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Is This Intel’s Last Stand?
I’ve been following Intel for 20 years, and things have never looked this bad. Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs have a serious instability problem, and it’s the last thing the company needs as it struggles to turn its chip-manufacturing fabs ar
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Digitise Your Old Media
IT WILL TAKE 15 mins YOU WILL LEARN How to digitise prints, negatives, and slides YOU’LL NEED Photomyne (Free, IAPs), iOS 15 or later Thanks to our ever-present iPhones, we are spoiled when it comes to shooting, editing and sharing thousands of phot
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU
PRICE N/A WEB amd.com Hot off the fab, the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (codename: Strix Point) uses the latest 4nm AMD Zen 5 architecture and incorporates improved CPU performance, an upgraded iGPU and an XDNA-2 based NPU. The HX 370 is the middle chi
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Taking Computers To The NeXT Level
Inspirational stories from computing’s long-distant past In summer 1985, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs rebuffed three offers to become a professor. “I told all of the universities that I thought I would be an awful professor,” he later revealed in an
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New Windows Update Delivers Major AMD Zen 5 Boost
Everything you need to know from the month in tech Back when AMD previewed the Zen 5 architecture, it promised an IPC gain averaging 16% over equivalent Zen 4 parts. While the new chips handily beat out the older ones in heavily threaded benchmarks,
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Netgear Orbi 970 Series Quad-band WiFi 7 Mesh 3-Pack
PRICE $4,299 WEB www.netgear.com/au We’ve been very impressed with Wi-Fi 7, as its performance and coverage has opened the door to applications like UHD video editing across wireless networks. Now, here’s a new Netgear mesh system that costs... wait
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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
PRICE $609 (9700X), $479 (9600X) WEB amd.com Zen 5 is finally here for desktop PCs. The first releases are the six core Ryzen 5 9600X, and with two more cores, four more threads, and a tiny bit more clock, the Ryzen 7 9700X. AMD has stuck to the sam
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Gadgets
This under-monitor soundbar from Australia’s BlueAnt would look great under any PC or Mac, but particularly the latest iMacs and AIOs, thanks to its slick design and the fact that it’s available in any one of five matching colours: Pink, Blue, Green,
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Make Office better
Version 24.2 of LibreOffice, released in January, added a password-strength meter that indicates whether passwords you’ve added to documents, spreadsheets and presentations are strong enough. First, click File at the top, then ‘Save As…’. In the box,
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WD Gold 24TB
PRICE $1,262 WEB www.westerndigital.com The WD Gold 24TB comes as the largest capacity hard drive currently available – other 24TB drives exist, but nothing larger can be purchased. It competes with the best hard drives primarily by offering more st
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Hey AI: What Do My Dog’s Barks Mean?
We explore the trends and technologies that are set to shape the future Woof, woof. You stare at your dog’s fluffy face and wonder two things: what does she want, and how do I make her stop? AI researchers are working on a way to answer that first q
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Market Watch
$1,899, tinyurl.com/APC537mw This system looks quite interesting. Coming in near the entry level of gaming rigs, not only does it give you 32GB of RAM, but it also offers a capacious 2TB of SSD storage and even gives you a Ti variant of the RTX 4060,
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Make Web Browsing Fun Again
I spend a lot of time testing browsers and finding interesting things to say about them. This was much easier before Chrome, Edge and Firefox switched to incremental releases, back when each new version introduced exciting tools, rather than ‘bug fix
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Riven
PRICE $50.95 PLATFORM PC, Mac, Meta Quest 2 & 3 WEB cyan.com/games/riven Atrus. Linking books. Ages. Weird, weird, puzzles. Riven, like its prequel Myst, is one of those old games that feels a little familiar – a little revered, even – to just about
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The Problem Solvers
Is there any reason why Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium flags up – and blocks – IP addresses that appear to be linked to my VPN (Private Internet Access)? Is this some cynical attempt to get me to switch to its own VPN product instead? Nicole J Vil
