I am looking for some good tech sites that have longer articles and indepth reviews. Preferably without an obvious biased towards a particular company or brand. edit: I should have clarified what to was looking for. I would like to compile a list of lesser-known but useful websites so that I can stay current on tech news without having to deal with the “fluff” that some of these sites now contain or the never-ending stream of anything remotely technological that you’d receive at the Verge, Ars Technica, etc.

  • lustrum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    Here’s some that I follow:

    • Anandtech[1]: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better
    • Chips and Cheese[2]: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.
    • More than Moore[3]: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.
    • igor’s Lab[4]: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.
    • KGOnTech[5]: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.
    • Krebs on Security[6]: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities
    • EE Times[7]: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech
    • Techspot Featured Articles[8]: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc

    1. https://www.anandtech.com/ ↩︎

    2. https://chipsandcheese.com/ ↩︎

    3. https://morethanmoore.substack.com/ ↩︎

    4. https://www.igorslab.de/en/ ↩︎

    5. https://kguttag.com/ ↩︎

    6. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ↩︎

    7. https://www.eetimes.com/ ↩︎

    8. https://www.techspot.com/features/ ↩︎

    • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Ars Technica has to be some of the most reputable high quality reporting in tech. I got hooked way back when they’d publish twenty plus page reviews covering operating systems.

      • buran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think they still do that. They’ll probably have in-depth reviews of iOS 17 (and its watch and iPad counterparts) on Monday or Tuesday and Sonoma coverage a week after that, so we’ll know for sure soon.

  • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    If i may be so bold, I and a few others write about tech at https://theluddite.org/.

    I focus on the intersection between technology and human decisions. A lot of tech coverage has a techno-optimist, or tech-as-progress default perspective, where tech is almost this inexorable, inevitable, and apolitical force of nature. I strongly disagree with this perspective, which I think is convenient for the powers that be because it obscures that, right now, a few rich humans are making all our tech decisions.

    I also write code for a living, which shockingly few tech writers and commentators have ever done. That makes it possible for me to write stuff like this.

    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Jesus Christ, that is as hilarious as it is painful. You’d think they look at their own click-through stats for a site and realise that it’s popular enough, but you’d be wrong.

      Anyway, you earned yourself a bookmark.

      • Pantoffel@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yes, exactly. I don’t understand their need for content on a site. Shouldn’t it be enough from their point of view to have a as most sites as possible integrating their ads? Why bother about the content?

        • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Working in BI, I’m afraid I have a possible explanation for how it came along. It’s a stupid one and may be entirely erroneous, but it lines up with what I know. Take it with a grain of salt, in any event.

          It probably emerged from some analytics indicating that certain types of websites with certain traits retain a lot of long-term traffic, leading to terribly oversimplified assumptions and resulting guidelines about what makes a website profitable for them.

          Knowing manglement and BI, they might not understand the full complexity of such analyses, and the analysts themselves may not understand it either, and the ones engineering the data models to feed the reports to detect those trends to inform management may have a flawed understanding of both the data structure and the semantics of it, and of the way their facts will filter through into insights and finally decisions.

          So eventually, some analyst shows charts displaying X fact sliced by Y dimension, and the key influencers that emerge from those charts end up being “blog pulls more than no blog”, “traffic scales with content” and so on, and from there, the executives decide the policy to favour sites with blogs and enough content.

            • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              So if I’m reading this right, what you’re saying is that the content bloat exists so that existing engagement metrics look better? That tracks. The idea that they’re grasping entirely wrong facts instead of “just” misunderstanding the dimensions’ causal relations, didn’t occur to me, but given that it’s a simpler and still just as plausible explanation, Occam’s Razor suggests it’s more likely. In fact, I’d bet it’s (more) correct.

              In my naive position as BI developer, I tend to insist my “customers”/consumers focus on clarifying the questions they want to answer, so that I can find the appropriate measures to calculate, then work on narrowing down the disconnect between what data I have and what they want to know.

              Of course, the situation “my consumers have latched on to this specific measure, how do I explain that it doesn’t actually answer the question they’re asking?” and the related problem of “how do I explain that the question they’re asking isn’t quite as simple?” occur often enough, but between the faith in my abilities and understanding of our data (on which I’ve become the de facto authority) and my own practice at picking examples that show such disconnects, it’s usually little more than a routine exercise.

              But most of my consumers (or at least the contacts for my models and reports) are operative or lower management that have either been relying on my service for years now or come to me after word-of-mouth from other people that have, so the bullheadedness of C-level executives just grabbing a single, intuitive measure and holding on to that - actual semantics be damned - is far from my daily business.

              • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Yup that’s about right. I think the obsession with engagement comes from a cultural desire to appear objective. It’s performative more than it is rational.

      • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the broken Internet is just so much dumber than people think. Welcome aboard!

    • Pantoffel@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Great article on Google Adsense :) I accidentally clicked on one of the ads. Enjoy the extra penny.

      • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Haha thank you. I’ve generally found that Google decides most of the ad clicks that come from my site are “invalid,” so it’ll pay me and then take it back 🙃. 90% or so of my ad revenue has been reversed within a day or two. We’re talking like 12 USD so it’s not like I’m losing a fortune, but still!

  • PeachMan@lemmy.oneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Notebookcheck is pretty dry but their reviews are more thorough and technical than most.

    • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Notebookcheck

      The name makes it sound like blogspam, but the first time I went on there I was incredibly blown away by how through they were. It was for a laptop and went to the level of determining variance in brightness across the screen and stuff like that.

    • ominouslemon@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      LOVE Notebookcheck. It’s probably my most trusted source when buying / recommending laptops and components

      • Audalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Probably. Still, it might be useful for blog discovery. One doesn’t have to read the comments.

          • Audalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            Sure, they’re just typically from the same industry with similar perspectives, similar blind spots and similar affinity for rants on topics X, Y and Z. Some get annoyed by this after a while so ignoring comments is a valid choice if you feel like that.

  • geosoco@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Any specific area you’re looking?

    If you’re looking for super broad. BBC’s tech section is decent. There’s also always slashdot.

    If you’re looking for like more PC/gaming stuff, anandtech, techpowerup, and wccftech generally seem decent. Tomshardware news is decent too, but the only reviews I’d trust there are Aris’ power supply reviews and articles.

  • thelastknowngod@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Medium is actually pretty great for industry news, opinion pieces, or occasionally howtos.

    If the kind of tech news you are looking for is like cell phone reviews or Twitter drama, I don’t know what to tell you… Most of what I read on medium tends to have more substance to it.