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The Raspberry Pi has become the de facto option for single-board computers, thanks to its large community and growing library of online resources. The platform is capable of handling everything from light computing tasks to continuous server-esque deployments. My own home automation system ran off a Pi 3 stashed away in the closet for years.…

Five years is a long time in the MacBook world. Each generation of Apple’s laptops usually come with new features and specs that are better than the MacBooks that preceded it, like faster processors and more memory. Yet even with these additions, the starting price of MacBooks don’t tend to shift all that much from…

Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. 

Take a look at any two DDR5 kits, and all that’ll separate them is a pair of numbers on the box. Whether those numbers matter for gaming depends on preference and the thickness of your wallet. Moving up from the slowest to a mid-range kit might bag you a little bit of extra performance, but…

Open Task Manager on a Windows 11 PC, and it’s easy to panic no matter how much RAM you have. Even without many apps open, your computer will likely be using more than 50 percent of its memory. And while this seems like a problem, most of the time it isn’t. While 16GB of RAM is the…