The tech giant this week will begin warning Mac users that 32-bit applications are not desirable. It’s part of an overall move to remove 32-bit application support from the operating system at some undetermined point in the future. When you download macOS 10.13.4 and open a 32-bit app, you’ll receive a notification that tells you the software is “not optimized” for the Mac. The information will be displayed only once and won’t include any mention of if or when exactly Apple will nix 32-bit application support from its operating system, according to Computerworld....

Right now, you’re probably thinking: “Rainbow Six Extraction? The game that launched earlier this year and was forgotten in a month?” Yes, that Rainbow Six Extraction. Now I bet you’re thinking: “Why would I purchase a laptop featuring designs from a game I don’t care about?” That’s totally fair, but hear me out! The Crosshair 15 does a good job of balancing its design elements without making overt references to its source material....

MSI GE76 Raider pricing and configurations MSI GE76 Raider pricing and configurations Whew, all this power doesn’t come cheap. The MSI GE76 Raider I reviewed is $4,199 and is decked out with a 2.5-GHz Intel Core i9-12900HK processor with 32GB of RAM, a pair of 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen 4 SSDs, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU with 16GB of VRAM and a 17.3-inch, 1920 x 1080 display with a 360Hz refresh rate and a 3-millisecond response rate....

Workstation in gaming rig’s clothing The WT72 looks pretty bad-ass for a workstation, and that’s because it uses the same frame as the company’s GT72 Dominator line of gaming notebooks, albeit with one distinctive change. Instead of the red-and-white backlit dragon emblem, the WT72’s brushed-black aluminum lid is adorned with a gleaming MSI emblem set above a green-and-black workstation sigil. The majority of the laptop’s interior is made of black aluminum with the exception of the semiglass palm rest....

The Spectre-like flaws, referred to as Variant 4 in a blog post by Intel’s Leslie Culbertson, executive vice president and general manager of Product Assurance and Security at Intel, were first reported in early May by the German computer magazine C’T, which had been told of the flaws by then-unnamed researchers (some of whom worked for Microsoft (opens in new tab) and Google) and called the flaws Spectre NG, or Next Generation....

What is GeForce Experience? GeForce Experience is Nvidia’s proprietary software suite comprising five separate applications, including Game Optimization, GameStream, ShadowPlay, Battery Boost and LED Visualizer. The software is meant to complement your GeForce graphics card, providing one-button solutions for game optimization or live streaming. Which systems support the software? Realizing that the average life of a laptop is more than three years, Nvidia has some very generous system requirements. As far as operating systems go, the minimum you can get away with is Windows Vista, although you should make sure your device has DirectX 11 installed....

However, there are some first-time hitches that need to be worked out. The audio profile needs a bit more tuning and some of the touch controls could use some tweaking. But music lovers looking for a pair of inexpensive truly wireless earbuds should give the S500W a try. Panasonic RZ-S500W Design Panasonic RZ-S500W Design Panasonic isn’t going to set the world on fire with the S500W’s design. The majority of the outer casing is made of grayish-white matte plastic chassis....