we work, learn, and create. In this evolving landscape, Google's multimodal AI platform, Gemini, stands out as a highly capable AI system wrapped in a chatbot interface. Gemini is engineered to process text, images, audio, and code with an eye toward real-world problem-solving and deep integration across Google’s ever-changing ecosystem. What Is Gemini?
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1 month ago | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |Jon Martindale
As we increase our understanding of the human connectome, our ability to understand the brain's phenomenal information throughput grows in tandem. We now have a partial network diagram of the human brain. Consequently, computing tools seeking to mimic the brain have exploded in popularity. As we predicted back in 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) is powering the current technological revolution in human healthcare.
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1 month ago | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri
Credit: Perplexity AI You're not crazy: "Google fu" doesn't work like it used to. Google's near-total dominance over web searches means that every move it makes is consequential. But Google Search doesn't treat Verbatim and Boolean Search like it used to—and its bolted-on AI search assistant is notorious for low-quality results.
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2 months ago | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |Josh Gulick |Jon Martindale
Credit: Cheng Xin/Getty Images News via Getty Images We've come a long way since Eliza and SmarterChild. Far from being a one-trick pony, today's chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot are powerful, versatile tools for content creation and research. If you've been anywhere near a Windows PC of late, you've probably seen icons for Copilot in your web browser, or even slipped onto your taskbar after a recent Windows update. What is Copilot, and what can it do? How does it work? How can you access it?
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2 months ago | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |K. Thor Jensen
Instruments of Destruction Credit: RadianGames If you're looking for games you can play on a low-end PC or laptop, you've come to the right place. This is ExtremeTech's staff-nominated list of favorite games that will play well, even if your PC is old enough to run for president, with the computing power of a potato. You shouldn't have to give up on immersive gaming just because you've got an older or low-end rig.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
extremetech.com | Jessica Hall |Jon Martindale |Devesh Beri
Credit: BlackJack3D/E+ via Getty Images To some, AI heralds the next generation of learning computers—but to others, it's just vaporware, a source of endless empty hype. To a lucky few, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. What is artificial intelligence, exactly? What does it look like if you brush aside the hype? Is it really coming for your job? What is it good for?
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Jon Martindale |Jessica Hall
Compal Electronics, a Taiwanese Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), has unveiled an innovative laptop concept called the "Infinite Laptop." This concept has a display that expands horizontally from a standard 14-inch screen to an ultra-wide 18-inch workspace. Unlike many similar products, like the one we covered a few days ago from Lenovo, which expands vertically, the Infinite Laptop broadens its screen width instead.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Jessica Hall
Micron has shown off the capabilities of its next-generation PCIexpress 6.0 SSD, hitting over 27GBps during a DesignCon 2025 showcase. In a partnership with Astera Labs, Micron paired two PCIe 6.0 SSDs with an Nvidia H100 GPU and Astera's PCIe 6.0 network fabric switch. Together they blew right past any other drives, doubling the performance of some of the best PCIe 5.0 alternatives.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Jessica Hall
Credit: Der8auer Legendary overclocker der8auer has undervolted and overclocked a PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil graphics card with its stock cooler and managed to boost performance significantly. He was able to reach 3.4GHz on the boost clock, leading to the card outperforming the Nvidia RTX 5080 in Cyberpunk 2077 and 3DMark Time Spy Extreme. That card costs hundreds of dollars more, even at suggested retail pricing.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
extremetech.com | Jon Martindale |Jessica Hall
An artist illustration of what plastic ice looks like up close. Credit: Institut Laue-Langevin Communications Office A new form of ice that acts as both a liquid and a solid simultaneously has been proven to exist years after it was theorized. Scientists placed liquid water under extreme pressure and high temperatures simultaneously and developed a form of water that possessed an ice-like crystalline lattice but with water molecules that rotated as if they were in liquid water.
