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.
LinkedIn now lets users flag posts as "seems like AI slop", after detection firm Pangram found over 40% of long-form posts on the platform are fully...
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NVIDIA has confirmed fall 2026 for the first RTX Spark laptops, pairing a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU and up to 128GB of...
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Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the previous 23 versions combined, as Google's multi-agent AI pipeline uncovers flaws including a 13-year-old sandbox...
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AMD has launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system pairing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with EPYC Venice CPUs, claiming 15% more FP4 compute than NVIDIA's Vera Rubin...
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A new BNEF forecast projects US data centers will consume around 194 gigawatts by 2035, one fifth of national electricity, and the grid is not building...
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OpenAI is reportedly developing a $300 to $400 doughnut-shaped smart speaker designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, with moving parts and ambitions to replace your phone.
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Anthropic will embed imperceptible, model-level watermarks into Claude's text output, marks that survive copy-paste and some editing, as the EU AI Act demands identifiability.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 returns to Vice City and opens up the state of Leonida, following Jason and Lucia as a simple score spirals into a...
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Rockstar has locked in Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders for June 25, with an $79.99 standard edition and a $99.99 Ultimate Edition ahead of the November...
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Grand Theft Auto 6 launches November 19 on consoles only. Rockstar has done this before, and the history of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2...
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