Computer brain games may boost white matter after chronic traumatic brain injury

Patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) who complete computerized cognitive games show improved neuroplasticity and cognitive performance, according to new research published in Journal of ...
Medscape

Cognitive Speed Training Tied to Lower Dementia Risk Over 20 Years

In a long-running RCT, older adults who completed adaptive speed-of-processing training with boosters were less likely to ...
PCMag UK

RAM Reality Check: How Much Memory Do You Really Need in Your Next PC?

The AI gold rush has sent demand—and prices—for computer memory shooting skyward. Here’s how to size your PC’s RAM the smart way for real-world use, whether you're scoping out a new system or just ...
HerZindagi

5 Lightweight RTX Gaming Laptops With 16 GB RAM For College Esports Players

Level up your game with the lightweight RTX gaming laptops featuring 16GB RAM. Perfect for college esports players needing power and portability for competitive play, these gadgets come from the ...

What is a GPU? How does it work? | Explained

The story so far: In 1999, California-based Nvidia Corp. marketed a chip called GeForce 256 as “the world’s first GPU”. Its purpose was to make videogames run better and look better. In the 2.5 ...
The Economist

Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

Perovskites, named after a mineral discovered in the Urals in the 19th century, are compounds with the chemical formula ABX 3, where A and B are positively charged metal ions and X is a negatively ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"Creativity is the key": how PC hardware's smaller manufacturers are navigating the RAM shortage disaster

Small and specialist gaming hardware makers tell us how they're enduring, and sometimes even avoiding, the ongoing memory ...
Cult of Mac

Here’s a hopeful sign the M5 Mac Studio isn’t too far away

Thinking of purchasing a Mac Studio? Here's why it might be wise to wait for improved M5 versions coming soon — they look phenomenal.
Circuit Digest

DIY Raspberry Pi Pico Text-to-Speech Using Wit.ai

Type a sentence into the input bar at the top of the Serial Monitor and hit Enter to send it to the Wit.ai API. The console will log " Requesting TTS " followed by " Buffer ready, starting playback ," ...
ZME Science

Computer Chips Designed Like Biological Brains Can Finally Handle Massive Math Problems Without Guzzling Energy Like a Normal Supercomputer

Your brain calculates complex physics every day and you don't even notice. This neuromorphic chip taps into the same idea.
Electronic Design

Lightning Strikes Twice: First ENIAC and Soon the Personal Computer

With AI buying up the worldwide supply of DRAM and hard drives, a wide swath of industries from automotive to cellular to PCs will face Armageddon times.

Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen

A report by IT Home confirms that there seems to have been a small 'crash' in the price of DDR4—a fall of 10 to 20% from its 2025 peak—because "spot memory prices have seen a slight correction, and ...