SysMain' was draining my computer's background memory. Here's how to find the biggest culprits behind your sluggish PC.

iotop works like top, but it watches your disk instead of your CPU.

Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

PCWorld tested Claude’s new ‘computer use’ feature that allows the AI to control Mac interfaces by taking screenshots and performing tasks like opening apps and typing. The feature requires a paid ...

Real-time PC hardware monitoring on a WT32-SC01 ESP32 touchscreen display. An open-source alternative to AIDA64 sensor panels — using LibreHardwareMonitor, Python and a 480×320 TFT with touch ...

These days, you don’t need an absolute rocket of a laptop or a supermassive tower PC if all you’re doing is running Office apps, browsing the web, streaming Netflix, managing emails, and other ...

The AI hardware boom is sending memory prices sky-high, so knowing exactly how much you need is more critical than ever. I've worked out the most realistic RAM goals for every type of PC. I’ve been a ...

See how new updates to computer‑using agents improve UI automation with secure credentials, detailed monitoring, and scalable Cloud PC capacity. When we first introduced computer-using agents ...

Abstract: Many-core architecture is a promising architecture to accelerate increasingly larger neural networks (NNs). Most many-core architectures couple a standalone CPU core and a tensor core ...

Building a computer is never cheap, but it can be a particularly frustrating experience when the price of a specific component inflates well beyond what it would typically go for. A few years ago, it ...