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Elon Musk's Blindsight brain implant has achieved a major milestone. It's now being worn by Geordi La Forge. No wait, it's actually been awarded Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. But to celebrate, Musk evoked the famously vision-enhanced Star Trek character in an X post.
MSI has outed its new X870 and X870E motherboards for AMD AM5 processors, including the new Ryzen 9000-series chips. The big news is ATX 3.1 support and a big boost in PCIe power supply.
AMD's new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 CPUs have taken a bit of a beating when it comes to the broader review community. But they weren't that bad, more slightly underwhelming in gaming than in any way broken. Our own chip-fancier Nick is a bit more positive that most (despite his own travails during testing) and points out the Ryzen 9 9950X in particular is pretty killer for productivity apps and anything that feeds on lots of threads.
Two «native» resolutions. One screen. Can it ever work? We've seen plenty of attempts at dual-mode panels before, most recently in the LG UltraGear 32GS95UE. But where that LG had plenty more to mark it out, including LG's latest 4K OLED tech, the new Alienware AW2725QF leans into its dual-mode status a little more emphatically.
OpenAI has unleashed yet another new chatbot on we poor, unsuspecting humans. We give you o1, a chatbot designed for more advanced reasoning that's claimed to be better at things like coding, math and generally solving multistep problems.
We've already spotted Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs after they were accidentally posted on a UK etailer website. Now we can flesh out the full details even further, including pretty much every important spec for all five launch models of Intel's latest desktop CPU, plus apparently Intel's intended release date.
From a PC gaming perspective, easily the most interesting aspect of the new Sony PS5 Pro console is its ray-tracing hardware and performance. For a long time it's been rumoured that the PS5 Pro may share its RT hardware with AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 GPU architecture.
Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED G80SD | 32-inch | 4K | OLED | 240 Hz | $1,299$999 at Newegg (save $300)When we reviewed Samsung's own take on its 32-inch QD-OLED 4K panel, its high price and annoying TV features were a turn-off. Now it's over $300 cheaper, we forgive it for everything. Take my money, will ya?