How-To Geek on MSN

5 forgotten Microsoft apps that were actually amazing

Microsoft made some great apps, but they over time they've been taken down; you'd really be surprised by how many programs ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Enthusiast rebuilds AA-battery-powered PC, sextuples run time to 30 minutes with 64 batteries

YouTube creator ScuffedBits re-did their experiment and was able to eke out 30 minutes of game time (and a benchmarking ...

Yes, you can run Windows on a MacBook Neo

You might also recall when those same Macs were described as being the fastest PCs to run Windows when using the Parallels ...
Hackaday

Running A PC Off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance

After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, [ScuffedBits] decided to do the scientifically responsible thing and re-ran the experiment with all the peer-reviewed ...

Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data

Worried that your latest ask to a cloud-based AI reveals a bit too much about you? Want to know your genetic risk of disease without revealing it to the services that compute the answer? There is a ...
IGN

Steam Drops Supports for Windows 10 32-Bit, Says It's Only in Use on 0.01% of Systems

Valve has confirmed Steam will be dropping support for 32-bit versions of the Windows 10 operating system. The company said Windows 10 32-bit is used by just 0.01% of users, sparking the change.
Semiconductor Engineering

Ultra-low-bit LLM Inference Allows AI-PC CPUs And Discrete Client GPUs To Approach High-end GPU-Level (Intel)

A new technical paper titled “Pushing the Envelope of LLM Inference on AI-PC and Intel GPUs” was published by researcher at Intel. “The advent of ultra-low-bit LLM models (1/1.58/2-bit), which match ...
TechShout

11 Best BlueStacks Alternatives to Play Android Games and Apps on PC

BlueStacks is a program that lets people run Android apps and games on a computer. It is popular with gamers who prefer to play Android games on a bigger screen and with a keyboard and mouse. Save ...
Liliputing

Bit-Brick Cluster K1 lets you build a 32-core RISC-V computer (by clustering 4 SpacemiT K1 boards)

The SpacemiT K1 is an 8-core RISC-V processor that has been tapped for several single-board computers, laptops, and tablets in the past two years. It’s not exactly the fastest processor available, ...
PC World

Steam kills 32-bit support for Windows

PCWorld reports that Valve has updated Steam for Windows, permanently dropping support for 32-bit systems with the older version losing support by year-end. Most users with modern 64-bit CPUs remain ...
TechSpot

Steam is ending support for 32-bit Windows as it moves fully to 64-bit

Looking ahead: The vast majority of Windows users already run Steam on 64-bit operating systems, even though the client has continued to support a legacy 32-bit version of Windows. That era is ending: ...
IEEE

Implementation of a Compact and Resource-Efficient 32-bit Microcontroller Based on RISC-V Steel on FPGA and ASIC

Abstract: This paper presents the implementation and verification process of a 32-bit microcontroller using the open-source RISC-V Steel 32-bit processor on the FPGA DE2 development kit and ASIC ...