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Acemagic K5: 30-second review When this hardware first came to me, it was called the Acemagic KRON mini K5, but somewhere along the line it got rebranded as just the plain old K5. Built around Intel's Core 5 Processor 320, a chip better known by its original codename, Wildcat Lake. This is the interesting bit. It is Intel's first outing for the 18A process on a mainstream mini PC part, and that matters more than the modest core count suggests. Six cores split two ways sit at the heart of this silicon. Two performance cores handle the heavy lifting, while four efficient cores take on background tasks and keep power draw sensible. Turbo tops out at 4.6GHz, which is plenty for a machine this size. The headline figure is AI throughput. ACEMAGIC quotes 40 TOPS across the whole platform, with the NPU alone good for 16 TOPS and the Xe graphics core contributing up to 20 TOPS of its own. That put...

If you have years of photos, videos, backups and other large files, a 24TB external hard drive gives you an enormous amount of room to store them on, without having to install internal drives or resort to pricey paid cloud storage. Best for: Professionals who needs huge amounts of desktop storage for backups, photographs, videos and other large files without installing an internal drive. The deal: The Seagate 24TB Expansion External Desktop Hard Drive is now $690 (was $830) at Best Buy . Why it matters: A single 24TB drive provides enough capacity to store large archives and backups that might otherwise be spread across several smaller drives or hosted online. Today's best Seagate external HDD deal 24TB Expansion External Desktop Hard Drive: was $829.96 now $689.99 This external desktop hard drive provides 24TB storage, USB 3.0 connectivity, Windows and Mac compatibility, Toolkit backup soft...

Marlan Space and Loft Orbital announce $1bn program to grow the Altair AI Earth observation constellation from ten satellites to fifty The fleet, which is funded by money from a UAE-based investor, Marlan Space will leverage French AI lab Mistral AI's models onboard None of the first ten satellites (which are in production) have launched yet, with a stated timeline of five years for deployment French President Emmanuel Macron used the stage at recent the International Space Summit in Paris to announce a $1 billion program led by Abu Dhabi's Marlan Space and Loft Orbital. The cash infusion takes their Altair Earth observation constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with French AI company Mistral supplying the models that run onboard. The satellites will carry radar, optical and other sensors and are designed to interpret what they see before anything reaches the ground, sending an alert w...

AI models are becoming quickly outdated as they’re replaced with newer versions Most AI tokens are used on models available for less than four months Open-weight models are now more popular than closed AI models New data from Vercel’s AI Gateway claims AI models are becoming outdated faster than ever as new versions are introduced. Token spend is increasingly on newer models – most of which have only been available for the past three months – and as use increases, token price is dropping. Simultaneously, Vercel's report suggests the open-weight models are beginning to dominate, with the majority of tokens spent on the models with tunable options over the closed black box systems. A key example of this is Fable 5, Anthropic’s most capable model, which lost out to Anthropic’s own Opus 5 as well as OpenAI’s Astra. But upstart models, such as TypeSafe AI’s Jev, are also having an impact. Token pr...

Unlike most 3D printers available today, the FLSUN T1 arrived in a relatively flat box, which was in stark contrast to the tall machine in the images. However, after about an hour of building, sipping coffee and double-checking, the machine was ready to go. Nothing too tricky on the construction side, though I needed to double-check the screws after the first few runs to fix some print quality issues. Once the machine was complete and I stepped back, the T1 was instantly impressive and stood out from the other desktop 3D printers in the workshop. While Cartesian bed-slingers and increasingly CoreXY machines dominate the market, the T1 uses a Delta mechanism, with its print head suspended between three rapidly moving arms above a circular build platform. Prusa Research is one of the few other mainstream companies to still produce a printer of this style, but that model is aimed at the pro market w...

Watch Ravens vs Cowboys FREE on 5 (UK) / Virgin Media Play (Ireland) Unlock your stream with IPVanish (save up to 83%) Ravens vs Cowboys kick-off: Sun, Sep 27 at 4.25pm ET / 9.25pm BST / 6.25am AEST (Mon) The Ravens vs Cowboys is the very first NFL game to take place at the legendary Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, and although the playing surface has been in an atrocious state for some time, quarterbacks Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott shouldn't have any trouble laying on the samba. The issue for the Cowboys is that this is about as bad a matchup as there is. They've given up the third-most rushing yards per game in the 2026 NFL season so far, while the Ravens have racked up the fifth-most rushing yards per game. And Baltimore should rank even higher on that list. With the team 7-6 up at the interval, new offensive coordinator Declan Doyle effectively pulled Derrick Henry for the second ha...

Panasonic Let's Note SC7 weighs just 919 grams but passed drop tests from both 76 and 30 cm The chassis meets the US military's MIL-STD-810H toughness standard Battery testing returned nearly 23 hours of continuous everyday use Japanese manufacturers have long built a reputation for producing remarkably light business notebooks, with some models weighing under a kilogram entirely. Panasonic has now expanded that lightweight lineup with the Let's Note SC7, a compact notebook weighing just 919 grams total. The company also carried over its distinct circular wheel pad, letting users scroll by tracing a finger along the pointing device's outer rim. Packs a full-day power into a small frame The SC7 features a 12.4-inch display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, taller than the widescreen format common on most rival laptops today, showing more vertical content at once, improving efficiency when ...

There are many audacious and commendable feats in gaming. Taking down Consort Radahn, platforming through the Path of Pain, filling your entire Pokedex, to name but a few. However, despite personally doing all these things, one task chewed me up and spat me out repeatedly. One that, on paper, isn't all that tough at all. From the Backlog Every gamer has a backlog — and that’s no different for us at TechRadar Gaming. From the Backlog is a series about overdue first plays, revisiting classics, returning to online experiences, or rediscovering and appreciating established favorites in new ways. Read the full series here . The task: To get through Act One of the mammoth CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3). The 'act one syndrome' brought on by the sheer volume of content and the steep learning curve of BG3 is something that just about everyone has endured at some point when exploring Faerûn...

After one week of World of Warcraft: Forever' s beta, I have to say, my initial impression is one of cautious optimism. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting, but I think Blizzard could, just maybe , be onto something here. Like many other veteran WoW players, I've been dabbling over the years. A little bit of retail here, a little bit of Seasons of Discovery there. But nothing has quite matched that initial experience from all the way back in 2005 when I first created my Tauren Hunter and stepped into the world of Azeroth. That's made spending a full week with the closed beta for World of Warcraft: Forever a particularly interesting experience. Like many others, I've gone into it with plenty of nostalgia for the original game, but I'm looking for that little extra to pull me back in for another round. I'll get into specifics soon, but there are some really posit...