Archive - Tech Support with Dan Ackerman

The Best Things I Saw at Open Sauce 2025

STEM, 3D printing, robotics, creators...and me!

Jul 25 •

Let's Talk About Handheld Gaming

Nintendo Switch 2, Legion Go S, Steam Deck, and more.

Jul 7 •

June 2025

I Used to Give My AI Cute Nicknames. Now I Call it "The Beast."

How the all-encompassing AI hydra is killing the internet's classic library vibe.

Jun 19 •

Never Stop Never Slopping

AI slop, SEO snake oil, and the great traffic fallacy.

Jun 4 •

May 2025

The Good News and Bad News for Tech, Games, and Media

Plus, hands-on with two killer Nvidia 50-series laptops.

May 19 •

April 2025

My AI Assistant is Not Ready for Prime Time

I thought keeping track of a few calendar appointments and to-do items would be easy. I was wrong.

Apr 29 •

The Tide Turns on AI

Confronting the uncanny valley of shovelware AI news, art, and movies.

Apr 11 •

March 2025

The Lifeboats Are Getting Smaller

Tech media consolidation continues, but deals, sites, and staffs are shrinking.

Mar 29 •

February 2025

The Great GPU Upgrade Adventure

Want 300fps? Check out my Nvidia 5070 Ti installation and first benchmarks to see how.

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Is 2025 the Year of Peak PC Gaming?

Big desktops! Big GPUs! Big Handhelds?

Jan 28 •

CES is now a show about...

AI, gaming, and even robots, it all comes down to new chips.

Jan 10 •

December 2024

The Games of the Year...and Last-Minute Gift Ideas

If Larry David was a gamer, he'd say 2024 was pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Dec 24, 2024 •

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