News Hub: Energy & Computing

Today’s headlines across power efficiency, silicon, browsers, and the battery.

Long Reads

Feature
The Hidden Cost of a Browser Tab
Mara Lindqvist • 11 min read
Analysis
What Drains a Laptop Battery, Ranked
Daniel Orthé • 7 min read
Video
Nineteen Seconds That Started It All: YouTube’s First Video
19 sec • Video history
Photo Essay
Inside the Machine: A Visual Tour of Computing Landscapes
20 images • Visual feature

Breaking & Recent

Breaking
LPDDR6 Spec Finalised: Memory Bandwidth Up 40%, Idle Draw Down 18%
2 hours ago • Silicon
News
Background Tab Throttling Arrives by Default on Arm Laptops
4 hours ago • Browsers
News
New 3-nm Display Driver IC Cuts Panel Power by 22%
6 hours ago • Display
Opinion
Dark Mode Isn’t Just Style: The Case for OLED-First Design
8 hours ago • Design
Research
Study: Third-Party Analytics Scripts Account for 34% of Browser CPU Load
Yesterday • Performance
Visual
Electron Microscopy Gallery: Inside a 3-nm Wafer
Yesterday • Silicon

Deep Dives

Deep Dive
How Browser Energy Impact Scores Are Calculated — and Why They’re Wrong
Technical • 9 min read
Deep Dive
P-States, C-States, and the Art of CPU Power Gating Explained
Technical • 12 min read
Deep Dive
Thunderbolt Docks and the 15W Bus Power Problem
Hardware • 6 min read
Deep Dive
WebRTC Camera Feeds: The Background Drain Nobody Talks About
Web • 5 min read

Quick Reads

Tips
Six Settings That Add 90 Minutes to Your Laptop Battery Life Today
2 min read
Tips
The One Browser Extension That Actually Cuts Battery Drain
3 min read
Explainer
What Is Wi-Fi Power Save Mode and Why Does Your Router Keep Disabling It?
4 min read
Explainer
Lithium-Ion vs Lithium-Polymer: Does the Battery Chemistry in Your Laptop Matter?
3 min read
News
Background Tabs Now Get One setInterval Callback per Second
Browser • 2 min read
News
New Efficiency Core Architecture Targets Always-On Workloads Below 100 mW
Silicon • 3 min read