For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

If you want to manage apps running in the background, open the Recent apps screen again and tap Active in background. You can then select the specific app you want to close. To optimize your phone's ...

Shape memory alloys are exotic materials that can be deformed at room temperature and return to their "remembered," ...

The short answer: it depends on the operating system. For Windows machines, 16GB of RAM has become the operational minimum on new consumer laptops. Modern workloads have ramped up to such a degree ...

Memory shortages thanks to the AI boom are causing prices to balloon for consumers. Credit: Nestea06 via iStock / Getty Images Plus It seems certain at this point that laptop and smartphone prices are ...

Cutting corners: With memory prices soaring amid the AI boom, now is arguably the worst time to build a PC. Still, users with no other options may want to consider pairing laptop RAM with desktop ...

The ongoing memory shortage and resulting price hikes continue to impact various markets, and according to TrendForce, smartphone, notebook, and console manufacturers, are about to react. The impact ...

Michelle Ehrhardt is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Earlham College, where she also double majored in theatre. She also holds an MFA in game design ...

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers ...

Abstract: Compute Express Link (CXL) memory brings extra bandwidth and capacity via Peripheral-Component-Interconnect-Express-based memory expansion beyond double-data-rate-based dynamic random-access ...

Micron will exit its Crucial-branded consumer memory business by the end of February 2026. The increase in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware has hit the consumer PC market hard by ...