Apple’s latest Mac mini and Mac Studio models are now available, bringing M6, M5 Pro, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra chips with a stronger focus on...
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Managing Editor, Tech News Xplore. Areas of expertise: PC hardware, CPUs and GPUs, gaming handhelds, display technology and space science.
Alex Mercer is the managing editor of Tech News Xplore. A hardware journalist for over a decade, he has benchmarked more CPUs, GPUs and handhelds than he can count, and leads the publication's testing methodology and editorial standards.
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A newly documented Windows malware campaign is turning one of the operating system’s most trusted components against its own defenses. Security researchers investigating an information stealer...
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Valve’s new Steam Frame has barely entered the market, and getting one may already be harder than many PC gamers expected. Community tracking around the headset’s...
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For the past several years, the AI industry has followed a familiar formula: build increasingly powerful language models, give them more reasoning ability, and make them...
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Buying a premium smartphone worth more than ₹160,000 with almost the same speed as ordering snacks or groceries sounds slightly absurd. In India, however, it is...
Read our full coverage of In India, the iPhone 18 Pro Can Now Be Delivered in Just 10 Minutes
Apple has finally entered the foldable phone war, but one of the biggest winners from the iPhone Duo might be the company Apple is trying to...
Read our full coverage of Samsung Could Be Making Money From Every iPhone Duo While Fighting It With the Galaxy Z Fold8
OpenAI’s Codex Micro looks like the kind of gadget you’d expect to see controlling a spaceship in a retro-futuristic game. Glowing keys. A tiny joystick. A...
Read our full coverage of OpenAI Codex Micro Review: This $230 AI Keypad Is Cool, Clever and Very Hard to Justify
Foldable phones have spent years asking buyers to accept a slightly uncomfortable trade-off: pay flagship money for an impressive screen, then spend the next few years...
Read our full coverage of iPhone Duo vs Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Foldable Durability Finally Gets Serious
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro is finally official, and this year’s upgrade looks considerably more substantial than a routine annual processor refresh. The biggest improvements focus on...
Read our full coverage of iPhone 18 Pro Is Official: Apple Pushes Hard on Cameras, Gaming Performance and Battery Life
Apple isn’t trying to reinvent the Apple Watch with a radically different shape this year. Instead, it’s making the device on your wrist substantially better at...
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