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Microsoft Surface Pro 11 OLED
PRICE From $2,699 +keyboard WEB microsoft.com We are now up to the 11th edition of the Surface Pro, and the latest model is powered by the new Arm-based Qualcomm 12-core Snapdragon X Elite CPU with Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU. The now iconic detachab
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Browser Tips
Google has now added several AI features to Chrome and launched an Android app for its AI chatbot Gemini (previously called Bard), but – at the time of writing – these aren’t yet available in Australia. However, you can interact with Gemini by visiti
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Samsung ViewFinity S80UD
PRICE $799 WEB https://www.samsung.com/au After being deluged with expensive, bleeding-edge gaming monitors, it was almost refreshing to have Samsung’s ViewFinity S80UD arrive at our door. It’s a 32-inch, UHD monitor whose features focus on OH&S mor
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Mourning Tide
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC WEB bit.ly/MourningTide NORMAL FISHING IN A NORMAL SEA. Mourning Tide offers a lovely bit of fishing, no monsters allowed. Hmm, that’s a funny way of spelling ‘morning’. And that’s an alarming-looking fish. Oh no. Lovecraft has
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Lake
PRICE Free; Pro subscription $3.99/week; $11.99/month; $59.99/year NEEDS iPadOS 14 later WEB lakecolouring.com The Apple Pencil is one of the iPad’s best features, giving you a highly realistic drawing experience directly on your Apple tablet. This
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Ultimate Ears Everboom
PRICE $349.95 WEB www.ultimateears.com/en-au Boasting 360 degree sound in robust package, the Everboom , from Logitech subsidiary Ultimate Ears, is squarely aimed at outdoor and party people. Connecting is fuss free via Bluetooth or NFC for Android
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Editorial Editor: Ben Mansill ben.mansill@futurenet.comSenior Journalist: Shaun PrescottSenior Journalist: Lindsay HandmerSenior Journalist: Chris SzewczykGroup Art Director: Troy Coleman Contributors Kerry Brunskill, George Cairns, John-Anthony Di
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Dungeons of Hinterberg
PRICE $45.99 PLATFORM PC, XBS/X WEB dungeonsofhinterberg.com Luisa is a young lawyer from Vienna, and she’s burned out. Dungeons of Hinterberg leans into millennial malaise and twists it: she’s going to take a little break to find herself in a pictur
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SanDisk Pro-Blade
PRICE $245 (1TB); $392 (2TB); $613 (4TB) WEB www.westerndigital.com Western Digital unveiled the mouth-filling SanDisk Professional Pro-Blade modular SSD ecosystem in mid-2022 to serve the needs of the professional market. The Pro-Blade family compr
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Old games, new perspectives RELEASE August, 2017 DEVELOPER Ninja Theory PUBLISHER Ninja Theory LINK ninjatheory.com Senua is unlike any other character I’ve come across in videogames. This remains to this day, seven years after Ninja Theory introduc
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OneDrive vs Google Drive
ONEDRIVE Free Tier, www.microsoft.com GOOGLE DRIVE Free Tier, drive.google.com Tech giants Microsoft and Google each offer their own respective cloud storage services and web apps. OneDrive is built into Windows, so requires minimal setup. Windows 1
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Glow 24.09
NEEDS Windows 10 or 11 WEB github.com/roines45/glow A few months ago it looked like Glow had reached its final version, but the popularity of the program has persuaded its developer to keep it going. That’s good news for us because the free system-i
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We Pay Too Much For Electronics In Australia
Consumers in Australia are all too familiar with cost-of-living pressures. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and wage growth has not kept pace. Put simply, a dollar today is worth less than a dollar yesterday. As someone who has spent a lot of time
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Reviews
33 Microsoft Surface Pro 34 Asus ZenBook S16 35 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU 36 AMD Ryzen 7 9700X CPU 38 Samsung ViewFinity S80UD 32 39 Asus ROG Swift OLED PG32UCD 40 WD Gold 24TB 41 SanDisk Pro-Blade 42 Netgear Orbi 970 43 Ultimate Ears Everboom Speake
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Smart Pi Wi-Fi
If your access point is for the benefit of the technically challenged, a robust 3D-printed housing increases longevity. Visit www.thingiverse.com or https://models.makewithtech.com to find 3D-printable templates. While everything we discus here can
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