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REMEMBER WHEN Microsoft said that Windows 10 was going to be the last version of Windows you’d ever need? Yeah, I remember that. Good times, September 30th, 2014. I was there, watching the announcement, just some nerdy little kid, without a job, fres

MICROSOFT HAS PUT Win11 build 22000.100 into beta on the Windows Insider Program, the first build to do so, and a sign that Microsoft is feeling confident that it’s ready. Previous builds were limited to the development channel. The Windows Insider P

A stainless steel footbridge, weighing 4.9 tons, across a canal in Amsterdam has been made using 3D printing. Spinning discs are alive and well, with WD reporting sales were up by a third in the last quarter. Some bright spark managed to get a $10 mi

Researchers looking into advert transparency, and the spread of misinformation on Facebook found themselves banned for a violation of its terms of service. The group was examining the spread of political adverts on Facebook and had developed a browse

There is, so the theory goes, a new state of matter, along with gas, liquid, solid, plasma, and so on. A time crystal is an object caught in a repetitive motion that does not lose energy, which not only sounds impossible but also breaks the second la

DDR5 slots aren’t compatible with DDR4 slots. We might see motherboards that support both DDR4 and DDR5, but you’ll have to choose between one or the other—you won’t be able to install both memory types at the same time. For this reason, I’ve avoided

So, to run Windows 11, Microsoft has declared that you’re going to need a processor that supports TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0, along with Secure Boot. Now, I won’t go into detail about what TPM is, or how it works, as we’ve covered that enough

PCs AND GAMING go hand in hand—unless you are using a notebook and trying to run Cyberpunk 2077 at full settings at 4K, maybe. Anyway, millions upon millions of people game on their PCs daily and the gaming scene built up around PCs is fundamentally

“At the moment we have telescopes looking at the Sun,” says Desai, “they see stuff happening on the Sun’s surface, and as soon as a CME occurs we can start running our models to predict what time the CME will arrive, and when it does, what will its p

Quantum computers are notoriously unable to deal with any kind of interference from outside their enclosed systems, often cooled to just above absolute zero for their quantum bits, or qubits, to operate properly. And by properly we mean in a way that

• Raspberry Pi 4 or Pi 400 (one unit per room) • 8GB (or larger) microSD card, U3 cards recommended. One per room • 3.5 mm audio cables • Amplified speakers or a receiver with 3.5mm/phono audio input • Power supplies for your Raspberry Pis • Optional

Besides running a Bitcoin node RaspiBlitz enables you to run a node on the “layer 2” Lightning network. The Lightning network permits Bitcoin transactions to take place off the main blockchain so they can be confirmed instantly rather than subject to

TIP OF THE MONTH If you love video games and planning ahead then this might just make your day. How Long To Beat (https://howlongtobeat.com) is a website that gives you average completion times for a vast library of games on both the PC and game cons

presents: While we were waiting for our PS5 to arrive, we got busy on the DualSense controller. There’s enough new stuff packed in to make this a meal on its own: • Space-age adaptive triggers• Top-of-the-line haptic system• SIE CXD9006GG—likely a cu

YOU’LL NEED THIS ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CC 2020 https://www.adobe.com IF YOU HAVE FOLLOWED ALONG with the first Illustrator tutorial in the previous issue, you should have picked up a few of the basics within the application and, hopefully, can work your

YOU’LL NEED THIS A COPY OF MINI VMAC plus working system ROM and OS image. See the emulation section for further details. https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/download.html THE ORIGINAL MACINTOSH (or “Mac” for short) is an iconic machine that brought h

YOU’LL NEED THIS 8GB USB 3.0 FLASH DRIVE Internet Connection. Another PC or Laptop THE PRODIGAL SON HAS ARRIVED, Windows 11 is here in all of its insider glory, complete with quirky new taskbar layout, updated start menu, and enough options-baked-int

LENGTH OF TIME: 2-3 HOURS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM IT’S FAIR TO SAY that when we first set eyes upon the G.Skill Z5i in its glorious review photoshoot, we were impressed. Even the photographer turned around to us and said: “I’ve shot a lot of big

MICROSOFT HAS LAUNCHED Windows 365, a way of accessing a Windows PC on any internet-enabled device. It didn’t have a particularly smooth launch, as only a day after they began, free two-month trials were withdrawn, presumably because of unexpected de

THE NEW ZEPHYRUS S17 is a beast of a gaming laptop with an interesting USP; a keyboard that tilts up toward the user. At first glance, it’s a minor alteration to make typing more comfortable. But while this isn’t an inaccurate assessment—the gentle a

THE G.SKILL Z5I is one of the best-looking cases we’ve seen in the last year or so. It would be easy for case manufacturers to fall back on those old tired design tropes, and make something generic. Those ageold cuboid utilitarian shapes are certainl

ASUS’S ROG GLADIUS gaming mice have been kicking about for over half a decade now, with each subsequent iteration improving slightly—and only slightly—on the previous model. Unsurprisingly, this is still the case here, with the Gladius III Wireless r

ACTION ROLE PLAYING THE INTRO TO BLADE RUNNER, but with way more shooting, seems to be the elevator pitch here, and it works extremely well. As an indentured laborer on the planet Veres, paying off the cost of your new life on the off-world colony wi

BEFORE WE PIT THESE two rivals a gainst each other, let’s take a step back in time to where it all began. The year is 1987, Adobe has just released its first piece of software called Illustrator for the Apple Macintosh. It was, and still is, a vector

> Folding@Home > Big Brother > Windows 11 Compatibility I am a digital subscriber in the UK, and have enjoyed reading Maximum PC over the past few months. I am old enough to have experienced the joy when massive hard disks first became available—I re

IT’S FAIR TO SAY that Acer’s laptop line is pretty diverse, covering everything from gaming-focused machines to Chromebooks, rugged laptops, and convertibles. It also does an interesting line in ultra-thin laptops, which is where you will find the Sw

SOMETIMES STANDARDS take hold for no particularly good reason. For proof, look no further than PC monitors and the 16:9 aspect ratio. From a pure computing perspective, there’s isn’t much reason to favor 16:9 over numerous alternatives. But 16:9 is t

IF SIZE MATTERS, what’s an extra inch worth? Clocking in at 28-inches, the new ASUS TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A is an inch larger than what has arguably become the 27-inch norm for 4K, 144Hz gaming monitors based on IPS panel technology. That extra inch mak