Android phones rarely slow down overnight. Performance usually erodes in small, frustrating steps as apps pile up temporary ...

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On numerous occasions we've reported on an issue where Safari stalls when attempting to access URLs, displaying the status message "Contacting..." for several minutes, or never accessing the site ...

Facing a power wall and the limit of physics, chip makers are in a constant battle to reengineer and re-evaluate ways to build a better CPU. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

One of the basic troubleshooting steps if you encounter a problem with a Steam game is to clear the Steam download cache. This is also helpful if the Steam client itself is lagging or opens slow. Some ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

AMD’s 7800X3D and 7950X3D hold the top spot in CPUs for gaming, not because they have the most cores or the highest clock speeds, but because they have the most cache. But what is CPU cache, anyway?

ZDNET's key takeaways Clearing browser and app cache can fix a slow Mac and free up space.Safari, Chrome, and your apps all ...