in 2020, Apple’s MacBooks entered a new era. The company announced it was moving away from the Intel chips it had been using since 2006; in their place, it rolled out the first Macs with the Apple-designed M1. Cut to 2024 and the company now offers the choice between 14 custom processors, the latest of […]
There’s Shark Week, and then there’s Mac Week. It’s a little less exciting, but Apple first announced a new iMac yesterday, and today we’re being treated to a new Mac Mini. Tomorrow, there’s a good chance you can expect a new MacBook Pro, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The Mac Mini is Apple’s […]
Laptops are everything, but they’re terrible for ergonomics … unless you own a laptop stand. Whether you’re working from home, pulling an all-nighter on a big project, or binge-watching Love Is Blindyou’re unfortunately setting yourself up for back, neck, and wrist strain. For optimal comfort, the top of your screen should be just above eye […]
Unless you’re a keyboard enthusiast or a gamer, with custom builds for specific tasks, it’s highly likely you’re using whatever keyboard you saw first on a shelf at Best Buy. You probably know nothing about it, other than the fact that it works and gets you through the day. But a company called Nuio, cofounded […]
Windows 2-in-1s have been doing the tablet-laptop hybrid thing for a while now, but the tablet part of that equation always feels lacking. While iPads and Android tablets have refined the experience for more than a decade and have vast ecosystems of tablet-optimized apps at the ready, Windows remains a bit of an ugly duckling. […]
However, on more general tasks, the Yoga didn’t pull through. My scores on the PCMark 10 benchmark were not markedly different than first-gen Core Ultra scores, and performance on the industry standard Geekbench 6 test was surprisingly low—40 percent below a typical Snapdragon X-powered laptop and 20 percent below the average Core Ultra 1. I […]
Finding a balance between design and performance in a budget gaming laptop can be tough, but Asus may have done it with its newest TUF Gaming A14. Going for a slightly less aggressive aesthetic than its predecessors, the TUF Gaming A14 feels more luxe than its price suggests while giving you a laptop that wouldn’t […]
Google’s Sycamore processor uses quantum bits, or qubits, to run algorithms.Credit: Peter Kneffel/dpa/Alamy Ever since the first quantum computers were dreamt up in the early 1980s, researchers have looked forward to the day the devices could solve problems that are too difficult for classical computers. In the past five years, the machines have finally begun […]
Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science The stories on artificial intelligence’s improving ability to predict extreme weather often begin with powerful hurricanes. As Scientific American detailed this year, when Hurricane Lee was moving through the Atlantic Ocean last September, scientists using traditional weather models got a clear idea of where the hurricane would go just six […]
