I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and ...

His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps.  My ...

I assigned frontend development and UI design to Antigravity, backend development and database management to Claude Code, and the study algorithms, spaced repetition system, and testing to Codex. I ...

What they got was pretty bare-bones, so they 3D printed a case to house everything, then attached a XIAO ESP32-C3 to the ...

Over on the Raspberry Pi blog, the Foundation announced the new price increase for the Raspberry Pi 5 16 GB board. Citing "a ...

Frontends, as they're called, give you a user-friendly way to browse and play your games, and RetroArch is one of the most ...

Frigate is one of those things I couldn't see myself running my smart home without. It's the very reason having a dedicated ...

He started writing for XDA, covering all things mobile, but has transitioned to covering deals, with a mission to shed light ...

However, in 2026, transcribing speech to text shouldn't need a subscription. I wanted something that runs locally and doesn't really need powerful hardware to boot. So, I installed Parakeet, a speech ...

With RAM and GPU prices losing touch with reality this year, I think Intel's 8th-gen lineup deserves another look, especially if all you want is a general-purpose PC that can also handle some gaming ...

To keep this experiment as fair as possible, I decided to stick with the default AI model in each coding tool. That meant ...