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Connecting and powering our everyday gadgets and peripherals, USB is everywhere, but how does it work? Learn about its inner workings and how the USB port has managed to survive for so long.

We often hear people say that DLSS can deliver "better than native" image quality, giving gamers not only a performance boost but superior visuals. Let's find out if this is at all true.

It's that time of the month when we look at the GPU market and see what's been happening. The big news for April is the launch of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070, which has been met with mixed reviews overall.

How has the PC market evolved in the past few months for builders and gamers alike? Our PC Buying Guide includes four recommended component lists, meant for different budgets and purposes.

PC gamers have been hearing a lot about VRAM as of late, a topic that has stirred up a ton of controversy. Here's a new GPU shootout for testing VRAM usage in recently released games.

Modern computers have components that require lots of power and given that this all costs money, here's our guide to measuring how much energy your PC uses.

Ever read a web page and wanted to keep it offline to study later? Read on and you'll be saving web pages as PDFs and images in no time at all.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 release has been highly anticipated for its potential of bringing the newer generation to a new low price point and we're happy to report that in that sense it does deliver.

The Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 is the most interesting QD-OLED we've seen since the Alienware AW3423DW. Samsung have made a clear effort to make the Odyssey OLED G8 stand out from the crowd.

When buying a new desktop PC you have two main options: build one yourself or buy a "pre-built." Pre-builts definitely make sense in some cases, and if so, this guide picks the best ones for you.

Flagship laptops are like supercars: fun, fast and eye-catching, but with pricing that puts them out of reach of most people and features that many of us won't ever need. The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo is a prime example of that.

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the Zen 4 3D V-Cache CPU that gamers should all be interested in, it's fast and extremely power efficient. Moreover, at $450 the 7800X3D is just $50 more than the 7700X.

Today we're comparing AMD's best value high-end GPU from the previous generation, the Radeon RX 6800 XT, to the new Radeon RX 7900 XT, which offers decent value after receiving a price cut to $800.

The Last of Us Part I is now available on PC, but it's been met with controversy over poor performance. Let's review the game's GPU performance, reveal VRAM issues, and the solution to run this fine on your current machine.

The iPhone brought smartphones into the mainstream, but before there were Samsung Galaxy devices to contend with, a company called RIM made BlackBerry phones that looked more like tiny laptops.

Let's see if you can spot the difference between a human writer and an AI. We asked GPT 4.0 various tech questions and put them side-to-side with our answers taken from TechSpot explainers.

A few weeks ago we did a horrible thing. A horrible, biased, and frankly unforgivable thing. At least that's what Steve was told by well-informed folks over on Reddit... we benchmarked the RTX 4070 Ti using FSR.

The sheer number of laptop models available today is mind boggling. To help you pick the best machine for you, we've narrowed down some of the best choices on the market right now.

The Corsair Xeneon Flex is an interesting and unique monitor that provides an adjustable curvature, so needless to say, there are very few products on the market that can compare to it.

Following up to our last mega benchmark, today we're comparing the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to the RTX 3080 10GB, a previous-gen GPU which is now two and a half years old. The results may surprise you.

With AMD and Nvidia focusing on the high-end, the graphics card market remains weak with flat demand. On the upside, price inflation is a thing of the past with abundant stock at or near the MSRP.

Significant advances have been made in the technology that powers self-driving cars in the last decade, but there's still further to go. We dive into the current state of self-driving cars in 2023.

Four decades ago, the CPU market was far more diverse than it is today. One company called NexGen had backing from big PC names, plenty of capital, and a team of great engineers. But what happened?

In this new GPU mega benchmark we compare the Radeon RX 7900 XT against the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti in 50+ games, some of which were tested using multiple configurations, ray tracing and more.

For over 50 years, video games have been a significant part of popular culture. Born in the minds of creative engineers, games have grown from mere curiosities into a global industry worth billions of dollars.