AMD is announcing Ryzen 9000 and Zen 5, the second CPU architecture for its AM5 platform. [credit: AMD ] It’s been almost two years since...

Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 9 AI 300 series is a new chip and a new naming scheme. (credit: AMD) Less than two years ago, AMD announced that it was overhauling its numbering scheme for laptop processors. Each digit in its four-digit CPU model numbers picked up a new meaning which, with the help of a detailed reference sheet,...

AMD's Ryzen AI 300 series is its next-gen laptop platform, and the first to support Copilot+ PC features. [credit: AMD ] AMD’s next-generation...

Enlarge (credit: Estradaanton/Getty Images) You’re driving somewhere, eyes on the road, when you start to feel a tingling sensation in your lower abdomen. That extra-large Coke you drank an hour ago has made its way through your kidneys into your bladder. “Time to pull over,” you think, scanning for an exit ramp. To most...

Enlarge / A slice through an ice core showing bubbles of trapped air. (credit: British Antarctic Survey) Did the massive scale of death in the Americas following colonial contact in the 1500s affect atmospheric CO2 levels? That’s a question scientists have debated over the last 30 years, ever since they noticed a sharp...

Enlarge / NASA commander Butch Wilmore exits the Starliner spacecraft Saturday following the scrubbed launch attempt. A computer controlling the Atlas V rocket's countdown triggered an automatic hold less than four minutes prior to liftoff of Boeing's commercial Starliner spacecraft Saturday, keeping the crew test flight...