A user review of the Ryzen 5 7400F at Bilibili suggests performance similar to the 7500F with superior binning, at least when the processor is not thermally constrained (via Harukaze at X). Further inspection by delidding the CPU reveals that AMD has opted for simple thermal paste instead of Solder Thermal Interface Material (STIM) between… Read more
read more...Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP
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Qualcomm claims it owns 10% of U.S. Windows PC retail market for devices priced $800 and up
By: Tom's Hardware
Qualcomm just released its first-quarter financial results for fiscal year 2025, covering the period from October to December 2024, and it has made some bold claims to investors. According to analyst Sravan Kundojjala, the company said that 10% of Windows PC sales in the U.S., worth $800 and above, are powered by Snapdragon X chips…. Read more
read more...Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service
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Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests. Claude is already being put… Read more
read more...Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build… Read more
read more...How to Run DeepSeek R1 on your Raspberry Pi 5
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You can’t have missed the seismic event that saw Nvidia lose $589 billion in market cap as confidence in AI took a hit after DeepSeek claimed that its open source R1 model could provide rival OpenAI’s o1 model performance, with 11x less compute to train its latest models. The fallout from this is still being… Read more
read more...AT&T customers can now see why a business is calling
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Allison Johnson is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Customers on AT&T’s network are getting one more tool to help them decide when to pick up the phone: an indication of why a business is… Read more
read more...Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, hints that ‘brave’ Pat Gelsinger exited too soon
By: Tom's Hardware
(Image credit: Intel) Being key players in the PC market, Intel and Microsoft have always worked closely as one developed PC hardware, and the other delivered PC software. Thus, we saw the long-running dominance of ‘Wintel’ PC systems. Despite this success, both Intel and Microsoft missed the smartphone revolution in the late 2000s – early… Read more
read more...Warner Bros. is streaming full movies for free on YouTube
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It’s a strange assortment of obscure oddities, cult classics, and outright flops — but hey, it’s free. It’s a strange assortment of obscure oddities, cult classics, and outright flops — but hey, it’s free. Feb 6, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess… Read more
read more...Intel data center CPU sales hit the lowest point in 13 years
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Sales of Intel’s data center CPUs in 2024 hit their lowest level in more than a decade due to increased competition from AMD, the transition to higher-core count models amid a drop in the number of CPUs, and a market shift to AI servers that use up to eight GPUs and just two CPUs. As… Read more
read more...World’s first lab-grown meat for pets goes on sale
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Dog treats made from lab-grown meat have gone on sale in the UK, in what the manufacturers say is a world-first. Chick Bites are getting a limited release at a single pet store from Friday, but Meatly says it is expanding production and hopes to make its lab-grown meat more widely available as it scales… Read more
read more...The Asus Zenfone 12 Ultra is skipping the US
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The Zenfone 12 Ultra officially launches today, but unlike previous generations, this one won’t be sold in the US. As expected, the 12 Ultra is a de-gamer-ified ROG Phone 9 Pro with a big screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and a unique gimbal-like stabilizer in the main camera. It’s the same formula Asus followed… Read more
read more...There’s a hidden message in Amazon’s event invites
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is a smart home reporter who’s been testing connected gadgets since 2013. Previously a contributor to Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, and US News. Amazon sent out five different invites to its upcoming product event, and when pieced together, they spell out a familiar word: Alexa, the name of the company’s digital voice assistant…. Read more
read more...Sonos lays off 200 employees as its struggles continue
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Chris Welch is a senior reviewer who has worked at The Verge since its founding in 2011. His coverage areas include audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, and more. Things at Sonos are getting worse before they get better — if they’re going to get better. Today the company laid off… Read more
read more...Apple rumored to kick off M5 chip production using TSMC performance-enhanced 3nm node
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(Image credit: Apple) Apple has started large-scale production of its next-generation M5 processor for desktops, laptops, and high-performance tablets, reports ETNews citing its own sources. The new system-on-chip (SoC) is expected to use a performance-enhanced N3P fabrication process, which was set to enter mass production in the second half of 2024, so the information has… Read more
read more...ChatGPT drops its sign-in requirement for search
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. ChatGPT no longer requires you to log in to use the AI chatbot’s search engine, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. With the feature, ChatGPT will surface responses based… Read more
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