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3 days ago | 
me.pcmag.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
Corsair crafted a menacing gaming PC in the Vengeance a5100 (starts at $3,999.99; $6,999.99 as tested), loaded out with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card in its sizable dual-chamber chassis. It’s unapologetically loud, obscenely powerful, and boy, does it take up a lot of desk space.
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3 days ago | 
me.pcmag.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
Velocity Micro's Raptor Z55a (starts at $1,969; $5,609 as tested) lives up to the company's trademark of mighty yet unassuming gaming PCs. Configured here for high-fidelity performance with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, this rig can pump out some killer frame rates for less cash than similarly configured competitors.
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3 weeks ago | 
uk.pcmag.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
The A6 Mini ($499 as tested) is the runt of the litter in Geekom's A-series of mini desktop PCs. Its minuscule size—and eye-catching price—might raise red flags about weak performance. But make no mistake: The A6 Mini is a surprisingly mighty mite, delivering a no-nonsense mini PC that can handle a decent workload at a budget price (sometimes discounted to as low as $449). Sure, the A6 Mini isn't going to challenge the Mac mini—which it closely resembles—on speed.
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2 months ago | 
microcenter.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14Q8X9 is one of the first 2-in-1 laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus—a chip that promises long battery life, whisper-quiet performance, and baked-in AI features thanks to its onboard NPU. It’s part of Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PC lineup, aiming to redefine what thin-and-light Windows laptops can do.
You should expect near-instant wake times, efficient multitasking, and all-day endurance without the thermal noise of a traditional x86 processor.
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2 months ago | 
microcenter.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez |Micro CenterOfficial
The Acer Swift Go 14 AI looks like it belongs in a college lecture hall -- quiet, polite, and likely watching Netflix in the background instead of paying attention. This Copilot+ laptop wants to be your next everything machine: work, school, and some streaming, all for under $800. Its battery life highlights a lot of what we like about the Snapdragon X-series laptops we’ve been seeing lately.
Specs and design
The Acer Swift 14 Go 14 AI has an unassuming look.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
gatecrashers.fan | Chip Zdarsky |Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez’ Batman run has been a fascinating book, to put it mildly. Sometimes, like the first arc and #900, it’s a really fun and cool book that operates as what I like to affectionately call my “Saturday Morning Batman book.” It doesn’t really have me thinking about a lot, but it’s certainly got its grip on me the whole time I’m reading through it.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
gatecrashers.fan | Chip Zdarsky |Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez |Matthew Rosenberg |Red Hood
If I had to summarize Gotham War in a few words, I’d say “it’s a mess.” Frankly, a very interesting premise that’s held back by the writing, both in terms of quality and in terms of committing to the premise. Even so, I think the first half is fine, sometimes good, until it sets up the back half. “How is that back half?” you may ask. I hate being outright mean towards comics. These things are hard to create, and a lot of work, unappreciated work, goes into them.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
Meta Quest 3 headset on my head. . Virtual reality has certainly experienced a rollercoaster of expectations in recent years. While the lofty dreams of an all-encompassing digital universe have yet to materialize fully, the Meta Quest 3 represents a recalibration of the metaverse vision proposed by Mark Zuckerberg. Instead of a dystopian portrayal akin to "Ready Player One," it refers to the fundamentals: playful arm-waving, immersive gaming, and watching sports in VR.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
If you think FLAC is the audiophile's friend when it comes to lossless music files, a large language model (LLM) has news for you, as it's now laying claim to compression as part of AI's growing realm of influence, too. A study titled "Language Modeling Is Compression" (via ArsTechnica) discusses a finding about an LLM by DeepMind called Chinchilla 70B and its ability to perform lossless data compression better than FLAC for audio and PNG for pictures.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Jorge Jimenez |Jorge Jiménez
The Varjo VR headsets have always skewed more towards enterprise than a traditional consumer-grade VR experience. You know, for those folks with intense Microsoft Flight Simulator or whole F1 cockpits in their garage. The Varjo Aero, however, is looking to bridge the gap between the casual VR gamer and someone who would refer to the real world as 'meatspace.'The headset itself is really swinging for the fence.
