Asetek Racing, a Danish sim racing equipment manufacturer, has introduced its Initium Racing Bundle I to the US market.

The M5 Pro and M5 Max in the new MacBook Pros are interesting not because they deliver a solid speed increase for Apple’s ...

Another year, another chip update. There isn't much new this year, but it's still a great laptop for most users.

M5 Pro and M5 Max both use the same 18-core CPU die, but Pro uses a 20-core GPU die, and Max gets a 40-core GPU die. (Because the memory controller is also part of the GPU die, the Max chip still ...

HandBrake, the free and open-source video transcoder, has dropped its first major release of 2026 – with new professional encoders, MOV output container ...

The Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 is a typical workstation affair. It’s fairly potent but big, bulky, and pricey. Next to consumer laptops, its performance doesn’t impress, and new Panther Lake hardware ...

Newly released benchmark tests reveal Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite outperforming Apple’s M5. The chip completed a Blender rendering task in 3 minutes 31 seconds compared to the M5’s 5 minutes 33 ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

This has been happening for a few months now, and it's finally at the point I have to dig in. The net effect is that encodes are stopping short of completion. The most recent example is a movie that ...