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Hello everyone. I hope our cover didn’t scare anyone too much. We’re all working hard, and with the economy in a less than great state, I’m quite sure many of you are feeling the pressure to deliver above and beyond at work, and having APC tell you t

Currently available for testing in limited beta, Google’s new Search Generative Experience (SGE) shifts the site from being a search engine that links the best content to a publication offering its own mini-articles. But instead of hiring expert writ

It was meant to be the big Xbox game of the season. Redfall ticked a lot of boxes: developed by the acclaimed studio responsible for Prey, Dishonored and Deathloop, full cooperative support, a sprawling open world, and a neat setting which cast a mod

If you have your ear to the ground on environmental issues, you’ll probably have heard of a class of chemicals called PFAS, or more colloquially, ‘forever chemicals’. Usually found near airports hosting firefighting drills with flame retardant compou

Computex is one of the largest trade shows in the world. After the cancellation of CeBIT in 2018, Computex became the most important computing and information technology event of its type. But is it still relevant in a post Covid world, where so many

The PCI Express 5.0 specification was finalised on May 29, 2019. The first PCIe 5.0-ready consumer platform arrived with Intel’s Z690 chipset and socket LGA1700 platform in November 2021. But PCIe 5.0 graphics cards and SSDs were nowhere to be found.

PC sales nosedived by about 30 percent in the first quarter of this year. But that is no reason to panic – pretty much all digital devices have taken a hit of late. Besides, if you bother to give the numbers more than a cursory glance, you’ll see tha

Las Vegas is a curious place. I have come nearly every year since 1990, often twice a year, lured by the best conferences in the world. The scale of the facilities, both within the hotels and the enormous Las Vegas Convention Centre, defy belief. The

WE EXPLORE THE TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE SET TO SHAPE THE FUTURE There are few technologies that have stumbled to market on such a meandering path as display headsets. Be it virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality or extended reality

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■ $4,299 | rog.asus.com/au THE HOTTEST GEAR LABS TESTED The 2022 ROG Zephyrus M16 Ultraportable gaming laptop was so impressive that we gave it 4.5/5 stars back in APC 509. That laptop was well regarded by many, and perhaps that’s part of the reason

■ $1,799 | online.acer.com.au Occasionally there is a major shift in technology that causes an entire overhaul of the types of laptops available for consumers… and in 2023 that means anyone buying a mid-range laptop can now get an impressive OLED scr

■ $4,799 | au.xgimi.com If you’re paying just shy of $5,000 for a projector, then it’s probably desirable that it meets certain criteria. The chances are you’re buying one to increase the size of your screen so, of course, it has to have a large proj

■ $239 | aoc.com Carving out a niche in the busy monitor market isn’t easy, but AOC has managed it better than most. A decade ago, it was a maker of utterly anonymous low-cost flat screens for office workers. Now, it’s one of the most prolific gaming

■ $459 | amd.com Following the release of AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX, you might have expected AMD to follow a traditional release cadence and produce an RX 7800 or RX 7700-series card next. Not this time around. Surprisingly, the second

■ $449 | au.msi.com Player 2 has entered the game. And, thank goodness. For the past year Asus has been competing with itself to create increasingly bonkers gaming routers with no real challenger. Now, here’s MSI with its rival raddish, erm, RadiX, w

■ $545 | g.skill.com DDR5 memory is getting faster just about every week. Back at the time of the launch, DDR5-6400 was about as good as it got, then came 6800 and 7600 and now the best kits are hitting 8000MHz with more to come. But one thing that’s

■ $399 | razer.com Compared to the earlier BlackWidow V3 Pro, this latest update tweaks the media controls, repositions the control dial, and adds a fistful of macro buttons. You also get RGB illumination underneath both the keyboard and the included

Windows 10 or 11 | www.pdfgear.com APPS FOR ALL YOUR PLATFORMS There are plenty of ways to view and edit PDFs, including desktop software, online tools and options built into your browser, so you may question the need for another one. But PDFgear is

Licence GPL v3, various | https://vanillaos.org It might be plain, but year after year, vanilla is rated as one of the most popular ice cream flavours. This philosophy has been copied into Vanilla OS, which while based on a standard install of Ubuntu

iPadOS 15 or later | $30.99 (for iPad; universal licence $259.99) | affinity.serif.com Serif’s Affinity suite rivals Adobe in bringing pro-grade image editing without a subscription to Macs and iPads. The latest releases of the three Affinity apps, r

If you’re not ready for Wi-Fi 7, that’s understandable. Most of us haven’t caught up with Wi-Fi 6E yet, which only hit the mainstream around 18 months ago. Strictly speaking, though, Wi-Fi 6E wasn’t a new standard. While it introduced support for wir

Licence: 3-clause BSD | www.torproject.org Since 2008, the Tor Browser has been making waves in providing online privacy. Successive versions are based on Firefox ESR (in this case version 102.8) and come with a number of features to make you as anon

Read any review of a simulator and you’ll find phrases such as “unbelievably realistic” thrown about by a jobbing journalist who has no idea what it’s like to fly a plane, run a football club or drive a train. Games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator

Be more productive, they say. Work smarter. Do five days’ work in the space of four! Now, we’re not suggesting that this article is going to shave two hours from your working day, but even if you find two tips out of these 50 that make a difference t

Don’t miss next issue, subscribe on page 20! Australia has long had a reputation for punching above its weight in technological research and development. From the early days of radio to our pioneering involvement in radar to our world-class expertise

In late April several owners of AMD Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs began posting online about their now-dead CPUs. Strikingly, they were shown along with burned and bulging CPU substrates and damaged motherboard sockets. As users banded together to try and find

A perfect balance between price and performance. In the last issue, we made quite a few changes on our Intel Budget Build. The biggest of them all was the GPU – no shock there! We swayed across from team Nvidia and hopped onto the new Intel GPU train

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to use masks, creatively displace text, and perform non-destructive Raw edits YOU’LL NEED Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Photo 2 lets you process Raw format files, edit images in layers and push pixels around

You wouldn’t think of the command line as the go-to resource when it comes to image processing. After all, rotating, cropping, resizing and adding watermarks to images involves extensive mouse work. Or does it? ImageMagick has long been the tool of c

Don’t miss next issue, subscribe on page 20! • All of the code for this project, circuit diagrams and images can be downloaded from this GitHub repository: https://github.com/lesp/ Linux-Format-Robot/archive/refs/heads/main. zip By the end of part

■ $99.95 | PC, PS5, XBS/X | ea.com/games/starwars Jedi: Survivor bucks the recent trend of dull Star Wars TV content. It’s one of the best things to happen to the series in years, and easily the best modern Star Wars game. At a glance Jedi: Survivor

■ $36.99 | PC, Mac, IOS, Linux | terranil.com Officially billed as a ‘reverse city builder’, it’s not inaccurate to describe Terra Nil as such. It’s a game about spending and generating resources, building synergistic chains of structures to achieve

■ Release: December 9, 2008 Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: In-house Link: ubisoft.com By the late 2000s, the Prince of Persia series was already on its way out. 2008’s entry, simply titled Prince of Persia, wasn’t quite the last gasp, but it was the l

I can vividly recall the moment when I first took the Asus Eee PC 701 on a trip. It was 30 October 2008, 21 days after it had been delivered, and I was on a train and my job was to report on a game festival packed schedule of events for a magazine ca

JOEL BURGESS REPORTS ON THE UNUSUAL SIDE OF TECH NEWS Back in late May everyone with a Surface Pro X may have noticed their webcam suddenly and irrevocably stopped working. Microsoft’s LTE connected tablet didn’t care if you had an important online w