Maximum PC Magazine - November 2024

In this issue

THE ART OF ETHICAL AI - Zak Storey asks: is AI a force for good, or a ticking time bomb?

ADVANCED ENCRYPTION - Nate Drake explains how DES transformed the cryptography landscape...

The Eagle has landed

Intel's Lunar Lake arrives on the mobile market

3 mins

US wants Nvidia & Apple to use Intel's foundries

THE US GOVERNMENT has been busy over the past year or two handing out large subsidies and grants to help boost local silicon manufacturing efforts. Intel was once the undisputed leader in the race for ever smaller and faster fabrication nodes, but after major stumbles in the transition from 14nm-class to 10nm-class technologies, TSMC passed it by.

2 mins

PS5 Pro makes the PC more relevant than ever

THE PS5 PRO has arrived. It's far, far more powerful than the plain old PS5, but it's also a lot more expensive at $700. Does the PS5 Pro make gaming PCs look like good value again? Or are GPU prices still so high, you'd have to be very serious about PC gaming to overlook Sony's latest console?

3 mins

RYZEN 9000 UNLEASHED

Zak Storey puts AMD's latest chips and motherboards to the test

4 mins

THE ART OF ETHICAL AI

Is the advent of AI a force for good, or a ticking time bomb?

10+ mins

THE RACE FOR ADVANCED ENCRYPTION

Strong encryption hasn't always been freely available to the public. Nate Drake tells the story of how the first Data Encryption Standard transformed the cryptography landscape

10 mins

WHAT IS ZTNA?

Nate Drake explores the concept of ZTNA and the obstacles businesses face with its adoption

10 mins

Find files and apps quickly

THE WINDOWS SEARCH TOOL—accessible from the Taskbar—is OK as it goes, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.

10 mins

Rip the perfect media file

MEDIA FILES COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, and things are further complicated by the fact that video (and audio) files are constructed using codecs, which are required to decode and encode the various streams.

10 mins

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

AMD's top Zen 5 CPU looks very similar to its predecessor on paper

3 mins

Acer Nitro 14

AMD puts on a good show, but it still lacks punch

3 mins

Gigabyte F027Q2

Speed is of the essence with this OLED screen

2 mins

AndaSeat Kaiser 4 XL

A chair as big and as comfortable as they come

3 mins

Acer Predator GM712

2008 called, it wants its projector back

3 mins

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro

Razer's pro controller is even better than Microsoft's

3 mins

Razer BlackWidow V4 75%

Solid and compact, with hot-swappable switches

3 mins

Elgato Wave Neo

The Kanye West of mics: Easy to get into, but a little weird

3 mins

Elgato Facecam Neo

Always sees us in the best light but lacks focus: 8/10 boyfriend, er, camera

3 mins

Frostpunk 2

Endure a blizzard of tough choices and lasting consequences in the survival city builder sequel

5 mins

Google Gemini vs. ChatGPT

Which LLM currently holds the crown?

5 mins

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