Christopher Harper

Christopher Harper

Contributing Writer

Christopher Harper has been a successful freelance tech writer specializing in PC hardware and gaming since 2015, and ghostwrote for various B2B clients in High School before that. Outside of work, Christopher is best known to friends and rivals as an active competitive player in various eSports (particularly fighting games and arena shooters) and a purveyor of music ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Killer Mike to the Sonic Adventure 2 soundtrack.

Articles by: Christopher Harper

UTM SE emulator runs Win 11 on iPhone

Windows 11 runs on the iPhone 15 Pro — Tiny11 and UTM SE used to create a 'terribly slow' pocket PC

By Christopher Harper published

A Twitter user has shown a slim Windows 11 build, Tiny11 Core, emulated on an iPhone.

Some headlining Intel XeSS games as of July 2024, from Intel's official page

Intel XeSS receives some minor improvements — tech still lacks a native Frame Generation feature

By Christopher Harper published

Intel XeSS SDK gets updated to version 1.3.1.

Neural network doing spatial mapping of a Minecraft environment, and being able to predict subsequent "steps" (images) with a mean-squared error rate of 0.094%.

Neural network learns to make maps with Minecraft — code available on GitHub

By Christopher Harper published

Neural networks are taught to create cognitive spatial maps of environments using Minecraft and predictive coding.

AMD Anti-Lag

AMD Anti-Lag steps out of its comfort zone — tech arrives on Vulkan 1.3.291, bringing Anti-Lag benefits outside of DirectX for the first time

By Christopher Harper published

The Vulkan API gets an AMD Anti-Lag addition.

Windows 11 Logo

Windows 11 Update 23H2 is now in broad deployment after fixing critical bugs

By Christopher Harper published

Microsoft finally finishes launching Windows 11 Update 23H2, so any user who checks Windows Update can receive it.

Official screenshot of the streaming service selection dialogue posted to Xbox's Twitter following the addition of GeForce Now.

Microsoft will soon implement Nvidia GeForce Now alongside Xbox Cloud Gaming for its first-party titles listed on Xbox.com

By Christopher Harper published

Xbox.com's Play With Cloud button will soon support Nvidia GeForce Now alongside Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly Project xCloud).

Home-cooled liquid nitrogen being used to levitate a magnet.

Enthusiast makes their own liquid nitrogen with readily available refrigeration components

By Christopher Harper published

Hyperspace Pirate on YouTube walks through his process of making liquid nitrogen with his homemade cryocooler

Google Gemini Advanced

User alleges Gemini AI scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without explicit permission — Google says otherwise

By Christopher Harper last updated

Google Gemini AI is malfunctioning or lying to Google Drive users about privacy controls, and it hasn't gone unnoticed.

Official render of the two colors of the Beelink GTi14: Frost Silver (left) and Space Gray (right).

Meteor Lake-powered mini-PC arrives with an external expansion slot to connect GPUs — Beelink GTi14 sports a latchable PCIe x8 slot and integrated 145W power supply

By Christopher Harper published

The Beelink GTi14 has an Intel Core 7 155H or Core Ultra 9 185H, 32TB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe Gen 4 SSD.

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Official Render

AMD's new Zen 5 flagship gets benchmarked — Ryzen 9 9950X Engineering Sample isn't as impressive in Blender at maximum power settings

By Christopher Harper published

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X ES gets a full suite of Blender benchmarks at different PPT/TDP targets.

Official Warframe screenshot from its Steam page

Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates

By Christopher Harper published

Warframe developers sound off on Intel's ongoing 13th Gen and 14th Generation CPU instability issues.

AMD

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Engineering Sample gets a full suite of Blender benchmarks at various TDPs, showcasing major efficiency improvements

By Christopher Harper published

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X engineering sample gets thoroughly benchmarked in Blender.

Airplane Wi-Fi

Software engineer achieved free plane Wi-Fi at a terrible cost — PySkyWiFi bypasses firewall but is limited to plain text endeavors

By Christopher Harper published

Software engineer Robert Heaton develops and shares PySkyWiFi, a solution for achieving free plane Wi-Fi with horrible but amusing caveats.

Official render of the Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT

Minisforum's latest Mini PC flaunts an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and an RX 7600M XT in a slim-looking case

By Christopher Harper published

Minisforum launched its slim AtomMan G7 PT Mini PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 7945HX and a Radeon RX 7600M XT.

Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft raises Xbox Game Pass prices — changes also include overhauled tiers, and the new bottom tier can no longer play Day 1 games

By Christopher Harper published

Xbox Live Gold has also been renamed Game Pass Core for some reason.

Filesharing applications

Universities list LimeWire, Kazaa, and other defunct software in piracy warning

By Christopher Harper published

Spurred by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which includes anti-piracy measures, American colleges and universities must send warnings like these.

Black Myth: Wukong

Nvidia bundles Black Myth: Wukong with RTX 40-series GPUs — RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 are not eligible, though

By Christopher Harper published

Black Myth: Wukong will be bundled with RTX 40 Series GPUs, and DLSS 3 will receive updates for it and other games ahead of its release.

Windows 10 with all registry values set to 0...can no longer run .exe files, among other oddities.

Here's what happens when you change every registry value in Windows 10 to zero — technically, the OS still boots up

By Christopher Harper published

It turns out that Windows 10 can still run with all of its registry values set to 0—kind of.

A cropped photo of the first-ever copy of Windows 95 taken from the production line, by currently-retired, then-Microsoft VP Brad Silverberg.

Ex-Microsoft exec unearths first-ever copy of Windows 95, in pristine condition and hidden from view since its release

By Christopher Harper published

The very first copy of Windows 95 was uncovered by one of Microsoft's ex-VPs, Brad Silverberg.

Official render of the HP LaserJet Pro 3002dwe, one of the printers being discontinued.

HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash — Instant Ink subscription gets the boot, too

By Christopher Harper published

HP has discontinued its cheaper e-series printers, which required an HP+ subscription and Internet connection to stay active in exchange for lower pricing.

On-launch AMD Barcelona architecture CPUs were struck with the TLB bug in 2007, and required either performance-cutting software patching or purchase of a revised CPU to fix.

AMD engineer discusses firm's 'Layoff Bug' — infamous Barcelona CPU bug revisited 16 years later

By Christopher Harper published

Phil Park, an AMD memory and Fabric performance engineer, discusses a critical Windows Vista-era AMD CPU bug that struck Barcelona CPUs.

Shot from Champions Tactics' YouTube trailer.

Ubisoft will add NFTs into Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles

By Christopher Harper published

Ubisoft is still intent on 'Web3' via an NFT-backed digital card game.

Bluegen's dual-screen OKPad tablet in use from its Kickstarter trailer.

E-Ink touchscreen and IPS panel collide in dual-screen laptop — $199 Bluegen OKPad all-in-one launches on Kickstarter

By Christopher Harper published

A dual-screen E-Ink tablet has launched on Kickstarter.

Passwords being typed

Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords

By Christopher Harper published

The RockYou2024 leak compiles 9,948,575,739 unique passwords in one place.

The "Sony PS5 PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit" sold on eBay.

PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit sold for $6,500 — thinly-disguised Sony PS5 dev kit slips past Sony

By Christopher Harper published

PS5 Dev kit gets sold in a disguise that is just thin enough to avoid Sony's legal team.

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