Montech XR Wood Case Review: Low cost, wood accents
Montech’s XR Wood features a unique aesthetic and a budget price, but does it deliver performance? We test it with Intel’s i9-14900K with both the pre-installed fans and with a standardized set of fans to determine its efficiency.
GIDS 2025
GIDS 2025 This was my sixth time speaking at GIDS! My first time was in 2016, so I have only missed out on a few editions during the last 10 years. It is a great conference, with a very engaged audience, so I am happy to be a regular speaker there. The...
Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race
An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keyno...
The VTech Socratic method
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video gam...
