This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of ...

Tom Fenton tests whether upgrading a Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 from 16 GB to 32 GB of RAM improves everyday office, benchmark and local AI performance.

People who lack a mind’s eye, a condition known as aphantasia, tend to struggle with recognizing faces. A recent study ...

Microplastics which float through the oceans have a "memory" of their previous movements which influences the way they travel ...

A research team has developed the world's first chip that can match the speed at which the human brain functions. The study, ...

RAM prices have jumped 300-400% since 2025. Find out if your PC actually needs more memory or if there's a slowdown somewhere else.

New data from studies presented at the 2026 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in London widened the ...

Crucially, the framework demonstrates that brain computation requires only about 1.26 times the Landauer limit, operating at ...

Chrome still has the reputation, but my own benchmark testing identified the real culprit.

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As the global race for AI moves forward, a shortage of memory chips has begun to drive up prices of consumer electronics and may lead to product shortages.

Flow. The fabled state of zen, where the world falls away save for the task directly in front of you. It’s a kind of euphoria-filled moment that’s so hard to attain and one you can only comprehend ...